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Development of Southern French and Catalan Society, 718-1050
University of Texas Press
A study of medieval southern French and Catalan society.
D. H. Lawrence
The Croydon Years
By Helen Corke; Introduction by Warren Roberts
University of Texas Press
Lawrence's work and life from the perspective of one of his close friends.
Communism in Mexico
A Study in Political Frustration
University of Texas Press
This book traces efforts during the early twentieth century to create a Soviet-style society in one of the largest and most strategically situated of the Latin American countries.
Behind Spanish American Footlights
University of Texas Press
Across a five-hundred-year sweep of history, Willis Knapp Jones surveys the native drama and the Spanish influence upon it in nineteen South American countries, and traces the development of their national theatres to the 1960s.
Barren Lives
University of Texas Press
A vivid novel about the solitary life of a peasant family in a harsh and unforgiving land, austerely told by a classic Brazilian writer.
Attack and Counterattack
The Texas-Mexican Frontier, 1842
University of Texas Press
A history of Texas-Mexican conflict during 1842, from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande.
An Anatomy of The Turn of the Screw
University of Texas Press
An interpretation of the plot and characters of James's noted story.
The Literary Criticism of Frank Norris
Edited by Donald Pizer
University of Texas Press
All of American author Frank Norris’s significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896–1897 and selections from his “Weekly Letter” column for the Chicago American in 1901.
Yankee Theatre
The Image of America on the Stage, 1825–1850
University of Texas Press
This book examines the full range of the theatre activity of "Stage Yankees," not only as actors, but also as playmakers, and re-evaluates their contribution to the growth of the American stage.
The Unhappy Medium
Spiritualism and the Life of Margaret Fox
By Earl Wesley Fornell; Illustrated by Lowell Collins
University of Texas Press
Written in spritely prose and permeated with a grave humor, this account of nineteenth-century spiritualism will be equally satisfying to the casual reader interested in a good story, and to the scholar seeking serious social history.
The Taft Ranch
A Texas Principality
By A. Ray Stephens; Introduction by Joe B. Frantz
University of Texas Press
The complete story of the Taft Ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930.
The Necessary Earth
Nature and Solitude in American Literature
University of Texas Press
How the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distinguish it from that of other lands.
The Invisible Tent
The War Novels of Ford Madox Ford
University of Texas Press
A critical evaluation of Ford's novels of war, tracing the development of the novelist's art in various phases.
The Adventures of a Prisoner of War, 1863–1864
By Decimus et Ultimus Barziza; Edited by R. Henderson Shuffler
University of Texas Press
This journal is the exciting personal narrative of a Texan who was a prisoner of the Union Army during the Civil War, escaped to Canada, and finally made his way back into the Confederacy through the blockade.
Sir Walter Mildmay and Tudor Government
University of Texas Press
The first biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, who dutifully served Queen Elizabeth I for thirty years as Chancellor of the Exchequer.
Revolution on the Pampas
A Social History of Argentine Wheat, 1860–1910
University of Texas Press
This study traces the development of the Argentine wheat zone, focusing on the part wheat played in forming the Argentina of today.
Party and Factional Division in Texas
University of Texas Press
Examining the results of fourteen elections from 1946 through 1962 and organizing a vast fund of statistics relative to Texas political parties and voters, the authors have laid a solid groundwork for further studies on voting patterns in Texas.
Other Inquisitions, 1937-1952
By Jorge Luis Borges; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
This remarkable book by one of the great writers of our time includes essays on a proposed universal language, a justification of suicide, a refutation of time, the nature of dreams, and the intricacies of linguistic forms.
Hereditas
Seven Essays on the Modern Experience of the Classical
Edited by Frederic Will
University of Texas Press
These studies in the interpretation of literature and thought afford stimulating evidence that the classical tradition is still alive in our modern age.
Heimskringla
History of the Kings of Norway
By Snorri Sturluson; Translated by Lee M. Hollander
University of Texas Press
Beginning with the dim prehistory of the mythical gods and their descendants, Heimskringla recounts the history of the kings of Norway through the reign of Olaf Haraldsson, who became Norway's patron saint.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 1
Natural Environment and Early Cultures
By Robert Wauchope; Edited by Robert C. West
University of Texas Press
This volume covers the natural environment of Middle America, its role in the shaping of Indian cultures, the earliest primitive hunters of this area, the beginnings of agriculture, and the broad patterns of prehistoric civilizations there.
Dreamtigers
University of Texas Press
This collection of poems, parables, and stories explores the mysterious territory that lies between the dreams of the creative artist and the "real" world.
Confabulario and Other Inventions
University of Texas Press
A biting commentary on the follies of mankind, by one of Mexico's outstanding authors.
Anson Jones
The Last President of Texas
University of Texas Press
This is the story of a New Englander who came penniless to Mexican Texas in 1833 and within the next decade helped to bring his adopted country through the turbulent disorders of settlement, revolution, political experimentation, and statehood.
The Masks of Tragedy
Essays on Six Greek Dramas
University of Texas Press
In exploring the characters and the situations of the plays he has chosen, the author transports his reader to the world of fifth-century B.C. Greece, and establishes the relevance of that world to our own experience.
The Three Marias
By Rachel de Queiroz; Translated by Fred P. Ellison
University of Texas Press
A novel about a girl growing up in the seaport town of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil.
The Francklyn Land & Cattle Company
A Panhandle Enterprise, 1882-1957
University of Texas Press
An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a
The Edge of the Storm
A Novel
University of Texas Press
An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.
The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism
University of Texas Press
A literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature?
The Chief Executive In Texas
A Study in Gubernatorial Leadership
By Fred Gantt
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the Texas governorship built on a broad historical foundation that places events and persons in a perspective perhaps not previously considered by the reader.
Robert Estienne's Influence on Lexicography
University of Texas Press
Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.
Profile of Man and Culture in Mexico
University of Texas Press
A twentieth-century Mexican philosopher considers the culture of his native land.
Portugal's Other Kingdom
The Algarve
University of Texas Press
The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.
Pioneer Printer
Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas
University of Texas Press
This fine biography of Samuel Bangs, the first printer in the territory that is now Texas, is at the same time a fascinating history of northern Mexico (including Texas) in the first half of the nineteenth century.
Kant and the Southern New Critics
University of Texas Press
The theories and practices of some pioneers of philosophical criticism—John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and others—and the influence of the Kantian generative idea on their assumption that a work of art is the celebration of one’s qualitative experience.
If I Can Do It Horseback
A Cow-Country Sketchbook
By John Hendrix; Illustrated by Malcolm Thurgood
University of Texas Press
John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.
Gay as a Grig
Memories of a North Texas Girlhood
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a young woman growing up in North Texas at the end of the nineteenth century.
The Viceregency of Antonio María Bucareli in New Spain, 1771–1779
University of Texas Press
The actions and reflections of the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, a cautious and conservative man, as they relate to certain major problems of his administration.
The Regional Vocabulary of Texas
University of Texas Press
A reference to Texas's regional vocabulary through the mid-20th century.
The Poetic Edda
Translated by Lee M. Hollander
University of Texas Press
These verses are a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage.
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