Texas Boomtowns:: A History of Blood and Oil 2015949873

Texas Blood 9780307961419, 9780307961402, 2016053188

In the tradition of Ian Frazier's Great Plains, and as vivid as the work of Cormac McCarthy, an intoxicating, singu

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Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas (Texas Bookshelf) 9781477320037

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Kuwait Transformed: A History of Oil and Urban Life 9780804798570

Kuwait Transformed analyzes the intricate relationship between the urban landscape, the patterns and practices of everyd

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Texas: A History 9780393348699, 0393348695

Texas is blood and violence, right? It is cowboys and longhorns, the Alamo and the Astrodome, wheeling and dealing and b

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Fire and Blood: A History of Mexico 0306806282, 9780306806285

"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and sp

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Backyard Brawl: Inside the Blood Feud Between Texas and Texas A&M [1st pbk. ed] 9780307419835, 0307419835

It happens once a year, creating a seismic divide throughout the country. It pits brother against brother. It breaks up

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Texas, A Modern History: Revised Edition 9780292793224

Since its publication in 1989, Texas, A Modern History has established itself as one of the most readable and reliable g

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Naturalizing Mexican Immigrants: A Texas History 9780292729988

During the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, a majority of the Mexican immigrant population in the United States

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The Republican Party of Texas: A Political History 9781477322529

On July 4, 1867, a group of men assembled in Houston to establish the Republican Party of Texas. Combatting entrenched s

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Oil Powers: A History of the U.S.-Saudi Alliance 9780231552073

Victor McFarland challenges the view that the U.S.-Saudi alliance is the inevitable consequence of American energy deman

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