University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Shadowed Ground
America’s Landscapes of Violence and Tragedy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Shadowed Ground explores how and why Americans have memorialized—or not—the sites of tragic and violent events spanning three centuries of history and every region of the country. For this revised edition, Kenneth Foote has written a new concluding chapter that looks at the evolving responses to...
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Certain to become a standard reference in its field, Indians of the Rio Grande Delta is the first single-volume source on these little-known peoples.Working from innumerable primary documents in various Texan and Mexican archives, Martin Salinas has compiled data on more than six dozen named groups that...
The Cast Iron Forest
A Natural and Cultural History of the North American Cross Timbers
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
A complex mosaic of post oak and blackjack oak forests interspersed with prairies, the Cross Timbers covers a north-south belt of southern Kansas, eastern Oklahoma, and North Central Texas. Home to Native Americans over several thousand years, the Cross Timbers became a barrier to westward expansion...
The Tidelands Oil Controversy
A Legal and Historical Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2014
This study is not written from the narrow perspective of “Who gets the oil?” It is a thoughtful probing of an issue—the ownership and control of the submerged soils of the marginal sea—the outcome of which may go far to determine the division of powers between states and nation under the American...
The Archaeology of La Calsada
A Rockshelter in the Sierra Madre Oriental, Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
On a remote mountainside 2,000 meters above sea level in the northern Sierra Madre Oriental, the rockshelter at La Calsada has yielded basic archaeological data for one of the least understood regions of prehistoric North America, the state of Nuevo León in northern Mexico. This comprehensive site report,...
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Extraordinary Expressions of Home
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Relatively few people in America build their own homes, but many yearn to make the places they live in more truly their own. Yard Art and Handmade Places profiles twenty homemakers who have used their yards and gardens to express their sense of individuality, to maintain connections to family and...
by Ken E. Rogers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"This book is one-of-a-kind. It is the only book that I'm aware of that summarizes the biology, ecology, uses, and management of mesquite.... It is the most complete book in print on mesquite." -C. Wayne Hanselka, Associate Department Head and Extension Program Leader for Rangeland Ecology and Management,...
Up Against the Wall
Re-Imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
As increasing global economic disparities, violence, and climate change provoke a rising tide of forced migration, many countries and local communities are responding by building walls—literal and metaphorical—between citizens and newcomers. Up Against the Wall: Re-imagining the U.S.-Mexico Border...
Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico
The Illusion of Eden
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous...
Now You Hear My Horn
The Journal of James Wilson Nichols
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Jim Nichols was a lively, vigorous frontiersman who came to Texas about the time of its Revolution. As with many men of that day, Nichols' formal education was lacking, but he was a born writer with a vivid way of saying things. He had an abundance of exciting events to write about: fighting against...
The Latina Advantage
Gender, Race, and Political Success
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state legislatures. This trend has been particularly evident in the growing political presence of Latinas, yet...
Luis Leal
An Auto/Biography
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Professor Luis Leal is one of the most outstanding scholars of Mexican, Latin American, and Chicano literatures and the dean of Mexican American intellectuals in the United States. He was one of the first senior scholars to recognize the viability and importance of Chicano literature, and, through...
Life on the Hyphen
The Cuban-American Way
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
An expanded, updated edition of the classic study of Cuban-American culture, this engaging book, which mixes the author’s own story with his reflections as a trained observer, explores how both famous and ordinary members of the “1.5 Generation” (Cubans who came to the United States as children...
by Vance T. Holliday
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2010
The Southern High Plains of northwestern Texas and eastern New Mexico are rich in Paleoindian archaeological sites, including such well-known ones as Clovis, Lubbock Lake, Plainview, and Midland. These sites have been extensively researched over decades, not only by archaeologists but also by geoscientists,...