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Captain Medwin
Friend of Byron and Shelley
University of Texas Press
Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin—literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings.
After San Jacinto
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1836-1841
University of Texas Press
An account of Texas-Mexican relations after the Texas revolution.
A Non-Existent Man
An Autobiography
By T. V. Smith
University of Texas Press
The biography of T. V. Smith: a distinguished philosopher, teacher, politician, lecturer, and editor, who left an imprint on the twentieth century seldom equaled by a university professor.
Symmetry and Sense
The Poetry of Sir Philip Sidney
University of Texas Press
The author examines Sidney as poet and critic, concentrating his study on rhetorical technique and poetic rhythm and form.
Indian Tales of North America
An Anthology for the Adult Reader
Edited by Tristram Potter Coffin
University of Texas Press
Folk tales from a wide range of Native American tribes.
Yesterday in Mexico
A Chronicle of the Revolution, 1919–1936
University of Texas Press
The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.
Toward a Reasonable Society
By C. E. Ayres
University of Texas Press
A defense of industrial culture., drawing upon numerous areas of knowledge—ethics, sociology, economics, anthropology, history, philosophy, psychology, biology, music, the graphic arts, mathematics, the physical sciences—to show the uniformities and the u
The United States and Inter-American Security, 1889–1960
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive case study examines every aspect of security cooperation in the Western Hemisphere in the mid-twentieth century.
Image of Britain 2
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Image of Britain 1
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.
Home on the Double Bayou
Memories of an East Texas Ranch
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a man's boyhood on a ranch in east Texas.
6000 Miles of Fence
By Cordia Sloan Duke and Joe B. Frantz
University of Texas Press
This book of reminiscences of old XIT Ranch cowmen puts on record the everyday life of the individuals who made the ranch run.
The Virgin's Children
Life in an Aztec Village Today
University of Texas Press
An absorbing account of the descendants of the ancient Aztecs and of the survival of their culture into the twentieth century in the Valley of Mexico is presented in this fascinating volume
Polk and the Presidency
University of Texas Press
How and why James K. Polk, the eleventh President of the United States, responded to the challenges of his times and thereby increased the authority and importance of the Presidential role for future incumbents.
Thomas J. Wise
Centenary Studies
Edited by William B. Todd
University of Texas Press
Essays on a major literary forger.
Personality Development in Children
Edited by Ira Iscoe and Harold W. Stevenson
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1960, this book presents penetrating observations by six authorities on the personality development of children for the enlightenment of parents, teachers, and others who have a vital interest in children.
Hamlin Garland
A Biography
University of Texas Press
A literary biography tracing Hamlin Garland's shift in mid-career from the harsh verisimilitude of Prairie Folks and Prairie Songs to a romanticizing of the Far West, and from ardent espousal of the principles of “veritism” to violent denunciations of nat
Will Clayton
A Short Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of a man who left his mark on world commerce through the development of a large cotton marketing firm, and who made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.
Frontier Ways
Sketches of Life in the Old West
University of Texas Press
A lively description of life in the frontier American West.
The State University
Addresses Delivered at a Conference Held in the Seventy-fifth Year of the University of Texas
Edited by Logan Wilson
University of Texas Press
Discussions of the major issues that the University of Texas faced at its 75th anniversary in 1958.
The Spanish Element in Texas Water Law
University of Texas Press
A history of how Spanish law influenced the development of Texas water law.
The Muse in Mexico
A Mid-Century Miscellany
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill
University of Texas Press
A collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.
The Individuality of Portugal
A Study in Historical-Political Geography
University of Texas Press
The factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.
The Cradle of Erewhon
Samuel Butler in New Zealand
By Joseph Jones
University of Texas Press
An examination and interpretation of the ways in which Samuel Butler's few crucial years in New Zealand affected his life and work, particularly Erewhon and Erewhon Revisited.
Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581
Edited by Thomas Mabry Cranfill; By Barnaby Rich
University of Texas Press
The present edition affords an opportunity to read Rich's tales in the form in which Elizabethans knew them.
James Stephen Hogg
A Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of the first native Texan to serve as the state's governor.
