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Vargas of Brazil
A Political Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.
Three Men in Texas
Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie
Edited by Ronnie Dugger
University of Texas Press
Essays on the three famous friends, originally published in the Texas Observer.
The United States and the Atlantic Community
Issues and Prospects
Edited by James R. Roach; Introduction by M. Donald Hancock
University of Texas Press
A series of lectures delivered by five eminent statesmen and political theorists at the University of Texas in the spring of 1966 on the general theme of “The United States and the Atlantic Community: Issues and Prospects.”
The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Edited by Bruce Jackson
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.
The Inter American Press Association
Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960
University of Texas Press
A study of the history of this group that has fought for freedom of the press in Latin America.
The Brazilians
Their Character and Aspirations
University of Texas Press
José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going.
Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.
Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817–1886
University of Texas Press
This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude.
Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles
A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans
University of Texas Press
Drawings of people in the arts in New Orleans in the 1920s.
Reflections on Latin American Development
By Roberto de Olivera Campos; Introduction by Benjamin Higgins
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Latin American economic development in the mid-twentieth century.
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
University of Texas Press
This analysis of the origins of the War with Mexico is the result of the kind of objective approach to national history for which the author makes a plea in his preface and conclusion and in his interpretive comments throughout the work.
Origins of the American Indians
European Concepts, 1492-1729
University of Texas Press
An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples.
Mexico's Recent Economic Growth
The Mexican View
Translated by Marjory Urquidi; Introduction by Tom E. Davis
University of Texas Press
This volume of six essays makes readily available to English-speaking readers a selection of significant contributions by outstanding Mexican economists, dealing with the mid-twentieth-century growth of the Mexican economy.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Social Anthropology
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Manning Nash
University of Texas Press
This volume provides a synthetic and comparative summary of native ethnography and ethnology of Mexico and Central America, written by authorities in a number of broad fields.
From a Year in Greece
By Frederic Will; Illustrated by John Guerin
University of Texas Press
In this book, the reader is privileged to take a leisurely and thoroughly enjoyable trip through the Greece of the mid-twentieth century.
Folk-Songs of the Southern United States
By Josiah H. Combs; Edited by D.K. Wilgus
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the study of the folksong of the Southern Appalachians, together with a selection of folksong texts collected by Combs.
Distaff Diplomacy
The Empress Eugénie and the Foreign Policy of the Second Empire
University of Texas Press
An examination of the development of the Empress Eugénie's views on foreign affairs and their effect on the formation of the policies of the Second Empire.
Aspects of the Renaissance
Edited by Archibald R. Lewis
University of Texas Press
In ten collected papers, leading scholars from several academic disciplines share their approaches and insights into the politics, economics, science, literature, art, music, philosophy, and religion of this complex era.
Travelers In Texas, 1761-1860
University of Texas Press
An examination of particular aspects of early Texas life: the Indians, slavery, immigration, law enforcement, and the individualistic character of the people, all as seen through the eyes of traveler-writers.
The Political Evolution of the Mexican People
University of Texas Press
This classical synthesis of Mexican history, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders.
The Normans in South Wales, 1070–1171
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive history of the century during which the Normans occupied the Welsh peninsula.
The Modernist Movement in Brazil
A Literary Study
By John Nist
University of Texas Press
A study of the literary revolution unleashed by the Modern Art Week Exhibition staged in São Paulo in 1922.
The Cross Timbers
Memories of a North Texas Boyhood
By Edward Everett Dale; Illustrated by John Biggers
University of Texas Press
Through the recollections of Edward Everett Dale we are able to view a pattern of life in rural America now gone forever.
Tax Reform and the Alliance for Progress
University of Texas Press
This study presents an examination of the problem of evaluating the adequacy of Latin American tax-reform efforts and recommends basic criteria for such evaluation.
Sketches of Early Texas and Louisiana
By Frédéric Gaillardet; Translated by James L. Shepherd
University of Texas Press
A lively report of travels in early nineteenth-century Texas and Louisiana and a fascinating account of the discovery, exploration, and settlement of those areas is presented in the work of this ebullient young French dramatist and journalist who traveled to Louisiana in 1837 and to Texas in 1839.
Seven Contemporary Authors
Essays on Cozzens, Miller, West, Golding, Heller, Albee, and Powers
Edited by Thomas B. Whitbread
University of Texas Press
These seven critical essays, each on a twentieth-century novelist, are disparate in content, but all are concerned with the problem of evil and inhumanity and with the paradoxes of human existence.
