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Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo
Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932
University of Texas Press
The first major analysis of the social and political bases of the Aprista movement.
Mexican Folk Narrative from the Los Angeles Area
Introduction, Notes, and Classification
University of Texas Press
A collection of sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales from Mexican Americans in urban Los Angeles.
Men in a Developing Society
Geographic and Social Mobility in Monterrey, Mexico
University of Texas Press
How men experience a period of rapid economic development, particularly in the areas of migration, occupational mobility, and status attainment.
Land of the Underground Rain
Irrigation on the Texas High Plains, 1910-1970
University of Texas Press
Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource.
George W. Brackenridge
Maverick Philanthropist
University of Texas Press
Marilyn McAdams Sibley's study of George W. Brackenridge is the first biography of an important and, for his time, unusual Texan. It presents new material concerning the Mexican cotton trade during the Civil War, on the beginnings of banking in Texas, and on higher education in Texas.
Exiles and Citizens
Spanish Republicans in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A study of Spanish Republican emigrés who fled from Spain to Mexico in 1939–1940.
The Book of Dede Korkut
A Turkish Epic
By Faruk Sümer
University of Texas Press
The first English translation of the national epic of Turkey, which is the heritage of the ancient Oghuz Turks and was composed as they migrated westward from their homeland in Central Asia to the Middle East, eventually to settle in Anatolia.
The Men of Cajamarca
A Social and Biographical Study of the First Conquerors of Peru
University of Texas Press
A study of a group of earlier Spaniards in America.
The Ethereal Aether
A History of the Michelson-Morley-Miller Aether-drift Experiments, 1880-1930
University of Texas Press
A historical narrative of one of the great experiments in modern physical science.
The Child Who Walks Alone
Case Studies of Rejection in the Schools
By Anne Stilwell and Hart Stilwell
University of Texas Press
Twenty-one factual accounts of children who suffered rejection in the public schools.
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.
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