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Cuba and the Politics of Passion
University of Texas Press
How the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century.
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
University of Texas Press
Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power.
Turn Out the Lights
Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s
By Gary Cartwright; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press
This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination.
Places in the World a Person Could Walk
Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country
By David Syring
University of Texas Press
What the Hill Country of Texas has meant as a homeplace.
Isocrates I
Translated by David C. Mirhady and Yun Lee Too
University of Texas Press
Speeches from a classical orator who considered himself first an educator.
Ezekiel's Horse
By Keith Carter; Introduction by John Wood
University of Texas Press
This volume collects some 75 duotone images of horses and riders, most of them never before published.
The Courthouse Square in Texas
By Robert E. Veselka; Edited by Kenneth E. Foote
University of Texas Press
How the layout of courthouse squares reflect the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought to Texas from Europe, Mexico, and the United States.
Renewing the Maya World
Expressive Culture in a Highland Town
University of Texas Press
In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between contemporary expressive culture and the my
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Ethnology
University of Texas Press
In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades.
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
Catastrophe and Catalyst
University of Texas Press
This extensively illustrated history tells the full story of the 1900 Storm and its long-term effects.
Aeschines
Translated by Chris Carey
University of Texas Press
The three surviving speeches of this ancient Greek orator, including Against Timarchus, a speech that gives insight into Greek views of homosexual acts.
Places for Dead Bodies
University of Texas Press
How "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place.
I Claudia II
Women in Roman Art and Society
University of Texas Press
Ten essays by specialists in art history, history, and papyrology offer reflections on women in Roman society based on the material evidence provided by art, archaeology, and ancient literary sources.
Desert Survival Skills
University of Texas Press
A practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.
Aztecs, Moors, and Christians
Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain
By Max Harris
University of Texas Press
In this perceptive book, Max Harris seeks to understand the "puzzling and enduring passion" of both Mexicans and Spaniards for festivals of moros y cristianos, mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances
Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Audubon Society
Places to Hide and Seek
By John M. "Frosty" Anderson; Introduction by Donal C. O'Brien
University of Texas Press
A personal, often humorous look at the daily and longer-term activities involved in protecting bird habitats
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios
The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
In this rich ethnography of Oaxaca, Mexico, the authors look at the lives of people that are often marginalized: the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellect
Now More Than Ever
By Aldous Huxley; Edited by David Bradshaw and James Sexton; Introduction by David Bradshaw and James Sexton
University of Texas Press
Written in 1932–1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a "thinker's play" written in response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time.
From Moon Goddesses to Virgins
The Colonization of Yucatecan Maya Sexual Desire
By Pete Sigal
University of Texas Press
This highly innovative book decodes the process through which the colonization of Yucatecan Maya sexual desire occurred.
Between the Lines
The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
University of Texas Press
A noted scholar of archaeoastronomy examines the the Nasca Lines, giant drawings of animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru.
American Films of the 70s
Conflicting Visions
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.
Tales of Two Cities
Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
University of Texas Press
A study of workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s, showing how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business.
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
By Pablo Vila
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others."
Birds of the Northwestern National Parks
A Birder's Perspective
By Roland H. Wauer; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
To help both beginning and advanced birders make the most of their visits to the United States's northwestern national parks, Roland Wauer has written this finding guide, which introduces the most common birds and the most likely places to see them.
Barrios Norteños
St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of Midwestern Mexican American communities.
Barrio-Logos
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
University of Texas Press
How California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano p
Texas by Terán
The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
University of Texas Press
An account of the people and poliics of Texas during the 1820s.
On the Plaza
The Politics of Public Space and Culture
By Setha M. Low
University of Texas Press
How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
Michoacán and Eden
Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico
University of Texas Press
A colonial Spanish bishop's project to evangelize Mexico.
La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through collective memory, myth-making, and history writing, invented an idea called "la Revolución."
History and Silence
Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity
University of Texas Press
How the ruling elite of ancient Rome sought -- and often failed -- to eradicate the memory of their deceased opponents.
Silent Looms
Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
By Tracy Bachrach Ehlers; Introduction by June Nash
University of Texas Press
How economic development affects women's businesses in Mesoamerica.
Honorable Exiles
A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a Chilean translator and journalist.
Cinematic Landscapes
Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan
Edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser
University of Texas Press
The first major study of the relationship between visual art and film in China and Japan.
Capitol Women
Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999
University of Texas Press
The first complete record of the women who served in the Texas Legislature in the twentieth century.
Water in the Middle East
A Geography of Peace
Edited by Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolf
University of Texas Press
Addressing water needs from a geographical perspective, the contributors to this book analyze and assess the impact of scarce water resources in the Jordan River basin countries and territories.
The Illusion of Inclusion
The Untold Political Story of San Antonio
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth history of the Chicano community’s struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research.
Taking the Waters in Texas
Springs, Spas, and Fountains of Youth
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive history of Texas' healing springs.
Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
University of Texas Press
This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre.
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