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Viva Cristo Rey!
The Cristero Rebellion and the Church-State Conflict in Mexico
University of Texas Press
This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.
The Way I Heard It
Tales of the Big Bend
By Walter Fulcher; Edited by Elton Miles
University of Texas Press
A collection of Big Bend folklore.
The Artist in New York
Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.
By José Clemente Orozco; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.
Tales from the Basotho
By Minnie Postma; Translated by Susie McDermid
University of Texas Press
A collection of folktales from southern Africa.
Struggle in the Andes
Peasant Political Mobilization in Peru
University of Texas Press
An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru’s peasant population in the 1960s.
San José de Gracia
Mexican Village in Transition
By Luis González; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
The history of a small town in Mexico.
Samuel Bell Maxey
A Biography
University of Texas Press
The biography of an important political figure in nineteenth-century Texas.
Revolution at Querétaro
The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917
University of Texas Press
The first book in English to study in depth the remarkable convention that produced the Mexican Constitution of 1917.
Recollections of Early Texas
Memoirs of John Holland Jenkins
Edited by John Holmes Jenkins
University of Texas Press
A firsthand account of pioneer life in east Texas.
Psyche and Symbol in the Theater of Federico Garcia Lorca
Perlimplin, Yerma, Blood Wedding
University of Texas Press
An analysis of three of Lorca's plays, providing a new view of Lorca as a dramatist and presenting new material to students of symbology.
Positivism in Mexico
By Leopoldo Zea; Translated by Josephine H. Schulte
University of Texas Press
Leopoldo Zea traces the forerunners of Mexican liberal thought and their influence during Juárez’s time and shows how this ideology degenerated into an “order and progress” philosophy that served merely to maintain colonial forms of exploitation
Perspectives of Roman Poetry
A Classics Symposium
Edited by Karl Galinsky
University of Texas Press
Written by leading specialists, the essays in Perspectives of Roman Poetry seek to provide a broad range of readers with a good understanding of some essential aspects of major Roman poets and poetic genres.
New Approaches to Latin American History
Edited by Richard Graham and Peter H. Smith
University of Texas Press
Originally published in 1974, this is a collection of original essays by distinguished scholars proposing original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history.
Mexican Revolution
Genesis under Madero
University of Texas Press
A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.
Karánkaway Country
By Roy Bedichek
University of Texas Press
This book focuses on on the natural history of a strip of coastal prairie lying roughly between Corpus Christi and Galveston.
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 13
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Part Two
University of Texas Press
This volume covers sources in the European tradition: printed collections, secular and religious chroniclers, and biobibliographies.
British-Owned Railways in Argentina
Their Effect on the Growth of Economic Nationalism, 1854-1948
University of Texas Press
How British-owned railways affected the development of Argentine economic nationalism.
Big Bend
A Homesteader's Story
By J.O. Langford and Fred Gipson
University of Texas Press
Big Bend is the story of the Langfords' life in the rugged and spectacularly beautiful country which they came to call their own.
Anarchists and Communists in Brazil, 1900-1935
University of Texas Press
In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians.
Amorous Games
A Critical Edition of Les adevineaux amoureux
Edited by James Woodrow Hassell
University of Texas Press
A collection of medieval French texts whose principal unifying force is the compiler's aim to provide a manual of conversation and entertainment for polite society.
American and British Writers in Mexico, 1556-1973
University of Texas Press
Drewey Wayne Gunn considers prominent American and British writers who either visited or lived in Mexico during the period 1556–1973 and who, as a result of their experiences, wrote works with a Mexican setting.
Agrarian Crisis in India
The Case of Bihar
University of Texas Press
A history of post-independence agrarian reforms in an important state of India.
Five Public Philosophies of Walter Lippmann
University of Texas Press
This study is the first book devoted to an exposition and analysis of Lippmann’s nine “books of political philosophy.”
Organizing Strangers
Poor Families in Guatemala City
University of Texas Press
How poor people cope with an unstable and mobile urban environment in Central America.
The Bow and the Lyre
The Poem, The Poetic Revelation, Poetry and History
By Octavio Paz; Translated by Ruth L.C. Simms
University of Texas Press
Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.
Shakespeare's Grammatical Style
A Computer-assisted Analysis of Richard II and Anthony and Cleopatra
University of Texas Press
A full-scale, systematic study using anexamination of Shakespeare’s syntax as a key to the interpretation of his work.
Sam Houston's Texas
By Sue Flanagan
University of Texas Press
Photographs from the places in Texas that Sam Houston knew.
Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.
Poor Pearl, Poor Girl!
The Murdered-Girl Stereotype in Ballad and Newspaper
University of Texas Press
A ballad study conducted on historic-geographic lines, seeking to trace the history and interrelations of a series of ballad texts and to relate the ballads directly to their ideological and historical context in the American scene.
Peasants in Revolt
A Chilean Case Study, 1965–1971
University of Texas Press
Based on extended interviews at the Culiprán fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political action.
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