Books published by University of Texas Press

Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.

A collection of sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales from Mexican Americans in urban Los Angeles.

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

The first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.

The Sao Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country's leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.

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

The biography of a man who left his mark on world commerce through the development of a large cotton marketing firm, and who made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.

The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.

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

A biography of the author of The Man Without a Country that vividly portrays his fascinating and often turbulent era.

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

System and Succession provides a comparative analysis of the social composition of national political leadership in the United States, Russia, Germany, and Mexico.

Vickers reads the first six of Aristophanes' eleven extant plays in a way that reveals the principal characters to be based in large part on Pericles and his ward Alcibiades.

Sunbelt Cities is the first full-scale scholarly examination of the region popularly conceived as the Sunbelt.

Of Sondry Folk is Lumiansky's revelation of Chaucer as dramatic writer.

The autobiographical account of a 19th century British man's childhood on the Miskito Coast of Nicaragua.

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 study of one of Byron's most notable poetic dramas.

This collection represents a major step forward in understanding the era from the end of Classic Maya civilization to the Spanish conquest.

An analysis of the causes and consequences of extensive social and political mobilization among Peru's peasant population in the 1960s.

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

The first intellectual history of a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" ima

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

In this literary biography, Goodman traces the life of the brilliant but troubled Pulitzer Prize-winning author, Jean Stafford, and reassesses her importance.

In this pioneering study, Ralph W. Mathisen examines the "fall" in one part of the western Empire, Gaul, to better understand the shift from Roman to Germanic power that occurred in the region during the fifth century A.D.

This book argues that for some Greeks the ethnos, a regionally based ethnic group, and the koinon, or regional confederation, were equally valid units of social and political life and that these ethnic identities were astonishingly durable.

Linguistic data on color names from speakers of 116 Mesoamerican languages.

The result of many years of research in Guatemala, this volume utilizes the author's fieldwork as well as that of his colleagues and students to construct a set of concepts explaining how Guatemala reached the difficult circumstances in which it found itself in the 1960s-and still finds itself today.

Here is the first biography of Thomas Medwin-literary adventurer, rascal, scholar, confidence man, successful fortune hunter, and bemused speculator on a grand scale in old Italian oil paintings.