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Winner of the Tullis Memorial Award, from the Texas State Historical Association--Changing Tides: Twilight and Dawn in the Spanish Sea, 1763-1803, by Robert S. Weddle.
The author chronicles the competitive exploration of the Gulf of Mexico as France, Spain, and England tried to maintain their toeholds in North America. ISBN 0-89096-661-3. 384 pp. 18 b&w photos. 24 maps. Bib. Index. $49.50s

Winner, Friends of the Dallas Public Library Award for greatest contribution to knowledge, Texas Institute of Letters; a 1992 Choice Outstanding Academic Book--The French Thorn: Rival Explorers in the Spanish Sea, 1682-1762, by Robert S. Weddle.
This sequel to Spanish Sea [out of print] details the intense competition and occasional collusion between French opportunists and the Spanish guardians of their vulnerable New World. "Weddle's increasingly sophisticated contributions to the history of exploration reveal a colonial North America of multiple languages, cultures, and coasts and should be known to every American historian." (Journal of American History. ISBN 0-89096-480-7. 448 pp. 6 b&w photos. 20 maps. Bib. Index. $49.50s

Winner, Gilbert Chinard Prize, Society for French Historical Studies; and the Bates Award for Historical Research, Texas State Historical Association--La Salle, the Mississippi, and the Gulf: Three Primary Documents. Edited by Robert S. Weddle, Mary Christine Morkovsky, and Patricia Galloway. Translated by Ann Linda Bell and Robert S. Weddle.
The journal of La Salle's engineer, a Spaniard's account of finding La Salle's wrecked ships, and two French brothers' testimony of their captivity by native peoples provide some clues in the mystery of La Salle's landing in Texas. " . . . fascinating and worthwhile reading for anyone interested in La Salle's explorations, American Indians, or colonial American history in general."þAmerican Indian Quarterly. ISBN 0-89096-310-X. 342 pp. 12 b&w plates. Bib. Index. $39.50s

A 1995 Choice Outstanding Academic Book--The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542-1854, by F. Todd Smith.
In 1542 members of the thriving Caddo Indian culture came face to face with the leader of a Spanish exploration party. From then on Caddo history was dominated by the interaction of the native confederacies with the empires of various European adventurers and settlers. "Readers . . . will be rewarded with a new understanding of the contest for control of the Texas-Louisiana borderlands and of the Caddo people who lived there first."þJournal of American History. ISBN 0-89096-642-7. 240 pp. 6 maps. Bib. Index. $24.95

Forthcoming, December 1996
The Caddos, the Wichitas, and the United States, 1846-1901, by F. Todd Smith.
In this new volume, F. Todd Smith picks up the narrative he began in his 1995 book The Caddo Indians: Tribes at the Convergence of Empires, 1542þ1854. Throughout this book, Smith analyzes how the successful adaptation of the tribes to white demands undermined their power and future. In the end, Smith shows, the Caddos and Wichitas used the Euroamerican legal system to fight their last battle and ended up losing the very basis of tribal life, shared land. ISBN 0-89096-708-3. 192 pp. 10 b&w photos. 6 maps. Bib. Index. $29.95

The Mapping of the American Southwest. Edited by Dennis Reinhartz and Charles C. Colley. Special Collections Publication of the University of Texas at Arlington, Number 1.
In this introduction to the history of cartography in the Southwest, contributors discuss the five phases of French and Spanish cartography in the region, the contributions of Herman Moll, U.S. Army mapping of Texas, and commercial cartography in nineteenth-century atlases. "Collections of this kind are always welcome, for it is only by the patient assembling of much local work that we shall eventually come to an understanding of the great lines of the history of cartography in North America."þMapline. ISBN 0-89096-237-5. 7x10. 112 pp. 7 color, 22 b&w maps. $29.95

Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast: The Contributions of Saint-Denis, Oliv n, and Le Maire, by Jack Jackson, Robert S. Weddle, Winston De Ville. Foreword by Jay Higginbotham.
This study of early mapping efforts along the Gulf Coast reveals that the adversarial relationship between eighteenth-century France and Spain contained surprising complexities. "Skillful use of historical documentation allows Mapping Texas and the Gulf Coast to be much more than a cartographic study. It is a history of the period and its political intrigues, native peoples, and national initiatives. The authors make us aware that maps are power, containing valued knowledge of new land and peoples." (Florida Historical Quarterly). ISBN 0-89096-439-4. 7x10. 104 pp. 17 maps. Bib. Index. $29.50

Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book for 1995; Presidio La Bah¡a Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas; Certificate of Commendation, American Association for State and Local History; T. R. Fehrenbach Award, Texas Historical Commission; Bates Award, Texas State Historical Association: Tejanos and Texas under the Mexican Flag, 1821-1836, by Andr‚s Tijerina.
The author documents the exchange of land, power, culture, and social institutions that occurred when Mexican pioneers encountered Anglo pioneers in Texas. "The book has some outstanding strengths. It provides an excellent analysis of the racial and geographic origins of the Tejanos. The discussion of local government in pre-1836 Texas is the best in print, as is the treatment of the problems arising from Texas' administrative attachment to Coahuila. . . . This is neither contributionist history nor victim-studies; Tijerina's Tejanos are neither unsung heroes nor oppressed victims." (Journal of the Early Republic). ISBN 0-89096-606-0. 184 pp. 2 b&w photos. 1 line drawing. 4 maps. 13 tables. $14.95s paper.