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Impunity, Human Rights, and Democracy
Chile and Argentina, 1990-2005
University of Texas Press
This in-depth study highlights the unique, precedent-setting approach taken by Argentina and Chile to empower human rights advocates while prosecuting the perpetrators of crimes against humanity, whose rise to power during the 1970s and 1980s once appeared unstoppable.
The Casa del Deán
New World Imagery in a Sixteenth-Century Mexican Mural Cycle
University of Texas Press
Extensively illustrated with new color photographs, this pioneering study of a masterpiece of colonial Latin American art reveals how a cathedral dean and native American painters drew on their respective visual traditions to promote Christian faith in th
Mario Vargas Llosa
A Life of Writing
University of Texas Press
In this first comprehensive intellectual biography of the prolific Nobel laureate, a preeminent scholar of Hispanic studies examines Mario Vargas Llosa’s multifaceted literary career, spanning the polemics of the Latin American literary boom through five
Foodways and Daily Life in Medieval Anatolia
A New Social History
University of Texas Press
Bringing to life an overlooked aspect of the dawn of the Ottoman empire, this illuminating study uses the prism of food—from farming to mealtimes, religious rituals, and commerce—to understand how Anatolian society gave rise to a superpower.
The Ethos of Romance at the Turn of the Century
University of Texas Press
In this study, William J. Scheick seeks to recover the place of romance in fin-de-siècle England and America; to distinguish among its subgenres of eventuary, aesthetic, and ethical romance; and to reinstate ethical romance as a major mode of artistic exp
Folk Practices in North Mexico
Birth Customs, Folk Medicine, and Spiritualism in the Laguna Zone
By Isabel Kelly
University of Texas Press
Folk customs of the mid-twentieth century in a village in Coahuila.
Dictionary of the Alabama Language
University of Texas Press
This analytical dictionary of a member of the Muskogean language family contains over 8,000 entries of roots, stems, and compounds in the Alabama-English section, followed by a thorough English-Alabama finder list that functions as a full index to the def
Mexico and the Spanish Cortes, 1810–1822
Eight Essays
Edited by Nettie Lee Benson
University of Texas Press
These eight essays trace the establishment and implementation of the Mexican electoral system, both national and municipal, and of reforms in the economic, journalistic, religious, and military systems.
Kurdish Awakening
Nation Building in a Fragmented Homeland
Edited by Ofra Bengio
University of Texas Press
Kurdish Awakening is a comprehensive examination of the sweeping developments in “Greater Kurdistan” over the past few decades, analyzing the growth of this nationalistic yet fragmented movement and illuminating its geopolitical implications.
Domestic Disturbances
Re-Imagining Narratives of Gender, Labor, and Immigration
By Irene Mata
University of Texas Press
Domestic Disturbances examines the treatment of the traditional immigrant narrative in popular culture, illuminating the possibilities of alternative stories by reading Chicana/Latina-produced texts through a new interpretation of the immigrant paradigm.
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