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A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.

A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.

An authoritative study of the administrative, social, and economic structure of Afghanistan at the beginning of the twentieth century. Government and Society in Afghanistan covers a decisive stage in the country's history. The period coveredthe reign of the ';Iron' Amir Rahman Khanwas in many ways the beginning of modern Afghanistan as a cohesive nation. It was under the Amir that its borders were established, its internal unification completed, and the modern concept of nationhood implanted. Hsan Kawun Kakar considers both the internal and the external forces that influenced Afghanistan's development. Thus, modernization, centralization, and nationalization are seen as both defensive reactions to European imperialism and a necessary step toward capital formation and industrialization. The first part of the book covers the government of the Amir, from the personality of the ruler to a comprehensive overview of taxation and local government. The second part views these economic and social institutions from the perspective of the major segments of the populaceincluding nomads, townsmen, tribes, women, slaves, landowners, mullahs, merchants, and others.

A study of medieval southern French and Catalan society.

This unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life.

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.

In this first comprehensive treatment of presidential management of such policy for any presidency, the authors focus on four tasks: developing and maintaining an information and decision-making system; coordination of policies in different macroeconomic

A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.

Reid's diary records the details of the sessions of the Joint Peace Commission of Paris from September through a large part of December of 1898.

A collection of papers on Baroque opera, discussing the operatic works of Vivaldi, Handel, and other Baroque composers as well as the characteristics of the genre.

This book brings together the research into regional development and social change carried out in highland Peru by a team of British and Latin American social anthropologists and sociologists.

Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.

Octavio Paz presents his sustained reflections on the poetic phenomenon and on the place of poetry in history and in our personal lives.

An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.

This study sheds new light on the Brazilian communist movement and how the specter of the USSR influenced mid-twentieth century Brazilian foreign policy. Between 1918 and 1961, Brazil and the USSR maintained formal diplomatic ties for only thirty-one months, at the end of World War II. Yet, despite the official distance, the USSR is the only external actor whose behavior, real or imagined, influenced the structure of the Brazilian state in the twentieth century. In Brazil and the Soviet Challenge, 19171947, Stanley Hilton examines Brazilian policy toward the Soviet Union during this period. Drawing on American, British, and German diplomatic archives and unprecedented access to official and private Brazilian records, Hilton elucidates the connection between the Brazilian elite's perception of a communist threat and the creation of the authoritarian Estado Novo (19371945), the forerunner of the post-1964 national security state. Hilton shows how the 1935 communist revolt generated irresistible pressure for an authoritarian government to contain the Soviet threat; details the Brazilian government's secret cooperation with the Gestapo during the 1930s and its concomitant efforts to forge an anti-Soviet front in the Southern Cone; and uncovers Brazil's attempt to build counterintelligence capabilities in neighboring countries.

This volume both explores and symbolizes Nabokov's continuing life in literary history.

In this study, Marvin Goldwert interprets the rise, growth, and development of militarism in Argentina from 1930 to 1966.

This analytical dictionary of a member of the Muskogean language family contains over 8,000 entries of roots, stems, and compounds in the Alabama-English section, followed by a thorough English-Alabama finder list that functions as a full index to the def

The first systematic, comprehensive, and theory-oriented study of antipornography crusades and one of the few studies that analyze movements to resist change.

A comprehensive study of Joanna Southcott and English Millenarianism.

John Kenneth Turner, a crusading California newspaperman, presents the causes of the Mexican Revolution in Barbarous Mexico, his expose of the Diaz regime.

Tales of horror, madness, and death, tales of fantasy and morality: these are the works of South American master storyteller Horacio Quiroga.

The noted economist and former National Security Advisor shares lessons learned from decades of national policymaking in this insightful memoir. A trusted advisor to Presidents Eisenhower, Kennedy, and Johnson and one of Americas leading professors of economic history, W. W. Rostow helped shape the intellectual debate and governmental policies on major economic, political, and military issues from World War II to the dawn of the twenty-first century. In this thought-provoking memoir, Rostow discusses his analysis ofand involvement witheleven key policy problems. In the process, he demonstrates how ideas flow into concrete action and how actions taken or not taken in the short term actually determine the long run that we call the future.' Rostow examines such varied issues as using airpower in 1940s Europe; early attempts to end the Cold War; the economic revival of Korea; attempts to control inflation in the 1960s; the Vietnam War; and the challenges posed by declining population in the twenty-first century. In discussing these and other issues, Rostow builds a compelling case for including long-term forces in the making of current policy. He concludes his memoir with provocative reflections on the twentieth and twenty-first centuries and on how individual actors shape history.

This book offers a comprehensive history and ethnography of musical rituals in the world's largest city.

The surprising story of how the children of the vanquished retained their rights and privileges in colonial Mexico.

In this Brazilian novel, originally published in 1875, the heroine uses newly inherited wealth to "buy back" and exact revenge on the fiance who had left her for a woman with a more enticing dowry.

A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry.

Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice's pioneering study of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major sources of conflict in the modern Middle East.

The first biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, who dutifully served Queen Elizabeth I for thirty years as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas.