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Bolívar and the War of Independence
Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O’Leary, Narración
University of Texas Press
One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simón Bolívar’s life.
A Manual for Neanderthals
By H. Mewhinney
University of Texas Press
A study of how flint tools and weapons were made.
William Gilpin
Western Nationalist
University of Texas Press
The life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first governor of Colorado Territory.
Today the Struggle
Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War
University of Texas Press
This book examines the political involvement of those leading British writers who dedicated their talents to the defense of Nationalists or Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and who saw that war as symbolic of their own Right-Left dialogue.
The Regulatory Process
With Illustrations from Commercial Aviation
University of Texas Press
In this detailed study of early and mid-twentieth-century regulation of commercial aviation Emmette S. Redford illustrates what happens when government regulates a particular industry.
The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815
By R. John Rath
University of Texas Press
This carefully documented study of the first two years of Austrian reoccupation of Lombardy-Venetia examines all aspects of the Habsburg provisional regimes and draws some conclusions about the reasons for the different attitudes in the two provinces.
The Mythmaker
A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
University of Texas Press
This book enables the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind.
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836
A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People
University of Texas Press
A biography of this prominent Texan.
The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945
By Warren Dean
University of Texas Press
This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in São Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.
The Franco-Texan Land Company
University of Texas Press
The history of a land company, its railroad parent, and its role in the development of Northwest Texas.
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
University of Texas Press
Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin traces the economic development of six major towns in central West Texas, all with over 10,000 residents in 1960: Lamesa, Snyder, Sweetwater, Big Spring, Midland, and Odessa.
Recollections of Things to Come
University of Texas Press
A novel about life in a small Mexican town during the Revolution.
Politics in the Altiplano
The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru
By Edward Dew
University of Texas Press
This book analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in ta Peruvian region as it underwent socioeconomic development through a period of recurring natural disasters.
Memories of Lazarus
By Adonias Filho; Translated by Fred P. Ellison
University of Texas Press
These are the recollections of Alexandre—of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.
Marcoré
By Antonio Olavo Pereira; Translated by Alfred Hower and John Saunders; Illustrated by Newton Cavalcanti
University of Texas Press
A moving, bittersweet tale of personal problems and family relationships.
Landscapes Of Bacchus
The Vine in Portugal
University of Texas Press
A study of the geography of northern Portgual through the medium of the grapes and wine produced there.
Jump-rope Rhymes
A Dictionary
Edited by Roger D. Abrahams; Introduction by Brian Sutton-Smith
University of Texas Press
A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.
Imperial Texas
An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography
By D.W. Meinig
University of Texas Press
The development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state.
Immigration and Nationalism
Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914
By Carl Solberg
University of Texas Press
The dramatic change in attitudes toward immigration in Chile and Argenitna during the quarter century preceding World War I is the subject of this study.
Herschel at the Cape
Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834-1838
University of Texas Press
The diaries of a major astronomer during the 1830s.
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