University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Frederick Steiner
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2011
We inhabit a vulnerable planet. The devastation caused by natural disasters such as the southern Asian tsunami, Hurricanes Katrina and Ike, and the earthquakes in China's Sichuan province, Haiti, and Chile—as well as the ongoing depletion and degradation of the world's natural resources caused by...
by Bárbara Renaud González
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The golondrina is a small and undistinguished swallow. But in Spanish, the word has evoked a thousand poems and songs dedicated to the migrant's departure and hoped-for return. As such, the migrant becomes like the swallow, a dream-seeker whose real home is nowhere, everywhere, and especially in the...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Renowned for Goodbye to a River, his now-classic meditation on the natural and human history of Texas, as well as for his masterful ability as a prose stylist, John Graves has become the dean of Texas letters for a legion of admiring readers and fellow writers. Yet apart from his own largely autobiographical...
Don’t Make Me Go to Town
Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2011
Many people dream of "someday buying a small quaint place in the country, to own two cows and watch the birds," in the words of Texas ranchwoman Amanda Spenrath Geistweidt. But only a few are cut out for the unrelenting work that makes a family ranching operation successful. Don't Make Me Go to Town...
by Maria F. Wade, Don E. Wade
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The region that now encompasses Central Texas and northern Coahuila, Mexico, was once inhabited by numerous Native hunter-gather groups whose identities and lifeways we are only now learning through archaeological discoveries and painstaking research into Spanish and French colonial records. From these...
Galveston
A History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On the Gulf edge of Texas between land and sea stands Galveston Island. Shaped continually by wind and water, it is one of earth's ongoing creations—time is forever new. Here, on the shoreline, embraced by the waves, a person can still feel the heartbeat of nature. And yet, for all the idyllic possibilities,...
Nameless Towns
Texas Sawmill Communities, 1880-1942
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Sawmill communities were once the thriving centers of East Texas life. Many sprang up almost overnight in a pine forest clearing, and many disappeared just as quickly after the company "cut out" its last trees. But during their heyday, these company towns made Texas the nation's third-largest...
Before Brown
Heman Marion Sweatt, Thurgood Marshall, and the Long Road to Justice
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2010
On February 26, 1946, an African American from Houston applied for admission to the University of Texas School of Law. Although he met all of the school's academic qualifications, Heman Marion Sweatt was denied admission because he was black. He challenged the university's decision in court, and the...
Desegregating Texas Schools
Eisenhower, Shivers, and the Crisis at Mansfield High
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the famous Brown v. the Board of Education decisions of 1954 and 1955, the United States Supreme Court ruled that "separate but equal" schools for black and white students were unconstitutional. Yet history records that it took more than a decade of legal battles, civil rights protests,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
A century before the arrival of Stephen F. Austin's colonists, Spanish settlers from Mexico were putting down roots in Texas. From San Antonio de Bexar and La Bahia (Goliad) northeastward to Los Adaes and later Nacogdoches, they formed communities that evolved their own distinct "Tejano" identity. In...
Land of the Permanent Wave
An Edwin "Bud" Shrake Reader
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2012
Edwin "Bud" Shrake is one of the most intriguing literary talents to emerge from Texas. He has written vividly in fiction and nonfiction about everything from the early days of the Texas Republic to the making of the atomic bomb. His real gift has been to capture the Texas Zeitgeist. Legendary Harper's...
Not Without Honor
The Life of John H. Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published. Reagan, who was born in Sevier County, Tennessee, in 1818, came to Texas twenty-one years later—while Texas was still a republic—and stayed to play many major roles in its later...
Lines in the Sand
Congressional Redistricting in Texas and the Downfall of Tom DeLay
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The events of 2003 in Texas were important to the political history of this country. Congressman Tom DeLay led a Republican effort to gerrymander the state's thirty-two congressional districts to defeat all ten of the Anglo Democratic incumbents and to elect more Republicans; Democratic state lawmakers...
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Where water supply, railway transportation, and oil reserves have been abundant, towns in central West Texas have prospered; where these resources are few, settlements have maintained only slight growth or disappeared entirely. Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin...