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Rubén Darío and the Romantic Search for Unity
The Modernist Recourse to Esoteric Tradition
University of Texas Press
This study of Darío's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.
Oral History
A Guide for Teachers (and Others)
University of Texas Press
An introduction to to the techniques, problems, and pleasures of collecting oral history.
The Secret Diplomacy of the Vietnam War
The Negotiating Volumes of the Pentagon Papers
Edited by George C. Herring
University of Texas Press
These documents cover thirteen major peace contacts and initiatives that took place during the presidency of Lyndon Johnson.
The Compensations of War
The Diary of an Ambulance Driver during the Great War
By Guy Emerson Bowerman; Edited by Mark C. Carnes
University of Texas Press
In 1917, shortly after the United States’ declaration of war on Germany, Guy Emerson Bowerman, Jr., enlisted in the American army’s ambulance service; this is the diary he kept for his seventeen months of service.
They Called Them Greasers
Anglo Attitudes toward Mexicans in Texas, 1821–1900
University of Texas Press
This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.
The Evolution of a State, or, Recollections of Old Texas Days
By Noah Smithwick; Illustrated by Charles Shawl
University of Texas Press
Eyewitness to so much Texas history, Smithwick recounts his life and adventures in a simple, straightforward style, with a wry sense of humor.
Fear on Trial
University of Texas Press
The dramatic account of Faulk's six years on the blacklist and his lawsuit against AWARE.
The Music of Brazil
University of Texas Press
This book provides professional musicologists and music lovers alike with a clear outline of the major trends, important composers, and currents of thought that have shaped the folk, popular, and art music that are an important part of Brazil's unique cul
Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945
Repression during World Upheaval
University of Texas Press
Brazilian Communism, 1935–1945 is an objective and remarkably comprehensive account of the Brazilian Communist Party’s struggle to survive repression under the regime of Vargas.
Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song
A Texas Chronicle
University of Texas Press
The folksongs of Texas in the 1930s and 1940s, as collected by by the author in his travels.
Approaches to Homer
Edited by Carl A. Rubino and Cynthia W. Shelmerdine
University of Texas Press
In this volume, nine classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history.
A Grammar of Mam, A Mayan Language
University of Texas Press
The first full-length reference grammar of Mam, a Mayan language spoken today in the western highlands of Guatemala and the state of Chiapas, Mexico.
Charles Brockden Brown
An American Tale
By Alan Axelrod
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive literary, biographical, and cultural study of the novelist whom critic Leslie Fiedler has dubbed "the inventor of the American writer."
Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values
American Political Economists, 1819-1848
University of Texas Press
A study of the views of American political economists during the antebellum period.
An Epoch of Miracles
Oral Literature of the Yucatec Maya
Translated by Allan F. Burns
University of Texas Press
A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.
Past Climates
Tree Thermometers, Commodities, and People
By Leona Marshall Libby; Introduction by Rainer Berger
University of Texas Press
An introduction to using tree rings for climate research.
East Los Angeles
History of a Barrio
University of Texas Press
The story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles," and how it came to be.
Ranchero Revolt
The Mexican Revolution in Guerrero
By Ian Jacobs
University of Texas Press
In this book Ian Jacobs challenges the populist interpretation of the Mexican Revolution by exploring the crucial role played by the rural middle class—rancheros—in the organization and final victory of the Revolution.
The Conscience of the University, and Other Essays
By Harry Huntt Ransom; Edited by Hazel H. Ransom
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays on the role of higher education in society.
Miners, Merchants, and Farmers in Colonial Colombia
By Ann Twinam
University of Texas Press
Why a particular region in Colombia played such a strong role in the country's economic history.
Maya Glyphs
The Verbs
By Linda Schele
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive study of the verb morphology and syntax of the Maya writing system.
Boss Rule in South Texas
The Progressive Era
By Evan Anders
University of Texas Press
This book tells the story of four men and the county rings they shaped in South Texas during the Progressive Era.
Bark Beetles in North American Conifers
A System for the Study of Evolutionary Biology
Edited by Jeffry B. Mitton and Kareen B. Sturgeon
University of Texas Press
This book brings together in one volume both theory and a wealth of empirical data gathered by researchers from all the fields in which bark beetles are studied: ecology, evolutionary biology, population genetics, entomology, and forestry.
Congressional Realignment, 1925-1978
University of Texas Press
A major contribution to our understanding of realignment politics in the House of Representatives.
Trees of North Texas
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive and compact volume is a field guide to all the native and naturalized trees of the north Texas zone, including the Blackland Prairies, the Cross Timbers region, and both the Rolling and High Plains.
