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In the Shadow of the Mexican Revolution
Contemporary Mexican History, 1910–1989
University of Texas Press
The first history of 20th-century post-revolutionary Mexico.
Café con leche
Race, Class, and National Image in Venezuela
University of Texas Press
An exploration of whether or not historical facts actually support the popular perception that Venezuelans have achieved a racial democracy in which people of all races live free from prejudice and discrimination.
Architecture in Texas
1895-1945
By Jay C. Henry
University of Texas Press
This book is the first comprehensive survey of Texas architecture of the first half of the twentieth century.
Spanish Memory Book
A New Approach to Vocabulary Building, Junior Edition
University of Texas Press
Original mnemonic rhymes appropriate in subject matter and skill level for junior high and high school students to help them acquire and remember Spanish vocabulary.
The Euro-American Cinema
By Peter Lev
University of Texas Press
This literate and lively study explores the spread of American culture into international cinema as reflected by the collision and partial merger of two important styles of filmmaking: the Hollywood style of stars, genres, and action, and the European art
Chapters on Marriage and Divorce
Responses of Ibn Hanbal and Ibn Rahwayh
University of Texas Press
Three compilations of responses to questions about family law given by two prominent Muslim jurists of the ninth century.
Transforming Modernity
Popular Culture in Mexico
By Néstor García Canclini; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
An examination of popular culture -- merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them?
The Poisonous Pen of Agatha Christie
University of Texas Press
A study of the use of drugs, poisons, and chemicals in Christie’s fiction.
Apache Reservation
Indigenous Peoples and the American State
University of Texas Press
In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its contemporary relationship to the American state, with comparisons to similar phenomena in Canada, Australia, and South Africa.
The History of Capitalism in Mexico
Its Origins, 1521–1763
By Enrique Semo; Translated by Lidia Lozano
University of Texas Press
This book argues that the conflicting social formations of capitalism, feudalism, and tributary despotism provided the basic dynamic of Mexico's social and economic development.
Danger All Around
Waste Storage Crisis on the Texas and Louisiana Gulf Coast
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive look at the selection and environmental impact of municipal and petrochemical waste storage sites along the Texas and Louisiana coasts.
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul
Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century A.D.
Maya History
By Tatiana Proskouriakoff; Edited by Rosemary A. Joyce
University of Texas Press
Maya History reconstructs the Classic Maya period (roughly A.D. 250-900) from the glyphic record on stelae at numerous sites.
Latin America in Caricature
University of Texas Press
An exploration of more than one hundred years of hemispheric relations through political cartoons collected from leading U.S. periodicals from the 1860s through 1980.
In Order to Talk with the Dead
Selected Poems of Jorge Teillier
By Jorge Teillier; Translated by Carolyne Wright
University of Texas Press
This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.
In a Persian Mirror
Images of the West and Westerners in Iranian Fiction
University of Texas Press
This survey significantly illuminates the sources of Iranian attitudes toward the West and offers many surprising discoveries for Western readers, not least of which is the fact that Iranians have often found Westerners to be as enigmatic and incomprehens
Cuba and the United States
Intervention and Militarism, 1868-1933
University of Texas Press
An analysis of a crucial phase in Cuban history and the effects of U.S. intervention.
Craft and the Kingly Ideal
Art, Trade, and Power
University of Texas Press
In this study of craft production and long-distance trade in traditional, nonindustrial societies, Mary W. Helms explores the power attributed to objects that either are produced by skilled artisans and/or come from "afar."
The Paradise Garden Murals of Malinalco
Utopia and Empire in Sixteenth-Century Mexico
University of Texas Press
How the wall paintings at the Augustinian monastery of Malinalco promoted the political and religious agendas of the Spanish conquerors while preserving a record of pre-Columbian rituals and imagery.
Sab and Autobiography
By Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda y Arteaga; Translated by Nina M. Scott
University of Texas Press
A controversial 19th-century Cuban novel about the fatal love of a mulatto slave for his white owner's daughter, together with a novella about an intelligent, flamboyant woman struggling against the restrictions on her gender.
Guatemalan Indians and the State
1540 to 1988
Edited by Carol A. Smith
University of Texas Press
In this volume, noted historians and anthropologists pool their considerable expertise to analyze the situation in Guatemala, working from the premise that the Indian/state relationship is the single most important determinant of Guatemala’s distinctive h
Chemical Alert!
A Community Action Handbook
Edited by Marvin S. Legator and Sabrina F. Strawn
University of Texas Press
A step-by-step guide that can be used by any lay person or citizens' group to determine whether a health risk exists in their area.
The Trail Drivers of Texas
Interesting Sketches of Early Cowboys...
Edited by J. Marvin Hunter
University of Texas Press
These are the chronicles of the trail drivers of Texas--those rugged men and, sometimes, women who drove cattle and horses up the trails from Texas to northern markets in the late 1800s.
Rowing in Eden
Rereading Emily Dickinson
University of Texas Press
This book uncovers the process by which the conventional portrait of Emily Dickinson was drawn and offers readers a chance to go back to original letters and poems and look at the poet and her work through new eyes.
House and Street
The Domestic World of Servants and Masters in Nineteenth-Century Rio de Janeiro
University of Texas Press
The lives of Brazilian working women in the late nineteenth century.
Hieroglyphs without Mystery
An Introduction to Ancient Egyptian Writing
By Karl-Theodor Zauzich; Translated by Ann Macy Roth
University of Texas Press
Written for ordinary people with no special language skills, this book quickly demonstrates that hieroglyphic writing can be read, once a few simple principles are understood.
Exports and Local Development
Mexico's New Maquiladoras
University of Texas Press
How the Mexican export industry could be better utilized to promote local development.
The United States and Latin America
Myths and Stereotypes of Civilization and Nature
University of Texas Press
How North Americans have viewed Latin America, from the time of the Pilgrims up to the end of the twentieth century.
The Colonization of the Amazon
University of Texas Press
This work brings together information on the physical, demographic, institutional, and economic dimensions of directed settlement in the Amazon Basin in the 1970s and raises significant questions about the gains and losses of the settlers, the reasons for
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