Tejano Empire: Life on the South Texas Ranchos, Paperback - Andres Tijerina

Reducere. A silent story is told by the stone chimneys of South Texas that were used to prepare the Tejano ranch meals of an earlier century and by the rifle...

DescriptionHistorians have amply recorded the battles and the Anglo-Americans' military, economic, and political domination of the Mexican lands af...

Reducere. Tejanos (Texans of Mexican heritage) were instrumental leaders in the life and development of Texas during the Mexican period, the war of independe...

Reducere. A longtime resident of Rancho Santa Fe, California, Roger Kyle Lindland brings the character, color and beauty of this Southern California enclave ...

Reducere. Combining the storytelling flair of a novelist with a scholar's concern for the facts, Ana Carolina Castillo Crimm here recounts the history of thr...

Reducere. DescriptionAs Mexican soldiers fought the mostly Anglo-American colonists and volunteers at the Alamo in 1836, San Antonio's Tejano population was ...

Reducere. If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

If you want to discover the captivating history of the Mughal Empire, then keep reading...The Mughal Empire, also known as the Moghul Empire, laste...

Reducere. DescriptionIn Empire Builder in the Texas Panhandle, author Paul H. Carlson tells the story of Chicago-based William Henry Bush and his role in sha...

Reducere. In A Haven in the Sun, nature writer B. C. Robison presents a unique portrayal of birds of the Texas Coast. Through the stories of birds that have ...

Reducere. Description"Meticulously researched and engagingly written, Ken Roberts' The Cedar Choppers leads us on a fascinating journey to the heart of this ...

When people think of legendary Texas cattle ranches the images that first come to mind are iconic, open-range operations like King Ranch of South T...

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BRITISH ACADEMY BOOK PRIZE FOR GLOBAL CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING AND LONGLISTED FOR THE CUNDILL HISTORY PRIZE 2021Publisher: Harper...

Reducere. This is a story of tides and coastlines, winds and waves, islands and beaches. It is also a retelling of indigenous creativity, agency, and resista...

DescriptionHispanics, Native Americans, and Anglo Americans made agonizing and crucial identity decisions in this southwestern region during the fi...

Reducere. John Poch's newly curated collection, Gracious: Poems of the 21st Century South, spotlights both emerging and notable voices from this poetry-rich ...

DescriptionRecently, many critics have questioned the idea of universal citizenship by pointing to the racial, class, and gendered exclusions on wh...

'Helps re-centre how we look at the world and opens up new perspectives on how we can look at regions, peoples and places that have been left to on...

Reducere. DescriptionBest known as the lawman who played the major role in bringing down Bonnie Parker and Clyde Barrow on May 23, 1934, Frank Hamer was alre...

Reducere. DescriptionOne hundred thirty-two species, subspecies, and varieties of cacti may be found in Texas. About one hundred of them occur in the state's...

DescriptionThe objects of architecture are not simply inert assemblies of material--they are complex entities that unfold their potential agencies ...

The book is semi-autobigraphical and reflects on a myriad of memories darting back to childhood. Now, at the age of 70 the author looks back at acc...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Lucy M. GarzaThis delightful cookbook is straight from the cocina of a South Texas traditional Mexican home. Don't expect t...

Reducere. Texas has one of the largest Jewish populations in the South and West, comprising an often-overlooked vestige of the Diaspora. The Chosen Folks bri...

Reducere. The title, "Not Bad for a South Texas Boy", comes from a note penned by Federico Peña's college English professor. While first read as encouraging,...

Reducere. Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS ````Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply writte...

Reducere. In The Queer South, Douglas Ray has assembled over 60 queer-identified voices exploring their experiences of the American South in nonfiction and p...

Reducere. After being diagnosed with mental illness, Keats wants nothing more than to get away. His first day in Rome he falls in love - and she steals his w...

This book is about a Yorkshire miner's son who moves around the world in ships and planes. He seems to defy convention and succeeds where other peo...

Focuses specifically on the lower reaches of the Rio Grande/RIo Bravo as it exits the mountains and meanders across a coastal plain. Bringing toget...

Reducere. Historian David La Vere has culled from the Indian-Pioneer Histories housed in the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma C...

Now in paperback, this is a profound and enlightening memoir from the journalist, activist and international feminist icon Gloria Steinem. With new...

Reducere. Latinas/os and Asians are rewriting the meaning and history of race in the American South by complicating the black/white binary that has frequentl...

Publisher: Texas A & M University PressAuthor(s): Karen Harden McCrackenIllustration(s): 13 b&w photographs, 2 maps, 2 indexes, appendixNumber of p...

Reducere. DescriptionLewels' tales of a young Mexican-American coming of age on the border are riveting. Sometimes they are zany and at other times heart bre...

Reducere. My name is Fernando Americo Tijerina. I have written many books about myself, my family and of many, many inmates who were incarcerated and waiting...

Reducere. DescriptionA lively portrait of Seneca: philosopher, dramatist, moralist, and eyewitness of Neronian Rome.About the AuthorEmily Wilson is Professor...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Jeannie WhayneIn Delta Empire: Lee Wilson and the Transformation of Agriculture in the New South Jeannie Whayne employs the...

Reducere. In Heretics and Colonizers, Nicholas B. Breyfogle explores the dynamic intersection of Russian borderland colonization and popular religious cultur...

Reducere. Fiction. Music. DEATH TO THE BULLSHIT ARTISTS OF SOUTH TEXAS is a psychedelic romp through the Rio Grande Valley music scene. This collection of 10...