Bøger udgivet af Texas Tech Press,U.S.

Soon after the end of the Vietman War, memories of loss still fresh, top military leaders of defeated South Vietnam recorded their observations in a series of publications sponsored by the US Center of Military History. Lewis Sorley has gathered, edited, and arranged these sixteen monographs for ease of reference and access, providing valuable glossary, biographies of the generals, and index.

Although the United States is a nation founded by immigrants, Alberto R. Gonzales and David N. Strange believe that national immigration policy and enforcement over the past thirty years has been inadequate. This failure by federal leaders has resulted in a widespread introduction of state immigration laws across the country. Gonzales and Strang...

Women under the Napoleonic regime have been largely neglected by historians. Through recovered discourses and other primary sources, this title uncovers the strategies that Napoleonic women employed to control their lives. It presents an analysis of Napoleons personal attitudes about the nature of women.

Examining Raymond Yellow Thunders death at the hands of four white men in 1972, this title looks deep into the past that gave rise to the tragedy. It recounts the largely forgotten struggles of American Indian Movement activist Bob Yellow Bird and tells the story of Whiteclay, Nebraska, and the controversial border hamlet.

The six Munger siblings are the heirs of hard-drinking, hardscrabble farmer. Sitting as directors of the several corporations in which their wealth resides, five of the siblings Spain, Texas, Laska, China, and Bethel struggle to balance their past with their present, their place in society, and their obligations to community.

The author traveled Texas from the Panhandle to Big Bend country, from the Piney Woods to the Gulf, discovering thousands of quilts in towns from Alpine to Austin, Dimmitt to Dallas, and myriad other Texas communities large and small. This book showcases thirty-four of those quilts.

A companion volume to ""Getting Away with Murder on the Texas Frontier"" that takes readers from Mississippi to the frontiers of West Texas, Indian Territory, New Mexico Territory, and finally the frozen Montana wilderness through a series of linked, true-life tales of crimes and trials.

Though Anita Scott Coleman was born in Mexico and reared in New Mexico, her stories appeared frequently in ""The Crisis"" and other leading journals of the Harlem Renaissance. This collection presents a road map of African American life in the Southwest and West during the movements glory days.

Acarologists have discovered a multitude of new taxa, made major modifications in classification of acarines, and altered their understanding of the Acari. This title is of interest to researchers, teachers, students, and plant and animal scientists wishing to explore the complex and often astonishing world of mites.

Delectably steeped in tradition, a living culinary heritage

The American Cotton Growers Association of the Texas High Plains reinvented the local cotton industry into a modern branch of agribusiness in the 1970s.