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Ramble Texas
Fulcrum Publishing 2010; US$ 22.95Seasoned and entertaining travel writer uncovers the biggest, best, and weirdest of the Lone Star State. more...
In a Narrow Grave
Simon & Schuster 2010; US$ 14.99Writing with characteristic grace and wit, Larry McMurtry tackles the full spectrum of his favorite themes -- from sex, literature, and cowboys to rodeos, small-town folk, and big-city slickers. First published in 1968, In a Narrow Grave is the classic statement of what it means to come from Texas. In these essays, McMurtry opens a window into the... more...
Fort Worth Characters
University of North Texas Press 2009; US$ 11.96Features stories that add fresh perspectives to the familiar Fort Worth story, revealing how the law worked in old days and what life was like for persons of color and for women living in a man's world. more...
Fighting Their Own Battles
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 45.00Between 1940 and 1975, Mexican Americans and African Americans in Texas fought a number of battles in court, at the ballot box, in schools, and on the streets to eliminate segregation and state-imposed racism. Although both groups engaged in civil rights struggles as victims of similar forms of racism and discrimination, they were rarely unified.... more...
The Tejano Diaspora
The University of North Carolina Press 2011; US$ 39.95Each spring during the 1960s and 1970s, a quarter million farm workers left Texas to travel across the nation, from the Midwest to California, to harvest America's agricultural products. During this migration of people, labor, and ideas, Tejanos established settlements in nearly all the places they traveled to for work, influencing concepts of Mexican... more...
Civic Engagements
Stanford University Press 2011; US$ 24.95For refugees and immigrants in the United States, expressions of citizenship and belonging emerge not only during the naturalization process but also during more informal, everyday activities in the community. Based on research in the Dallas–Arlington–Fort Worth area of Texas, this book examines the sociocultural spaces in which Vietnamese... more...
Cowboy Conservatism
The University Press of Kentucky 2010; US$ 40.00During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight, and by 1980 it was known as "Reagan Country." Ultimately, Republicans dominated the Texas political landscape, holding all twenty-seven of... more...
Vengeance Is Mine
University of North Texas Press 2011; US$ 19.96The 1912 Boyce-Sneed feud in West Texas began with a torrid sex scandal at the core of a love triangle, featuring Lena Snyder Sneed, the high-spirited, headstrong wife; Al Boyce, Jr., Lena?s reckless, romantic lover; and John Beal Sneed, Lena?s arrogant, grim, and vindictive husband, who responded to Lena?s plea for a divorce by having her locked up... more...
Big Thicket Guidebook
University of North Texas Press 2011; US$ 23.96Start your engines and follow the backroads, the historical paths, and the scenic landscape that were fashioned by geologic Ice Ages and traveled by Big Thicket explorers as well as contemporary park advocates?all as diverse as the Big Thicket itself. From Spanish missionaries to Jayhawkers, and from timber barons to public officials, you will meet... more...
Still the Arena of Civil War
University of North Texas Press 2012; US$ 27.96Following the Civil War, the United States was fully engaged in a bloody conflict with ex-Confederates, conservative Democrats, and members of organized terrorist groups, such as the Ku Klux Klan, for control of the southern states. Texas became one of the earliest battleground states in the War of Reconstruction. Was the Reconstruction era in the... more...









