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The Disobedient Writer
Women and Narrative Tradition
University of Texas Press
A study of women's writings that offer counter-readings of familiar Western narratives.
Political Recruitment across Two Centuries
Mexico, 1884-1991
University of Texas Press
A definitive account of the paths to power Mexican political leaders pursued during the period 1884 to 1992.
Mexican Anarchism after the Revolution
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive treatment of the intellectual foundations, history, politics, and strategy of Mexican anarchism since the Revolution.
Kuna Crafts, Gender, and the Global Economy
University of Texas Press
In this study, Karin Tice explores the impact of the commercialization of mola production on Kuna society.
Errant Journeys
Adventure Travel in a Modern Age
University of Texas Press
An examination of how the idea of adventure travel has been commericalized, and how adventure travel changes the places travelled to.
A Texas-Mexican Cancionero
Folksongs of the Lower Border
By Américo Paredes; Introduction by Manuel Peña
University of Texas Press
Sixty-six folksongs from Tejano culture.
William Goyen
Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
University of Texas Press
These letters, which span the years 1937 to 1983, chronicle Goyen’s long participation in the writing life and offer a compelling testament to what it means to be a writer in America.
The Gay Place
By Billy Lee Brammer; Introduction by Don Graham
University of Texas Press
Three interlocking stories about a fictional Texas governor.
Tejano Religion and Ethnicity
San Antonio, 1821-1860
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Timothy Matovina explores the central role of Tejano Catholicism in forging a unique ethnic identity and in binding the community together.
Maya for Travelers and Students
A Guide to Language and Culture in Yucatan
University of Texas Press
Written in nontechnical terms for learners who have a basic knowledge of simple Mexican Spanish, the book presents easily understood, practical information for anyone who would like to communicate with the Maya in their native language.
Inherit the Alamo
Myth and Ritual at an American Shrine
University of Texas Press
How different groups use the Alamo as a symbol, and what they do with its mythology.
A Political Education
A Washington Memoir
University of Texas Press
An insider's view of Washington in the 1950s and 1960s, of the tumultuous presidency of Lyndon Johnson, and of the conflicts and factions of the president's staff.
The Road to Love Canal
Managing Industrial Waste before EPA
University of Texas Press
This book examines industrial waste disposal before the formation of the Environmental Protection Agency in 1970.
No Quittin' Sense
University of Texas Press
The life story of Rev. C. C. "Charley" White, whose one-man war on poverty and intolerance has inspired thousands of readers since the book was first published in 1969.
Hunter-Gatherer Mortuary Practices during the Central Texas Archaic
University of Texas Press
This detailed archaeological report describes the human skeletal remains, burial furnishings, and fauna recovered from the first carefully excavated hunter-gatherer burial site in central Texas.
Folklore and Culture on the Texas-Mexican Border
By Américo Paredes; Edited by Richard Bauman
University of Texas Press
This book brings Paredes's scholarly essays to a wider readership.
Cultivating Crisis
The Human Cost of Pesticides in Latin America
University of Texas Press
The author draws on ten years of field research to tell the stories of international development strategies, pesticide problems, and agrarian change in Latin America.
Black Texas Women
150 Years of Trial and Triumph
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive history of black Texas women, a previously neglected group whose 150 years of continued struggle and some successes against the oppression of racism and sexism deserve to be better known and understood.
Cultural Economies Past and Present
University of Texas Press
An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Text and Transformations
Edited by William W. Kibler
University of Texas Press
This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Texas Log Buildings
A Folk Architecture
University of Texas Press
This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside.
El Teatro Campesino
Theater in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
This study demythologizes and reinterprets the history of a Chicana/o performance ensemble.
The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Reconstructed From Her Diaries and Notes
University of Texas Press
This book tells a fascinating story of a sheltered girl's maturation into a courageous woman in the crucible of war.
Covarrubias
By Adriana Williams; Edited by Doris Ober
University of Texas Press
A sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.
Otilia's Body
A Novel
University of Texas Press
Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
University of Texas Press
In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).
Land of Bears and Honey
A Natural History of East Texas
By Joe C. Truett and Daniel W. Lay
University of Texas Press
The story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas.
How the Maya Built Their World
Energetics and Ancient Architecture
University of Texas Press
The social structures and engineering that enabled the Maya to build their massive buildings.
Giving Voice to Stones
Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature
University of Texas Press
Barbara McKean Parmenter explores the roots of Western and Zionist images of Palestine, then draws upon the work of Palestinian writers to trace how they have represented their experience of home and exile since the First World War.
German Seed in Texas Soil
Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas
University of Texas Press
Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled.
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist
University of Texas Press
A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world.
The Social Production of Urban Space
University of Texas Press
A landmark work in urban studies.
The Jumanos
Hunters and Traders of the South Plains
University of Texas Press
The first full-length study of this native North American people.
The House on the Beach
A Novel
University of Texas Press
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.
Mexican Literature
A History
Edited by David William Foster
University of Texas Press
This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.
Border Healing Woman
The Story of Jewel Babb as told to Pat LittleDog (second edition)
By Jewel Babb and Pat Littledog
University of Texas Press
The story of Jewel Babb, from her early years as a tenderfoot ranch wife to her elder years as a desert healing woman.
The Birds of South America
Vol. II, The Suboscine Passerines
By Robert S. Ridgely and Guy Tudor
University of Texas Press
A major reference work on South American birds.
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