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The Black-Man of Zinacantan
A Central American Legend
University of Texas Press
Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.
The Astonishment of Words
An Experiment in the Comparison of Languages
University of Texas Press
An exploration of how English words are translated.
Real del Monte
A British Silver Mining Venture in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry.
Narrative Consciousness
Structure and Perception in the Fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet
University of Texas Press
This meticulous and thoughtful study of the major fiction of Kafka, Beckett, and Robbe-Grillet examines the manner in which each author, through the minds of his characters, has selected and ordered them.
Mexico in Its Novel
A Nation's Search for Identity
University of Texas Press
A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.
Mexican Revolution
The Constitutionalist Years
University of Texas Press
A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 12
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part One
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Howard F. Cline
University of Texas Press
This guide covers geography and ethnogeography, especially the Relaciones Geográficas
Faulkner's Revision of Sanctuary
A Collation of the Unrevised Galleys and the Published Book
University of Texas Press
A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector; Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
University of Texas Press
Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.
Democracy, Militarism, and Nationalism in Argentina, 1930–1966
An Interpretation
University of Texas Press
In this study, Marvin Goldwert interprets the rise, growth, and development of militarism in Argentina from 1930 to 1966.
Alfonso Reyes and Spain
His Dialogue with Unamuno, Valle-Inclán, Ortega y Gasset, Jiménez, and Gómez de la Serna
University of Texas Press
This book has, as its basis, the remarkable correspondence between Reyes and some of the leading spirits of the Spanish intellectual world in the early 1900s, covering not only his years in Spain but also later exchanges of letters.
A Rain of Darts
The Mexica Aztecs
University of Texas Press
The exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire.
A Companion to Greek Tragedy
University of Texas Press
This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays.
My Eighty Years in Texas
University of Texas Press
This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.
The Singing Mountaineers
Songs and Tales of the Quechua People
By José María Arguedas; Edited by Ruth Stephan
University of Texas Press
A collection of traditional Quechua songs and folktales.
Twilight on the Range
Recollections of a Latterday Cowboy
University of Texas Press
Recollections of eighteen years of range-riding in Texas and North Dakota.
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
University of Texas Press
In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregón, to the
The Ways of the Desert
By Eugène Daumas; Translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf
University of Texas Press
The Ways of the Desert, translated from the French, offers an introduction to the North African Arab nomads in the nineteenth century—their way of life, customs, dress, and religion.
The Satiric Poems of John Trumbull
The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal
Edited by Edwin T. Bowden
University of Texas Press
Two long poems by a noted colonial American satiric poet, complete with the original biting prefaces, in a dependable text for the scholar and annotated for the general reader interested in the literature and history of the American eighteenth century.
The Drama's Patrons
A Study of the Eighteenth-Century London Audience
By Leo Hughes
University of Texas Press
Drawing from a wealth of amusing and informative contemporary accounts, Leo Hughes presents abundant evidence that the seventeenth-century English theatre-going public proved zealous, and sometimes even unruly, in asserting its role and rights.
The Bracero Program
Interest Groups and Foreign Policy
University of Texas Press
The Mexican Farm Labor Program—or bracero program as it came to be known—was from its inception in 1942 a highly controversial issue and became the focal point of an intense interest-group struggle; this struggle and its group combatants provide the centr
Stephen Douglas
The Last Years, 1857–1861
By Damon Wells
University of Texas Press
This study fills the need for a fresh and dispassionate look at Douglas and provides a fairer assessment than can be reached by simply endorsing contradictory views of apologists and critics.
Son of the Alhambra
Don Diego Hurtado de Mendoza, 1504-1575
University of Texas Press
Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504–1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
By José Carlos Mariátegui; Translated by Marjory Urquidi
University of Texas Press
Essays by one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century.
Prophet in the Wilderness
The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
University of Texas Press
This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada,
Not Without Honor
The Life of John H. Reagan
University of Texas Press
John H. Reagan was one of the most important figures in Texas history; this was the first biography of him to be published.
Negro Militia and Reconstruction
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1957, this book is the story of Reconstruction's ill-fated Negro Militia movement, a story with important implication for later times.
Judicial Review in Mexico
A Study of the Amparo Suit
University of Texas Press
A study of the amparo suit, a Mexican legal institution similar in its effects to such Anglo-American procedures as habeas corpus, error, and the various forms of injunctive relief.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 10 and 11
Archaeology of Northern Mesoamerica
University of Texas Press
Volumes 10 and 11 describe the pre-Aztec and Aztec cultures of Mexico, from central Veracruz and the Gulf Coast, through the Valley of Mexico, to western Mexico and the northern frontiers of these ancient American civilizations.
Folklore Methodology
Formulated by Julius Krohn and Expanded by Nordic Researchers
By Kaarle Krohn; Translated by Roger L. Welsch
University of Texas Press
Kaarle Krohn's Folklore Methodology was the first systematic attempt to state a method of studying folkloristic materials and became the handbook for the great Finnish School of folklore research.
Faulkner's Revision of Absalom, Absalom!
A Collation of the Manuscript and the Published Book
University of Texas Press
A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.
Crisis in Costa Rica
The 1948 Revolution
University of Texas Press
This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising, as well as the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power.
Antonio Caso
Philosopher of Mexico
University of Texas Press
A biography of a 20th century Mexican philosopher and educator.
William Hickling Prescott
A Biography
By C. Harvey Gardiner; Introduction by Allan Nevins
University of Texas Press
This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott.
Western Window in the Arab World
University of Texas Press
How American military personnel and their dependents have affected the political and social evolution of Morocco.
Unrest in Brazil
Political-Military Crises 1955-1964
University of Texas Press
Unrest in Brazil describes in exciting detail the government crises and resulting military interventions that punctuated the power struggle between supporters and opponents of Vargas in the decade following his death.
The Texas Land and Development Company
A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956
By B.R. Brunson
University of Texas Press
The history of the influential Texas Land and Development Company from its inception in 1912 to its final dissolution in January 1956.
The Structure of Leaves of Grass
University of Texas Press
The basic premise of this study is that Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a unified work, lyrical, yet epic in quality, design, and spirit.
The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students
University of Texas Press
A close examination of the social background and political activity of students at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico in the 1960s.
The People’s Party in Texas
A Study in Third Party Politics
University of Texas Press
This study of third-party politics in Texas, as well as being an important work in Texas history, provides much insight into the national radical movement of the 1890s.
The Golden Thread and other Plays
By Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
A collection of plays by one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater.
The Author of the Prometheus Bound
University of Texas Press
An examination of questions surrounding the ancient Greek play Prometheus Bound, including whether Aeschylus was actually the author.
Ruben Dario Centennial Studies
Edited by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth and George D. Schade
University of Texas Press
Five lectures from a 1967 symposium celebratng Darío's centenary.
Reconstruction in Texas
University of Texas Press
An examination of events that still impact upon Texas and the South.
Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939
University of Texas Press
A study of the 1930s dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia and the inter-American peace conference that settled it.
Political Groups in Chile
The Dialogue between Order and Change
University of Texas Press
A study of Chilean politics in the mid-twentieth century.
Maury Maverick
A Political Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of a notable Texas Congressional representative.
Jarano
By Ramón Beteta; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 9
Physical Anthropology
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by T. Dale Stewart
University of Texas Press
An invaluable reference work on the human biology of Middle America and its relationships to human society and culture.
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