University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Diodorus Siculus, The Persian Wars to the Fall of Athens
Books 11-14.34 (480-401 BCE)
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Only one surviving source provides a continuous narrative of Greek history from Xerxes' invasion to the Wars of the Successors following the death of Alexander the Great—the Bibliotheke, or "Library," produced by Sicilian historian Diodorus Siculus (ca. 90-30 BCE). Yet generations of scholars have...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
This is the ninth volume in the Oratory of Classical Greece. This series presents all of the surviving speeches from the late fifth and fourth centuries BC in new translations prepared by classical scholars who are at the forefront of the discipline. These translations are especially designed for the...
The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico
Chicana/o Radicalism, Solidarity Politics, and Latin American Social Movements
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Bringing to life the stories of political teatristas, tortured revolutionaries, feminists, gunrunners, labor organizers, poets, journalists, ex-prisoners, and other activists, The Revolutionary Imaginations of Greater Mexico examines the inspiration Chicanas/os found in social movements in Mexico and...
by Vernon M. Jr. Briggs, Walter Fogel, Fred H. Schmidt
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
The Chicano Worker is an incisive analysis of the labor-market experiences of Mexican American workers in the late twentieth century. The authors—each established in the fields of labor economics and research on Chicano workers—describe the major employment patterns of the Chicano labor force and...
The Power of Huacas
Change and Resistance in the Andean World of Colonial Peru
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
The role of the religious specialist in Andean cultures of the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries was a complicated one, balanced between local traditions and the culture of the Spanish. In The Power of Huacas, Claudia Brosseder reconstructs the dynamic interaction between religious specialists...
Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean
A Subaltern History
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
Subaltern studies, the study of non-elite or underrepresented people, have revolutionized the writing of Middle Eastern history. Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean represents the next step in this transformation. The book explores the lives of eleven nonconformists who became agents...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2009
Latin America has been a refuge for Jews fleeing persecution from 1492, when Sepharad Jews were expelled from Spain, until well into the twentieth century, when European Jews sought sanctuary there from the horrors of the Nazi Holocaust. Vibrant Jewish communities have deep roots in countries such as...
by Terry Rugeley
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Conflicts between native Maya peoples and European-derived governments have punctuated Mexican history from the Conquest in the sixteenth century to the current Zapatista uprising in Chiapas. In this deeply researched study, Terry Rugeley delves into the 1800-1847 origins of the Caste War, the largest...
Revolution at Querétaro
The Mexican Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
In two of the most fateful months of Mexican history, the delegates to the Constitutional Convention of 1916–1917 came to grips with the basic problem of twentieth-century Mexico. They hammered out pragmatic solutions to establish the legal foundations of the Mexican Revolution, the definitive break...
Hijos del Pueblo
Gender, Family, and Community in Rural Mexico, 1730-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2009
The everyday lives of indigenous and Spanish families in the countryside, a previously under-explored segment of Mexican cultural history, are now illuminated through the vivid narratives presented in Hijos del Pueblo ("offspring of the village"). Drawing on neglected civil and criminal judicial records...
Of Wonders and Wise Men
Religion and Popular Cultures in Southeast Mexico, 1800-1876
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In the tumultuous decades following Mexico's independence from Spain, religion provided a unifying force among the Mexican people, who otherwise varied greatly in ethnicity and socioeconomic status. Accordingly, religion and the popular cultures surrounding it form the lens through which Terry Rugeley...
by Michael Johns
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Daz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zcalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and American ways...
A Gringa in Bogotá
Living Colombia's Invisible War
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2010
To many foreigners, Colombia is a nightmare of drugs and violence. Yet normal life goes on there, and, in Bogotá, it's even possible to forget that war still ravages the countryside. This paradox of perceptions—outsiders' fears versus insiders' realities—drew June Carolyn Erlick back to Bogotá...
Consuming Grief
Compassionate Cannibalism in an Amazonian Society
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2010
Mourning the death of loved ones and recovering from their loss are universal human experiences, yet the grieving process is as different between cultures as it is among individuals. As late as the 1960s, the Wari' Indians of the western Amazonian rainforest ate the roasted flesh of their dead as...