University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
by Denise Schmandt-Besserat
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In 1992, the University of Texas Press published Before Writing, Volume I: From Counting to Cuneiform and Before Writing, Volume II: A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens. In these two volumes, Denise Schmandt-Besserat set forth her groundbreaking theory that the cuneiform script invented in the Near East...
by John Tveten, Gloria Tveten
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
You'll find them throughout the year in Houston—lyre-leaf sage, Drummond skullcap, silver-leaf nightshade, snow-on-the-prairie, lemon beebalm, scarlet pimpernel, plains wild indigo, spring ladies'-tresses, deer pea vetch. These wildflowers and hundreds of other species flourish in this part of Texas,...
Brave Black Women
From Slavery to the Space Shuttle
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Brave black women have played important roles in American history. Before the Emancipation Proclamation in 1863, black women bore the bonds of slavery with courage and strength. Since Emancipation, black women have supported schools, churches, and civic organizations, entered many professions, and helped...
Comin' Right at Ya
How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A six-foot-seven-inch Jewish hippie from Philadelphia starts a Western swing band in 1970, when country fans hate hippies and Western swing. It sounds like a joke but—more than forty years, twenty-five albums, and nine Grammy Awards later—Asleep at the Wheel is still drawing crowds around the world....
Land of Bright Promise
Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870-1917
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle–South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth. Shunned by settlers...
Stages of Struggle and Celebration
A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichés of horses, cattle, and bravado. Drawing on troves of archival...
Recollections of Early Texas
Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
by Horacio Quiroga
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Tales of risk and danger, suffering, disease, horror, and death. Tales, also, of courage and dignity, hard work, and human endurance in the face of hostile nature and the frequent brutality of men. And tales flavored with piquant touches of humor and bemused irony. These are the stories of the Uruguayan...
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaire—and did, for some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity...
by David Montejano
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The Port of Houston
A History
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Sam Houston's army reached Buffalo Bayou on April 18, 1836, and the ensuing Battle of San Jacinto called attention to the "meandering stream" as a link between the interior of sprawling Texas and the sea. Early in Texas history, the waterway that would one day be known as the Houston Ship Channel evoked...
Littlefield Lands
Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th century. Then, realizing that the future followed the plow, they, joined by business owners and speculators,...
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Once again, through a boy's eyes, Ralph Jackson sees a winter sky darkened with geese and ducks, a kitchen stove glowing with cheerful warmth, Aunt May strolling in her flower garden, moonlight filtering through treetops to cast patches of white light on a sandy woodland road. Again he catches odors...
James Stephen Hogg
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
No other governor has become so completely identified with Texas and its citizens as Jim Hogg, the first native Texan to hold the state's highest office. His fame was not, however, easily earned. Orphaned at twelve, he worked as farmhand, typesetter, and country editor to finance his study of law, an...