University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
How Cities Work
Suburbs, Sprawl, and the Roads Not Taken
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2010
Do cities work anymore? How did they get to be such sprawling conglomerations of lookalike subdivisions, megafreeways, and "big box" superstores surrounded by acres of parking lots? And why, most of all, don't they feel like real communities? These are the questions that Alex Marshall tackles in this...
"This Is Jerusalem Calling"
State Radio in Mandate Palestine
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2013
Modeled after the BBC, the Palestine Broadcasting Service was launched in 1936 to serve as the national radio station of Mandate Palestine, playing a pivotal role in shaping the culture of the emerging middle class in the region. Despite its significance, the PBS has become nearly forgotten by scholars...
The Mechanical Horse
How the Bicycle Reshaped American Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
With cities across the country adding miles of bike lanes and building bike-share stations, bicycling is enjoying a new surge of popularity in America. It seems that every generation or two, Americans rediscover the freedom of movement, convenience, and relative affordability of the bicycle. The earliest...
Harry Reasoner
A Life in the News
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2009
Harry Reasoner was one of the most trusted and well-liked journalists of the golden age of network television news. Whether anchoring the evening newscast on CBS in the 1960s or on ABC in the 1970s, providing in-depth reporting on 60 Minutes, or hosting numerous special programs covering civil rights...
Hollywood TV
The Studio System in the Fifties
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2013
The 1950s was one of the most turbulent periods in the history of motion pictures and television. During the decade, as Hollywood's most powerful studios and independent producers shifted into TV production, TV replaced film as America's principal postwar culture industry. This pioneering study offers...
by Richard Fine
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The 1940s offered ever-increasing outlets for writers in book publishing, magazines, radio, film, and the nascent television industry, but the standard rights arrangements often prevented writers from collecting a fair share of the profits made from their work. To remedy this situation, novelist and...
Woman Walk the Line
How the Women in Country Music Changed Our Lives
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2017
Full-tilt, hardcore, down-home, and groundbreaking, the women of country music speak volumes with every song. From Maybelle Carter to Dolly Parton, k.d. lang to Taylor Swift—these artists provided pivot points, truths, and doses of courage for women writers at every stage of their lives. Whether it's...
Cañar
A Year in the Highlands of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Once isolated from the modern world in the heights of the Andean mountains, the indigenous communities of Ecuador now send migrants to New York City as readily as they celebrate festivals whose roots reach back to the pre-Columbian past. Fascinated by this blending of old and new and eager to make...
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Art, Technology, and Utopia
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
Modern Architecture in Latin America: Art, Technology, and Utopia is an introductory text on the issues, polemics, and works that represent the complex processes of political, economic, and cultural modernization in the twentieth century. The number and types of projects varied greatly from country to...
by Hal Box
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The design of cities and buildings affects the quality of our lives. Making the built environment useful, safe, comfortable, efficient, and as beautiful as possible is a universal quest. We dream about how we might live, work, and play. From these dreams come some 95 percent of all private and public...
José Clemente Orozco
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
The artistic eminence of José Clemente Orozco (1883–1949) is such that he has been called “the greatest painter the Americas have produced.” In his Autobiography he also attains literary distinction. He is a writer who recounts the history of his period from a personal point of view and yet scarcely...
by Jean Charlot
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Was the Royal Academy of San Carlos, founded in 1785 by the King of Spain, beneficial or detrimental to the development of a valid, living art in Mexico? The answer lies in the archives of the school, but nobody thought about constructing an aesthetic history from them until Jean Charlot accidentally...
The Art of Professing in Bourbon Mexico
Crowned-Nun Portraits and Reform in the Convent
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2014
In the eighteenth century, New Spaniards (colonial Mexicans) so lauded their nuns that they developed a local tradition of visually opulent portraits, called monjas coronadas or “crowned nuns,” that picture their subjects in regal trappings at the moment of their religious profession and in death....
Pillar of Salt
An Autobiography, with 19 Erotic Sonnets
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Salvador Novo (1904–1974) was a provocative and prolific cultural presence in Mexico City through much of the twentieth century. With his friend and fellow poet Xavier Villaurrutia, he cofounded Ulises and Contemporáneos, landmark avant-garde journals of the late 1920s and 1930s. At once "outsider"...