University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
News from the New American Diaspora
and Other Tales of Exile
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Prize-winning novelist Jay Neugeboren's third collection of short stories focuses on Jews in various states of exile and expatriation—strangers in strange lands, far from home. These dozen tales, by an author whose stories have been selected for more than fifty anthologies, including Best American...
Roman Aristocrats in Barbarian Gaul
Strategies for Survival in an Age of Transition
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2013
Skin-clad barbarians ransacking Rome remains a popular image of the "decline and fall" of the Roman Empire, but why, when, and how the Empire actually fell are still matters of debate among students of classical history. In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the...
The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Voices from the Ottoman Harem
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
In the Western imagination, the Middle Eastern harem was a place of sex, debauchery, slavery, miscegenation, power, riches, and sheer abandon. But for the women and children who actually inhabited this realm of the imperial palace, the reality was vastly different. In this collection of translated...
by Bob Luke
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Willie Wells was arguably the best shortstop of his generation. As Monte Irvin, a teammate and fellow Hall of Fame player, writes in his foreword, "Wells really could do it all. He was one of the slickest fielding shortstops ever to come along. He had speed on the bases. He hit with power and consistency....
Dancing the New World
Aztecs, Spaniards, and the Choreography of Conquest
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, fifteenth- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and travelers wrote about the “Indian” dances they encountered throughout the New World. This was especially true of Spanish missionaries...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
In A.D. 986, Earl Hákon, ruler of most of Norway, won a triumphant victory over an invading fleet of Danes in the great naval battle of Hjórunga Bay. Sailing under his banner were no fewer than five Icelandic skalds, the poet-historians of the Old Norse world. Two centuries later their accounts...
by Arthur F. Crowin
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2014
This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude. Making extensive use of heretofore untapped research sources from the Spanish archives,...
by Nellie Campobello
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Nellie Campobello, a prominent Mexican writer and "novelist of the Revolution," played an important role in Mexico's cultural renaissance in the 1920s and early 1930s, along with such writers as Rafael Muoz and Gregorio Lpez y Fuentes and artists Diego Rivera, Orozco, and others. Her two novellas,...
A Search for Solvency
Bretton Woods and the International Monetary System, 1941-1971
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
Diverted by the dramatic military and political events of July 1944, few Americans realized the significance of an international conference taking place at Bretton Woods, a mountain resort in New Hampshire, far from the battle zones. There United Nations experts were completing plans for a world monetary...
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The world runs on the U.S. dollar. From Washington to Beijing, governments, businesses, and individuals rely on the dollar to conduct commerce and invest profitably and safely—even after the global financial meltdown in 2008 revealed the potentially catastrophic cost of the dollar's hegemony. But...
The Satiric Poems of John Trumbull
The Progress of Dulness and M'Fingal
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2014
John Trumbull, the colonial American satiric poet, is one of the most readable, and certainly one of the most amusing, of our early men of letters. His poems, with all their wit and bite, bring back to life again the days of the Revolutionary War—powdered wigs, flirting belles, political quarrels,...
Learning from Bogotá
Pedagogical Urbanism and the Reshaping of Public Space
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Once known as a “drug capital” and associated with kidnappings, violence, and excess, Bogotá, Colombia, has undergone a transformation that some have termed “the miracle of Bogotá.” Beginning in the late 1980s, the city emerged from a long period of political and social instability to become...
Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values
Educating the New Socialist Citizen
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2011
Drawing on extensive fieldwork in Havana's secondary schools, Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values is a remarkable ethnography, charting the government's attempts to transform a future generation of citizens. While Cuba's high literacy rate is often lauded, the little-known dropout rates among teenagers...
Beautiful Flowers of the Maquiladora
Life Histories of Women Workers in Tijuana
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Published originally as La flor mas bella de la maquiladora, this beautifully written book is based on interviews the author conducted with more than fifty Mexican women who work in the assembly plants along the U.S.-Mexico border. A descriptive analytic study conducted in the late 1970s, the book...