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Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.

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The Road to Spindletop

Economic Change in Texas, 1875–1901

An economic history of Texas in the late nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 1955
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The Silver Cradle

Las Posadas, Los Pastores, and Other Mexican American Traditions

By Julia Nott Waugh; Introduction by Félix D. Almaráz; Illustrated by Bob Winn

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.

  • Copyright year: 1955
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A Political History of the Texas Republic, 1836-1845

The first book to examine the fledgling nation from the point of view of its dynamic political life.

  • Copyright year: 1956
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They Tell of Birds

Chaucer, Spenser, Milton, Drayton

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.

  • Copyright year: 1956
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Why the Chisholm Trail Forks and Other Tales of the Cattle Country

A sparkling collection of tales told around Western campfires.

  • Copyright year: 1956
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Naval Power in the Conquest of Mexico

The first detailed treatment in English of the use of ships in the Spanish conquest of Mexico.

  • Copyright year: 1956
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Brann and the Iconoclast

The story of a newspaperman and his satirical publication.

  • Copyright year: 1957
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Lucky 7

A Cowman's Autobiography

By Will Tom Carpenter; Edited by Elton Miles; Illustrated by Lee Hart

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.

  • Copyright year: 1957
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Mythology and Values

An Analysis of Navaho Chantway Myths

A study of a society’s cultural values through the lens of its mythology.

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Platero and I

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.

  • Copyright year: 1957
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The Viennese Revolution of 1848

An evaluation of the revolution from the point of view of the political ideologies of 1848.

  • Copyright year: 1957
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New Letters to the Tatler and Spectator

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.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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