University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Cradle of Erewhon
Samuel Butler in New Zealand
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In 1859, Samuel Butler, a young Cantabrigian out of joint with his family, with the church, and with the times, left England to hew out his own path in New Zealand. At the end of just five years he returned, with a modest fortune in money and an immense fortune in ideas. For out of this self-imposed...
Immigration and Nationalism
Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
“Dirtier than the dogs of Constantinople.” “Waves of human scum thrown upon our beaches by other countries.” Such was the vitriolic abuse directed against immigrant groups in Chile and Argentina early in the twentieth century. Yet only twenty-five years earlier, immigrants had encountered...
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Natural Environment and Early Cultures
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
by Robert Wauchope
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2015
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Social Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5
Linguistics
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 16
Sources Cited and Artifacts Illustrated
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
by Tom Smucker
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Of all the white American pop music groups that hit the charts before the Beatles, only the Beach Boys continued to thrive throughout the British Invasion to survive into the 1970s and beyond. The Beach Boys helped define both sides of the era we broadly call the sixties, split between their early...
Frida Kahlo
An Illustrated Life
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2018
One of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is renowned for both her paintings and her personal story, which were equally filled with pain and anguish,...
Henry J. Kaiser
Builder in the Modern American West
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
In the 1940s Henry J. Kaiser was a household name, as familiar then as Warren Buffett and Donald Trump are now. Like a Horatio Alger hero, Kaiser rose from lower-middle-class origins to become an enormously wealthy entrepreneur, building roads, bridges, dams, and housing. He established giant businesses...
Don't Suck, Don't Die
Giving Up Vic Chesnutt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
“Friend, asshole, angel, mutant,” singer-songwriter Vic Chesnutt “came along and made us gross and broken people seem . . . I dunno, cooler, I guess.” A quadriplegic who could play only simple chords on his guitar, Chesnutt recorded seventeen critically acclaimed albums before his death in 2009,...