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It's no secret that superhero comics have historically included problematic depictions of women, racial and sexual minorities, and others who do not fit the standard straight white male model of a...

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...

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years. Ever since photography and professional sports originated in the nineteenth century, photographers have shaped how...

A massive land-seizure movement first erupted in Peru in 1958 and spread across the Andean highlands in 1963-1964. Several hundred peasant communities in the Peruvian Andes occupied neighboring...

Over the past two decades, the extraction of nonrenewable resources in Latin America has given rise to many forms of struggle, particularly among disadvantaged populations. The first analytical...

The Alliance for Progress was a program intended to stimulate and aid the economic development of the peoples of Latin America. It proposed that the United States and nineteen Latin American...

"Texas is not a place, it is a commotion!" exclaimed one early visitor to the state, underscoring the mobility and "get-ahead" spirit that have always characterized Texas and its people. In these...

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas. Two events in Texas history shine so...

This journal is the exciting personal narrative of a Texan who was a prisoner of the Union Army during the Civil War, escaped to Canada, and finally made his way back into the Confederacy through the...

For the Muslim faithful, the familiar sound of the Qurʾanic recitation is the predominant and most immediate means of contact with the Word of God. Heard day and night, on the street, in taxis,...

The Prometheus Bound has proved to be both the most problematic and the most influential of extant Greek tragedies. Especially during the past two hundred years the character here created has...

Long before "Cesar Ch?vez" and "Chicano" became commonly known, the word "bracero" had established itself in the language of American politics. The Mexican Farm Labor Program-or bracero program as it...

El Llano en llamas is considered a classic of Mexican literature. The collection of short stories takes place in rural Jalisco where Mexicans struggle to survive after the Mexican Revolution. Juan...

In 1982, a century after the laying of the cornerstone of its first building, the University of Texas was ranked by the New York Times among the best in the nation. No one had more to do with that...

Inhabiting the rainforest of the southwest Maracaibo Basin, split by the border between Colombia and Venezuela, the Bar? have survived centuries of incursions. Anthropologist Roberto Lizarralde began...

Many map users have wondered why Portugal, sharing with Spain the Iberian Peninsula, ever became a separate nation. That question is answered with remarkable clarity by Dan Stanislawski. This book...

The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has been a pioneer in the concept of an inter-American professional, independent, and self-sufficient pressure group that acts on its own initiative and...

During the past decade, racial/ethnic minority women have made significant strides in U.S. politics, comprising large portions of their respective minority delegations both in Congress and in state...

What was it that flew over with such a terrifying roar? Was it, as many said, the devil, or was it that thing a few had heard of, a flying machine? And those electric lights at Jacob Gallo's farm,...

All of American author Frank Norris's significant critical writings have been compiled in this book, including his articles for the San Francisco Wave during 1896-1897 and selections from his "Weekly...

This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.Author: Arlen F. ChasePublisher: University of Texas...

Author: Charles J. ShieldsPublisher: University of Texas PressPublication Date: Feb 24, 2020Number of Pages: 320 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1477320105ISBN-13: 9781477320105

"Ask an authority on Brazilian culture what he considers to be the most significant artistic event in Brazil during this century," observes John Nist, "and he will quickly reply, 'The Modern Art Week...

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 distinguish it from that of other lands...

An abolitionist and a champion of free love and women's rights would seem decidedly out of place in nineteenth-century Texas, but such a man was Stephen Pearl Andrews (1812-1886), American reformer,...

The Red Caddy: Into the Unknown with Edward AbbeyAuthor: Charles BowdenPublisher: University of Texas PressPublication Date: Sep 08, 2020Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

In 1971 RAND consultant Daniel J. Ellsberg made national news by handing over to the New York Times a top secret Pentagon study on the Vietnam War. Publication of the Pentagon Papers rocked the...

Describes the development of Texas's Big Bend National Park, as well as the controversies that have shaped it over its first fifty years.Author: John JamesonPublisher: University of Texas...

"Here, Mr. Split-Foot, do as I do!" exclaimed the child, and the spirits obeyed her command. Thus, in 1848, thirteen-year-old Margaret Fox inaugurated the age of spiritualism. Those early spirit...

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,...