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Faulkner's Revision of Absalom, Absalom!
A Collation of the Manuscript and the Published Book
University of Texas Press
A comparison of different stages of Faulkner's novel.
Crisis in Costa Rica
The 1948 Revolution
University of Texas Press
This book analyzes the circumstances of 1940–1948 that led to a successful armed uprising, as well as the role of José Figueres Ferrer in marshaling disparate groups into a movement sufficiently cohesive to seize and hold power.
Antonio Caso
Philosopher of Mexico
University of Texas Press
A biography of a 20th century Mexican philosopher and educator.
William Hickling Prescott
A Biography
By C. Harvey Gardiner; Introduction by Allan Nevins
University of Texas Press
This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott.
Western Window in the Arab World
University of Texas Press
How American military personnel and their dependents have affected the political and social evolution of Morocco.
Unrest in Brazil
Political-Military Crises 1955-1964
University of Texas Press
Unrest in Brazil describes in exciting detail the government crises and resulting military interventions that punctuated the power struggle between supporters and opponents of Vargas in the decade following his death.
The Texas Land and Development Company
A Panhandle Promotion, 1912-1956
By B.R. Brunson
University of Texas Press
The history of the influential Texas Land and Development Company from its inception in 1912 to its final dissolution in January 1956.
The Structure of Leaves of Grass
University of Texas Press
The basic premise of this study is that Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass is a unified work, lyrical, yet epic in quality, design, and spirit.
The Politics of Puerto Rican University Students
University of Texas Press
A close examination of the social background and political activity of students at the Rio Piedras campus of the University of Puerto Rico in the 1960s.
The People’s Party in Texas
A Study in Third Party Politics
University of Texas Press
This study of third-party politics in Texas, as well as being an important work in Texas history, provides much insight into the national radical movement of the 1890s.
The Golden Thread and other Plays
By Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
A collection of plays by one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater.
The Author of the Prometheus Bound
University of Texas Press
An examination of questions surrounding the ancient Greek play Prometheus Bound, including whether Aeschylus was actually the author.
Ruben Dario Centennial Studies
Edited by Miguel Gonzalez-Gerth and George D. Schade
University of Texas Press
Five lectures from a 1967 symposium celebratng Darío's centenary.
Reconstruction in Texas
University of Texas Press
An examination of events that still impact upon Texas and the South.
Politics of the Chaco Peace Conference, 1935–1939
University of Texas Press
A study of the 1930s dispute between Paraguay and Bolivia and the inter-American peace conference that settled it.
Political Groups in Chile
The Dialogue between Order and Change
University of Texas Press
A study of Chilean politics in the mid-twentieth century.
Maury Maverick
A Political Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of a notable Texas Congressional representative.
Jarano
By Ramón Beteta; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 9
Physical Anthropology
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by T. Dale Stewart
University of Texas Press
An invaluable reference work on the human biology of Middle America and its relationships to human society and culture.
Bolívar and the War of Independence
Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O’Leary, Narración
University of Texas Press
One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simón Bolívar’s life.
A Manual for Neanderthals
By H. Mewhinney
University of Texas Press
A study of how flint tools and weapons were made.
William Gilpin
Western Nationalist
University of Texas Press
The life of William Gilpin from the quiet comfort of his wealthy Quaker boyhood home through an exciting and turbulent career as Indian fighter, pioneer, newspaper editor, explorer, land promoter, and first governor of Colorado Territory.
Today the Struggle
Literature and Politics in England during the Spanish Civil War
University of Texas Press
This book examines the political involvement of those leading British writers who dedicated their talents to the defense of Nationalists or Loyalists during the Spanish Civil War and who saw that war as symbolic of their own Right-Left dialogue.
The Regulatory Process
With Illustrations from Commercial Aviation
University of Texas Press
In this detailed study of early and mid-twentieth-century regulation of commercial aviation Emmette S. Redford illustrates what happens when government regulates a particular industry.
The Provisional Austrian Regime in Lombardy–Venetia, 1814–1815
By R. John Rath
University of Texas Press
This carefully documented study of the first two years of Austrian reoccupation of Lombardy-Venetia examines all aspects of the Habsburg provisional regimes and draws some conclusions about the reasons for the different attitudes in the two provinces.
The Mythmaker
A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
University of Texas Press
This book enables the reader to understand Borges’s fantasies in ways that show them to be amazingly consistent and minutely accurate in their symbolic depiction of the magic universe of the mind.
The Life of Stephen F. Austin, Founder of Texas, 1793-1836
A Chapter in the Westward Movement of the Anglo-American People
University of Texas Press
A biography of this prominent Texan.
The Industrialization of São Paulo, 1800-1945
By Warren Dean
University of Texas Press
This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in São Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.
The Franco-Texan Land Company
University of Texas Press
The history of a land company, its railroad parent, and its role in the development of Northwest Texas.
The City Moves West
Economic and Industrial Growth in Central West Texas
University of Texas Press
Supporting his conclusions with profuse statistical evidence, Robert L. Martin traces the economic development of six major towns in central West Texas, all with over 10,000 residents in 1960: Lamesa, Snyder, Sweetwater, Big Spring, Midland, and Odessa.
Recollections of Things to Come
University of Texas Press
A novel about life in a small Mexican town during the Revolution.
Politics in the Altiplano
The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru
By Edward Dew
University of Texas Press
This book analyzes the sources of conflict and political change in ta Peruvian region as it underwent socioeconomic development through a period of recurring natural disasters.
Memories of Lazarus
By Adonias Filho; Translated by Fred P. Ellison
University of Texas Press
These are the recollections of Alexandre—of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.
Marcoré
By Antonio Olavo Pereira; Translated by Alfred Hower and John Saunders; Illustrated by Newton Cavalcanti
University of Texas Press
A moving, bittersweet tale of personal problems and family relationships.
Landscapes Of Bacchus
The Vine in Portugal
University of Texas Press
A study of the geography of northern Portgual through the medium of the grapes and wine produced there.
Jump-rope Rhymes
A Dictionary
Edited by Roger D. Abrahams; Introduction by Brian Sutton-Smith
University of Texas Press
A collection of over six hundred jump-rope rhymes.
Imperial Texas
An Interpretive Essay in Cultural Geography
By D.W. Meinig
University of Texas Press
The development of Texas as a human region, from the simple outline of the Spanish colony to the complex patterns of the modern state.
Immigration and Nationalism
Argentina and Chile, 1890–1914
By Carl Solberg
University of Texas Press
The dramatic change in attitudes toward immigration in Chile and Argenitna during the quarter century preceding World War I is the subject of this study.
Herschel at the Cape
Diaries and Correspondence of Sir John Herschel, 1834-1838
University of Texas Press
The diaries of a major astronomer during the 1830s.
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