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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Party and Factional Division in Texas
Examining the results of fourteen elections from 1946 through 1962 and organizing a vast fund of statistics relative to Texas political parties and voters, the authors have laid a solid groundwork for further studies on voting patterns in Texas.
- Copyright year: 1964
Revolution on the Pampas
A Social History of Argentine Wheat, 1860–1910
This study traces the development of the Argentine wheat zone, focusing on the part wheat played in forming the Argentina of today.
- Copyright year: 1964
Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government
The first biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, who dutifully served Queen Elizabeth I for thirty years as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Adventures of a Prisoner of War, 1863–1864
By Decimus et Ultimus Barziza; Edited by R. Henderson Shuffler
This journal is the exciting personal narrative of a Texan who was a prisoner of the Union Army during the Civil War, escaped to Canada, and finally made his way back into the Confederacy through the blockade.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Invisible Tent
The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford
A critical evaluation of Ford's novels of war, tracing the development of the novelist's art in various phases.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Necessary Earth
Nature and Solitude in American Literature
How the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distinguish it from that of other lands.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Taft Ranch
A Texas Principality
By A. Ray Stephens; Introduction by Joe B. Frantz
The complete story of the Taft Ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Unhappy Medium
Spiritualism and the Life of Margaret Fox
By Earl Wesley Fornell; Illustrated by Lowell Collins
Written in spritely prose and permeated with a grave humor, this account of nineteenth-century spiritualism will be equally satisfying to the casual reader interested in a good story, and to the scholar seeking serious social history.
- Copyright year: 1964
Yankee Theatre
The Image of America on the Stage, 1825–1850
This book examines the full range of the theatre activity of "Stage Yankees," not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage.
- Copyright year: 1964
The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris
Edited by Donald Pizer
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901.
- Copyright year: 1964
An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw
An interpretation of the plot and characters of James's noted story.
- Copyright year: 1965
Attack and Counterattack
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842
A history of Texas-Mexican conflict during 1842, from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande.
- Copyright year: 1964
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