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Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
University of Texas Press
This analysis of the origins of the War with Mexico is the result of the kind of objective approach to national history for which the author makes a plea in his preface and conclusion and in his interpretive comments throughout the work.
Origins of the American Indians
European Concepts, 1492-1729
University of Texas Press
An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples.
Mexico's Recent Economic Growth
The Mexican View
Translated by Marjory Urquidi; Introduction by Tom E. Davis
University of Texas Press
This volume of six essays makes readily available to English-speaking readers a selection of significant contributions by outstanding Mexican economists, dealing with the mid-twentieth-century growth of the Mexican economy.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Social Anthropology
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Manning Nash
University of Texas Press
This volume provides a synthetic and comparative summary of native ethnography and ethnology of Mexico and Central America, written by authorities in a number of broad fields.
From a Year in Greece
By Frederic Will; Illustrated by John Guerin
University of Texas Press
In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century.
Folk-Songs of the Southern United States
By Josiah H. Combs; Edited by D.K. Wilgus
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.
Distaff Diplomacy
The Empress Eugénie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire
University of Texas Press
An examination of the development of the Empress Eugénie's views on foreign affairs and their effect on the formation of the policies of the Second Empire.
Aspects of the Renaissance
Edited by Archibald R. Lewis
University of Texas Press
In ten collected papers, leading scholars from several academic disciplines share their approaches and insights into the politics, economics, science, literature, art, music, philosophy, and religion of this complex era.
Travelers In Texas, 1761-1860
University of Texas Press
An examination of particular aspects of early Texas life: the Indians, slavery, immigration, law enforcement, and the individualistic character of the people, all as seen through the eyes of traveler-writers.
The Political Evolution of the Mexican People
University of Texas Press
This classical synthesis of Mexican history, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders.
The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans occupied the Welsh peninsula.
The Modernist Movement in Brazil
A Literary Study
By John Nist
University of Texas Press
A study of the literary revolution unleashed by the Modern Art Week Exhibition staged in São Paulo in 1922.
The Cross Timbers
Memories of a North Texas Boyhood
By Edward Everett Dale; Illustrated by John Biggers
University of Texas Press
Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.
Tax Reform and the Alliance for Progress
University of Texas Press
This study presents an examination of the problem of evaluating the adequacy of Latin American tax-reform efforts and recommends basic criteria for such evaluation.
Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana
By Frédéric Gaillardet; Translated by James L. Shepherd
University of Texas Press
A lively report of travels in early nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana and a fascinating account of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of those areas is presented in the work of this ebullient young French dramatist and journalist who traveled to Louisiana in 1837 and to Texas in 1839.
Seven Contemporary Authors
Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers
Edited by Thomas B. Whitbread
University of Texas Press
These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence.
Philip Freneau
Champion of Democracy
University of Texas Press
A detailed biography of this pensman of the American Revolution and early Republic.
John O. Meusebach
German Colonizer in Texas
University of Texas Press
The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.
Institutional Adjustment
A Challenge to a Changing Economy
Edited by Carey C. Thompson
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays presents a stimulating and challenging examination of the nature of institutional adjustment, its history and its future, its problems and its purposes.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections
University of Texas Press
Essays about archaeolgy and ethnohistory of various Mesoamerican groups and their relationships with cultures outside Mesoamerica.
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