University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
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...
The White Shaman Mural
An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
The prehistoric hunter-gatherers of the Lower Pecos Canyonlands of Texas and Coahuila, Mexico, created some of the most spectacularly complex, colorful, extensive, and enduring rock art of the ancient world. Perhaps the greatest of these masterpieces is the White Shaman mural, an intricate painting that...
by Scott Rushforth, Steadman Upham
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
All anthropologists and archaeologists seek to answer basic questions about human beings and society. Why do people behave the way they do? Why do patterns in the behavior of individuals and groups sometimes persist for remarkable periods of time? Why do patterns in behavior sometimes change? A Hopi...
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 9
Physical Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
Physical Anthropology is the ninth volume in the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979). The volume editor is T. Dale Stewart (1901–1997), senior physical...
Vaqueros, Cowboys, and Buckaroos
The Genesis and Life of the Mounted North American Herders
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Herding cattle from horseback has been a tradition in northern Mexico and the American West since the Spanish colonial era. The first mounted herders were the Mexican vaqueros, expert horsemen who developed the skills to work cattle in the brush country and deserts of the Southwestern borderlands. From...
Prehistory of the Rustler Hills
Granado Cave
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The Northeastern Trans-Pecos region of Texas is an unforgiving environment for anyone living off the land, yet nomadic hunters and gatherers roamed its deserts and mountains and sheltered in caves and sinkholes from around AD 200 to 1450. This book provides detailed insights into the lifeways of these...
by Stanley H. Anderson, John R. Squires
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Skillful hunters beautiful in flight, Prairie Falcons inhabit the rocky cliffs of the American West. These raptors range from southern Canada and northern North Dakota to Baja California, Arizona, New Mexico, western and northern Texas, and southeastern Coahuila, Mexico. This is the first book for a...
Wings over the Mexican Border
Pioneer Military Aviation in the Big Bend
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Against a backdrop of revolution, border banditry, freewheeling aerial dramatics, and World War II comes this compelling look at the rise of U.S. combat aviation at an unlikely proving ground—a remote airfield in the rugged reaches of the southwestern Texas borderlands. Here, at Elmo Johnson's Big...
Nesting Birds of the Coastal Islands
A Naturalist's Year on Galveston Bay
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Every year, more than twenty species of terns, gulls, and colonial wading birds raise their young on rookery islands all along the Gulf Coast. Their breeding and nesting activities go on in the wake of passing oil tankers, commercial fishing vessels, and pleasure boats of all kinds—human traffic that...
The Road to El Cielo
Mexico's Forest in the Clouds
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Hidden high in the Sierra de Guatemala mountain range of northeastern Mexico in the state of Tamaulipas is the northernmost tropical cloud forest of the Western Hemisphere. Within its humid oak-sweetgum woodlands, tropical and temperate species of plants and animals mingle in rare diversity, creating...
Speaker Jim Wright
Power, Scandal, and the Birth of Modern Politics
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Jim Wright made his mark on virtually every major public policy issue in the later twentieth century—energy, education, taxes, transportation, environmental protection, civil rights, criminal justice, and foreign relations, among them. He played a significant role in peace initiatives in Central...
La Gran Línea
Mapping the United States - Mexico Boundary, 1849-1857
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The Treaty of Guadalupe Hildalgo, which officially ended the U.S.-Mexican War in 1848, cost Mexico half its territory, while the United States gained land that became California, Nevada, Utah, Texas, and parts of Colorado, Arizona, and New Mexico. Because the new United States-Mexico border ran through...
Presidential Management of Science and Technology
The Johnson Presidency
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2014
How do science and technology issues become important to a particular presidency? Which issues gain priority? How? Why? What is the role of the presidency in the adoption of national policies affecting science and technology? In their implementation? How does the presidency try to curtail certain programs?...
The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross
Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Using richly detailed transcripts from Inquisition trials, Mello...