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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 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Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.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The letters and unpublished writings of Orozco from this period (1925-1929) describe an important period of transition in the artist's life.
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.
Mexican Revolution
Genesis under Madero
University of Texas Press
A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.
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.
Ritual Humor in Highland Chiapas
University of Texas Press
How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.
The Black-Man of Zinacantan
A Central American Legend
University of Texas Press
Sarah Blaffer analyzes the position of anomalies in societies in this stidy of a norm-offending, yet norm-reinforcing, specter who by his character and actions demonstrates the proper sex roles for Zinacantec men and women.
Mexico in Its Novel
A Nation's Search for Identity
University of Texas Press
A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.
Mexican Revolution
The Constitutionalist Years
University of Texas Press
A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.
Family Ties
By Clarice Lispector; Translated by Giovanni Pontiero
University of Texas Press
Here are collected thirteen of the Brazilian writer’s most brilliantly conceived stories, where mysterious and unexpected moments of crisis propel characters to self-discovery or keenly felt intuitions about the human condition.
A Rain of Darts
The Mexica Aztecs
University of Texas Press
The exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire.
The Wind that Swept Mexico
The History of the Mexican Revolution of 1910-1942
University of Texas Press
In concise but moving words and in memorable photographs, this classic sweeps the reader along from the false peace and plenty of the Díaz era through the doomed administration of Madero, the chaotic years of Villa and Zapata, Carranza and Obregón, to the
Seven Interpretive Essays on Peruvian Reality
By José Carlos Mariátegui; Translated by Marjory Urquidi
University of Texas Press
Essays by one of the leading South American social philosophers of the early twentieth century.
Prophet in the Wilderness
The Works of Ezequiel Martínez Estrada
University of Texas Press
This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martínez Estrada,
Antonio Caso
Philosopher of Mexico
University of Texas Press
A biography of a 20th century Mexican philosopher and educator.
The Golden Thread and other Plays
By Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
A collection of plays by one of the most innovative and accomplished of Mexico's playwrights and one of the outstanding creators in the new Latin American theater.
Jarano
By Ramón Beteta; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.
Bolívar and the War of Independence
Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O’Leary, Narración
University of Texas Press
One of the most important historical sources for a major part of Simón Bolívar’s life.
Recollections of Things to Come
University of Texas Press
A novel about life in a small Mexican town during the Revolution.
Memories of Lazarus
By Adonias Filho; Translated by Fred P. Ellison
University of Texas Press
These are the recollections of Alexandre—of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.
Cumboto
By Ramón Díaz Sánchez; Translated by John Upton
University of Texas Press
This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.
Barbarous Mexico
By John Kenneth Turner; Introduction by Sinclair Snow
University of Texas Press
John Kenneth Turner, a crusading California newspaperman, presents the causes of the Mexican Revolution in Barbarous Mexico, his exposé of the Díaz regime.
The Norther
By Emilio Carballido; Translated by Margaret Sayers Peden
University of Texas Press
A novel about the course of a relationship between a widow and a young man.
The Lean Lands
University of Texas Press
A novel about the impact of modern technology and ideas on a few isolated, tradition-bound hamlets in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution of 1910.
Medicine in Mexico
From Aztec Herbs to Betatrons
University of Texas Press
The history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico through the mid-twentieth century.
Who if I Cry Out
By Gustavo Corção; Translated by Clotilde Wilson
University of Texas Press
This novel is the diary of a thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life.
The Brazilians
Their Character and Aspirations
University of Texas Press
José Honório Rodrigues confronts the questions of who and what the Brazilian is, what Brazil stands for, where it has been, and where it is going.
The Political Evolution of the Mexican People
University of Texas Press
This classical synthesis of Mexican history, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders.
Selected Poems of Rubén Darío
By Rubén Darío; Translated by Lysander Kemp
University of Texas Press
This translation, by a man who is himself a poet, brings to English readers the whole range of Darío's verse.
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