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Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship
By Susan Rather
University of Texas Press
The author considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world.
James M. Cain and the American Authors' Authority
By Richard Fine
University of Texas Press
The history of a short-lived professional writers' organization.
Structures in the Stream
Water, Science, and the Rise of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
By Todd Shallat
University of Texas Press
Todd Shallat examines the turbulent first century of the dam and canal building Corps and follows the agency's rise from European antecedents through the boom years of river development after the American Civil War.
Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero
The Formative Years
University of Texas Press
A study of a controversial historian.
Irene Rice Pereira
Her Paintings and Philosophy
University of Texas Press
The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima
Henry J. Kaiser
Builder in the Modern American West
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster paints an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, perhaps the ultimate "can-do" capitalist.
The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience
The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister
University of Texas Press
G. Edward White traces the origins of “the West of the imagination” to the adolescent experiences of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister—three Easterners from upper-class backgrounds who went West in the 1880s in search of an alternati
Ruth Benedict
Stranger in This Land
University of Texas Press
An intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.
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