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A History of Hispanic Theatre in the United States
Origins to 1940
University of Texas Press
The first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.
Palestinian Lawyers and Israeli Rule
Law and Disorder in the West Bank
University of Texas Press
The study revolves around the central question of why the Palestinian legal profession declined during twenty years of Israeli occupation when, in other Third World countries, the legal profession has often reached its peak during a period of Western colonization
Amazonian Linguistics
Studies in Lowland South American Languages
Edited by Doris L. Payne
University of Texas Press
Nineteen essays on lowland South American languages.
Victoria Ocampo
Against the Wind and the Tide
By Doris Meyer
University of Texas Press
In this first biographical study in English of “la superbe Argentine,” originally published in 1979, Doris Meyer considers Victoria Ocampo’s role in introducing European and North American writers and artists to the South American public—through the pages
Henry J. Kaiser
Builder in the Modern American West
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of archival material never before utilized, Mark Foster paints an evenhanded portrait of a man of driving ambition and integrity, perhaps the ultimate "can-do" capitalist.
A Long March
The Lives of Frank and Alice Baldwin
University of Texas Press
In this first biography of the Baldwins, Robert Steinbach combines military and personal history to vividly portray a marriage that survived both the harshness of frontier army life and the restrictive Victorian concept of "separate spheres" for husband and wife.
José Lezama Lima's Joyful Vision
A Study of Paradiso and Other Prose Works
University of Texas Press
This book, a much-needed critical study of Paradiso, Oppiano Licario, and Lezama’s essays, is an exploration in reading, one that highlights and preserves the essential and persistent contradictions in Lezama’s theory and practice of literature.
Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State
The Johnson Presidency
By David M. Welborn and Jesse Burkhead
University of Texas Press
Drawn from a wealth of primary material in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the study probes the objectives of President Johnson and other framers of new policies and programs, within the institutional and political context of the 1960s.
Decolonization and World Peace
University of Texas Press
In this book, Brian Urquhart charts the rapid progress of decolonization in Africa, the Middle East, and other areas of the Third World and describes some of its repercussions.
The Emergence of Kurdish Nationalism and the Sheikh Said Rebellion, 1880–1925
By Robert Olson; Introduction by William F. Tucker
University of Texas Press
The first work in any Western language dealing with the development of Kurdish nationalism during this period.
The Eastern Establishment and the Western Experience
The West of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister
University of Texas Press
G. Edward White traces the origins of “the West of the imagination” to the adolescent experiences of Frederic Remington, Theodore Roosevelt, and Owen Wister—three Easterners from upper-class backgrounds who went West in the 1880s in search of an alternati
The Birds of South America
Volume 1: The Oscine Passerines
By Robert S. Ridgely; Illustrated by Guy Tudor
University of Texas Press
A thorough resource on the oscine passerines of South America.
Arabian Oasis City
The Transformation of 'Unayzah
By Soraya Altorki and Donald P. Cole
University of Texas Press
The first anthropological study to document the social change in an urban community in Saudi Arabia since the oil book of the mid-1970s.
Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico
By Joseph C. Britton and Brian Morton
University of Texas Press
A thorough source on Gulf coast marine life.
An Appeal to Justice
Litigated Reform of Texas Prisons
By Ben M. Crouch and James W. Marquart
University of Texas Press
A criticial study of how the Texas Department of Corrections was transformed by Ruiz v. Estelle, the most sweeping class-action lawsuit in correctional history.
Sculpting in Time
Reflections on the Cinema
By Andrey Tarkovsky; Translated by Kitty Hunter-Blair
University of Texas Press
Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films.
The San Antonio Missions and their System of Land Tenure
University of Texas Press
This book looks at one previously unexamined aspect of mission history—the changes in landownership as the missions passed from sacred to secular owners in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.
Ruth Benedict
Stranger in This Land
University of Texas Press
An intellectual and cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century through the life of an important and remarkable woman.
La Galgada, Peru
A Preceramic Culture in Transition
University of Texas Press
A study of the extraordinarily complete cultural remains at this Peruvian site help to reconstruct a picture of human life, health, activities, and trade relations as they were 4,000 years ago and allow us to enter the mental and artistic life of this early civilization.
Beowulf
An Imitative Translation
Translated by Ruth P.M. Lehmann
University of Texas Press
A translation of the poem that preserves both the story line of the poem and the alliterative versification of the Anglo-Saxon original.
A Rosario Castellanos Reader
An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama
University of Texas Press
Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.
Barrio Gangs
Street Life and Identity in Southern California
University of Texas Press
Drawing on many years of experience in the barrios as a youth worker, high school teacher, and researcher, Vigil examines the complex factors that give birth and persistence to gangs.
Working the Waterfront
The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman
By Gilbert Mers
University of Texas Press
Personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as longshoreman and radical union activist.
From Peones to Politicos
Class and Ethnicity in a South Texas Town, 1900–1987
University of Texas Press
This book examines how a relatively powerless ethnic group deals with the problems of economic inequality and racial discrimination and how they gain power in the community.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction
By Julio Ortega
University of Texas Press
Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.
Ella Elgar Bird Dumont
An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer
University of Texas Press
A woman's memoir rich with details of the frontier era in Texas.
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