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Showcases the finest work of Jesus F. de la Teja, a foremost authority on Spanish colonial Mexico and Texas through the Republic. For de la Teja, the Tejano experience in San Antonio is a case study of a community in transition, one moved by forces within and without.

When Nazi Germany began bearing down on Europe in the late 1930s, Herman Bodson was a student pacifist at the University of Brussels. As the reality of eventual invasion sank into his soul, he entered the resistance and five years of dangerous work as, in his words, ""a fighter and a killer"".

Trammel's Trace, named for Nicholas Trammell, was the first route from the United States into the northern boundaries of Spanish Texas. From the Great Bend of the Red River it intersected with El Camino Real de los Tejas in Nacogdoches. This volume tells its history.

The aim in this important book is to lay the groundwork for the development of a ""more contemporary Jungian approach"" to working with transference and countertransference dynamics within the therapeutic relationship. Jan Wiener's work is also informed by knowledge from other fields, such as philosophy, infant development, neuroscience, and the arts.

An account of the dying Plains Indian culture and the march of white commerce across the frontier. The Adobe Walls trading post was built by a handful of men in 1874 but incurred the wrath of several Indian tribes who attacked the post and burned all trace of the white man's presence.

Late in 1940, the young men of the 2nd Battalion, 131st Field Artillery Regiment stepped off the trucks at Camp Bowie in Brownwood, Texas, ready to complete the training they would need for active duty in World War II. This title includes personal memoirs and oral history interviews of the "Lost Battalion" members.

Who, exactly, are these close air support (CAS) experts and what is the function of the TACPs (Tactical Air Control Parties) in which they operate? Drawing on first-hand accounts of their battlefield experiences, this work allows the TACPs to speak for themselves. It also includes an analysis of the development of CAS strategy.

As we ask anew in these troubled times what it means to be an American, You, the People provides perspective by casting its eye over the answers given by past U.S. presidents in their addresses to the public. Who is an American, and who is not? Could any questions be more timely?

Provides a discussion of US presidentiality as a unique rhetorical role. Within that framework, the authors review women's historical and contemporary presidential bids, placing special emphasis on the 2008 campaign. They also consider how presidentiality is framed in candidate oratory, campaign journalism, film and television, digital media, and political parody.

Can Justice Department officials effectively investigate wrongdoing within their own administration without relying on an independent counsel? In Prosecution among Friends political scientist David Alistair Yalof explores the operation of due process as it is navigated within the office of the attorney general and its various subdivisions.

Offers insights into what motivated Texans to fight for the Confederacy. Mining important primary sources - including thousands of letters and unpublished journals, this title affords readers the opportunity to hear, often in the combatants' own words, why it was so important to them to engage in tumultuous struggles occurring so far from home.

The border of Texas is longer than the Amazon River, running through ten distinct ecological zones as it outlines one of the familiar shapes in geography. This book features the drawing representing segments of the Texas border where the authors selected a place - a national park, a stretch of river, a mountain range, or an archeological site.

When the Civil War ended, hundreds of African Americans enlisted in the US army to gain social mobility and regular pay. They protected white communities and forced Native Americans onto government reservations and were in part responsible for the transition of Rio Grande from frontier to border.

For the more than fifty years that Democrats controlled the U.S. House of Representatives, leadership was divided between Massachusetts and Texas. The Austin-Boston Connection analyzes the importance of the friendships (especially mentor-protege relationships) and enmi-ties within congressional delegations, regional affinities, and the lynchpin practice of appointing the Democratic Whip.

Presents a comprehensive study of the efforts of post-war air power advocates to harness popular culture in support of their agenda. This title chronicles the shift away from the heroic, patriotic posture of the years just after WW II, toward the threatening, even bizarre imagery of books and movies like Catch-22, On the Beach, and Dr Strangelove.

Traces the experiences of Mexican workers on the American home front during World War II as they moved from rural to urban areas and sought better-paying jobs in industries. This title investigates the intervention by Mexico in the treatment of workers and Texas' emergence as a key site for negotiating the application of the Good Neighbor Policy.

Offers practical lessons on the human urge to know about nature through science. This work describes the principles of the scientific endeavor, discussing the nature of reasoning, of facts, of creativity and critical thinking. It also presents the ""mechanics"" of science, explaining the roles of experiment, observation, models, and statistics.

A survey of the agonizing burden shouldered by the Second Battalion of the Sixth Regiment of US Marines from its formation in Quantico, Virginia, in 1917 until the cessation of hostilities in November of the following year.

Demonstrates that moral and religious rhetoric is a strategic tool presidents can use to enhance their constitutional authority. This work analyzes the president's role as the nation's moral spokesman. It employs content analysis of the inaugural and annual addresses of all the presidents from George Washington through George W Bush.

Features the voices of the author's mother and several other family members and friends, seated at their kitchen tables, to share the grassroots world view of these working-class Mexican and Mexican American women. This work demonstrates that, in the kitchen, women assert their sazon (seasoning), not only in their cooking but also in their lives.

Interests readers concerned with Mexican economic development and its prospects for the future. The authors center their study of the Mexican oil and gas industry. They cogently assess Mexico's goals of sustainability and the major policy changes that will be required to achieve them.

In 1916, a crowd of cheering spectators watched as Jesse Washington, a retarded black boy, was publicly tortured, lynched, and burned on the town square of Waco, accused and convicted in a kangaroo court. Patricia Bernstein has reconstructed the details of not only the crime but also its aftermath.

Anthony Quiroz shows how the experience of the Mexican American citizens of Victoria, who worked within the system, challenges common assumptions about the power of class to inform ideology and demonstrates that embracing ethnic identity does not always mean rejecting Americanism.

In the beginning years of the 21st century, at a time when Latinos are the most numerous ethnic minority in the US and a growing part of the middle and professional classes, a Mexican American educator takes stock.

Although no woman has yet served as president of the United States, women have played important roles within the executive branch and have found many ways to exert pressure on the president. This book offers an understanding of the nation's largest interest group.

Cesar Chavez's relentless campaign for social justice for farm workers and labourers marked a milestone in US history. In this collection of words and analysis of his major speeches and writings, the authors reveal the rhetorical qualities and rhetorical dynamics of a master communicator.