University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
Mapping and Empire
Soldier-Engineers on the Southwestern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the sixteenth through the mid-nineteenth centuries, Spain, then Mexico, and finally the United States took ownership of the land from the Gulf Coast of Texas and Mexico to the Pacific Coast of Alta and Baja California—today's American Southwest. Each country faced the challenge of holding on...
A Long March
The Lives of Frank and Alice Baldwin
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
During a distinguished military career, in which he rose to the rank of brigadier general and twice won the Medal of Honor, Frank Baldwin saw service in the Civil War, the Indian wars on the Great Plains, and the Spanish-American War. His wife, Alice Blackwood Baldwin, shared the "long march" with him,...
by Robert S. Weddle
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Robert Cavelier, sieur de La Salle, landed on the Texas coast in 1685, bent on founding a French colony, his enterprise was doomed to failure. Not only was he hundreds of miles from his intended landfall—the mouth of the Mississippi—but his supply ship, Aimable, was wrecked at the mouth of...
The Alamo Remembered
Tejano Accounts and Perspectives
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
As Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was caught in the crossfire, both literally and symbolically. Though their origins were in Mexico, the Tejanos had put down lasting roots in Texas and did not automatically...
by William Andrew Fletcher
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2013
Rebel Private Front and Rear is a line soldier's account of the Civil War without heroics. Private Fletcher tells how at Gettysburg he was overcome by a "bad case of cowardly horror" when an order came on the third day to get ready to charge. "I tried to force manhood to the front, but fright would drive...
Imaginary Lines
Border Enforcement and the Origins of Undocumented Immigration, 1882-1930
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Although popularly conceived as a relatively recent phenomenon, patterns of immigrant smuggling and undocumented entry across American land borders first emerged in the late nineteenth century. Ingenious smugglers and immigrants, long and remote boundary lines, and strong push-and-pull factors created...
by Ben Tinker
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
From the mountainous area bordering Arizona and New Mexico, the western range of the Sierra Madres reaches south into Mexico to the state of Jalisco. The eastern range stretches from the Texas border down to Morelia and the Valley of Mexico. Ben Tinker spent years exploring this rugged wilderness...
by Michael Frary, William A. Owens
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Before the establishment of the Big Thicket Nature Preserve, the Big Thicket of Texas became a symbol of nature's last stand against encroaching civilization. Here, in a mingling of ecological zones, come together plants, animals, and birds—many of them rare—the flora and fauna of north and south,...
The Death of Ramón González
The Modern Agricultural Dilemma
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Death of Ramón González has become a benchmark book since its publication in 1990. It has been taught in undergraduate and graduate courses in every social science discipline, sustainable and alternative agriculture, environmental studies, ecology, ethnic studies, public health, and Mexican, Latin...
The Silver Cradle
Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and Other Mexican American Traditions
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
Originally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas. During the 1950s, Julia Nott Waugh recorded the performances of such seasonal and religious traditions as Las Posadas, Los Pastores, Las Calaveras, the Blessing of...
The Inter American Press Association
Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and subsists on its own resources. This study first traces the development of IAPA from the initial meeting...
Enchanted Rock
A Natural and Human History
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2010
With intriguing domes of pinkish granite surrounded by a sea of Hill Country limestone, Enchanted Rock State Natural Area attracts over 300,000 visitors every year who come to the park to hike, rock climb, spelunk, camp, picnic, and observe birds and wildflowers. Geologists from around the world come...
Inequity in the Technopolis
Race, Class, Gender, and the Digital Divide in Austin
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
Over the past few decades, Austin, Texas, has made a concerted effort to develop into a Òtechnopolis,Ó becoming home to companies such as Dell and numerous start-ups in the 1990s. It has been a model for other cities across the nation that wish to become high-tech centers while still retaining the...
Gardens of New Spain
How Mediterranean Plants and Foods Changed America
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
When the Spanish began colonizing the Americas in the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, they brought with them the plants and foods of their homeland—wheat, melons, grapes, vegetables, and every kind of Mediterranean fruit. Missionaries and colonists introduced these plants to the native peoples...