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La Vida Brinca
University of Texas Press
Iconic images of Hispanic life that tell an allegorical and deeply personal story of Mexican history and spirituality.
In the Eyes of God
A Study on the Culture of Suffering
By Fernando Escalante Gonzalbo; Translated by Jessica C. Locke
University of Texas Press
One of Mexico's leading intellectuals offers a major treatise on the history and meaning of suffering and how the idea of suffering helps to shape contemporary political thought.
Guatemaltecas
The Women's Movement, 1986–2003
University of Texas Press
The first history of the Guatemalan women's movement and how it has responded to the forces of democratization and globalization.
Growing Up in a Culture of Respect
Child Rearing in Highland Peru
By Inge Bolin
University of Texas Press
A beautifully written ethnography that reveals how villagers in one of the world's most rugged and poverty-stricken regions rear their children to be exceptionally respectful, well-adjusted, and academically talented.
Experiencing Nature
The Spanish American Empire and the Early Scientific Revolution
University of Texas Press
The never-before-told story of how Spain helped initiate the modern scientific era by collecting empirical data in order to commodify and control the natural resources of its American empire.
Between Heaven and Texas
By Wyman Meinzer; Introduction by Sarah Bird
University of Texas Press
One of Texas's most distinguished landscape photographers captures the drama and power of the Texas sky, accompanied by reflections on skies, clouds, and our own internal weather from some of the state's finest writers.
A Hanging in Nacogdoches
Murder, Race, Politics, and Polemics in Texas's Oldest Town, 1870-1916
University of Texas Press
The story of a legal lynching in the heart of East Texas.
The Southern Journey of a Civil War Marine
The Illustrated Note-Book of Henry O. Gusley
Edited by Edward T. Cotham
University of Texas Press
A rare diary illustrated with previously unpublished period drawings that records some of the most important naval campaigns of the Civil War.
The Religion of the Etruscans
Edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Erika Simon
University of Texas Press
A major, first-time-in-English overview of Etruscan religion, which was the distinguishing characteristic of this ancient Italian civilization.
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy
By Casey Dué
University of Texas Press
A study of captive women's laments that shows how classical dramatists used empathy to pierce the barrier between the Greek and barbarian worlds.
Performing Women and Modern Literary Culture in Latin America
Intervening Acts
By Vicky Unruh
University of Texas Press
The first multi-country study of Latin American women writers of the 1920s and 1930s, a key period that paved the way for the "Boom" generation of the 1960s and 1970s.
Diodorus Siculus, Books 11-12.37.1
Greek History, 480-431 BC—the Alternative Version
Translated by Peter Green
University of Texas Press
A new English translation of Diodorus' history of the Greek world during the Periclean era, and an iconoclastic reappraisal of this undervalued historian by one of the world's leading Classicists.
Whose School Is It?
Women, Children, Memory, and Practice in the City
University of Texas Press
The story of a new community charter school, told by one of its founders.
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
University of Texas Press
The first history of race relations in Dallas from its founding until today.
The Primacy of Vision in Virgil's Aeneid
University of Texas Press
A fresh look at one of the masterpieces of Latin literature and how it contributes to a new visual culture and a new mythology of imperial Rome.
The Geometry of Modernism
The Vorticist Idiom in Lewis, Pound, H.D., and Yeats
University of Texas Press
A fresh, engaging study of one of modernism's most pivotal movements.
The Director and Other Stories from Morocco
University of Texas Press
New stories about modern Morocco and its people by critically acclaimed author Leila Abouzeid.
The Chronicles of Panchita Villa and Other Guerrilleras
Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature and Criticism
University of Texas Press
A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art.
Go-betweens and the Colonization of Brazil
1500–1600
University of Texas Press
A historically rich account of how “go-betweens”--individuals who could bridge indigenous and European cultures--helped shape Brazilian society in the sixteenth century.
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