Books published by University of Texas Press

This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.

John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.

This book tells the story of four men and the county rings they shaped in South Texas during the Progressive Era.

The complete story of the Taft Ranch from its inception in 1880 to its dissolution in 1930.

This collection of twenty-two essays from fifteen well-known scholars presents linguistic research on the indigenous languages of South America, surveying past research, providing data and analysis gathered from past and current research, and suggesting p

A wonderfully readable yet thoroughly scholarly set of translations from the oral literature of the Yucatec Maya.

This is the first geographic study of the Yanoama, an aboriginal South American tribe.