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Ruth Benedict
Stranger in This Land
University of Texas Press
An intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.
La Galgada, Peru
A Preceramic Culture in Transition
University of Texas Press
A study of the extraordinarily complete cultural remains at this Peruvian site help to reconstruct a picture of human life, health, activities, and trade relations as they were 4,000 years ago and allow us to enter the mental and artistic life of this early civilization.
Beowulf
An Imitative Translation
Translated by Ruth P.M. Lehmann
University of Texas Press
A translation of the poem that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original.
A Rosario Castellanos Reader
An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama
University of Texas Press
Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.
Barrio Gangs
Street Life and Identity in Southern California
University of Texas Press
Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil examines the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs.
Working the Waterfront
The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman
By Gilbert Mers
University of Texas Press
Personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as longshoreman and radical union activist.
From Peones to Politicos
Class and Ethnicity in a South Texas Town, 1900–1987
University of Texas Press
This book examines how a relatively powerless ethnic group deals with the problems of economic inequality and racial discrimination and how they gain power in the community.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction
By Julio Ortega
University of Texas Press
Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer
University of Texas Press
A woman's memoir rich with details of the frontier era in Texas.
The Understructure of Writing for Film and Television
University of Texas Press
This unique, comprehensive introduction to screenwriting offers practical advice for the beginning writer, whether college student or freelancer.
Land of Bright Promise
Advertising the Texas Panhandle and South Plains, 1870-1917
By Jan Blodgett
University of Texas Press
Land of Bright Promise is a fascinating exploration of the multitude of land promotions and types of advertising that attracted more than 175,000 settlers to the Panhandle–South Plains area of Texas from the late years of the nineteenth century to the early years of the twentieth.
The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880–1940
University of Texas Press
The first major historical study of the "Grupo Monterrey," the business elite that transformed Monterrey into a premier industrial center, the "Pittsburgh" of Mexico.
The Eighth Day
Social Evolution as the Self-Organization of Energy
University of Texas Press
This book argues that the energy process provides a basis for explaining, comparing, and measuring complex social evolution.
Cartucho and My Mother's Hands
University of Texas Press
Cartucho and My Mother’s Hands are autobiographical evocations of a childhood spent amidst the violence and turmoil of the Revolution in Mexico.
Ariel
By José Enrique Rodó; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
Latin America's most famous essay on esthetic and philosophical sensibility, as well as its most discussed treatise on hemispheric relations; first published in 1900.
Texas in 1837
An Anonymous, Contemporary Narrative
Edited by Andrew Forest Muir
University of Texas Press
The earliest known account of the first year of the Texas republic.
Spanish Film Under Franco
University of Texas Press
This book examines how a totalitarian government can influence the arts, and how the arts respond.
Kinship to Kingship
Gender Hierarchy and State Formation in the Tongan Islands
University of Texas Press
The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.
God and Production in a Guatemalan Town
University of Texas Press
How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.
Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers
Thirty-three Years in the Oil Fields
By Gerald Lynch
University of Texas Press
A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, told by one of its workers.
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part One
Translated by Harold V. Livermore; By Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Texas Press
The account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler.
Women of the Left Bank
Paris, 1900-1940
University of Texas Press
An exploration of the lives and works of some two dozen American, English, and French women whose talent shaped the Paris expatriate experience in the early twentieth century.
The Exiles and Other Stories
By Horacio Quiroga; Translated by J. David Danielson
University of Texas Press
Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.
Measuring Cuban Economic Performance
University of Texas Press
By constructing yardsticks of economic performance for revolutionary Cuba that are compatible with those used by Western nations, Perez-López provides for the first time a basis for analyzing the real growth of the Cuban economy during the revolutionary p
Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
University of Texas Press
A major work on the history of Mexicans in Texas and the relations between Mexicans and Anglos.
The Political Economy of the Brazilian State, 1889–1930
By Steven Topik
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive primary source material, this overview of the Brazilian republican state demonstrates that it was one of the most interventionist in Latin America well before the disruption of the export economy in 1929.
