University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Facts as I Remember Them
The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
The rivers of the Texas Panhandle, the Canadian, and the forks of the Red break through the Cap Rock at the eastern edge of the Staked Plains. It’s rough, bleak country, with few trees and a great expanse of sky. Storms that form on the Great Plains and in the Rocky Mountains sweep through with nothing...
Three Friends
Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, Walter Prescott Webb
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Roy Bedichek, J. Frank Dobie, and Walter Prescott Webb—a naturalist, a folklorist, and a historian—all taught at the University of Texas, lived only a few blocks apart, and saw each other almost every day. The true cement of their friendship, however, was the correspondence that makes up much of...
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In the spring of 1846 James K. Polk announced that the Mexican Army had invaded United States territory and had “shed American blood upon the American soil.” This political rhetoric, as Glenn W. Price establishes in Origins of the War with Mexico: The Polk-Stockton Intrigue, is part of the myth...
Public Policy and Community
Activism and Governance in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The decentralization of public policy from the federal government to state and local governments offers increased opportunities for ordinary citizens to participate directly in public policymaking. Yet these opportunities may not be equally shared. Due to a variety of factors, low-income citizens have...
Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2013
All around us there are wild plants useful for food, medicine, and clothing, but most of us don’t know how to identify or use them. Delena Tull amply supplies that knowledge in this book, which she has now expanded to more thoroughly address plants found in New Mexico and Arizona, as well as Texas.Extensively...
Science and Ceremony
The Institutional Economics of C. E. Ayres
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Clarence Edwin Ayres was the leading American institutionalist economist in the post–World War II era. His innovative theories concerning the causes and significance of technological change provided the philosophical framework for that school of economics called institutionalism. In his recognition...
The Languages of Native America
Historical and Comparative Assessment
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
These essays were drawn from the papers presented at the Linguistic Society of America's Summer Institute at the State University of New York at Oswego in 1976. The contents are as follows: Lyle Campbell and Marianne Mithun, "Introduction: North American Indian Historical Linguistics in Current Perspective"...
Belo
From Newspapers to New Media
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Founded in Galveston in 1842 with the launch of the Daily News, the Belo Corporation entered the twenty-first century as a powerhouse conglomerate, owning four daily newspapers (including the Dallas Morning News), twenty-six television and cable stations, and over thirty interactive Web sites. The...
The Flatlanders
Now It's Now Again
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2014
A group of three friends who made music in a house in Lubbock, Texas, recorded an album that wasn't released and went their separate ways into solo careers. That group became a legend and then—twenty years later—a band. The Flatlanders—Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, and Butch Hancock—are icons...
by Clinton Giddings Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
When Clinton Giddings Brown (1882–1964) retired from a long and successful career as a trial lawyer in San Antonio, Texas, fishing on the Gulf Coast was out—by doctor’s orders. So he sat on the front gallery of his house in San Antonio and fished with a lead pencil in the richly stocked memories...
When Mexicans Could Play Ball
Basketball, Race, and Identity in San Antonio, 1928–1945
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2013
In 1939, a team of short, scrappy kids from a vocational school established specifically for Mexican Americans became the high school basketball champions of San Antonio, Texas. Their win, and the ensuing riot it caused, took place against a backdrop of shifting and conflicted attitudes toward Mexican...
The Jazz of the Southwest
An Oral History of Western Swing
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
They may wear cowboy hats and boots and sing about "faded love," but western swing musicians have always played jazz! From Bob Wills and the Texas Playboys to Asleep at the Wheel, western swing performers have played swing jazz on traditional country instruments, with all of the required elements of...
Quixote's Soldiers
A Local History of the Chicano Movement, 1966–1981
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
In the mid-1960s, San Antonio, Texas, was a segregated city governed by an entrenched Anglo social and business elite. The Mexican American barrios of the west and south sides were characterized by substandard housing and experienced seasonal flooding. Gang warfare broke out regularly. Then the striking...
Entre Guadalupe y Malinche
Tejanas in Literature and Art
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2016
Mexican and Mexican American women have written about Texas and their lives in the state since colonial times. Edited by fellow Tejanas Inés Hernández-Ávila and Norma Elia Cantú, Entre Guadalupe y Malinche gathers, for the first time, a representative body of work about the lives and experiences...