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Alex Sweet's Texas
The Lighter Side of Lone Star History
By Alexaner Edwin Sweet; Edited by Virginia Eisenhour
University of Texas Press
A selection of Sweet's humorous essays about Texas.
South by Southwest
24 Stories from Modern Texas
Edited by Don Graham
University of Texas Press
These Texas stories are among the best produced by the state’s writers in the mid-twentieth century.
Poetics of Change
The New Spanish-American Narrative
By Julio Ortega; Translated by Galen D. Greaser
University of Texas Press
This book brings together Ortega’s most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, García Márquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.
The São Paulo Law School and the Anti-Vargas Resistance (1938-1945)
University of Texas Press
The São Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country’s leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.
The Art of Reciting the Qur'an
University of Texas Press
By examining Muslim attitudes toward the Qur'an, the institutions that regulate its recitation, and performer-audience expectations and interaction, Kristina Nelson, a trained Arabist and musicologist, casts new light on the significance of Qur'anic recit
The Language Parallax
Linguistic Relativism and Poetic Indeterminacy
University of Texas Press
Paul Friedrich's The Language Parallax argues persuasively that the "locus and focus" of differences among languages lies not so much in practical or rational aspects as in the complexity and richness of more poetic dimensions—in the nuances of words, or
Mexican American Fertility Patterns
By Frank D. Bean and Gray Swicegood
University of Texas Press
This study examines Mexican American fertility patterns in the decade 1970-1980.
Intellectuals and the State in Twentieth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
Roderic Camp’s examination of intellectuals in Mexico is the first study of a Latin American country to detail the structure of intellectual life, rather than merely considering intellectual ideas.
Dioscorides on Pharmacy and Medicine
University of Texas Press
In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.
Every Sun That Rises
Wyatt Moore of Caddo Lake
Edited by Thad Sitton and James H. Conrad
University of Texas Press
The oral history of a lifelong resident of Caddo Lake.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 3
Literatures
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
This third volume of the Supplement is devoted to the aboriginal literatures of Mesoamerica, a topic receiving little attention in the original Handbook.
State and Opposition in Military Brazil
University of Texas Press
A rich description of the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable “national security state” in the face of determined and resilient opposition.
South American Indian Languages
Retrospect and Prospect
Edited by Harriet E. Manelis Klein and Louisa R. Stark
University of Texas Press
This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p
The Voice of the Masters
Writing and Authority in Modern Latin American Literature
University of Texas Press
A timely and ambitious study of authority as theme and authority as authorial strategy in modern Latin American literature.
Letters of Roy Bedichek
Edited by William A. Owens and Lyman Grant
University of Texas Press
Prefaced by a biographical sketch, this volume presents a collection of Bedichek letters that give us an insight into his literary and creative development.
Islam against the West
Shakib Arslan and the Campaign for Islamic Nationalism
University of Texas Press
This book gives a unique perspective on the interwar history of the Middle East; by telling the life story of one man, it illuminates the political and cultural struggles of an era.
Dance across Texas
By Betty Casey
University of Texas Press
Internationally known dance instructor and writer Betty Casey takes an informal look at the history of Texas dancing and tells how to do more than twenty traditional Texas dances.
Presidential Management of Science and Technology
The Johnson Presidency
University of Texas Press
This book addresses the relationship between scientists, few of whom have political backgrounds, and presidents, few of whom are knowledgeable in matters of science and technology.
Government and Society in Rural Palestine, 1920-1948
By Ylana Miller
University of Texas Press
This study seeks to go beyond attributions of responsibility to investigate the concrete conditions which determined and limited Palestinian Arab actions between 1920 and 1948.
Despite this Flesh
The Disabled in Stories and Poems
Edited by Vassar Miller
University of Texas Press
An anthology of fiction and poetry about people with motor and sensory disabilities.
Topics in Analytic Number Theory
Edited by Sidney W. Graham and Jeffrey D. Vaaler
University of Texas Press
Articles on number theory.
The Dismantling of the Good Neighbor Policy
By Bryce Wood
University of Texas Press
Bryce Wood describes the temptations laid before the leaders of one powerful state by its occasionally recalcitrant neighbors, and the ways of reacting that were found.
Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875–1933
University of Texas Press
This study, based primarily on previously unavailable private records of sugarcane plantations, examines the external and internal dynamics of the sugar industry.
Killing the Hidden Waters
University of Texas Press
The costs and limits of using natural resources, demonstrated through a simple example: water.
