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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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Catholic Influence on American Colonial Policies, 1898-1904

The role played by the American Catholic Church in influencing administrative policy for the United States's new, and predominately Catholic, dependencies after the Spanish-American war is the subject of this incisive study.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Friedrich Schleiermacher

The Evolution of a Nationalist

This study of a German theologian and educator provides an insight into contemporary nationalistic movements and the people who have a part in them.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Green Russell and Gold

Elma Dill Russell Spencer, a descendant of one of these unusual brothers, relates the story of the Russell brothers as she learned it from family tradition transmitted by Grandma Russell, from family letters, from public documents, and from historical acc

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4

Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections

Essays about archaeolgy and ethnohistory of various Mesoamerican groups and their relationships with cultures outside Mesoamerica.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Institutional Adjustment

A Challenge to a Changing Economy

This collection of essays presents a stimulating and challenging examination of the nature of institutional adjustment, its history and its future, its problems and its purposes.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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John O. Meusebach

German Colonizer in Texas

The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Philip Freneau

Champion of Democracy

A detailed biography of this pensman of the American Revolution and early Republic.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Seven Contemporary Authors

Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers

These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana

A lively report of travels in early nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana and a fascinating account of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of those areas is presented in the work of this ebullient young French dramatist and journalist who traveled to Louisiana in 1837 and to Texas in 1839.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Tax Reform and the Alliance for Progress

This study presents an examination of the problem of evaluating the adequacy of Latin American tax-reform efforts and recommends basic criteria for such evaluation.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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The Cross Timbers

Memories of a North Texas Boyhood

Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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The Modern American Political Novel

1900-1960

A study of 138 novels and what they can tell us about the image of American politics in the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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