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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.

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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

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Amazonian Linguistics

Studies in Lowland South American Languages

Edited by Doris L. Payne
University of Texas Press

Nineteen essays on lowland South American languages.

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Victoria Ocampo

Against the Wind and the Tide

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Intergovernmental Relations in the American Administrative State

The Johnson Presidency

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.

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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.

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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.

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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

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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.

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Arabian Oasis City

The Transformation of 'Unayzah

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.

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Ben Shahn

New Deal Artist in a Cold War Climate, 1947-1954

University of Texas Press

In this pathbreaking study, Frances Pohl traces the political and artistic struggles Ben Shahn became embroiled in as he tried to remain a socially concerned artist during the early Cold War period.

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Shore Ecology of the Gulf of Mexico

University of Texas Press

A thorough source on Gulf coast marine life.

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An Appeal to Justice

Litigated Reform of Texas Prisons

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.

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Sculpting in Time

Reflections on the Cinema

University of Texas Press

Tarkovsky sets down his thoughts and his memories, revealing for the first time the original inspirations for his extraordinary films.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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The Saga of the Jomsvikings

Translated by Lee M. Hollander
University of Texas Press
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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.

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A Rosario Castellanos Reader

An Anthology of Her Poetry, Short Fiction, Essays, and Drama

By Rosario Castellanos; Edited by Maureen Ahern; Translated by Maureen Ahern
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.

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Wood Quay

The Clash over Dublin's Viking Past

University of Texas Press

The story of an archaeological site and the public reaction to it.

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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.

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Working the Waterfront

The Ups and Downs of a Rebel Longshoreman

University of Texas Press

Personal recollections of forty-two years on the Texas waterfront as longshoreman and radical union activist.

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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.

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The Raven

A Biography of Sam Houston

University of Texas Press
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Gabriel Garcia Marquez and the Powers of Fiction

University of Texas Press

Poststructuralist readings of this author's work.

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Ella Elgar Bird Dumont

An Autobiography of a West Texas Pioneer

By Ella Elgar Bird Dumont; Edited by Tommy J. Boley; Introduction by Emily Cutrer
University of Texas Press

A woman's memoir rich with details of the frontier era in Texas.

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