Jews in an Arab Land
Libya, 1835–1970
University of Texas Press
Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice’s pioneering study of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major sources of conflict in the modern Middle East.
Indians, Cattle, Ships, and Oil
The Story of W. M. D. Lee
University of Texas Press
Indian trader, rancher, harbor developer, oil impresario—these are the many worlds of one of the least chronicled but most fascinating characters of the American West.
The Texas-Mexican Conjunto
History of a Working-class Music
By Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
A history of conjunto music and musicians.
The Lowland Maya Postclassic
Edited by Arlen F. Chase and Prudence M. Rice
University of Texas Press
This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
An Indian Declaration of Independence
By Vine Deloria
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes.
Historic Structures
The Prague School Project, 1928–1946
By F.W. Galan
University of Texas Press
In this first book-length study of Czech structuralism and semiotics in English, F. W. Galan explores one of the most important intellectual currents of the twentieth century.
Apache Gold and Yaqui Silver
University of Texas Press
Stories of secret treasure in the Southwest.
The Zoot-Suit Riots
The Psychology of Symbolic Annihilation
University of Texas Press
This engrossing study goes beyond sensational headlines and biased memories to provide an understanding of the zoot-suit riots in the context of both Mexican American and Anglo social history.
Landowners in Colonial Peru
University of Texas Press
The first study to examine the agrarian history of a region in South America from the mid-sixteenth through late-seventeenth century.
The Other Texas Frontier
University of Texas Press
Six essays positing the idea of the Texas counterfrontier, a quiet settling of the land by thoughtful, undramatic citizens.
The Amazing Armadillo
Geography of a Folk Critter
By Larry L. Smith and Robin W. Doughty
University of Texas Press
This informative book traces the spread of the nine-banded armadillo from its first notice in South Texas late in the 1840s to its current range east to Florida and north to Missouri.
Farmers in Rebellion
The Rise and Fall of the Southern Farmers Alliance and People's Party in Texas
University of Texas Press
A book rich in detail and scope in its look at a critical juncture in the growth of national populist movements.
Tales of Old-Time Texas
University of Texas Press
A heartwarming array of twenty-eight stories filled with vivid characters, exciting historical episodes, and traditional themes.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 2
Linguistics
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
Detailed sketches of five languages not covered in the original Handbook of Middle American Indians: Mixe, Chichimeco Jonaz, Choltí, Tarascan, and Huastec.
Trees of Central Texas
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas.
Sport and Political Ideology
University of Texas Press
This provocative work interprets the major sport ideologies of the twentieth century as distinct expressions of political doctrine.
Opera and Vivaldi
Edited by Michael Collins and Elise K. Kirk
University of Texas Press
A collection of papers on Baroque opera, discussing the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre.
Cinema Novo x 5
Masters of Contemporary Brazilian Film
University of Texas Press
Cinema Novo x 5 places the success of Brazilian cinema in perspective by examining the films of the five leaders of this groundbreaking movement—Andrade, Diegues, Guerra, Rocha, and dos Santos.
Panama Odyssey
University of Texas Press
The definitive account of the long and often contentious negotiations that produced the Panama Canal Treaties of 1977.
Secession and the Union in Texas
University of Texas Press
This book is both a narrative of secession in Texas and a case study of the causes of secession in a southern state.
Poets and the Visual Arts in Renaissance England
University of Texas Press
The author convincingly shows that writers of the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries in England wrote with a lively and creative sense of the visual—a sense richly informed by the theory and practice of Renaissance art.
Sunbelt Cities
Politics and Growth since World War II
Edited by Richard M. Bernard and Bradley Robert Rice
University of Texas Press
Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.
Archeology and Volcanism in Central America
The Zapotitán Valley of El Salvador
Edited by Payson D. Sheets
University of Texas Press
This book provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.
Black Street Speech
Its History, Structure, and Survival
By John Baugh
University of Texas Press
The history, linguistic structure, and survival within white society of black street speech, based on a long-term study of adult speakers.
The Performer-Audience Connection
Emotion to Metaphor in Dance and Society
University of Texas Press
A pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance.
Pulltrouser Swamp
Ancient Maya Habitat, Agriculture, and Settlement in Northern Belize
Edited by B. L. Turner and Peter D. Harrison
University of Texas Press
Pulltrouser Swamp conclusively demonstrates the existence of hydraulic, raised-field agriculture in the Maya lowlands between 150 B.C. and A.D. 850.
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