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  • The History of Texas

    by Robert A. Calvert, Arnoldo De Leon, Gregg Cantrell ...
    The most comprehensive, best-illustrated survey of the Lone Star State—the new, updated edition of the classic textThe History of Texas offers a sweeping exploration of the Lone Star State, covering its history from the pre-Columbian period, to the era of Spanish control, to nineteenth century watershed events, through the 1900s and into the new millennium. This engaging, student-friendly textbook ... Read more

    $52.00 USD

  • They Called Them Greasers

    Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900

    by Arnoldo De León ...
    Tension between Anglos and Tejanos has existed in the Lone Star State since the earliest settlements. Such antagonism has produced friction between the two peoples, and whites have expressed their hostility toward Mexican Americans unabashedly and at times violently.This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Mexican Americans in West Texas

    The Borderlands of the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos

    by Arnoldo De León ...
    Series series Global Borderlands
    Mexican Americans in West Texas is an essential work investigating the human geography of a key Texas region. Its scope gives primary attention to the counties generally encompassed by the Edwards Plateau and the Trans-Pecos region, which extends from just past the Hill Country counties of Mason, Gillespie, Kerr, and Bandera, to approximately the Pecos River but also embracing the conterminous ... Read more

    $28.49 USD

  • Texas and Texans in World War II

    1941–1945

    by Joseph G. Dawson, Bernadette Pruitt, Michael Hurd, Katherine Sharp Landdeck, Arnoldo De León, Zachary Montz, Houston Faust Mount II II, Stephen M. Sloan, Henry C. Dethloff, Kelly E. Crager, Keith J. Volanto ...
    Series series Summerfield G. Roberts Texas History Series
    Texans in World War II offers an informative look at the challenges and changes faced by Texans on the home front during the Second World War. This collection of essays by leading scholars of Texas history covers topics from the African American and Tejano experience to organized labor, from the expanding opportunities for women to the importance of oil and agriculture. Texans in World War II ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Dance of Freedom

    Texas African Americans during Reconstruction

    by Barry A. Crouch ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    This anthology brings together the late Barry A. Crouch's most important articles on the African American experience in Texas during Reconstruction. Grouped topically, the essays explore what freedom meant to the newly emancipated, how white Texans reacted to the freed slaves, and how Freedmen's Bureau agents and African American politicians worked to improve the lot of ordinary African American ... Read more

    $27.59 USD

  • Tejano West Texas

    by Arnoldo De León ...
    Featuring a side of Tejano history too often neglected, author Arnoldo De León shows that people of Spanish-Mexican descent were not passive players in or, worse, absent from West Texas history but instead were active agents at the center of it.The collection of essays in Tejano West Texas—many never before published—will correct decades of historiographical oversight by emphasizing the centrality ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Leaders of the Mexican American Generation

    Biographical Essays

    Edited by Anthony Quiroz ...
    Leaders of the Mexican American Generation explores the lives of a wide range of influential members of the US Mexican American community between 1920 and 1965 who paved the way for major changes in their social, political, and economic status within the United States.Including feminist Alice Dickerson Montemayor, to San Antonio attorney Gus García, and labor activist and scholar Ernesto Galarza, ... Read more

    $16.59 USD

  • Shearing Sheep and Angora Goats the Texas Way

    Legacy of Pride

    by Robert Aguero ...
    Series Book 20 - Clayton Wheat Williams Texas Life Series
    Just as the time of the vaquero is near to running its course, the days of the full-time sheep and goat shearers—tasinques—are coming to a close. So asserts author Robert Aguero, son and grandson of tasinques and recipient of the proud tradition of those who labored with their hands in the dusty corrals of the Nueces River Valley and the Edwards Plateau, harvesting the wool and mohair that fueled ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • War along the Border

    The Mexican Revolution and Tejano Communities

    by Sonia Hernández, Thomas H. Kreneck, Gerald Horne, Margaret Stevens, George T. Díaz, Juanita Luna Lawhn, Trinidad Gonzales, Paul Hart, Roberto R. Treviño, Miguel Antonio Levario, Raúl Ramos, Tatcho Mindiola, Richard Ribb, John Eusebio Klingemann ...
    Series Book 6 - University of Houston Series in Mexican American Studies, Sponsored by the Center for Mexican American Studies
    Table of Contents:Foreword, Tatcho MindiolaIntroduction, Arnoldo De LeónBeyond Borders: Causes and Consequences of the Mexican Revolution, Paul HartThe Mexican Revolution’s Impact on Tejano Communities: The Historiographic Record, Arnoldo De LeónLa Rinchada: Revolution, Revenge, and the Rangers, 1910–1920, Richard RibbThe Mexican Revolution, Revolución de Texas, and Matanza de 1915, Trinidad ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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    The Great Depression in California

    by Kevin Starr ...
    Series series Americans and the California Dream
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  • Listening to Rosita

    The Business of Tejana Music and Culture, 1930–1955

    by Dr. Mary Ann Villarreal ...
    Series series Race and Culture in the American West Series
    Everybody in the bar had to drop a quarter in the jukebox or be shamed by “Momo” Villarreal. It wasn’t about the money, Mary Ann Villarreal’s grandmother insisted. It was about the music—more songs for all the patrons of the Pecan Lounge in Tivoli, Texas. But for Mary Ann, whose schoolbooks those quarters bought, the money didn’t hurt.When as an adult Villarreal began to wonder how the few ... Read more

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  • From South Texas to the Nation

    The Exploitation of Mexican Labor in the Twentieth Century

    by John Weber ...
    Series series The David J. Weber Series in the New Borderlands History
    In the early years of the twentieth century, newcomer farmers and migrant Mexicans forged a new world in South Texas. In just a decade, this vast region, previously considered too isolated and desolate for large-scale agriculture, became one of the United States' most lucrative farming regions and one of its worst places to work. By encouraging mass migration from Mexico, paying low wages, ... Read more

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