University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Caddo Nation
Archaeological and Ethnohistoric Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
First published in 1992 and now updated with a new preface by the author and a foreword by Thomas R. Hester, "The Caddo Nation" investigates the early contacts between the Caddoan peoples of the present-day Texas, Louisiana, Oklahoma, and Arkansas region and Europeans, including the Spanish, French,...
Land of Bears and Honey
A Natural History of East Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The American University of Beirut
Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2011
Since the American University of Beirut opened its doors in 1866, the campus has stood at the intersection of a rapidly changing American educational project for the Middle East and an ongoing student quest for Arab national identity and empowerment. Betty S. Anderson provides a unique and comprehensive...
by David Alloway
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2010
Remote desert locations, including the Chihuahuan Desert of northern Mexico, southern Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona, draw adventurers of all kinds, from the highly skilled and well prepared to urban cowboys who couldn't lead themselves (much less a horse!) to water. David Alloway's goal in this book...
The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company
A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a major cattle and land operation in wild, relatively isolated, semidesert country.
by A. Michael Powell
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
First published by the Big Bend Natural History Association in 1988 as Trees & Shrubs of Trans-Pecos Texas, this book is the only keyed guide to the more than 400 species of woody plants native to the Trans-Pecos region and adjacent areas in eastern New Mexico and northern Mexico. A. Michael Powell has...
Chicano Rap
Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Powered by a driving beat, clever lyrics, and assertive attitudes, rap music and hip hop culture have engrossed American youth since the mid-1980s. Although the first rappers were African Americans, rap and hip hop culture quickly spread to other ethnic groups who have added their own cultural elements...
LBJ and Mexican Americans
The Paradox of Power
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
As he worked to build his Great Society, Lyndon Johnson often harkened back to his teaching days in the segregated "Mexican" school at Cotulla, Texas. Recalling the poverty and prejudice that blighted his students' lives, Johnson declared, "It never occurred to me in my fondest dreams...
Latino High School Graduation
Defying the Odds
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
While high school drop-out rates have steadily declined among white and African American students over the last twenty years, a constant 35 percent of Latino students continue to quit school before graduation. In this pioneering work, Harriett Romo and Toni Falbo reveal how a group of at-risk Latino...
Oveta Culp Hobby
Colonel, Cabinet Member, Philanthropist
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Oveta Culp Hobby (1905–1995) had a lifetime of stellar achievement. During World War II, she was asked to build a women's army from scratch—and did. Hobby became Director of the Women's Army Corps and the first Army woman to earn the rank of colonel. President Eisenhower chose her as Secretary of...
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the decades following the Civil War, nearly a quarter of African Americans achieved a remarkable victory—they got their own land. While other ex-slaves and many poor whites became trapped in the exploitative sharecropping system, these independence-seeking individuals settled on pockets of unclaimed...
Edna Ferber's Hollywood
American Fictions of Gender, Race, and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Edna Ferber's Hollywood reveals one of the most influential artistic relationships of the twentieth century—the four-decade partnership between historical novelist Edna Ferber and the Hollywood studios. Ferber was one of America's most controversial popular historians, a writer whose uniquely feminist,...
Horror after 9/11
World of Fear, Cinema of Terror
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2012
Horror films have exploded in popularity since the tragic events of September 11, 2001, many of them breaking box-office records and generating broad public discourse. These films have attracted A-list talent and earned award nods, while at the same time becoming darker, more disturbing, and increasingly...
The Master Showmen of King Ranch
The Story of Beto and Librado Maldonado
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Texas's King Ranch has become legendary for a long list of innovations, the most enduring of which is the development of the first official cattle breed in the Americas, the Santa Gertrudis. Among those who played a crucial role in the breed's success were Librado and Alberto "Beto" Maldonado, master...