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A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Mo?ammad ?osayn Farâhâni
University of Texas Press
The account of a nineteenth-century Persian's pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Mexican Urban Household
Organizing for Self-Defense
University of Texas Press
How ordinary people in Mexico survive in times of economic crisis.
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Translated by Raymond O. Faulkner; Edited by Carol Andrews
University of Texas Press
Ancient Egyptian religious and magical texts, meant to secure a satisfactory afterlife for the deceased.
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
Myth and History
University of Texas Press
In this original study, Elizabeth Salas explores the changing role of the soldadera, both in reality and as a cultural symbol, from pre-Columbian times up to the present day.
Obliging Need
Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism
By Scott Cook and Leigh Binford
University of Texas Press
A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.
Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923
The Impact of the West
University of Texas Press
The effect of Western influence on the later Ottoman Empire and on the development of the modern Turkish nation-state links these twelve essays by a prominent American scholar.
Merchant Capital and Islam
University of Texas Press
Through a rereading of original Arabic sources and drawing from modern scholarship on the subject, Ibrahim offers a new interpretation of the rise of Islam.
Inka Settlement Planning
By John Hyslop
University of Texas Press
A study of Inka settlements throughout the vast territory of the former empire.
William Faulkner, Life Glimpses
University of Texas Press
Brodsky mines a storehouse of previously unpublished material, using interviews, letters, speeches, movie scripts, and notes to enrich our understanding of this well-known Southern writer; the result is a highly readable biography that is thematic and episodic rather than chronological in its organization.
Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic
From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe
By Bruce Murray
University of Texas Press
An alternative critical approach to the traditional one of close readings of the classical films.
Texans in Revolt
The Battle for San Antonio, 1835
By Alwyn Barr
University of Texas Press
Drawing on extensive research and on-site study around San Antonio, Alwyn Barr completely maps the ebbs and flows of the Bexar campaign.
Inca Religion and Customs
By Father Bernabe Cobo; Translated by Roland Hamilton
University of Texas Press
A translation of a 1653 work, providing vast amounts of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples.
Art and Answerability
Early Philosophical Essays
University of Texas Press
This book contains three of Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates of the period.
The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
Edited by Richard Graham
University of Texas Press
While Latin American leaders wanted a closer connection with Europe and North America, these regions' views on nonwhites came in conflict with Latin America's heterogenous racial makeup; this book examines how some countries navigated this dilemma.
Jean Stafford
The Savage Heart
University of Texas Press
In this literary biography, Goodman traces the life of the brilliant but troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jean Stafford, and reassesses her importance.
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first single-volume source on these little-known peoples.
Grace Paley
Illuminating Dark Lives
University of Texas Press
In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.
Tense and Narrativity
From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction
University of Texas Press
Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language.
Literary Bondage
Slavery in Cuban Narrative
By William Luis
University of Texas Press
An exploration of why antislavery narrative remained a viable means of expression in Cuban literature a hundred years after slavery's abolishment.
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