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From Peones to Politicos
Class and Ethnicity in a South Texas Town, 1900–1987
University of Texas Press
This book examines how a relatively powerless ethnic group deals with the problems of economic inequality and racial discrimination and how they gain power in the community.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction
By Julio Ortega
University of Texas Press
Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer
University of Texas Press
A woman's memoir rich with details of the frontier era in Texas.
The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television
University of Texas Press
This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer.
Land of Bright Promise
Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870-1917
By Jan Blodgett
University of Texas Press
Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle–South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth.
The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880–1940
University of Texas Press
The first major historical study of the "Grupo Monterrey," the business elite that transformed Monterrey into a premier industrial center, the "Pittsburgh" of Mexico.
The Eighth Day
Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
University of Texas Press
This book argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution.
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
University of Texas Press
Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.
Ariel
By José Enrique Rodó; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations; first published in 1900.
Texas in 1837
An Anonymous, Contemporary Narrative
Edited by Andrew Forest Muir
University of Texas Press
The earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic.
Spanish Film Under Franco
University of Texas Press
This book examines how a totalitarian government can influence the arts, and how the arts respond.
Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
University of Texas Press
The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
University of Texas Press
How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
By Gerald Lynch
University of Texas Press
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
Translated by Harold V. Livermore; By Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Texas Press
The account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler.
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century.
The Exiles and Other Stories
By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by J. David Danielson
University of Texas Press
Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.
Measuring Cuban Economic Performance
University of Texas Press
By constructing yardsticks of economic performance for revolutionary Cuba that are compatible with those used by Western nations, Perez-López provides for the first time a basis for analyzing the real growth of the Cuban economy during the revolutionary p
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
University of Texas Press
A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.
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