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Between the Lines
The Mystery of the Giant Ground Drawings of Ancient Nasca, Peru
University of Texas Press
A noted scholar of archaeoastronomy examines the the Nasca Lines, giant drawings of animal, human, and geometric figures that cover 400 square miles of barren pampa in southern Peru.
American Films of the 70s
Conflicting Visions
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
Peter Lev persuasively argues in this book that the films of the 1970s constitute a kind of conversation about what American society is and should be--open, diverse, and egalitarian, or stubbornly resistant to change.
Tales of Two Cities
Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
University of Texas Press
A study of workers' lives in two similar port cities in the 1820s and 1830s, showing how differing attitudes towards race and class in North and South America affected local ways of doing business.
Crossing Borders, Reinforcing Borders
Social Categories, Metaphors, and Narrative Identities on the U.S.-Mexico Frontier
By Pablo Vila
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding ethnography charts the social categories, metaphors, and narratives that inhabitants of El Paso and Ciudad Juárez use to define their group identity and distinguish themselves from "others."
Birds of the Northwestern National Parks
A Birder's Perspective
By Roland H. Wauer; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
To help both beginning and advanced birders make the most of their visits to the United States's northwestern national parks, Roland Wauer has written this finding guide, which introduces the most common birds and the most likely places to see them.
Barrios Norteños
St. Paul and Midwestern Mexican Communities in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive social, labor, and cultural history of Midwestern Mexican American communities.
Barrio-Logos
Space and Place in Urban Chicano Literature and Culture
University of Texas Press
How California Chicano/a writers, journalists, artists, activists, and musicians have used expressive culture to oppose the community-destroying forces of urban renewal programs and massive freeway development and to create and defend a sense of Chicano p
Texas by Terán
The Diary Kept by General Manuel de Mier y Terán on His 1828 Inspection of Texas
University of Texas Press
An account of the people and poliics of Texas during the 1820s.
On the Plaza
The Politics of Public Space and Culture
By Setha M. Low
University of Texas Press
How culture acts to shape public spaces and how the physical form of the plaza encodes the social, political, and economic relations within the city.
Michoacán and Eden
Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico
University of Texas Press
A colonial Spanish bishop's project to evangelize Mexico.
La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book shows how Mexicans from 1910 through the 1950s interpreted the revolution, tried to make sense of it, and, through collective memory, myth-making, and history writing, invented an idea called "la Revolución."
History and Silence
Purge and Rehabilitation of Memory in Late Antiquity
University of Texas Press
How the ruling elite of ancient Rome sought -- and often failed -- to eradicate the memory of their deceased opponents.
Silent Looms
Women and Production in a Guatemalan Town
By Tracy Bachrach Ehlers; Introduction by June Nash
University of Texas Press
How economic development affects women's businesses in Mesoamerica.
Honorable Exiles
A Chilean Woman in the Twentieth Century
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a Chilean translator and journalist.
Cinematic Landscapes
Observations on the Visual Arts and Cinema of China and Japan
Edited by Linda C. Ehrlich and David Desser
University of Texas Press
The first major study of the relationship between visual art and film in China and Japan.
Capitol Women
Texas Female Legislators, 1923-1999
University of Texas Press
The first complete record of the women who served in the Texas Legislature in the twentieth century.
Water in the Middle East
A Geography of Peace
Edited by Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolf
University of Texas Press
Addressing water needs from a geographical perspective, the contributors to this book analyze and assess the impact of scarce water resources in the Jordan River basin countries and territories.
The Illusion of Inclusion
The Untold Political Story of San Antonio
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth history of the Chicano community’s struggle for inclusion in the political life of San Antonio during the years 1951 to 1991, drawn from interviews with key participants as well as archival research.
Taking the Waters in Texas
Springs, Spas, and Fountains of Youth
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive history of Texas' healing springs.
Stories in Red and Black
Pictorial Histories of the Aztecs and Mixtecs
University of Texas Press
This copiously illustrated book offers the first comprehensive analysis of the Mexican painted history as an intellectual, documentary, and pictorial genre.
Lysias
Translated by S. C. Todd
University of Texas Press
This volume contains all the complete works and eleven of the largest fragments attributed to Lysias, the leading speechwriter of the generation (403–380 B.C.) after the Peloponnesian War.
Ecology and Management of Cowbirds and Their Hosts
Studies in the Conservation of North American Passerine Birds
Edited by James N. M. Smith, Terry L. Cook, Stephen I. Rothstein, Scott K. Robinson, and Spencer G. Sealy; Introduction by Paul R. Ehrlich
University of Texas Press
Forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds.
Colonial Angels
Narratives of Gender and Spirituality in Mexico, 1580-1750
University of Texas Press
How writing by and about colonial religious women participated in the transformation of Spanish culture into Mexican, and the role that gender played in imposing the Spanish empire in Mexico.
Borges and His Fiction
A Guide to His Mind and Art
University of Texas Press
An introduction to the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer.
Black Tides
University of Texas Press
In this highly readable autobiography, Hayes describes his evolution as a scientist, his work in coastal oil spill contingency planning and clean up, and his personal philosophy of one's relationship with nature.
Tribes, Treaties, and Constitutional Tribulations
By Vine Deloria and David E. Wilkins
University of Texas Press
Two prominent scholars of American Indian law and politics undertake a full historical examination of the relationship between Indians and the United States Constitution that explains the present state of confusion and inconsistent application in U.S. Ind
The Writer's Reference Guide to Spanish
University of Texas Press
This reference guide provides comprehensive information on how the Spanish language is copyedited for publication.
The Folds of Parnassos
Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis
University of Texas Press
This book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.
Star Gods of the Maya
Astronomy in Art, Folklore, and Calendars
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book reconstructs ancient Maya astronomy and cosmology through the astronomical information encoded in Precolumbian Maya art and confirmed by the current practices of living Maya peoples.
Cooperation and Community
Economy and Society in Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
This book examines the ways in which the people of an Oaxacan village practice traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships.
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