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The first comprehensive ethnohistory of the Native groups that inhabited the Texas Edwards Plateau and surrounding areas during most of the Spanish colonial era.

This book eloquently explores how the search for a perfect place is driving growth, development, and resource exploitation in Big Sky country.

This anthology includes writings central to Islamic thought, some translated earlier but here redone, and others which have never before appeared in any Western language.

Drawing on a lifetime of inquiry, travel, and teaching, Philip Wagner asserts that the drive for Geltung-personal standing, recognition, acceptance, esteem, and influence-shapes all of our interactions and defines the unique social character of human bein

The fifty years since the founding of the University of Texas Press have witnessed major evolutions in the world of publishing. This title presents a "best of the best" selection from the University of Texas Press' first half-century.

A study of a seventeenth-century town more typical of everyday colonial life than the major centers that have drawn most attention from historians.

In this book, Paul Edmund Stanwick undertakes the first complete study of Egyptian-style portraits of the Ptolemies.

This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

A collection of a major Mexican writer's essays, focusing on individual poets and on poetry in general.

Originally published in 1955, The Silver Cradle is the story of a year in the life of the Mexican American people of San Antonio, Texas.

The account of a nineteenth-century Persian's pilgrimage to Mecca.

A rich description of the long and tortuous attempt by the Brazilian military government to create a workable "national security state" in the face of determined and resilient opposition.

This anthology gathers four plays for youth and families, including Still Life with Iris, by Steven Dietz, one of America's most widely produced and published contemporary playwrights.

Using the Lone Ranger as a case study, this book investigates the transmedia licensing, merchandizing, and brand management of iconic characters from the 1930s through the era of media conglomeration and convergence.

From mind-melting psychedelia and surreal treatments of Texas iconography to inventive interpretations of rock and roll, western swing, and punk, this book offers the definitive, long-overdue survey of music poster art by legendary Texas artists.

Profusely illustrated with color and black-and-white photographs, maps, and analytical plan drawings of urban cores, this is the first comprehensive overview in either English or Spanish of the architecture, urban landscapes, and cities of Northern Mexico

This comprehensive study of five phases of Guatemalan migration-both Maya and ladino-to the United States from the late 1970s to the present illuminates the transregional experiences of those who pass through Mexico.

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Written for general readers as well as scholars, this book sheds new light on the local activism that propelled the national civil rights movement, as well as on the birth of an organization that has been at the forefront of Mexican American and Latino ci

The award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.

With nearly 1,000 images, many never before published, this catalogue raisonne presents and describes every surviving photograph taken by Lewis Carroll and confirms his stature as one of the most important amateur photographers of the Victorian era and th

This book brings together Ortega's most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

This pioneering, timely study of civil society activism in Ciudad Juarez during the first decade of the twenty-first century captures the tenuous new alliances and discourses of resistance (augmented by social media) that have emerged in the face of escal

Showcasing an artistic career that has been both broad-ranging and consistent over four decades, Dan Rizzie is the first monograph on this internationally acclaimed American artist who has created a unique iconography of the natural world in paintings, co

This extensively illustrated volume provides the first complete visual documentation and a pioneering iconographic analysis of Picture Cave, an eastern Missouri cavern filled with Native American pictographs that is one of the most important prehistoric s

Through vivid oral histories backed by extensive research, Mojo Hand tells the story of one of America's greatest bluesmen, whose deeply authentic songs and unique style of guitar playing indelibly shaped modern roots, blues, rock 'n' roll, singer-songwri

This evocative photo essay explores how Jewish communities in Ukraine, Poland, Romania, and the Czech Republic are reclaiming their history, rebuilding their communities, and revivifying their Jewish identity following the Holocaust and decades of Soviet