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Texas Crossings
The Lone Star State and the American Far West, 1836–1986
By Howard R. Lamar; Introduction by Lewis L. Gould
University of Texas Press
Originally presented in 1986 at the University of Texas at Austin as the first George W. Littlefield Lectures in American History, these essays explore a previously neglected aspect of the western story: the influence of Texans—and other Southerners—on th
Baker & Botts in the Development of Modern Houston
University of Texas Press
In this study, Kenneth J. Lipartito and Joseph A. Pratt chronicle the 150-year history of the law firm Baker & Botts, placing particular emphasis on the firm’s role in Houston’s economic development.
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Argentina's "Dirty War"
An Intellectual Biography
University of Texas Press
How an ultracivilized country, one of the most European in Latin America, relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s.
Western Apache Heritage
People of the Mountain Corridor
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Richard Perry synthesizes the findings of anthropology, ethnology, linguistics, archaeology, and ethnohistory to reconstruct the Apachean past and offer a fuller understanding of the forces that have shaped modern Apache culture.
Peasants on the Edge
Crop, Cult, and Crisis in the Andes
University of Texas Press
A long-term study of economic and ecological changes in a small Andean community.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934
University of Texas Press
An authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English.
Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 1917–1947
University of Texas Press
How images of the Soviet Union and its policies influenced the Brazilian foreign policy elite.
The Cult Film Experience
Beyond All Reason
Edited by J. P. Telotte
University of Texas Press
J. P. Telotte and twelve other noted film scholars examine the appeal of the cult film in this groundbreaking study.
Soviet Cinema in the Silent Era, 1918–1935
University of Texas Press
A study of the lost golden age of Soviet cinema, which was a time of both achievement and contradiction, as reflected in the films of Eisenstein, Pudovkin, and Kuleshov.
My Car in Managua
University of Texas Press
This book offers an objective, often humorous description of the great difficulties and occasional pleasures of life in Nicaragua during the Sandinista revolution.
The Language of the Inka since the European Invasion
University of Texas Press
A synthesis of the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguis
The Feminization of Quest-Romance
Radical Departures
University of Texas Press
A study of twentieth-century authors working to redefine the literary portrayal of American women's quests.
American Architects and the Mechanics of Fame
University of Texas Press
An investigation into why some architects become famous while other equally talented ones do not.
Woven on the Loom of Time
Stories by Enrique Anderson-Imbert
By Enrique Anderson-Imbert; Translated by Carleton Vail and Pamela Edwards-Mondragón; Introduction by Ester de Izaguirre
University of Texas Press
In this anthology, the translators have chosen stories from the period 1965 to 1985 to introduce English-speaking readers to the creative work of Enrique Anderson-Imbert.
The Livelihood of Kin
Making Ends Meet "The Kentucky Way"
University of Texas Press
Rhoda Halperin undertakes a detailed exploration of a complex, family-oriented economy, showing how it promotes economic well-being and a sense of identity for the people who follow it.
Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building
University of Texas Press
Spanish Memory Book offers original mnemonic rhymes to assist in learning and remembering several hundred of the 2,000 most commonly used Spanish words.
Alejo Carpentier
The Pilgrim at Home
University of Texas Press
This book covers the life and works of the great Cuban novelist, offering a new perspective on the relationship between the two.
A Saint Is Born in Chima
A Novel
By Manuel Zapata Olivella; Translated by Thomas E. Kooreman
University of Texas Press
This novel, published in 1963 as En Chimá nace un santo, makes important connections between the frustrations of poverty and the excesses of religious fanaticism.
The Crime Novel
A Deviant Genre
By Tony Hilfer
University of Texas Press
Hilfer offers convincing evidence that the crime novel should be regarded as a genre distinct from the detective novel, whose conventions it subverts to develop conventions of its own.
Literature and Politics in the Central American Revolutions
By John Beverley and Marc Zimmerman
University of Texas Press
How literature affected political revolutions in three Central American countries.
