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Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
University of Texas Press
Stories of secret treasure in the Southwest.
The Zoot-Suit Riots
The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
University of Texas Press
This engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and Anglo social history.
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.
The Other Texas Frontier
University of Texas Press
Six essays positing the idea of the Texas counterfrontier, a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens.
The Amazing Armadillo
Geography of a Folk Critter
By Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty
University of Texas Press
This informative book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and north to Missouri.
Farmers in Rebellion
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas
University of Texas Press
A book rich in detail and scope in its look at a critical juncture in the growth of national populist movements.
Tales of Old-Time Texas
University of Texas Press
A heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2
Linguistics
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
Detailed sketches of five languages not covered in the original Handbook of Middle American Indians: Mixe, Chichimeco Jonaz, Choltí, Tarascan, and Huastec.
Trees of Central Texas
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas.
Sport and Political Ideology
University of Texas Press
This provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.
Opera and Vivaldi
Edited by Michael Collins and Elise K. Kirk
University of Texas Press
A collection of papers on Baroque opera, discussing the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre.
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.
Panama Odyssey
University of Texas Press
The definitive account of the long and often contentious negotiations that produced the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977.
Secession and the Union in Texas
University of Texas Press
This book is both a narrative of secession in Texas and a case study of the causes of secession in a southern state.
Poets and the Visual Arts in Renaissance England
University of Texas Press
The author convincingly shows that writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England wrote with a lively and creative sense of the visual—a sense richly informed by the theory and practice of Renaissance art.
Sunbelt Cities
Politics and Growth since World War II
Edited by Richard M. Bernard and Bradley Robert Rice
University of Texas Press
Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.
Archeology and Volcanism in Central America
The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador
Edited by Payson D. Sheets
University of Texas Press
This book provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.
Black Street Speech
Its History, Structure, and Survival
By John Baugh
University of Texas Press
The history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech, based on a long-term study of adult speakers.
The Performer-Audience Connection
Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society
University of Texas Press
A pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance.
Pulltrouser Swamp
Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize
Edited by B. L. Turner and Peter D. Harrison
University of Texas Press
Pulltrouser Swamp conclusively demonstrates the existence of hydraulic, raised-field agriculture in the Maya lowlands between 150 B.C. and A.D. 850.
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