Philip Freneau
Champion of Democracy
University of Texas Press
A detailed biography of this pensman of the American Revolution and early Republic.
John O. Meusebach
German Colonizer in Texas
University of Texas Press
The biography of a nineteenth-century German who became a leader of German immigrants in Texas.
Institutional Adjustment
A Challenge to a Changing Economy
Edited by Carey C. Thompson
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays presents a stimulating and challenging examination of the nature of institutional adjustment, its history and its future, its problems and its purposes.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 4
Archaeological Frontiers and External Connections
University of Texas Press
Essays about archaeolgy and ethnohistory of various Mesoamerican groups and their relationships with cultures outside Mesoamerica.
Green Russell and Gold
By Elma Dill Russell Spencer; Illustrated by Ben Carlton Mead
University of Texas Press
Elma Dill Russell Spencer, a descendant of one of these unusual brothers, relates the story of the Russell brothers as she learned it from family tradition transmitted by Grandma Russell, from family letters, from public documents, and from historical acc
Friedrich Schleiermacher
The Evolution of a Nationalist
University of Texas Press
This study of a German theologian and educator provides an insight into contemporary nationalistic movements and the people who have a part in them.
Catholic Influence on American Colonial Policies, 1898-1904
University of Texas Press
The role played by the American Catholic Church in influencing administrative policy for the United States's new, and predominately Catholic, dependencies after the Spanish-American war is the subject of this incisive study.
Mary Austin Holley
The Texas Diary, 1835–1838
By Mary Austin Holley; Edited by James Perry Bryan
University of Texas Press
This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal—the Mexican state moving toward rebellion and the new Republic, dynamic and struggling with a great destiny.
Hemingway on Love
University of Texas Press
How Hemingway’s later work revealed his ultimate belief that brotherly love was the supreme love of mankind.
Treason in Roman and Germanic Law
Collected Papers
University of Texas Press
These essays analyze the development of the political theory of treason from its beginning in Roman Law to its transformation in the Germanic custom of the early Middle Ages.
Transatlantic Dialogue
Selected American Correspondence of Edmund Gosse
Edited by Paul F. Mattheisen and Michael Millgate
University of Texas Press
The life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.
Thomas Wolfe
Memoir of a Friendship
University of Texas Press
How Thomas Wolfe and Robert Raynolds happened to meet, how they became friends, how their friendship grew, survived a crisis, and continued until the death of Thomas Wolfe.
The Texas Rangers
A Century of Frontier Defense
University of Texas Press
This classic history of the Texas Rangers has been popular ever since its first publication in 1935.
The Ironic Hume
University of Texas Press
By examining the works of Hume, Price shows the way in which an ironic way of seeing events and an ironic mode of expression permeated Hume's life and writings.
The Challenges to Democracy
Consensus and Extremism in American Politics
University of Texas Press
An assessment of the foundations of political unity in the United States.
Selected Poems of Rubén Darío
By Rubén Darío; Translated by Lysander Kemp
University of Texas Press
This translation, by a man who is himself a poet, brings to English readers the whole range of Darío's verse.
Mexican Financial Development
University of Texas Press
The early twentieth-century development of the Mexican financial system as it has related to the remarkable growth of the Mexican economy is examined in this book.
Memoirs of Pancho Villa
By Martín Luis Guzmán; Translated by Virginia H. Taylor
University of Texas Press
The memoirs of the noted Mexican revolutionary, compiled by a contemporary.
Making Peace with Spain
The Diary of Whitelaw Reid, September-December, 1898
By Whitelaw Reid; Edited by H. Wayne Morgan
University of Texas Press
Reid’s diary records the details of the sessions of the Joint Peace Commission of Paris from September through a large part of December of 1898.
Law and Economy in Planning
By Walter Firey
University of Texas Press
In Law and Economy in Planning, Walter Firey has made a start in the development of an intellectual framework that will give meaning to the craft of social planning and establish a relationship between practice and first principles.
Innocence And Power
Individualism in Twentieth-century America
Edited by Gordon H. Mills
University of Texas Press
A broad understanding of the meaning of individualism can be reached only through the insight of many workers in many different fields; this volume brings together seven of the United States' most distinguished scholars, representing the fields of anthropology, economics, government, history, literature, and philosophy.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 2 and 3
Archaeology of Southern Mesoamerica
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Gordon R. Willey
University of Texas Press
These volumes contain archaeological syntheses, followed by special articles on various aspects of the indigenous societies of southern Mesoamerica.
Gideon Lincecum, 1793-1874
A Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of a Texas "Renaissance man".
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