Milton and This Pendant World
University of Texas Press
Believing that Milton has a vital message for the modern world, Whiting has abandoned the usual pattern for examining a poet—study of versification, meter, and other poetic devices—in favor of an exposition of the spiritual and moral meaning of Milton’s
With His Pistol in His Hand
A Border Ballad and Its Hero
University of Texas Press
The true story behind a border ballad, the creation of the ballad, and the ballad's evolution over time.
New Letters to the Tatler and Spectator
Edited by Richmond P. Bond
University of Texas Press
Ninety-six letters to the Tatler and the Spectator, representing what was probably the largest extant body of unpublished material relating directly to the two journals, appeared for the first time in print in this book.
The Viennese Revolution of 1848
By R. John Rath
University of Texas Press
An evaluation of the revolution from the point of view of the political ideologies of 1848.
Platero and I
By Juan Ramón Jiménez; Translated by Eloïse Roach
University of Texas Press
This lyric portrait of life in a remote Andalusian village is the masterpiece of Juan Ramón Jiménez, the Spanish poet awarded the 1956 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mythology and Values
An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths
University of Texas Press
A study of a society’s cultural values through the lens of its mythology.
Lucky 7
A Cowman's Autobiography
University of Texas Press
This book came to be written from the longing memory of a time-stranded cowman; he tells his story in the hard-punching, gritty language, direct humor, and attachment to bald fact and frank opinion that characterize the true Westerner.
Brann and the Iconoclast
University of Texas Press
The story of a newspaperman and his satirical publication.
Naval Power in the Conquest of Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first detailed treatment in English of the use of ships in the Spanish conquest of Mexico.
Why the Chisholm Trail Forks and Other Tales of the Cattle Country
By Andy Adams; Edited by Wilson M. Hudson
University of Texas Press
A sparkling collection of tales told around Western campfires.
They Tell of Birds
Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton
University of Texas Press
This book, a study of birds as they are presented by four great English poets, inquires into the extent and sources of their knowledge of birds and analyzes the methods by which they adapted that knowledge for poetic purposes.
A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845
University of Texas Press
The first book to examine the fledgling nation from the point of view of its dynamic political life.
The Silver Cradle
Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and Other Mexican American Traditions
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas.
The Road to Spindletop
Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901
By John Stricklin Spratt; Illustrated by Ed Bearden
University of Texas Press
An economic history of Texas in the late nineteenth century.
Of Sondry Folk
The Dramatic Principle in the Canterbury Tales
University of Texas Press
Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky’s revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer.
Rebel Private Front and Rear
By William Andrew Fletcher; Edited by Bell Irvin Wiley
University of Texas Press
A line soldier’s account of the Civil War without heroics.
Twenty-one Texas Short Stories
Edited by William Peery
University of Texas Press
A collection of stories about Texas by Texans that appeared in leading magazines in the first half of the twentieth century.
Sam Houston, the Great Designer
University of Texas Press
A biography of Sam Houston that examines seriously his role as an American statesman.
Gustav Dresel's Houston Journal
Adventures in North America and Texas, 1837-1841
University of Texas Press
The diary of a German businessman in the Texas Republic.
Galveston Island, or, A Few Months off the Coast of Texas
The Journal of Francis C. Sheridan, 1839–1840
By Francis C. Sheridan; Edited by Willis W. Pratt
University of Texas Press
The travel diary of a young Irishman in the British diplomatic service.
Barnaby Rich
A Short Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of an Elizabethan soldier and courtier.
The Tidelands Oil Controversy
A Legal and Historical Analysis
University of Texas Press
A study of a precedent-making Supreme Court decision regarding whether states or the federal government have ownership of the fishing and mineral rights of the marginal sea.
Gulf To Rockies
The Heritage of the Fort Worth and Denver–Colorado and Southern Railways, 1861–1898
By Richard C. Overton; Illustrated by Reginald Marsh
University of Texas Press
A chapter in the business and economic history of the American West and the story of two of the most colorful railroad builders of the nineteenth century.
The Florida of the Inca
Translated by John Grier Varner and Jeannette Varner; By Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Texas Press
The story of Hernando de Soto's expedition.
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