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Lambshead Before Interwoven

Frances M Holden

• Hardcover | Engels
• For more than a hundred years the vigorous Matthews and Reynolds clans have graced the land and enhanced the genteel traditions of western living. I k... Lees meer

Beyond the Rhetorical Presidency

• Paperback | Engels | Presidential Rhetoric and Political Communication | nr. 1
• With the administrations of Theodore Roosevelt and Woodrow Wilson, the American presidency underwent many profound changes. Chief among those was a ra... Lees meer

The African Texans

Alwyn Barr

• Hardcover | Engels | Texans All
• Immigrants of African descent have come to Texas in waves--first as free blacks seeking economic and social opportunity under the Spanish and Mexican ... Lees meer

From Egypt to Mesopotamia

Samuel Mark

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Nautical Archaeology | nr. 4
• In Near Eastern studies, it has come to be accepted by many as fact that predynastic trade routes connected Egypt and Mesopotamia. The existence of su... Lees meer

Turn Your Eyes Toward Texas

Paula Mitchell Marks

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback) | nr. 30
• From Sam Maverick's arrival in Texas to his death in 1870, he participated in many of the most momentous events of the state's early history, includin... Lees meer

A Testament of Revolution

Bela G Liptak, B La Lipt K

• Paperback | Engels | Eugenia & Hugh M. Stewart '26 | nr. 13
• Terse, staccato, like a dispatch from the front, Béla Lipták's A Testament of Revolution peels away more than four decades of intervening history to g... Lees meer

Black Culture and the Harlem Renaissance

Cary D Wintz

• Paperback | Engels
• Harlem symbolized the urbanization of black America in the 1920s and 1930s. Home to the largest concentration of African Americans who settled outside... Lees meer

A Dazzle of Dragonflies

Forrest L Mitchell, James L Lasswell

• Hardcover | Engels | Peter N. Nevraumont Books
• From fossils and folklore to life cycles and the latest in digital imaging techniques, A Dazzle of Dragonflies will take you into the far-reaching and... Lees meer

Oilfield Revolutionary

Houston Faust Mount

• Hardcover | Engels | Kenneth E. Montague Oil and Business History | nr. 23
• Everette Lee DeGolyer wore many hats--and he wore them with distinction. Though not a geophysicist, he helped make geophysics central to oil explorati... Lees meer

Commander and Builder of Western Forts

Jack Stokes Ballard

• Hardcover | Engels
• During his thirty-eight-year career as a military officer, Henry Clay Merriam received the Medal of Honor for his service in the Civil War, rose to pr... Lees meer

From the Hudson to the Yalu

Harry J Maihafer

• Hardcover | Engels | Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History | nr. 31
• They entered West Point shortly before the end of World War II. Four years later the class of USMA '49 graduated amid peacetime military cutbacks and ... Lees meer

Changing Texas

Steve H Murdock, Michael E Cline, Mary A Zey, P Wilner Jeanty, Deborah Perez

• Paperback | Engels
• Drawing on nearly thirty years of prior analyses of growth, aging, and diversity in Texas populations and households, the authors of Changing Texas: I... Lees meer

Claiming Citizenship

Anthony Quiroz

• Hardcover | Engels | Fronteras Series, Sponsored by Texas A&m International Unive | nr. 3
• Claiming Citizenship spotlights a community where Mexican Americans, regardless of social class, embraced a common ideology and worked for access to t... Lees meer

Preparing for Pandemics in the Modern World

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Black Death. Cholera. Spanish flu. Swine flu. HIV/AIDS. COVID-19/SARS-CoV-2. Each of these pandemics has made (or, is making) a lasting impact on ... Lees meer

Entertaining Futility

Andrew McMurry

• Paperback | Engels | Seventh Generation: Survival, Sustainability, Sustenance in
• In playfully pessimistic and thought-provoking essays, author Andrew McMurry explores a vital but fundamentally perverse human practice: destroying ou... Lees meer

Eye on Korea

James V Young

• Hardcover | Engels | Williams-Ford Texas A&M University Military History | nr. 88
• Col. James V. Young spent almost twenty years in Asia, including fourteen in Korea. Here, he writes with the expertise of an old Korea hand about a pe... Lees meer

The Cedar Choppers

Ken Roberts

• Paperback | Engels | Sam Rayburn Rural Life, Sponsored by Texas A&m University-Commerce | nr. 24
• At the low-water bridge below Tom Miller Dam, west of downtown Austin, during the summer of his tenth or eleventh year, Ken Roberts had his first enco... Lees meer

To the Limit of Endurance

Peter F Owen

• Paperback | Engels | C. A. Brannen | nr. 9
• Winner, 2008 General Wallace M. Greene Jr. Award, presented by the Marine Corps Heritage Foundation Peter F. Owen offers a tautly worded, historically... Lees meer

Judge Legett of Abilene

Vernon Gladden Spence

• Paperback | Engels | Centennial Series of the Association of Former Students Texas A & M University (Paperback) | nr. 5
• When young Kirvin Kade Legett arrived in Buffalo Gap, Texas, in 1879, his principal assets were a good horse and saddle and a license to practice law.... Lees meer

The North Mexican Cattle Industry, 1910-1975

Manuel A Machado

• Paperback | Engels
• By the end of the nineteenth century the cattle industry in northern Mexico was thriving. Large haciendas, based on the peonage system and many of the... Lees meer

The Texas Longhorn

Donald Emmet Worcester

• Paperback | Engels | Elma Dill Russell Spencer the West and Southwest
• This brief and entertaining history of the Texas Longhorn details the development of the first distinct American breed of beef cattle. The Spanish her... Lees meer

This Band of Heroes

James M McCaffrey

• Paperback | Engels
• Brigadier General Hiram Bronson Granbury led a brigade of Texans, fighting in the Army of Tennessee, for only nine months. Others had preceded him, an... Lees meer

A Way of Work and a Way of Life

Marilyn D Rhinehart

• Paperback | Engels | Texas A&m Southwestern Studies | nr. 9
• The coal mine represented much more than a way of making a living to the miners of Thurber, Texas, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centurie... Lees meer

Racial Borders

James Leiker

• Paperback | Engels | Perspectives on South Texas, Sponsored by Texas A&m Universi
• When the Civil War ended, hundreds of African Americans enlisted in the U.S. Army to gain social mobility and regular paychecks. Stationed in the West... Lees meer