William Faulkner, Letters & Fictions
University of Texas Press
In this first major study of epistolarity in Faulkner’s work, James G. Watson examines Faulkner’s personal correspondence as a unique second canon of writing, separate from his literary canon with its many fictional letters but developing along parallel l
The Pleasure of Miss Pym
University of Texas Press
A critical study of Barbara Pym as comic writer and of the links between her life and autobiographical writings and her fiction, written with a liveliness of style and tone that matches Pym's own.
Stone Tool Use at Cerros
The Ethnoarchaeological and Use-Wear Evidence
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive experimental study of tool use in an agricultural society.
Appointment of Judges
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This book explores the process of making judicial appointments, examining how judges were selected during Lyndon Baines Johnson's administration and the president's own participation in the process.
The Princes of Naranja
An Essay in Anthrohistorical Method
University of Texas Press
Paul Friedrich looks closely at the strong men of the Tarascan Indian village of Naranja: their leadership, friendship, kinship, and violent local politics (over a time depth of one generation), and ways to understand such phenomena.
Rip Ford’s Texas
By John Salmon Ford; Edited by Stephen B. Oates
University of Texas Press
The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.
A World Outside
The Fiction of Paul Bowles
University of Texas Press
Beginning with Bowles' account of a frightening childhood memory, A World Outside explores how the dichotomies of inside and outside, safety and danger, enclosure and exposure—fundamental dualities in Bowles' fiction—have their deepest origin in the fabri
Speech Genres and Other Late Essays
University of Texas Press
Six short works from the last of Bakhtin's extant manuscripts published in the Soviet Union.
Intellectual Foundations of the Nicaraguan Revolution
University of Texas Press
A critical study of the thought of Augusto Cesar Sandino and his followers.
Cinema and Social Change in Latin America
Conversations with Filmmakers
Edited by Julianne Burton
University of Texas Press
Twenty interviews with key figures of Latin American cinema, covering three decades and ranging from Argentina to Mexico
Marianne Moore, Subversive Modernist
By Taffy Martin
University of Texas Press
In this book, Taffy Martin combines traditional scholarship and contemporary critical theory to create a feminist reading of one of the twentieth century's most difficult poets.
Heaven Born Merida and Its Destiny
The Book of Chilam Balam of Chumayel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of a Mayan history of Yucatan.
Facts as I Remember Them
The Autobiography of Rufe LeFors
By Rufe LeFors; Edited by John Allen Peterson
University of Texas Press
LeFors's life story, set down near the end of his long and adventurous life, is the best sort of insider's history, the chronicle of a life lived fully amid the exciting events and rough landscape of the frontier's final years.
Big and Bright
A History of the McDonald Observatory
University of Texas Press
Based on personal reminiscences and archival material, as well as published historical sources, Big and Bright is one of the few histories of a major observatory, unique in its focus on the human side of the story.
The Southeast Maya Periphery
Edited by Patricia A. Urban and Edward M. Schortman
University of Texas Press
Spanning over two thousand years of Maya prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the papers in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement
White House Operations
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This exploration of Lyndon B. Johnson’s highly personalized White House operations provides far-reaching implications for the nature of effective presidential management.
Theatre for Youth
Twelve Plays with Mature Themes
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer
University of Texas Press
This book examines twelve plays that deal with mature themes: aging, death and dying, conformity, sexuality, divorce, moral culpability
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Ethnohistory
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Ronald Spores
University of Texas Press
A review of research in Mesoamerican colonial ethnohistory.
Mary, Michael, and Lucifer
Folk Catholicism in Central Mexico
University of Texas Press
A modern semiotic and structuralist interpretation of traditional Mexican culture that accounts for the culture's apparent heterodoxy.
Industry, the State, and Public Policy in Mexico
By Dale Story
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the political and economic role of industrial entrepreneurs in postwar Mexico.
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