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Kinship, Business, and Politics
The Martinez Del Rio Family in Mexico, 1823-1867
University of Texas Press
Using previously undiscovered primary source materials, Walker employs family history to analyze problems relating more generally to the development of state and society in newly independent Mexico.
Folk Practices in North Mexico
Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone
By Isabel Kelly
University of Texas Press
Folk customs of the mid-twentieth century in a village in Coahuila.
Mexico and the Spanish Cortes, 1810–1822
Eight Essays
Edited by Nettie Lee Benson
University of Texas Press
These eight essays trace the establishment and implementation of the Mexican electoral system, both national and municipal, and of reforms in the economic, journalistic, religious, and military systems.
The Ideal of the Practical
Colombia’s Struggle to Form a Technical Elite
University of Texas Press
A study of efforts by a segment of the upper class in an aristocratic Latin American society to alter cultural values in the society, creating stronger orientations toward the technical and the practical.
The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930
By Steven Topik
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive primary source material, this overview of the Brazilian republican state demonstrates that it was one of the most interventionist in Latin America well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929.
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
A modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.
Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico
By Dale Story
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the political and economic role of industrial entrepreneurs in postwar Mexico.
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
Roderic Camp’s examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country to detail the structure of intellectual life, rather than merely considering intellectual ideas.
State and Opposition in Military Brazil
University of Texas Press
A rich description of the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable “national security state” in the face of determined and resilient opposition.
The Voice of the Masters
Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature
University of Texas Press
A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.
Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933
University of Texas Press
This study, based primarily on previously unavailable private records of sugarcane plantations, examines the external and internal dynamics of the sugar industry.
Landowners in Colonial Peru
University of Texas Press
The first study to examine the agrarian history of a region in South America from the mid-sixteenth through late-seventeenth century.
Cinema Novo x 5
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film
University of Texas Press
Cinema Novo x 5 places the success of Brazilian cinema in perspective by examining the films of the five leaders of this groundbreaking movement—Andrade, Diegues, Guerra, Rocha, and dos Santos.
Haciendas and Economic Development
Guadalajara, Mexico, at Independence
University of Texas Press
Richard B. Lindley’s study of Guadalajara’s wealthy citizens on the eve of independence contradicts the view that the wars for independence arose from creole-peninsular resentment.
Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia
By Ann Twinam
University of Texas Press
Why a particular region in Colombia played such a strong role in the country's economic history.
The Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
University of Texas Press
A case study of twentieth-century changes within the Catholic Church and their impact on Brazilian society.
Workers from the North
Plantations, Bolivian Labor, and the City in Northwest Argentina
University of Texas Press
This book sets the Argentina-Bolivia experience of migration in historical perspective by examining the macro-level factors that influenced social change in both countries and brought streams of migration into Argentina.
Judge and Jury in Imperial Brazil, 1808–1871
Social Control and Political Stability in the New State
By Thomas Flory
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the Brazilian lower-court system in the nineteenth century, where the private interests of society and the public interests of the state intersected.
Mobility and Integration in Urban Argentina
Córdoba in the Liberal Era
University of Texas Press
An examination of the occupational, residential, educational, and economic patterns of mobility of some four thousand men, women, and children who resided in Córdoba, Argentina's most important interior city, between the 1870s and World War I.
Poverty and Problem-Solving under Military Rule
The Urban Poor in Lima, Peru
University of Texas Press
Henry Dietz investigates Lima’s poor during the “revolution” of General Juan Velasco (1968–1975), examining both the structural conditions promoting poverty and the individual consequences of being poor.
Supermadre
Women in Politics in Latin America
University of Texas Press
An examination of women's roles in Latin American politics and how it is often confined to positions that are extensions of their roles as mothers.
The Rise and Fall of the Paraguayan Republic, 1800–1870
University of Texas Press
A masterly account of the events and people during a remarkable period in Paraguay's history.
Town in the Empire
Government, Politics, and Society in Seventeenth Century Popayán
University of Texas Press
A study of a seventeenth-century town more typical of everyday colonial life than the major centers that have drawn most attention from historians.
Peasant Cooperation and Capitalist Expansion in Central Peru
Edited by Norman Long and Bryan R. Roberts
University of Texas Press
This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists.
Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878
University of Texas Press
The first book in any language that examines political, economic, and social developments to provide a well-integrated study of this significant and eventful period in Paraguay's history.
Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence, 1808–1828
University of Texas Press
This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century.
The Socialist Party of Argentina, 1890–1930
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.
Elites and Economic Development
Comparative Studies on the Political Economy of Latin American Cities
By John Walton
University of Texas Press
A detailed comparative analysis of development politics in four urban regions of Latin America.
Prose Fiction of the Cuban Revolution
University of Texas Press
Combining historical and critical approaches, Seymour Menton classifies and analyzes over two hundred novels and volumes of short stories, revealing the extent to which Cuban literature reflects the reality of the Revolution.
Struggle in the Andes
Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru’s peasant population in the 1960s.
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