University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
by Stephen Harrigan
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2012
Writing timeless essays that capture vanished worlds and elusive perceptions, Stephen Harrigan is emerging as a national voice with an ever-expanding circle of enthusiastic readers. For those who have already experienced the pleasures of his writing—and especially for those who haven't—Comanche...
Barbecue Crossroads
Notes and Recipes from a Southern Odyssey
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
In stories, recipes, and photographs, James Beard Award–winning writer Robb Walsh and acclaimed documentary photographer O. Rufus Lovett take us on a barbecue odyssey from East Texas to the Carolinas and back. In Barbecue Crossroads, we meet the pitmasters who still use old-fashioned wood-fired pits,...
My Diary
August 30th to November 5th, 1874
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Cornelia Wadsworth Adair’s ancestors had pioneered in western New York, where they opened and developed large, palatial estates; and the life they lived was elegant and aristocratic. Adair too was discreetly cultured; yet she took great personal pleasure in the rough and primitive land of her famed...
Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Audubon Society
Places to Hide and Seek
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
National Audubon Society sanctuaries across the United States preserve the unique combinations of plants, climates, soils, and water that endangered birds and other animals require to survive. Their success stories include the recovery of the common and snowy egrets, wood storks, Everglade kites, puffins,...
by Julie A. Dowling
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2014
With Mexican Americans constituting a large and growing segment of U.S. society, their assimilation trajectory has become a constant source of debate. Some believe Mexican Americans are following the path of European immigrants toward full assimilation into whiteness, while others argue that they remain...
by Tatcho, Jr. Mindiola, Yolanda Flores Niemann
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2009
Race relations in twenty-first-century America will not be just a black-and-white issue. The 2000 census revealed that Hispanics already slightly outnumber African Americans as the largest ethnic group, while together Blacks and Hispanics constitute the majority population in the five largest U.S. cities....
Blockading the Border and Human Rights
The El Paso Operation that Remade Immigration Enforcement
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
To understand border enforcement and the shape it has taken, it is imperative to examine a groundbreaking Border Patrol operation begun in 1993 in El Paso, Texas, "Operation Blockade." The El Paso Border Patrol designed and implemented this radical new strategy, posting 400 agents directly on the...
Invisible in Austin
Life and Labor in an American City
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Austin, Texas, is renowned as a high-tech, fast-growing city for the young and creative, a cool place to live, and the scene of internationally famous events such as SXSW and Formula 1. But as in many American cities, poverty and penury are booming along with wealth and material abundance in contemporary...
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Collection of Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2014
The Peruvian Mario Vargas Llosa has been acclaimed throughout the literary world as one of Latin America's finest writers, yet until recently little has been written about his work in English. While his work has the subject of an increasing flow of critical commentary in Spanish and his major novels...
by Peter Lev
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
With McDonalds in Moscow and Disneyland in Paris and Tokyo, American popular culture is spreading around the globe. Regional, national, and ethnic cultures are being powerfully affected by competition from American values and American popular forms. This literate and lively study explores the spread...
by Bob Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
"I am very impressed by Bob and Vera Thornton's book. The photos are excellent.... I am especially impressed by the enthusiasm they bring to their subject." -Victor Emanuel, President, Victor Emanuel Nature Tours Known to many as "the butterflies of the bird world," wood warblers allure even the most...
by Martín Luis Guzmán
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
This is a tale that might be told around a campfire, night after night in the midst of a military campaign. The kinetic and garrulous Pancho Villa talking on and on about battles and men; bursting out with hearty, masculine laughter; weeping unashamed for fallen comrades; casually mentioning his hotheadedness—"one...
Native Speakers
Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the early twentieth century, three women of color helped shape a new world of ethnographic discovery. Ella Cara Deloria, a Sioux woman from South Dakota, Zora Neale Hurston, an African American woman from Florida, and Jovita González, a Mexican American woman from the Texas borderlands, achieved...
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...