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Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Howard F. Cline
University of Texas Press
This guide covers geography and ethnogeography, especially the Relaciones Geográficas
Faulkner's Revision of Sanctuary
A Collation of the Unrevised Galleys and the Published Book
University of Texas Press
A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector; Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
University of Texas Press
Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.
Democracy, Militarism, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1930–1966
An Interpretation
University of Texas Press
In this study, Marvin Goldwert interprets the rise, growth, and development of militarism in Argentina from 1930 to 1966.
Alfonso Reyes and Spain
His Dialogue with Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Ortega y Gasset, Jiménez, and Gómez de la Serna
University of Texas Press
This book has, as its basis, the remarkable correspondence between Reyes and some of the leading spirits of the Spanish intellectual world in the early 1900s, covering not only his years in Spain but also later exchanges of letters.
A Rain of Darts
The Mexica Aztecs
University of Texas Press
The exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire.
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
University of Texas Press
This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays.
My Eighty Years in Texas
University of Texas Press
This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.
The Singing Mountaineers
Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
By José María Arguedas; Edited by Ruth Stephan
University of Texas Press
A collection of traditional Quechua songs and folktales.
Twilight on the Range
Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
University of Texas Press
Recollections of eighteen years of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota.
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
University of Texas Press
In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregón, to the
The Ways of the Desert
By Eugène Daumas; Translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf
University of Texas Press
The Ways of the Desert, translated from the French, offers an introduction to the North African Arab nomads in the nineteenth century—their way of life, customs, dress, and religion.
The Satiric Poems of John Trumbull
The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal
Edited by Edwin T. Bowden
University of Texas Press
Two long poems by a noted colonial American satiric poet, complete with the original biting prefaces, in a dependable text for the scholar and annotated for the general reader interested in the literature and history of the American eighteenth century.
The Drama's Patrons
A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience
By Leo Hughes
University of Texas Press
Drawing from a wealth of amusing and informative contemporary accounts, Leo Hughes presents abundant evidence that the seventeenth-century English theatre-going public proved zealous, and sometimes even unruly, in asserting its role and rights.
The Bracero Program
Interest Groups and Foreign Policy
University of Texas Press
The Mexican Farm Labor Program—or bracero program as it came to be known—was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue and became the focal point of an intense interest-group struggle; this struggle and its group combatants provide the centr
Stephen Douglas
The Last Years, 1857–1861
By Damon Wells
University of Texas Press
This study fills the need for a fresh and dispassionate look at Douglas and provides a fairer assessment than can be reached by simply endorsing contradictory views of apologists and critics.
Son of the Alhambra
Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1504-1575
University of Texas Press
Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
By José Carlos Mariátegui; Translated by Marjory Urquidi
University of Texas Press
Essays by one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century.
Prophet in the Wilderness
The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
University of Texas Press
This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada,
Not Without Honor
The Life of John H. Reagan
University of Texas Press
John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published.
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