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The Cultural Life of the Automobile

Roads to Modernity

University of Texas Press

Illuminating the question of what it means to be a mobile human anywhere in the modern world, this strikingly original work of cultural history examines how changes in consciousness, identity, and expression, both national and individual, resulted from th

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The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala

Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico

University of Texas Press

Starting with the iconography of a parish church, this extensively contextualized study examines eighteenth-century art, society, religion, and history to offer a new social history of art in colonial Mexico.

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Broadcasting the Civil War in El Salvador

A Memoir of Guerrilla Radio

University of Texas Press

A riveting account of the 1980s civil war in El Salvador from the rebels’ point of view, written by the man who directed the main news outlet for the guerrilla organization that challenged the Salvadoran government.

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El Lector

A History of the Cigar Factory Reader

University of Texas Press

An intriguing history of the hired readers who read to cigar factory workers in Cuba, Tampa, Key West, Puerto Rico, and Mexico.

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The Seduction of Brazil

The Americanization of Brazil during World War II

By Antonio Pedro Tota; Translated by Lorena B. Ellis; Introduction by Daniel J. Greenberg
University of Texas Press

A fascinating study of how the Roosevelt administration used mass media, including films by such luminaries as John Ford, Walt Disney, and Orson Wells, to promote the American way of life to Brazilians and how Brazilians actively interpreted, negotiated, and reconfigured this effort at cultural seduction.

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In the Eyes of God

A Study on the Culture of Suffering

University of Texas Press

One of Mexico's leading intellectuals offers a major treatise on the history and meaning of suffering and how the idea of suffering helps to shape contemporary political thought.

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The Devil and the Land of the Holy Cross

Witchcraft, Slavery, and Popular Religion in Colonial Brazil

University of Texas Press

Originally published in Brazil as O Diabo e a Terra de Santa Cruz, this translation from the Portuguese analyzes the nature of popular religion and the ways it was transferred to the New World in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

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Stories, Myths, Chants, and Songs of the Kuna Indians

University of Texas Press

The Kuna Indians of Panama, probably best known for molas, their colorful appliqué blouses, also have a rich literary tradition of oral stories and performances; this book contains the texts of many such works.

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Quiché Rebelde

Religious Conversion, Politics, and Ethnic Identity in Guatemala

By Ricardo Falla; Translated by Phillip Berryman; Introduction by Richard Newbold Adams
University of Texas Press

What happened when a religious movement came to a Guatemalan town.

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Latin American Politics

A Theoretical Approach

University of Texas Press

Di Tella draws on the work of Montesquieu, Burke, Tocqueville, Marx, Weber, and Durkheim in formulating his explanatory theories, which are then tested against crucial events in Latin American history, from the rebellions of the eighteenth century to the

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Bandits, Peasants, and Politics

The Case of "La Violencia" in Colombia

University of Texas Press

A study of social banditry in Colombia during a near-civil war.

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Women in Mexico

A Past Unveiled

University of Texas Press

This work examines the role of Mexican women from pre-Cortés to the 1980s.

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Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora

Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana

University of Texas Press

Stories and testimonials about women who work in assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border.

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The Play of Mirrors

The Representation of Self Mirrored in the Other

University of Texas Press

Focusing on the Bororo people of west-central Brazil, this book addresses the construction of self-identity through interethnic interaction.

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México Profundo

Reclaiming a Civilization

University of Texas Press

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.

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Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna

By Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, and Valerio Núñez; Edited by Hans Roeder; Translated by Elisabeth King; Introduction by James Howe
University of Texas Press

Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.

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Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico

From the Aztecs to Independence

University of Texas Press

A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.

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Contemporary Short Stories from Central America

University of Texas Press

This volume collects some of the best short fiction from the six Spanish-speaking countries of Central America--Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama.

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History and Society in Central America

University of Texas Press

The first attempt at an integrated analysis of modern Central America's socioeconomic structure, Torres Rivas's work traces the social development of Central America from independence (1871) up to the 1960s.

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In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution

Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989

University of Texas Press

The first history of 20th-century post-revolutionary Mexico.

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Transforming Modernity

Popular Culture in Mexico

University of Texas Press

An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?

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The History of Capitalism in Mexico

Its Origins, 1521–1763

By Enrique Semo; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press

This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.

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The Colonization of the Amazon

University of Texas Press

This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for

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