A Shi'ite Pilgrimage to Mecca, 1885-1886
The Safarnâmeh of Mirzâ Mo?ammad ?osayn Farâhâni
University of Texas Press
The account of a nineteenth-century Persian's pilgrimage to Mecca.
The Mexican Urban Household
Organizing for Self-Defense
University of Texas Press
How ordinary people in Mexico survive in times of economic crisis.
The Ancient Egyptian Book of the Dead
Translated by Raymond O. Faulkner; Edited by Carol Andrews
University of Texas Press
Ancient Egyptian religious and magical texts, meant to secure a satisfactory afterlife for the deceased.
Soldaderas in the Mexican Military
Myth and History
University of Texas Press
In this original study, Elizabeth Salas explores the changing role of the soldadera, both in reality and as a cultural symbol, from pre-Columbian times up to the present day.
Obliging Need
Rural Petty Industry in Mexican Capitalism
By Scott Cook and Leigh Binford
University of Texas Press
A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.
Essays in Ottoman and Turkish History, 1774-1923
The Impact of the West
University of Texas Press
The effect of Western influence on the later Ottoman Empire and on the development of the modern Turkish nation-state links these twelve essays by a prominent American scholar.
Merchant Capital and Islam
University of Texas Press
Through a rereading of original Arabic sources and drawing from modern scholarship on the subject, Ibrahim offers a new interpretation of the rise of Islam.
Inka Settlement Planning
By John Hyslop
University of Texas Press
A study of Inka settlements throughout the vast territory of the former empire.
William Faulkner, Life Glimpses
University of Texas Press
Brodsky mines a storehouse of previously unpublished material, using interviews, letters, speeches, movie scripts, and notes to enrich our understanding of this well-known Southern writer; the result is a highly readable biography that is thematic and episodic rather than chronological in its organization.
Film and the German Left in the Weimar Republic
From Caligari to Kuhle Wampe
By Bruce Murray
University of Texas Press
An alternative critical approach to the traditional one of close readings of the classical films.
Texans in Revolt
The Battle for San Antonio, 1835
By Alwyn Barr
University of Texas Press
Drawing on extensive research and on-site study around San Antonio, Alwyn Barr completely maps the ebbs and flows of the Bexar campaign.
Inca Religion and Customs
By Father Bernabe Cobo; Translated by Roland Hamilton
University of Texas Press
A translation of a 1653 work, providing vast amounts of data on the religion and lifeways of the Incas and their subject peoples.
Art and Answerability
Early Philosophical Essays
University of Texas Press
This book contains three of Bakhtin's early essays from the years following the Russian Revolution, when Bakhtin and other intellectuals eagerly participated in the debates of the period.
The Idea of Race in Latin America, 1870-1940
Edited by Richard Graham
University of Texas Press
While Latin American leaders wanted a closer connection with Europe and North America, these regions' views on nonwhites came in conflict with Latin America's heterogenous racial makeup; this book examines how some countries navigated this dilemma.
Jean Stafford
The Savage Heart
University of Texas Press
In this literary biography, Goodman traces the life of the brilliant but troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jean Stafford, and reassesses her importance.
Indians of the Rio Grande Delta
Their Role in the History of Southern Texas and Northeastern Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first single-volume source on these little-known peoples.
Grace Paley
Illuminating Dark Lives
University of Texas Press
In this first book-length study of her work, Jacqueline Taylor explores the source of Paley's originality, locating it in the way Paley transforms language to create strongly woman-centered stories.
Tense and Narrativity
From Medieval Performance to Modern Fiction
University of Texas Press
Fleischman brings together theory and methodology from various quarters to shed important new light on the linguistic structure of narrative, a primary and universal device for translating our experiences into language.
Literary Bondage
Slavery in Cuban Narrative
By William Luis
University of Texas Press
An exploration of why antislavery narrative remained a viable means of expression in Cuban literature a hundred years after slavery's abolishment.
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