University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Where the Land Meets the Sea
Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Huaca Prieta—one the world's best-known, yet least understood, early maritime mound sites—and other Preceramic sites on the north coast of Peru bear witness to the beginnings of civilization in the Americas. Across more than fourteen millennia of human occupation, the coalescence of maritime, agricultural,...
by Michael J. Gonzales
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2014
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 during the War of the Pacific, the export economy was recovering on the strength of a variety of...
Spanish Central America
A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
The seventeenth century has been characterized as "Latin America's forgotten century." This landmark work, originally published in 1973, attempted to fill the vacuum in knowledge by providing an account of the first great colonial cycle in Spanish Central America. The colonial Spanish society of the...
by Robinson A. Herrera
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The first century of Spanish colonization in Latin America witnessed the birth of cities that, while secondary to great metropolitan centers such as Mexico City and Lima, became important hubs for regional commerce. Santiago de Guatemala, the colonial capital of Central America, was one of these....
by Sylvia R. Frey
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In her investigation of the social history of the common British soldier in the era of the American Revolution, Sylvia Frey has extensively surveyed recruiting records, contemporary training manuals, statutes, and memoirs in an attempt to provide insight into the soldier's "life and mind."...
Neo-Confederacy
A Critical Introduction
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
A century and a half after the conclusion of the Civil War, the legacy of the Confederate States of America continues to influence national politics in profound ways. Drawing on magazines such as Southern Partisan and publications from the secessionist organization League of the South, as well as...
The Independent Republic of Arequipa
Making Regional Culture in the Andes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Arequipa, Peru's second largest city, has the most intense regional culture in the central Andes. Arequipeños fiercely conceive of themselves as exceptional and distinctive, yet also broadly representative of the nation's overall hybrid nature—a blending of coast (modern, "white") and sierra (traditional,...
White Metropolis
Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in Dallas, 1841-2001
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
From the nineteenth century until today, the power brokers of Dallas have always portrayed their city as a progressive, pro-business, racially harmonious community that has avoided the racial, ethnic, and class strife that roiled other Southern cities. But does this image of Dallas match the historical...
Of Beasts and Beauty
Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2013
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 and symbiotic relationship with violence and inequality in the country. Arguing that beauty holds not only...
Beyond Machismo
Intersectional Latino Masculinities
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2016
Long considered a pervasive value of Latino cultures both south and north of the US border, machismo—a hypermasculinity that obliterates any other possible influences on men's attitudes and behavior—is still used to define Latino men and boys in the larger social narrative. Yet a closer look reveals...
Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties
An Indian Declaration of Independence
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Originally published in 1974, just as the Wounded Knee occupation was coming to an end, Behind the Trail of Broken Treaties raises disturbing questions about the status of American Indians within the American and international political landscapes. Analyzing the history of Indian treaty relations with...
Recovering History, Constructing Race
The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican Americans
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
The history of Mexican Americans is a history of the intermingling of races—Indian, White, and Black. This racial history underlies a legacy of racial discrimination against Mexican Americans and their Mexican ancestors that stretches from the Spanish conquest to current battles over ending affirmative...
Evo's Bolivia
Continuity and Change
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2014
In this compelling and comprehensive look at the rise of Evo Morales and Bolivia's Movimiento al Socialismo (MAS), Linda Farthing and Benjamin Kohl offer a thoughtful evaluation of the transformations ushered in by the western hemisphere's first contemporary indigenous president. Accessible to all...
Kuxlejal Politics
Indigenous Autonomy, Race, and Decolonizing Research in Zapatista Communities
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2017
Over the past two decades, Zapatista indigenous community members have asserted their autonomy and self-determination by using everyday practices as part of their struggle for lekil kuxlejal, a dignified collective life connected to a specific territory. This in-depth ethnography summarizes Mariana...