Quick view University of Texas Press Littlefield Lands: Colonization on the Texas Plains, 1912-1920 The phenomenon of colonization by big land companies, common throughout the history of the United States, came late to the Panhandle-Plains of West Texas. Ranchers held sway there up into the 20th... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 7% Quick view University of Texas Press Loose of Earth : A Memoir Thirty-eight years old, fit and handsome, John Blackburn was a former Air Force pilot and evangelical Christian. His wife, a veterinarian, healed animals and homeschooled their five children with the... $26.95 $24.93 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Managing Macroeconomic Policy: The Johnson Presidency Macroeconomic policy involves government action intended to influence the overall operation of the economy and to deal with such important public problems as economic growth, inflation,... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Markets in Oaxaca Markets in Oaxaca is a study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico. It relates the marketing system to other aspects of the regional economy, to neighboring... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Mary Austin Holley: The Texas Diary, 1835-1838 Mary Austin Holley (1784-1846), a cousin of Stephen F. Austin, journeyed to Texas on three separate occasions. Her first visit, in 1831, resulted in the publication of her book, Texas. Her second and... $30.97 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucat?? The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucat?n. In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, Maya artists painted murals in churches and... $70.10 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Mexico and the United States in the Oil Controversy, 1917-1942 From reviews of the Spanish edition: "Meyer's perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Mexico's Recent Economic Growth: The Mexican View The Mexican economy underwent a process of growth and transformation in the twentieth century, which was confirmed by the indexes and figures that economists use to chart the rate of growth, even... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Meyerhold at Work "Not a mirror but a magnifying glass"-such, in the poet Mayakovsky's words, was the theater of Vsevolod Meyerhold. The first to insist on the primacy of the director's role, indeed the first to... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo: Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932 Since its founding in 1930 the Peruvian Aprista party (APRA) has occupied a place of signal importance in the Peruvian political spectrum, and it is one of the most important political parties to... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press My Diary: August 30th to November 5th, 1874 Cornelia Wadsworth Adair's ancestors had pioneered in western New York, where they opened and developed large, palatial estates; and the life they lived was elegant and aristocratic. Adair too was... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Nabokov's Fifth Arc: Nabokov and Others on His Life's Work In his autobiography Speak, Memory, Vladimir Nabokov compared his life to a spiral, in which "twirl follows twirl, and every synthesis is the thesis of the next series." The first four arcs of the... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Nazi Ideology before 1933: A Documentation This volume brings together a hitherto scattered and inaccessible body of material crucial to the understanding of the evolution of Nazi political thought. Before the publication of this volume,... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Notes Illustrating the Military Geography of the United States, 1813-1880 When the Adjutant General's Office published Raphael Thian's "notes" on U.S. military geography in 1880, it produced an invaluable research tool for generations of military historians to come. In... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Of Beasts and Beauty: Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia All societies around the world and through time value beauty highly. Tracing the evolutions of the Colombian standards of beauty since 1845, Michael Edward Stanfield explores their significance to... $37.86 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Sale 8% Quick view University of Texas Press Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites : New Edition Updated with a new park, Palo Pinto Mountains State Park west of Forth Worth; new historic sites; and scores of beautiful new photographs, the Official Guide to Texas State Parks and Historic Sites... $29.95 $27.45 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press On Anger: Race, Cognition, Narrative Anger is an emotion that affects everyone regardless of culture, class, race, or gender--but at the same time, being angry always results from the circumstances in which people find themselves. In On... $33.32 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Opera and Vivaldi From the New York Times review of the Dallas Opera's performance of Orlando furioso and the international symposium on Baroque opera: ". . . it was a serious, thoughtful, consistent and imaginative... $50.51 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Organizing Strangers: Poor Families in Guatemala City Bryan Roberts' study of two poor neighborhoods of Guatemala City is an important contribution to the understanding of the urban social and power organization of underdeveloped countries. It is the... $44.76 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Origins of the American Indians: European Concepts, 1492-1729 The American Indian-origin, culture, and language-engaged the best minds of Europe from 1492 to 1729. Were the Indians the result of a co-creation? Were they descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Peasants in Revolt: A Chilean Case Study, 1965-1971 Based on extended interviews at the Culipr?n fundo in Chile with peasants who recount in their own terms their political evolution, this is an in-depth study of peasants in social and political... $27.52 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Performing Piety: Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival In the 1980s, Egypt witnessed a growing revival of religiosity among large sectors of the population, including artists. Many pious stars retired from art, "repented" from "sinful" activities, and... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Plantation Agriculture and Social Control in Northern Peru, 1875-1933 During the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the social, economic, and political landscape of Peru was transformed profoundly. Within a decade of the country's disastrous defeat by Chile... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Political Groups in Chile: The Dialogue between Order and Change Before the Pinochet coup in 1973, Chile had a lengthy history of constitutionalism. Early in the republican era the aristocracy established order in the political system; a century later the emergent... $42.46 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Politics in the Altiplano: The Dynamics of Change in Rural Peru The department of Puno in southern Peru is an area oriented to livestock and agricultural production, peopled by an Indian peasant mass and a dominant minority of culturally Westernized mestizos. A... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Positivism in Mexico Positivism, not just an "ivory tower" philosophy, was a major force in the social, political, and educational life of Mexico during the last half of the nineteenth century. Once colonial conservatism... $33.26 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Poverty and Problem-Solving under Military Rule: The Urban Poor in Lima, Peru Many countries in Latin America have experienced both rapid urbanization and military involvement in politics. Yet few studies examine how military regimes react to the political pressures that... $39.01 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Prohibition in Turkey: Alcohol and the Politics of Identity A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.Prohibition in Turkey investigates the history of... $64.64 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Rattleakes RattleakesAuthor: J. Frank DobiePublisher: University of Texas PressPublication Date: Jan 01, 1982Number of Pages: 207 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 0292770235ISBN-13: 9780292770232 $16.95 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart
Quick view University of Texas Press Reading Across Borders : Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.Author: Aria FaniPublisher: University of Texas PressPublication Date: Apr 09, 2024Number of... $63.91 Add to Wishlist Add to Cart