Instabilities, Bifurcations, and Fluctuations in Chemical Systems
By L. E. Reichl and William C. Schieve
University of Texas Press
Papers on chemical pattern formation and how they may relate to the self-organization of biological systems.
Carlos Fuentes
A Critical View
Edited by Robert Brody and Charles Rossman
University of Texas Press
Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer’s work.
Buenos Aires
400 Years
Edited by Stanley R. Ross and Thomas F. McGann
University of Texas Press
This informative volume derives from a conference held at the Library of Congress in September 1980, which was dedicated to the 400th anniversary of the founding of Buenos Aires.
Land and Revolution in Iran, 1960–1980
University of Texas Press
In the first major study of the effects of the Iranian land reform carried out by the government of the shah between 1962 and 1971, Eric Hooglund's analysis demonstrates that the primary motives behind the land reform were political.
Ellen Glasgow
Beyond Convention
University of Texas Press
Pulitzer Prize winner Ellen Glasgow is far more than a Southern writer, as Linda Wagner demonstrates in this fascinating reassessment of her work.
Chicano Poetry
A Response to Chaos
University of Texas Press
This book examines the most significant works of late twentieth century Chicano/a poetry.
Nematodes in Soil Ecosystems
Edited by Diana W. Freckman; Introduction by J. A. Wallwork
University of Texas Press
A study of nematodes as active contributors to the decomposition cycle in soil ecosystems.
Texas Graveyards
A Cultural Legacy
University of Texas Press
This book not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.
Spacetime And Geometry
The Alfred Schild Lectures
Edited by Richard A. Matzner and L. C. Shepley
University of Texas Press
These reports, at the forefront of relativity theory when they were written, in particular the geometrical aspects of spacetime theory, were the result of the Alfred Schild Memorial Lecture Series presented at the University of Texas at Austin beginning in 1977.
Literary and Artistic Patronage in Ancient Rome
Edited by Barbara K. Gold
University of Texas Press
This book explores all the important aspects of patronage—a topic crucial to the study of literature and art from Homer to the present day.
The Road to OPEC
United States Relations with Venezuela, 1919-1976
University of Texas Press
The Road to OPEC is the story of the fiery debates among U.S. oil companies, the Department of State, and the Venezuelan government over oil policies—clashes that led Venezuela to establish OPEC and to nationalize U.S.-owned properties.
The CIA in Guatemala
The Foreign Policy of Intervention
University of Texas Press
Using documents obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, recently opened archival collections, and interviews with the actual participants, Immerman provides us with a definitive, powerfully written, and tension-packed account of the United States' clandestine operations in Guatemala and their consequences in Latin America.
The Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
University of Texas Press
A case study of twentieth-century changes within the Catholic Church and their impact on Brazilian society.
The Ancient Future of the Itza
The book of Chilam Balam of Tizimin
Translated by Munro S. Edmonson
University of Texas Press
A literal but poetic translation of one of fourteen known manuscripts in Yucatecan Maya on ritual and history.
Self-Organization and Dissipative Structures
Applications in the Physical and Social Sciences
Edited by William C. Schieve and Peter M. Allen
University of Texas Press
The contributions to this volume attempt to apply different aspects of Ilya Prigogine's Nobel-prize-winning work on dissipative structures to nonchemical systems as a way of linking the natural and social sciences.
Nabokov's Fifth Arc
Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work
Edited by J. E. Rivers and Charles Nicol
University of Texas Press
This volume both explores and symbolizes Nabokov's continuing life in literary history.
The Prague School
Selected Writings, 1929-1946
Edited by Peter Steiner
University of Texas Press
Essays by noted figures in the Prague Linguistic Circle.
A Woman to Deliver Her People
Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism in an Era of Revolution
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive study of Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism.
Origins of Pre-Columbian Art
University of Texas Press
A fresh look at ancient cultural history in the Americas and the Pacific basin.
Modernization and the Working Class
The Politics of Legitimacy
University of Texas Press
Combining classical social theory, historical evidence, and survey data, Waisman explores the relationship between the degree of modernization and the legitimacy of the capitalist social order.
Amy, Wendy, and Beth
Learning Language in South Baltimore
University of Texas Press
A lively in-depth study of how three young children from an urban working-class community learned language under everyday conditions.
The Dialogic Imagination
Four Essays
University of Texas Press
These essays reveal Mikhail Bakhtin (1895-1975)--known in the West largely through his studies of Rabelais and Dostoevsky--as a philosopher of language, a cultural historian, and a major theoretician of the novel.
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Archaeology
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker and Jeremy A. Sabloff
University of Texas Press
Detailed reports from the directors of many of the most significant archaeological projects of the mid-twentieth century in Mesoamerica, along with discussions of three topics of general interest (the rise of sedentary life, the evolution of complex culture, and the rise of cities).
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