University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
The Folds of Parnassos
Land and Ethnicity in Ancient Phokis
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Independent city-states (poleis) such as Athens have been viewed traditionally as the most advanced stage of state formation in ancient Greece. By contrast, this pioneering book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally...
Apache Reservation
Indigenous Peoples and the American State
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
"Indian reservations" were the United States' ultimate solution to the "problem" of what to do with native peoples who already occupied the western lands that Anglo settlers wanted. In this broadly inclusive study, Richard J. Perry considers the historical development of the reservation system and its...
by Sophie D. Coe
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
After long weeks of boring, perhaps spoiled sea rations, one of the first things Spaniards sought in the New World was undoubtedly fresh food. Probably they found the local cuisine strange at first, but soon they were sending American plants and animals around the world, eventually enriching the cuisine...
Capitalism, Slavery, and Republican Values
American Political Economists, 1819-1848
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
In the troubled days before the American Civil War, both Northern protectionists and Southern free trade economists saw political economy as the key to understanding the natural laws on which every republican political order should be based. They believed that individual freedom was one such law of nature...
Mexican Revolution
Genesis under Madero
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The Mexican Revolution is one of the most important and ambitious sociopolitical experiments in modem times. The Revolution developed in three distinct stages: the overthrow of the Díaz dictatorship, the subsequent era of bloodshed and devastation during which radical ideas were written into the constitution,...
Tales of Two Cities
Race and Economic Culture in Early Republican North and South America
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2012
With a common heritage as former colonies of Europe, why did the United States so outstrip Latin America in terms of economic development in the nineteenth century? In this innovative study, Camilla Townsend challenges the traditional view that North Americans succeeded because of better attitudes toward...
Anita Brenner
A Mind of Her Own
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Journalist, historian, anthropologist, art critic, and creative writer, Anita Brenner was one of Mexico's most discerning interpreters. Born to a Jewish immigrant family in Mexico a few years before the Revolution of 1910, she matured into an independent liberal who defended Mexico, workers, and all...
La Revolución
Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The 1910 Revolution is still tangibly present in Mexico in the festivals that celebrate its victories, on the monuments to its heroes, and, most important, in the stories and memories of the Mexican people. Yet there has never been general agreement on what the revolution meant, what its objectives...
by Stephanie Merrim
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2012
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture tracks the three spectacular forces of New World literary culture—cities, festivals, and wonder—from the sixteenth to the seventeenth century, from the Old World to the New, and from Mexico to Colombia, Peru, and Bolivia. It treats...
by Daniel Bonevac
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2014
The twentieth century ushered in significant progress, as philosophers, scientists, artists, and poets across the world improved the way we lived. Yet the last century also brought increased levels of war, tyranny, and genocide, and people lost faith in values. Now, thinkers and leaders are reconstructing...
Teatro Chicana
A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2010
The 1970s and 1980s saw the awakening of social awareness and political activism in Mexican-American communities. In San Diego, a group of Chicana women participated in a political theatre group whose plays addressed social, gender, and political issues of the working class and the Chicano Movement....
Canal Irrigation in Prehistoric Mexico
The Sequence of Technological Change
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Prehistoric farmers in Mexico invented irrigation, developed it into a science, and used it widely. Indeed, many of the canal systems still in use in Mexico today were originally begun well before the discovery of the New World. In this comprehensive study, William E. Doolittle synthesizes and extensively...
Chemical Alert!
A Community Action Handbook
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In the 1978 Love Canal toxic waste crisis, concerned citizens "did a far better job of evaluating the health of the community than did the professionals of the New York Health Department," asserts Marvin Legator. In Chemical Alert! A Community Action Handbook, he and coeditor Sabrina Strawn...
Witchcraft and Welfare
Spiritual Capital and the Business of Magic in Modern Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2009
Persecuted as evil during colonial times, considered charlatans during the nation-building era, Puerto Rican brujos (witch-healers) today have become spiritual entrepreneurs who advise their clients not only in consultation with the spirits but also in compliance with state laws and new economic opportunities....