University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Lexikon of the Hispanic Baroque
Transatlantic Exchange and Transformation
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Over the course of some two centuries following the conquests and consolidations of Spanish rule in the Americas during the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries—the period designated as the Baroque—new cultural forms sprang from the cross-fertilization of Spanish, Amerindian, and African...
Remembering Childhood in the Middle East
Memoirs from a Century of Change
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Growing up is a universal experience, but the particularities of homeland, culture, ethnicity, religion, family, and so on make every childhood unique. To give Western readers insight into what growing up in the Middle East was like in the twentieth century, this book gathers thirty-six original memoirs...
Yankee Theatre
The Image of America on the Stage, 1825–1850
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
The famous "Stage Yankees," with their eccentric New England dialect comedy, entertained audiences from Boston to New Orleans, from New York to London in the years between 1825 and 1850. They provided the creative energy for the development of an American-type character in early plays of native authorship....
The Modern American Political Novel
1900-1960
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
Politics, the workings of government and of people in government, has long been a fertile field for exploration by the novelist. The political arena offers many examples of conflict—between individuals, groups, or the individual and the group, or within the individual. It is natural then that a sizable...
William Hickling Prescott
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
This biography of a distinguished historian and man of letters is the first study of William Hickling Prescott (1796–1859) to be written by a historian who has worked with the very themes explored by Prescott. And it is the first to treat him not only as creative historian but also as family man, as...
The Church in Brazil
The Politics of Religion
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2014
In 1980, Brazil was the largest Roman Catholic country in the world, with 90 percent of its more than 120 million people numbered among the faithful. The Church hierarchy became aware, however, that the religion practiced by the majority of its members was not that promoted by the institution, a point...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2018
The ancient Greeks invented written law. Yet, in contrast to later societies in which law became a professional discipline, the Greeks treated laws as components of social and political history, reflecting the daily realities of managing society. To understand Greek law, then, requires looking into...
The Mythmaker
A Study of Motif and Symbol in the Short Stories of Jorge Luis Borges
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Readers who are intrigued, though often mystified, by the intellectual fantasies of Jorge Luis Borges will find this book a revelation, a skeleton key to one of the most fundamental and baffling aspects of Borges’s fictions: the pattern of symbolism with an inner meaning. Carter Wheelock’s study...
by Alida C. Metcalf
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Doa Marina (La Malinche) ...Pocahontas ...Sacagawea—their names live on in historical memory because these women bridged the indigenous American and European worlds, opening the way for the cultural encounters, collisions, and fusions that shaped the social and even physical landscape of the modern...
Baetica Felix
People and Prosperity in Southern Spain from Caesar to Septimius Severus
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Baetica, the present-day region of Andalusia in southern Spain, was the wealthiest province of the Roman Empire. Its society was dynamic and marked by upward social and economic mobility, as the imperial peace allowed the emergence of a substantial middle social and economic stratum. Indeed, so mutually...
The Reformation of Machismo
Evangelical Conversion and Gender in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Protestant evangelicalism has spread rapidly in Latin America at the same time that foreign corporations have taken hold of economies there. These concurrent developments have led some observers to view this religious movement as a means of melding converts into a disciplined work force for foreign capitalists...
Michoacán and Eden
Vasco de Quiroga and the Evangelization of Western Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Don Vasco de Quiroga (1470-1565) was the first bishop of Michoacán in Western Mexico. Driven by the desire to convert the native Purhpecha-Chichimec peoples to a purified form of Christianity, free of the corruptions of European Catholicism, he sought to establish New World Edens in Michoacán by...
Believing Women in Islam
Unreading Patriarchal Interpretations of the Qur'an
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Does Islam call for the oppression of women? Non-Muslims point to the subjugation of women that occurs in many Muslim countries, especially those that claim to be "Islamic," while many Muslims read the Qur'an in ways that seem to justify sexual oppression, inequality, and patriarchy. Taking a wholly...
Red, Black, and Jew
New Frontiers in Hebrew Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Between 1890 and 1924, more than two million Jewish immigrants landed on America's shores. The story of their integration into American society, as they traversed the difficult path between assimilation and retention of a unique cultural identity, is recorded in many works by American Hebrew writers....