University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
During the 1930s, the United States began to look more favorably on its southern neighbors. Latin America offered expanded markets to an economy crippled by the Great Depression, while threats of war abroad nurtured in many Americans isolationist tendencies and a desire for improved hemispheric relations....
Intermediate Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2010
Mnemonics is an age-old device for remembering names, numbers, and many other things. As in the authors' previous Memory Books, the Intermediate Spanish Memory Book makes use of this reliable memory help in a series of mnemonic jingles that are by turns playful, sardonic, touching, and heroic to help...
by Vine Jr. Deloria, David E. Wilkins
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
"Federal Indian law . . . is a loosely related collection of past and present acts of Congress, treaties and agreements, executive orders, administrative rulings, and judicial opinions, connected only by the fact that law in some form has been applied haphazardly to American Indians over the...
Brothers in Arms
A Journey from War to Peace
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Reviews of the Knopf edition: "A wonderful book—fresh and intelligent. Broyles's eye for Vietnam, then and now, is unerring." —Peter Jennings "[A] superbly written, often moving story of Broyles' journey back to the killing ground in Vietnam where he once served as a Marine lieutenant. A cool, clear...
The Earth Remains Forever
Generations at a Crossroads
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Writing especially for people who've tuned out the environmental debate, Rob Jackson persuasively argues that we're at a crucial turning point in environmental history, where choices we make now will determine the quality of life into the unforeseeable future. Laying out the scientific facts in plain...
Oil, Banks, and Politics
The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917-1924
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Mexico was second only to the United States as the world's largest oil producer in the years following the Mexican Revolution. As the revolutionary government became institutionalized, it sought to assure its control of Mexico's oil resources through the Constitution of 1917, which returned subsoil...
Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW
Puerto Rico, Hawai’i, California
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2011
Puerto Rico, Hawai'i, and California share the experiences of conquest and annexation to the United States in the nineteenth century and mass organizational struggles by rural workers in the twentieth. Organized Agriculture and the Labor Movement before the UFW offers a comparative examination of...
Showing Off
The Geltung Hypothesis
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Hardly a place exists on earth that has not been shaped in some way by human beings. Every day we modify and even sweep away natural landscapes as we build places to live and work. But why we react and interact as social beings intent on exercising ecological dominance poses an endlessly compelling...
The Farm Labor Movement in the Midwest
Social Change and Adaptation among Migrant Farmworkers
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
The Farm Labor Organizing Committee (FLOC) was founded by Baldemar Velásquez in 1967 to challenge the poverty and powerlessness that confronted migrant farmworkers in the Midwest. This study documents FLOC's development through its first quarter century and analyzes its effectiveness as a social reform...
by Bob R. O'Brien
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
"Yosemite Valley in July of 1967 would have had to be seen to be believed. There was never an empty campsite in the valley; you had to create a space for yourself in a sea of cars, tents, and humanity.... The camp next to ours had fifty people in it, with rugs hung between the trees, incense...
Mexican Women in American Factories
Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2012
Prior to the millennium, economists and policy makers argued that free trade between the United States and Mexico would benefit both Americans and Mexicans. They believed that NAFTA would be a "win-win" proposition that would offer U.S. companies new markets for their products and Mexicans the hope of...
Animated Personalities
Cartoon Characters and Stardom in American Theatrical Shorts
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2019
Mickey Mouse, Betty Boop, Donald Duck, Bugs Bunny, Felix the Cat, and other beloved cartoon characters have entertained media audiences for almost a century, outliving the human stars who were once their contemporaries in studio-era Hollywood. In Animated Personalities, David McGowan asserts that...
A Trade like Any Other
Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In Egypt, singing and dancing are considered essential on happy occasions. Professional entertainers often perform at weddings and other celebrations, and a host family's prestige rises with the number, expense, and fame of the entertainers they hire. Paradoxically, however, the entertainers themselves...
by Jan Reid
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
On April 20, 1998, Jan Reid was shot during a robbery in Mexico City, where he had gone to watch his friend, the boxer Jesus Chavez, fight. In The Bullet Meant for Me, Reid powerfully recounts his ordeal, the long chain of life events that brought him to that fateful attack, and his struggle to regain...