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Danger All Around
Waste Storage Crisis on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul
Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century A.D.
Maya History
By Tatiana Proskouriakoff; Edited by Rosemary A. Joyce
University of Texas Press
Maya History reconstructs the Classic Maya period (roughly A.D. 250-900) from the glyphic record on stelae at numerous sites.
Latin America in Caricature
University of Texas Press
An exploration of more than one hundred years of hemispheric relations through political cartoons collected from leading U.S. periodicals from the 1860s through 1980.
In Order to Talk with the Dead
Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier
By Jorge Teillier; Translated by Carolyne Wright
University of Texas Press
This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.
In a Persian Mirror
Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction
University of Texas Press
This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehens
Cuba and the United States
Intervention and Militarism, 1868-1933
University of Texas Press
An analysis of a crucial phase in Cuban history and the effects of U.S. intervention.
Craft and the Kingly Ideal
Art, Trade, and Power
University of Texas Press
In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from "afar."
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
How the wall paintings at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors while preserving a record of pre-Columbian rituals and imagery.
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga; Translated by Nina M. Scott
University of Texas Press
A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.
Guatemalan Indians and the State
1540 to 1988
Edited by Carol A. Smith
University of Texas Press
In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala’s distinctive h
Chemical Alert!
A Community Action Handbook
Edited by Marvin S. Legator and Sabrina F. Strawn
University of Texas Press
A step-by-step guide that can be used by any lay person or citizens' group to determine whether a health risk exists in their area.
The Trail Drivers of Texas
Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...
Edited by J. Marvin Hunter
University of Texas Press
These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas--those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s.
Rowing in Eden
Rereading Emily Dickinson
University of Texas Press
This book uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes.
House and Street
The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
University of Texas Press
The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.
Hieroglyphs without Mystery
An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writing
By Karl-Theodor Zauzich; Translated by Ann Macy Roth
University of Texas Press
Written for ordinary people with no special language skills, this book quickly demonstrates that hieroglyphic writing can be read, once a few simple principles are understood.
Exports and Local Development
Mexico's New Maquiladoras
University of Texas Press
How the Mexican export industry could be better utilized to promote local development.
The United States and Latin America
Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature
University of Texas Press
How North Americans have viewed Latin America, from the time of the Pilgrims up to the end of the twentieth century.
The Colonization of the Amazon
University of Texas Press
This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for
Neruda
An Intimate Biography
By Volodia Teitelboim; Translated by Beverly J. Delong-Tonelli
University of Texas Press
A biography of the noted Chilean poet.
Politics, Gender, and the Mexican Novel, 1968-1988
Beyond the Pyramid
University of Texas Press
How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.
Edible Wild Mushrooms of North America
A Field-to-kitchen Guide
By David W. Fischer and Alan E. Bessette
University of Texas Press
C. P. Snow and the Struggle of Modernity
University of Texas Press
An intellectual biography of a novelist, scientist, and civil servant who attempted to bridge the disparate worlds of modern science and the humanities.
Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers
The Making of the Tobacco Monopoly in Bourbon Mexico
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive study of the tobacco monopoly illuminates many of the most important themes of eighteenth-century Mexican social and economic history.
Before Writing, Vol. II
A Catalog of Near Eastern Tokens
University of Texas Press
In this volume, Schmandt-Besserat presents the primary data on which she bases her theories of the development of writing.
Meadows of Memory
Images of Time and Tradition in American Art and Culture
University of Texas Press
In three thought-provoking and innovative essays, Kammen ranges from the Renaissance to the twentieth century, from central Europe to the western United States, and from elegant oil painting to folk sculpture to show the transformations of Old World icons
Maya Saints and Souls in a Changing World
University of Texas Press
An ethnography of a Mam-speaking Maya town in the western highlands of Guatemala.
The Modern Brazilian Stage
By David George
University of Texas Press
A performance-centered approach to Brazilian theatre from the 1940s to the 1980s.
Confederate Cavalry West of the River
University of Texas Press
The development and activities of a hitherto unpublicized segment of the Confederate cavalry.
Bedouin Life in the Egyptian Wilderness
University of Texas Press
The first modern ethnographic portrait of the Ma'aza Bedouins.
The Fables of Phaedrus
By Phaedrus; Translated by P. F. Widdows
University of Texas Press
A translation of the earliest surviving Roman animal fables.
La Malinche in Mexican Literature
From History to Myth
University of Texas Press
This is the first serious study tracing La Malinche in texts from the conquest period to the present day.
Women Writers of Latin America
Intimate Histories
University of Texas Press
In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias íntimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena García Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh
The Southern Forest
A Chronicle
University of Texas Press
Laurence Walker chronicles the constant demands that people have made on forest resources in the South.
Glasnost—Soviet Cinema Responds
By Nicholas Galichenko; Edited by Robert Allington
University of Texas Press
The first overall survey of the effects of glasnost on the work of Soviet filmmakers and their films.
Gay and Lesbian Themes in Latin American Writing
University of Texas Press
In this study, David William Foster examines more than two dozen texts that deal with gay and lesbian topics, drawing from them significant insights into the relationship between homosexuality and society in different Latin American countries and time pe
Brazil and the World System
Edited by Richard Graham
University of Texas Press
Provocative insights not only about Brazil but also about the nature of colonialism in general and its relationship to the rise of capitalism in Europe.
Village of the Ghost Bells
A Novel
By Edla Van Steen; Translated by David George
University of Texas Press
This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of São Paulo, Brazil.
The Huarochiri Manuscript
A Testament of Ancient and Colonial Andean Religion
University of Texas Press
The English translation of an important source document for Andean history.
Texas Crossings
The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986
By Howard R. Lamar; Introduction by Lewis L. Gould
University of Texas Press
Originally presented in 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin as the first George W. Littlefield Lectures in American History, these essays explore a previously neglected aspect of the western story: the influence of Texans—and other Southerners—on th
Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston
University of Texas Press
In this study, Kenneth J. Lipartito and Joseph A. Pratt chronicle the 150-year history of the law firm Baker & Botts, placing particular emphasis on the firm’s role in Houston’s economic development.
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Argentina's "Dirty War"
An Intellectual Biography
University of Texas Press
How an ultracivilized country, one of the most European in Latin America, relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s.
Western Apache Heritage
People of the Mountain Corridor
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Richard Perry synthesizes the findings of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct the Apachean past and offer a fuller understanding of the forces that have shaped modern Apache culture.
Peasants on the Edge
Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
University of Texas Press
A long-term study of economic and ecological changes in a small Andean community.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934
University of Texas Press
An authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English.
Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 1917–1947
University of Texas Press
How images of the Soviet Union and its policies influenced the Brazilian foreign policy elite.
The Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Edited by J. P. Telotte
University of Texas Press
J. P. Telotte and twelve other noted film scholars examine the appeal of the cult film in this groundbreaking study.
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935
University of Texas Press
A study of the lost golden age of Soviet cinema, which was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov.
My Car in Managua
University of Texas Press
This book offers an objective, often humorous description of the great difficulties and occasional pleasures of life in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution.
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