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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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With His Pistol in His Hand

A Border Ballad and Its Hero

  • Copyright year: 1958
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Milton and This Pendant World

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

  • Copyright year: 1958
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James Stephen Hogg

A Biography

A biography of the first native Texan to serve as the state's governor.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Rich’s Farewell to Military Profession, 1581

The present edition affords an opportunity to read Rich's tales in the form in which Elizabethans knew them.

  • Copyright year: 1953
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The Cradle of Erewhon

Samuel Butler in New Zealand

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.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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The Individuality of Portugal

A Study in Historical-Political Geography

The factors that caused Portugal to become a separate nation when other regions of the Iberian peninsula became part of Spain.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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The Muse in Mexico

A Mid-Century Miscellany

A collection of Mexican fiction, poetry, and art from the mid-twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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The Spanish Element in Texas Water Law

A history of how Spanish law influenced the development of Texas water law.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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The State University

Addresses Delivered at a Conference Held in the Seventy-fifth Year of the University of Texas

Edited by Logan Wilson

Discussions of the major issues that the University of Texas faced at its 75th anniversary in 1958.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Frontier Ways

Sketches of Life in the Old West

A lively description of life in the frontier American West.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Will Clayton

A Short Biography

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.

  • Copyright year: 1959
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Hamlin Garland

A Biography

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

  • Copyright year: 1960
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