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Children in the Muslim Middle East
Edited by Elizabeth Warnock Fernea
University of Texas Press
This anthology is an attempt to look at the current situation of children in the Middle East by presenting materials by both Middle Eastern and Western scholars.
Women and Men in Late Eighteenth-Century Egypt
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive picture of women's status and opportunities in late eighteenth-century Egypt.
The Mexican Outsiders
A Community History of Marginalization and Discrimination in California
University of Texas Press
How the residential, social, and school segregation of Mexican-origin people became institutionalized in a representative California town.
Tejano Origins in Eighteenth-Century San Antonio
University of Texas Press
A social history of the peoples of early San Antonio and their interactions and interrelationships.
Prospero's Daughter
The Prose of Rosario Castellanos
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of all Castellanos’ prose writings, focusing specifically on how Castellanos’ experiences as a Mexican woman led her to an ethic of solidarity with the oppressed peoples of her home state of Chiapas.
Playback
By Richard "Cactus" Pryor; Introduction by Liz Carpenter
University of Texas Press
This book gathers over forty of Texas humorist Cactus Pryor’s favorite radio essays, translating "ear words into eye words," as he puts it.
Oil, Banks, and Politics
The United States and Postrevolutionary Mexico, 1917–1924
University of Texas Press
An examination of the direct impact of a powerful, highly profitable foreign-controlled industry on a government and a nation trying to recover from a major civil war.
Mexican American Youth Organization
Avant-Garde of the Chicano Movement in Texas
By Armando Navarro; Introduction by Mario C. Compean
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive assessment of MAYO’s history, politics, leadership, ideology, strategies and tactics, and activist program.
FDR's Good Neighbor Policy
Sixty Years of Generally Gentle Chaos
University of Texas Press
In this thought-provoking book, Fredrick Pike takes a wide-ranging look at Franklin Delano Roosevelt's motives for pursuing the Good Neighbor Policy, at how he implemented it, and at how its themes have played out up to the mid-1990s.
Cuisine, Texas
A Multiethnic Feast
By Joanne Smith; Introduction by Mary Faulk Koock
University of Texas Press
Recipes from the many cultures that make up modern Texas.
Spanish Expeditions into Texas, 1689-1768
University of Texas Press
William Foster produces the first highly accurate maps of the eleven Spanish expeditions from northeastern Mexico into what is now East Texas during the years 1689 to 1768.
Plants and Animals in the Life of the Kuna
By Jorge Ventocilla, Heraclio Herrera, and Valerio Núñez; Edited by Hans Roeder; Translated by Elisabeth King; Introduction by James Howe
University of Texas Press
Plants, animals, and their place in the culture of an indigenous people of Panama.
Images from the Underworld
Naj Tunich and the Tradition of Maya Cave Painting
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive look at Maya cave painting from Preconquest times to the Colonial period, plus a complete visual catalog of the cave art of Naj Tunich, some of which has been subsequently destroyed by vandals.
A Trade like Any Other
Female Singers and Dancers in Egypt
University of Texas Press
The lives of female performers and the reasons why work they regard as "a trade like any other" is considered disreputable in Egyptian society.
Living Room Lectures
The Fifties Family in Film and Television
University of Texas Press
Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.
Song of the Heart
Selected Poems by Ramón López Velarde
University of Texas Press
This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesías completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to López Velarde's poetry.
Mount Sinai
University of Texas Press
How the mountain Jebel Musa, revered by most Christians and Muslims as Mount Sinai, came to be considered a sacred place and how that very perception now threatens its fragile ecology and its sense of holy solitude.
The Last Cannibals
A South American Oral History
University of Texas Press
An especially comprehensive study of Brazilian Amazonian Indian history, The Last Cannibals is the first attempt to understand, through indigenous discourse, the emergence of Upper Xingú society.
The Unruly Woman
Gender and the Genres of Laughter
University of Texas Press
How the unruly woman uses humor and excess to undermine patriarchal norms and authority.
The Reformation of Machismo
Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Elizabeth Brusco explores the intra-household motivations for evangelical conversion in Colombia.
The Disobedient Writer
Women and Narrative Tradition
University of Texas Press
A study of women's writings that offer counter-readings of familiar Western narratives.
Political Recruitment across Two Centuries
Mexico, 1884-1991
University of Texas Press
A definitive account of the paths to power Mexican political leaders pursued during the period 1884 to 1992.
Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual foundations, history, politics, and strategy of Mexican anarchism since the Revolution.
Kuna Crafts, Gender, and the Global Economy
University of Texas Press
In this study, Karin Tice explores the impact of the commercialization of mola production on Kuna society.
Errant Journeys
Adventure Travel in a Modern Age
University of Texas Press
An examination of how the idea of adventure travel has been commericalized, and how adventure travel changes the places travelled to.
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
Folksongs of the Lower Border
By Américo Paredes; Introduction by Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
Sixty-six folksongs from Tejano culture.
William Goyen
Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
University of Texas Press
These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, chronicle Goyen’s long participation in the writing life and offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America.
The Gay Place
By Billy Lee Brammer; Introduction by Don Graham
University of Texas Press
Three interlocking stories about a fictional Texas governor.
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
San Antonio, 1821-1860
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Timothy Matovina explores the central role of Tejano Catholicism in forging a unique ethnic identity and in binding the community together.
Maya for Travelers and Students
A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatan
University of Texas Press
Written in nontechnical terms for learners who have a basic knowledge of simple Mexican Spanish, the book presents easily understood, practical information for anyone who would like to communicate with the Maya in their native language.
Inherit the Alamo
Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine
University of Texas Press
How different groups use the Alamo as a symbol, and what they do with its mythology.
A Political Education
A Washington Memoir
University of Texas Press
An insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff.
The Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
University of Texas Press
This book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
No Quittin' Sense
University of Texas Press
The life story of Rev. C. C. "Charley" White, whose one-man war on poverty and intolerance has inspired thousands of readers since the book was first published in 1969.
Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic
University of Texas Press
This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas.
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
By Américo Paredes; Edited by Richard Bauman
University of Texas Press
This book brings Paredes's scholarly essays to a wider readership.
Cultivating Crisis
The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America
University of Texas Press
The author draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America.
Black Texas Women
150 Years of Trial and Triumph
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood.
Cultural Economies Past and Present
University of Texas Press
An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Text and Transformations
Edited by William W. Kibler
University of Texas Press
This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Texas Log Buildings
A Folk Architecture
University of Texas Press
This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside.
El Teatro Campesino
Theater in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
This study demythologizes and reinterprets the history of a Chicana/o performance ensemble.
The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Reconstructed From Her Diaries and Notes
University of Texas Press
This book tells a fascinating story of a sheltered girl's maturation into a courageous woman in the crucible of war.
Covarrubias
By Adriana Williams; Edited by Doris Ober
University of Texas Press
A sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
Otilia's Body
A Novel
University of Texas Press
Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
University of Texas Press
In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).
Land of Bears and Honey
A Natural History of East Texas
By Joe C. Truett and Daniel W. Lay
University of Texas Press
The story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas.
How the Maya Built Their World
Energetics and Ancient Architecture
University of Texas Press
The social structures and engineering that enabled the Maya to build their massive buildings.
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