University Of Texas Press imprint: 2238 books
With Courage and Common Sense
Memoirs from the Older Women's Legacy Circles
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Women who were sixty or older at the turn of the twenty-first century have lived through some of recent history's most momentous moments—and yet these women often believe that their personal lives and stories are insignificant, not worthy of being recorded for future generations. To change that perception...
Santiago's Children
What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Unclear about his future career path, Steve Reifenberg found himself in the early 1980s working at a small orphanage in a poor neighborhood in Santiago, Chile, where a determined single woman was trying to create a stable home for a dozen or so children who had been abandoned or abused. With little...
Making Faces, Playing God
Identity and the Art of Transformational Makeup
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2013
Wearing a mask—putting on another face—embodies a fundamental human fantasy of inhabiting other bodies and experiencing other lives. In this extensively illustrated book, Thomas Morawetz explores how the creation of transformational makeup for theatre, movies, and television fulfills this fantasy...
Founding Finance
How Debt, Speculation, Foreclosures, Protests, and Crackdowns Made Us a Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2012
Recent movements such as the Tea Party and anti-tax "constitutional conservatism" lay claim to the finance and taxation ideas of America's founders, but how much do we really know about the dramatic clashes over finance and economics that marked the founding of America? Dissenting from both...
The Fight to Save Juárez
Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug War
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to Juárez, and nearly 20 percent of the country's drug-related...
by Bruce Mannheim
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2013
The Inka empire, Tawantinsuyu, fell to Spanish invaders within a year's time (1532-1533), but Quechua, the language of the Inka, is still the primary or only language of millions of Inka descendants throughout the southern Andes. In this innovative study, Bruce Mannheim synthesizes all that is currently...
Yutopian
Archaeology, Ambiguity, and the Production of Knowledge in Northwest Argentina
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Around 400 BCE, inhabitants of the Southern Andes took up a sedentary lifestyle that included the practice of agriculture. Settlements were generally solitary or clustered structures with walled agricultural fields and animal corrals, and the first small villages appeared in some regions. Surprisingly,...
Our House in the Clouds
Building a Second Life in the Andes of Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
While many baby boomers are downsizing to a simpler retirement lifestyle, photographer and writer Judy Blankenship and her husband Michael Jenkins took a more challenging leap in deciding to build a house on the side of a mountain in southern Ecuador. They now live half the year in Cañar, an indigenous...
Salvation in New England
Selections from the Sermons of the First Preachers
Language: English
Release Date: September 13, 2013
The sermon as crafted by the early New England preachers was the most prominent literary form of its day, yet the earliest Puritan texts have as a rule been available only in rare-book collections. This anthology of sermons of the first generation of preachers fills a serious gap in American literature....
Saddam's War of Words
Politics, Religion, and the Iraqi Invasion of Kuwait
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
From a Western perspective, the Persian Gulf War of 1990-1991 largely fulfilled the first President Bush's objective: "In, out, do it, do it right, get gone. That's the message." But in the Arab world, the causes and consequences of Saddam Hussein's invasion of Kuwait and his subsequent...
Red Desert
History of a Place
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
A vast expanse of rock formations, sand dunes, and sagebrush in central and southwest Wyoming, the little-known Red Desert is one of the last undeveloped landscapes in the United States, as well as one of the most endangered. It is a last refuge for many species of wildlife. Sitting atop one of North...
History of the Inca Empire
An Account of the Indians' Customs and Their Origin, Together with a Treatise on Inca Legends, History, and Social Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The Historia del Nuevo Mundo, set down by Father Bernabe Cobo during the first half of the seventeenth century, represents a singulary valuable source on Inca culture. Working directly frorn the original document, Roland Hamilton has translated that part of Cobo's massive manuscripts that focuses on...
Bolívar and the War of Independence
Memorias del General Daniel Florencio O’Leary, Narración
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
The overthrow of Spanish rule and the birth of new republican governments in northern South America at the beginning of the nineteenth century were in large part the work of one man—Simón Bolívar. Bolívar was not only the soldier who built a patriot army from a small band of exiles and led them...
Pericles on Stage
Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2014
Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens,...