University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Samuel Bell Maxey
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Samuel Bell Maxey was an important political figure in nineteenth-century Texas, but no previous book-length study of his life and career has been published. Louise Horton has utilized his private papers as well as numerous other sources in preparing this biography, which includes many of Maxey's own...
Texas, A Modern History
Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable general histories of Texas. David McComb paints the panorama of Lone Star history from the earliest Indians to the present day with a vigorous brush that uses fact, anecdote, and humor...
The House Will Come To Order
How the Texas Speaker Became a Power in State and National Politics
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2010
In a state assumed to have a constitutionally weak governor, the Speaker of the Texas House wields enormous power, with the ability to almost single-handedly dictate the legislative agenda. The House Will Come to Order charts the evolution of the Speaker's role from a relatively obscure office to...
Inherit the Alamo
Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Long overshadowed by the towering buildings of downtown San Antonio, the modest little Alamo still evokes tremendous feeling among Texans and, indeed, many other Americans. For Anglo Texans, the Alamo is the "Cradle of Texas Liberty" and a symbolic confirmation of Manifest Destiny. For Hispanic...
by David F. Prindle
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
The single most important domestic source of oil and gas is managed by the Texas Railroad Commission. As a result, the Commission has for decades exerted a profound influence on United States and world energy policy. This influence may even increase with the recent decision to remove price controls on...
by Frédéric Gaillardet
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
A lively report of travels in early nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana and a fascinating account of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of those areas is presented in the work of this ebullient young French dramatist and journalist who traveled to Louisiana in 1837 and to Texas in 1839. Frédéric...
Let me tell you what I've learned
Texas Wisewomen Speak
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Barbara Jordan spoke for many Texas women when she told a reporter, "I get from the soil and spirit of Texas the feeling that I, as an individual, can accomplish whatever I want to, and that there are no limits, that you can just keep going, just keep soaring. I like that spirit." Indeed, the sense of...
Lone Stars III
A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986-2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From frontier times in the Republic of Texas until today, Texans have been making gorgeous quilts. Karoline Patterson Bresenhan and Nancy O'Bryant Puentes documented the first 150 years of the state's rich heritage of quilt art in Lone Stars: A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1836-1936 and Lone Stars II:...
From Can See to Can’t
Texas Cotton Farmers on the Southern Prairies
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Cotton farming was the only way of life that many Texans knew from the days of Austin's Colony up until World War II. For those who worked the land, it was a dawn-till-dark, "can see to can't," process that required not only a wide range of specialized skills but also a willingness to gamble on forces...
Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks
Redistricting in Texas
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Every ten years, the Texas legislature redistricts itself and the state’s congressional districts in an attempt to ensure equality in representation. With a richly textured cultural fabric, Texas often experiences redistricting battles that are heated enough to gain national attention. Collecting a...
Homesteads Ungovernable
Families, Sex, Race, and the Law in Frontier Texas, 1823-1860
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When he settled in Mexican Texas in 1832 and began courting Anna Raguet, Sam Houston had been separated from his Tennessee wife Eliza Allen for three years, while having already married and divorced his Cherokee wife Tiana and at least two other Indian "wives" during the interval. Houston's political...
The City in Texas
A History
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2015
Texans love the idea of wide-open spaces and, before World War II, the majority of the state’s people did live and work on the land. Between 1940 and 1950, however, the balance shifted from rural to urban, and today 88 percent of Texans live in cities and embrace the amenities of urban culture. The...
by John Tveten, Gloria Tveten
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
All across the country, butterflies are becoming as popular as birds and wildflowers, especially among people seeking to enjoy the rich natural resources that Texas possesses. John and Gloria Tveten have been studying butterflies in Southeast Texas for thirty-five years, and here they offer their...
Anson Jones
The Last President of Texas
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.Within a year of his arrival, Anson Jones was successfully...