University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by Charles A. McCoy
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
"Who is James K. Polk?" was a rallying cry of the Whigs during the campaign of 1844. Polk answered that question adequately by winning the election against his Whig opponent, Henry Clay. Today the question might be recast—respectfully, not derisively—"Who was James K. Polk?"...
Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volumes 14 and 15
Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources, Parts Three and Four
Language: English
Release Date: February 18, 2015
Volumes 14 and 15 of the Handbook of Middle American Indians, published in cooperation with the Middle American Research Institute of Tulane University under the general editorship of Robert Wauchope (1909–1979), constitute Parts 3 and 4 of the Guide to Ethnohistorical Sources. The Guide has been assembled...
Meet Me with Your Black Drawers On
My Life in Music
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Jeannie Cheatham is a living legend in jazz and blues. A pianist, singer, songwriter, and co-leader of the Sweet Baby Blues Band, she has played and sung with many of the greats in blues and jazz—T-Bone Walker, Dinah Washington, Cab Callaway, Joe Williams, Al Hibbler, Odetta, and Jimmy Witherspoon....
Carlos Lacerda, Brazilian Crusader
Volume II: The Years 1960-1977
Language: English
Release Date: August 26, 2010
From reviews of Volume I: "Brazilian Crusader is no doubt the best biography yet produced on Lacerda and the second volume . . . is certainly worth waiting for." —Luso-Brazilian Review Journalist and spectacularly successful governor, Carlos Lacerda was Brazil's foremost orator in the 20th century...
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2014
Califia Women
Feminist Education against Sexism, Classism, and Racism
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Launched in 1975, the Califia Community organized activist educational camps and other programs in southern California until its dissolution in 1987. An alternative to mainstream academia’s attempts to tie feminism to university courses, Califia blended aspects of feminism that spanned the labels “second...
Birds of Tropical America
A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2010
Birds of Tropical America was published by Chapters Publishing in 1994 and went out of print in 1997. UT Press is pleased to reissue it with a new epilogue and updated references.
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Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Has the world economy shaped and defined Brazil’s economic and political history and, if so, to what extent? Is Brazil’s past to be explained principally by its insertion in a single world capitalist system? The authors of the three essays in this volume reflect critically on these questions along...
Rereading the Spanish American Essay
Translations of 19th and 20th Century Women’s Essays
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
"The essays are clearly chosen to be different in style and content from the 'malestream' canon, and the book as a whole is full of old friends and welcome new surprises.... It will be of interest not only to Latin Americanists, but also to the wider community interested in non-European gender studies...
The Dread of Difference
Gender and the Horror Film
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
"The Dread of Difference is a classic. Few film studies texts have been so widely read and so influential. It's rarely on the shelf at my university library, so continuously does it circulate. Now this new edition expands the already comprehensive coverage of gender in the horror film with new essays...
by David William Foster
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2013
A taboo subject in many cultures, homosexuality has been traditionally repressed in Latin America, both as a way of life and as a subject for literature. Yet numerous writers have attempted to break the cultural silence surrounding homosexuality, using various strategies to overtly or covertly discuss...
Israel's Years of Bogus Grandeur
From the Six-Day War to the First Intifada
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
On the eve of the Six-Day War in 1967, Israel was nineteen years old and as much an adolescent as the average nineteen-year-old person. Issues of identity and transition were the talk among Israeli intellectuals, including the writer Nissim Rejwan. Was Israel a Jewish state or a democratic state? And,...