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Growth, Equality, and the Mexican Experience
University of Texas Press
This book examines the relationship between economic development and equality in twentieth century Mexico.
Geology and Politics in Frontier Texas, 1845–1909
University of Texas Press
The relation of politics to geological exploration during the first half-century of Texas statehood.
Cumboto
By Ramón Díaz Sánchez; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.
Barbarous Mexico
By John Kenneth Turner; Introduction by Sinclair Snow
University of Texas Press
John Kenneth Turner, a crusading California newspaperman, presents the causes of the Mexican Revolution in Barbarous Mexico, his exposé of the Díaz regime.
Australian Adventure
Letters from an Ambassador's Wife
By Anne Clark
University of Texas Press
These letters, written while Anne Clark's husband was the United States ambassador to Australia from 1965 to 1968, reveal the isolations and involvements as well as the opportunities and the pleasures of embassy life.
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The Literary Notebooks of Winfield Townley Scott
By Winfield Townley Scott; Introduction by Merle Armitage
University of Texas Press
These perceptive notes, some tart, some gentle, some boisterous, some wistful, give us a remarkable insight into the workings of an American poet's creative mind.
The Western Hemisphere
Its Influence on United States Policies to the End of World War II
University of Texas Press
In this book, the author traces the rise of awareness of the essential unity of the Western Hemisphere in international affairs.
The Port of Houston
A History
University of Texas Press
The story of the growth of an unlikely inland port situated at a "tent city" that many Texans thought would die young.
The Pantarch
A Biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews
University of Texas Press
The biography of Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812–1886), American reformer, civil rights proponent, pioneer in sociology, advocate of reformed spelling, lawyer, and eccentric philosopher.
The Norther
By Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
A novel about the course of a relationship between a widow and a young man.
The Measurement of Modernism
A Study of Values in Brazil and Mexico
University of Texas Press
The results of an empirical investigation designed to produce instruments to measure personal values that have been central variables in the theory of modernization of societies, using Brazil and Mexico as examples.
The Marlin Compound
Letters of a Singular Family
University of Texas Press
Written over a hundred-year period, the letters of Zenas Bartlett and his family and friends capture the vitality that marked the expansion and development of Texas during the nineteenth century.
The LS Brand
The Story of a Texas Panhandle Ranch
By Dulcie Sullivan; Introduction by Loula Grace Erdman
University of Texas Press
This book is the story of W. M. D. Lee and Lucien B. Scott's LS Ranch, from the tempestuous years of the open range to the era of "bob wire."
The Lean Lands
University of Texas Press
A novel about the impact of modern technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
The Horses of the Sahara
By Eugène Daumas; Translated by Sheila M. Ohlendorf
University of Texas Press
The first European-authored study of Arabian horses.
San Juan Bautista
Gateway to Spanish Texas
University of Texas Press
A fascinating chronicle of the many religious, military, colonial, and commerical expeditions that passed through San Juan and a valuable addition to knowledge of the Spanish borderlands.
Roman Military Law
By C. E. Brand
University of Texas Press
In view of the importance of both the legal and military aspects of the Roman Empire, an account of their combination in a system of disciplinary control for the Roman armies is of considerable significance to historians in both fields; in this book,C. E. Brand describes this system of control.
Morphology of the Folktale
Second Edition
University of Texas Press
The classic work on forms of the folktale.
Medicine in Mexico
From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons
University of Texas Press
The history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico through the mid-twentieth century.
Lord Byron's Cain
Twelve essays and a text with variants and annotations
University of Texas Press
A study of one of Byron's most notable poetic dramas.
Littlefield Lands
Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912–1920
University of Texas Press
A detailed examination of the operations of a land company in the early twentieth century.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5
Linguistics
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Norman A. McQuown
University of Texas Press
A summary of work accomplished since the Spanish conquest in the contemporary description and historical reconstruction of the indigenous languages and language families of Mexico and Central America.
Guy of Warwick
Edited by William B. Todd
University of Texas Press
A translation of a heroic romance originally composed about 1240 A.D.
Civil Service Reform in Brazil
Principles Versus Practice
University of Texas Press
Why public administration theories of the United States and Western Europe, when transplanted to another cultural setting, did not take root and in fact unexpectedly proved to be most applicable in Brazil during periods of autocratic rule.
Administrative Implementation of Civil Rights
University of Texas Press
An examination of the role, operation, and contribution of the device most often relied on by local and state governments for dealing with intergroup problems—the human-relations commission.
Who if I Cry Out
By Gustavo Corção; Translated by Clotilde Wilson
University of Texas Press
This novel is the diary of a thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life.
Vasconcelos of Mexico
Philosopher and Prophet
University of Texas Press
A unified, inclusive, and occasionally critical presentation of the entire range of Vasconcelos’s thought.
Vargas of Brazil
A Political Biography
University of Texas Press
A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.
Three Men in Texas
Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie
Edited by Ronnie Dugger
University of Texas Press
Essays on the three famous friends, originally published in the Texas Observer.
The United States and the Atlantic Community
Issues and Prospects
Edited by James R. Roach; Introduction by M. Donald Hancock
University of Texas Press
A series of lectures delivered by five eminent statesmen and political theorists at the University of Texas in the spring of 1966 on the general theme of “The United States and the Atlantic Community: Issues and Prospects.”
The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals
Edited by Bruce Jackson
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.
The Inter American Press Association
Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960
University of Texas Press
A study of the history of this group that has fought for freedom of the press in Latin America.
The Brazilians
Their Character and Aspirations
University of Texas Press
José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going.
Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.
Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817–1886
University of Texas Press
This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude.
Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles
A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans
University of Texas Press
Drawings of people in the arts in New Orleans in the 1920s.
Reflections on Latin American Development
By Roberto de Olivera Campos; Introduction by Benjamin Higgins
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Latin American economic development in the mid-twentieth century.
Origins of the War with Mexico
The Polk-Stockton Intrigue
University of Texas Press
This analysis of the origins of the War with Mexico is the result of the kind of objective approach to national history for which the author makes a plea in his preface and conclusion and in his interpretive comments throughout the work.
Origins of the American Indians
European Concepts, 1492-1729
University of Texas Press
An examination of early European theories about the origin of American indigenous peoples.
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