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Charlotte Brontë's World of Death
By Robert Keefe
University of Texas Press
With subtlety and imagination, Robert Keefe examines Brontë’s works as the creative response to the deaths of her family members, particularly the loss of her mother.
Case Marking and Grammatical Relations in Polynesian
By Sandra Chung
University of Texas Press
A reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian.
Foreign Policy and Economic Dependence
University of Texas Press
The foreign policy repercussions of international economic dependence.
Coronado's Children
Tales of Lost Mines and Buried Treasures of the Southwest
University of Texas Press
Texas has its share of legendary treasure, and Dobie records the lore of lost mines and forgotten stashes of coin.
Charles Olson
Call Him Ishmael
By Paul Christensen; Introduction by George F. Butterick
University of Texas Press
Charles Olson was an important force behind the raucous, explicit, jaunty style of much of twentieth-century poetry in America; this study makes a major contribution to our understanding of his life and work.
The Duty to Act
Tort Law, Power, and Public Policy
University of Texas Press
Shapo cuts through the emotion and the complexity to present a view of litigated tort law problems that is both legally sound and intuitively appealing.
Paraguay and the Triple Alliance
The Postwar Decade, 1869-1878
University of Texas Press
The first book in any language that examines political, economic, and social developments to provide a well-integrated study of this significant and eventful period in Paraguay's history.
Frederic Remington and the West
With the Eye of the Mind
University of Texas Press
This study of the complex relationship between Frederic Remington and the American West focuses on the artist’s imagination and how it expressed itself.
Forays into Swedish Poetry
By Lars Gustafsson; Translated by Robert T. Rovinsky
University of Texas Press
Analyses of fifteen great Swedish poems, covering a span of nearly 350 years.
Fiction and the Ways of Knowing
Essays on British Novels
University of Texas Press
In this highly individual study, Avrom Fleishman explores a wide range of literary references to human culture—the culture of ideas, facts, and images.
Marginal Workers, Marginal Jobs
The Underutilization of American Workers
University of Texas Press
This book addresses two principal issues: how can we measure underemployment, and how can we explain its prevalence?
A Journey through Texas; or, a Saddle-Trip on the Southwestern Frontier
University of Texas Press
A noted landscape architect's trip through Texas in 1854.
Stable Peace
University of Texas Press
Stable Peace attempts to answer the question, If we had a policy for peace, what would it look like?
The World Economy
History & Prospect
By W. W. Rostow
University of Texas Press
This monumental study is an account of the world economy since the eighteenth century, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth.
Nazi Ideology before 1933
A Documentation
Edited by Barbara Miller Lane and Leila J. Rupp
University of Texas Press
This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought.
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Collection of Critical Essays
Edited by Charles Rossman and Alan Warren Friedman
University of Texas Press
This was the first full-scale critical treatment of Vargas Llosa published in the English language.
Imperial Russia and the Struggle for Latin American Independence, 1808–1828
University of Texas Press
This study, the first of its kind in English, examines Russian responses to the independence movement in Latin America during the early nineteenth century.
Ancient Burial Patterns of the Moche Valley, Peru
University of Texas Press
This book provides a full description of 103 Moche Valley burials, spanning a period of more than 3,500 years.
Anarchism & The Mexican Working Class, 1860-1931
By John M. Hart
University of Texas Press
John M. Hart explores anarchism's effect on the development of the Mexican urban working-class and agrarian movements.
Mexican Wilderness and Wildlife
University of Texas Press
Ben Tinker spent years exploring the rugged wilderness of the Sierra Madres and the vast deserts of Sonora and Baja California; Mexican Wilderness and Wildlife condenses a lifetime of outdoor lore and learning.
Progressive Cities
The Commission Government Movement in America, 1901–1920
University of Texas Press
The first full-scale study of the origins, spread, and decline of the commission government movement in the early twentieth century.
Masculinity and Femininity
Their Psychological Dimensions, Correlates, and Antecedents
University of Texas Press
The authors present research showing that masculinity and femininity do not relate negatively to each other, thus supporting a dualistic rather than a bipolar conception of these two psychological dimensions.
Theater & Propaganda
University of Texas Press
Defining propaganda as a form of “activated ideology,” George H. Szanto discusses the distortion of information that occurs in dramatic literature in its stage, film, and television forms.
The Art and Archaeology of Pashash
University of Texas Press
This tomb and its offerings unearthed at Pashash, in the northern Andes, provide new perspectives on the cultural meaning of Andean funerary treasure.
The Prisoners of Perote
By William Preston Stapp; Introduction by Joe B. Frantz
University of Texas Press
A soldier's account of the Mier expedition.
Stylistic and Narrative Structures in the Middle English Romances
By Susan Wittig
University of Texas Press
This volume provides a generic description, based on a formal analysis of narrative structures, of the Middle English noncyclic verse romances.
The Socialist Party of Argentina, 1890–1930
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.
Growing Up Suburban
By Edward A. Wynne; Introduction by James S. Coleman
University of Texas Press
This provocative volume argues that the total environment of the suburban youth—the school, the community, the family, and the workplace—is in need of drastic reform.
German Buenos Aires, 1900–1933
Social Change and Cultural Crisis
University of Texas Press
This study of the German community of early twentieth century Buenos Aires is a major contribution to the literature on Argentine history and on the New World immigrant experience.
Mechanisms of Syntactic Change
Edited by Charles N. Li
University of Texas Press
Fourteen articles on the mechanisms of syntactic change.
Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917–1942
By Lorenzo Meyer; Translated by Muriel Vasconcellos
University of Texas Press
This book explores the relationship between the United States and Mexico during the first half of the twentieth century, with special attention to the Mexican nationalization of the oil industry.
Trees of East Texas
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive and compact field guide covers the richest plant-life region in the state—the Upper Gulf Coast Prairie, the Post Oak Savannah, and the Pineywoods of east Texas.
The British Traditional Ballad in North America
University of Texas Press
Centering on the theme of story variation, this book examines ballad variation in general, treats the development of the traditional ballad into an art form, and provides a bibliographical guide to story variation as well as a general bibliography of titles referred to in the guide.
Six Plays for Children
University of Texas Press
This book brings together a variety of dramatic forms that have enormously enriched the literature of children’s theatre in the United States and around the world.
Precious Bane
Collins and the Miltonic Legacy
University of Texas Press
This book represents the first extensive analysis of Milton's power both to daunt and emancipate an aspirant to the Sublime tradition.
Salvation in New England
Selections from the Sermons of the First Preachers
Edited by Phyllis M. Jones and Nicholas R. Jones
University of Texas Press
This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American literature.
Lebanon in Strife
Student Preludes to the Civil War
University of Texas Press
In this study, an eminent sociologist of the Arab world analyzes student politics in Lebanon and their relationship to the civil war.
Karl Korsch
Revolutionary Theory
By Karl Korsch; Edited by Douglas Kellner
University of Texas Press
The first English anthology of this major German social-political philosopher's most important writings.
William Knox
The Life and Thought of an Eighteenth-Century Imperialist
University of Texas Press
The first biography of a British colonial expert and pamphleteer.
The Devil's Church and Other Stories
University of Texas Press
The stories in this volume reflect Machado's post-1880 emphasis on social satire and experimentation in psychological realism.
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