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Ireland and the Classical World
University of Texas Press
In this book, Philip Freeman explores the relations between ancient Ireland and the classical world through a comprehensive survey of all Greek and Latin literary sources that mention Ireland.
Guaman Poma
Writing and Resistance in Colonial Peru
University of Texas Press
By examining Guaman Poma's verbal and visual engagement with the institutions of Western art and culture, Rolena Adorno shows how he performed a comprehensive critique of the colonialist discourse of religion, political theory, and history.
Cuba and the Politics of Passion
University of Texas Press
How the politics of passion and affection have interacted to shape Cuban history throughout the twentieth century.
Women and Alcohol in a Highland Maya Town
Water of Hope, Water of Sorrow
University of Texas Press
Christine Eber looks at women and drinking in the community of San Pedro Chenalhó to address the issues of women’s identities, roles, relationships, and sources of power.
Turn Out the Lights
Chronicles of Texas during the 80s and 90s
By Gary Cartwright; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press
This book collects seventeen of Cartwright's best Texas Monthly articles from the 1980s and 1990s, along with a new essay, "My Most Unforgettable Year," about the lasting legacy of the Kennedy assassination.
Places in the World a Person Could Walk
Family, Stories, Home, and Place in the Texas Hill Country
By David Syring
University of Texas Press
What the Hill Country of Texas has meant as a homeplace.
Isocrates I
Translated by David C. Mirhady and Yun Lee Too
University of Texas Press
Speeches from a classical orator who considered himself first an educator.
Ezekiel's Horse
By Keith Carter; Introduction by John Wood
University of Texas Press
This volume collects some 75 duotone images of horses and riders, most of them never before published.
The Courthouse Square in Texas
By Robert E. Veselka; Edited by Kenneth E. Foote
University of Texas Press
How the layout of courthouse squares reflect the different town-planning traditions that settlers brought to Texas from Europe, Mexico, and the United States.
Renewing the Maya World
Expressive Culture in a Highland Town
University of Texas Press
In this richly detailed ethnography, Garrett Cook explores how festivals of Jesucristo and the saints derive from and reenact three major ancient Maya creation myths, thus revealing patterns of continuity between contemporary expressive culture and the my
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 6
Ethnology
University of Texas Press
In this Ethnology supplement, anthropologists who have carried out long-term fieldwork among indigenous people review the ethnographic literature in the various regions of Middle America and discuss the theoretical and methodological orientations that have framed the work of areal scholars over the last several decades.
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
Catastrophe and Catalyst
University of Texas Press
This extensively illustrated history tells the full story of the 1900 Storm and its long-term effects.
Aeschines
Translated by Chris Carey
University of Texas Press
The three surviving speeches of this ancient Greek orator, including Against Timarchus, a speech that gives insight into Greek views of homosexual acts.
Places for Dead Bodies
University of Texas Press
How "police procedural" murder mysteries have been used to convey a sense of place.
I Claudia II
Women in Roman Art and Society
University of Texas Press
Ten essays by specialists in art history, history, and papyrology offer reflections on women in Roman society based on the material evidence provided by art, archaeology, and ancient literary sources.
Desert Survival Skills
University of Texas Press
A practical, comprehensive handbook for both short-term and long-term survival in the Chihuahuan and other North American deserts.
Aztecs, Moors, and Christians
Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and Spain
By Max Harris
University of Texas Press
In this perceptive book, Max Harris seeks to understand the "puzzling and enduring passion" of both Mexicans and Spaniards for festivals of moros y cristianos, mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances
Wildlife Sanctuaries and the Audubon Society
Places to Hide and Seek
By John M. "Frosty" Anderson; Introduction by Donal C. O'Brien
University of Texas Press
A personal, often humorous look at the daily and longer-term activities involved in protecting bird habitats
Streets, Bedrooms, and Patios
The Ordinariness of Diversity in Urban Oaxaca
University of Texas Press
In this rich ethnography of Oaxaca, Mexico, the authors look at the lives of people that are often marginalized: the urban poor, transvestite and female prostitutes, discapacitados (the physically challenged), gays and lesbians, and artists and intellect
Now More Than Ever
By Aldous Huxley; Edited by David Bradshaw and James Sexton; Introduction by David Bradshaw and James Sexton
University of Texas Press
Written in 1932–1933 just after Brave New World, Now More Than Ever is a "thinker's play" written in response to the social, economic, and political upheavals of its time.
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