University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Philip Freneau
Champion of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Philip Freneau was a poet, editor, and mariner. A graduate of Princeton, he was the roommate of James Madison and a classmate of Hugh Henry Brackenridge and Aaron Burr. When the colonies rebelled against England, he supported his newly born nation as a privateer, spending some time in a British prison...
The First New Chronicle and Good Government
On the History of the World and the Incas up to 1615
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
One of the most fascinating books on pre-Columbian and early colonial Peru was written by a Peruvian Indian named Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala. This book, The First New Chronicle and Good Government, covers pre-Inca times, various aspects of Inca culture, the Spanish conquest, and colonial times up...
Of Summits and Sacrifice
An Ethnohistoric Study of Inka Religious Practices
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In perhaps as few as one hundred years, the Inka Empire became the largest state ever formed by a native people anywhere in the Americas, dominating the western coast of South America by the early sixteenth century. Because the Inkas had no system of writing, it was left to Spanish and semi-indigenous...
by Cristóbal de Molina, Brian S. Bauer, Vania Smith-Oka
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Only a few decades after the Spanish conquest of Peru, the third Bishop of Cuzco, Sebastián de Lartaún, called for a report on the religious practices of the Incas. The report was prepared by Cristóbal de Molina, a priest of the Hospital for the Natives of Our Lady of Succor in Cuzco and Preacher...
by Robert Zingg
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
In 1930, anthropologists Robert Zingg and Wendell Bennett spent nine months among the Tarahumara of Chihuahua, Mexico, one of the least acculturated indigenous societies in North America. Their fieldwork resulted in The Tarahumara: An Indian Tribe of Northern Mexico (1935), a classic ethnography still...
The Necessary Earth
Nature and Solitude in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2014
The Necessary Earth is a study of the degree to which the long American experience with an open frontier has entered into an inherently American literature to distingush it from that of other lands. Since literature is, in the author’s words, “a compound of time, place, and the individual projection...
by John Rodden
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2012
The year 1984 is just a memory, but the catchwords of George Orwell's novel Nineteen Eighty-Four still routinely pepper public discussions of topics ranging from government surveillance and privacy invasion to language corruption and bureaucratese. Orwell's work pervades the cultural imagination,...
by Sean Wilsey
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
From reviews of the hardcover edition:“More Curious begins by making you wonder what kind of book it is, exactly, and ends by reminding you that categories are nonsense when you’re enjoying something this much.”—Jennifer Egan, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of A Visit from the Goon Squad“Mr....
Theorizing Art Cinemas
Foreign, Cult, Avant-Garde, and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2013
The term “art cinema” has been applied to many cinematic projects, including the film d’art movement, the postwar avant-gardes, various Asian new waves, the New Hollywood, and American indie films, but until now no one has actually defined what “art cinema” is. Turning the traditional, highbrow...
Jean Stafford
The Savage Heart
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
One of America's best short story writers and author of three fine novels, Boston Adventure (1944), The Mountain Lion (1947), and The Catherine Wheel (1952), Jean Stafford has been rediscovered by another generation of readers and scholars. Although her novels and her Pulitzer Prize–winning short stories...
To Alcatraz, Death Row, and Back
Memories of an East LA Outlaw
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
When Ernie López was a boy selling newspapers in Depression-era Los Angeles, his father beat him when he failed to bring home the expected eighty to ninety cents a day. When the beatings became unbearable, he took to petty stealing to make up the difference. As his thefts succeeded, Ernie's sense of...
Uncivil Wars
Elena Garro, Octavio Paz, and the Battle for Cultural Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
The first English-language book to place the works of Elena Garro (1916–1998) and Octavio Paz (1914–1998) in dialogue with each other, Uncivil Wars evokes the lives of two celebrated literary figures who wrote about many of the same experiences and contributed to the formation of Mexican national...
This America of Ours
The Letters of Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Gabriela Mistral and Victoria Ocampo were the two most influential and respected women writers of twentieth-century Latin America. Mistral, a plain, self-educated Chilean woman of the mountains who was a poet, journalist, and educator, became Latin America's first Nobel Laureate in 1945. Ocampo, a stunning...
by John W. F. Dulles
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
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. This study focuses on the formation...