Books published by University of Texas Press

How American military personnel and their dependents have affected the political and social evolution of Morocco.

How an ultracivilized country, one of the most European in Latin America, relapsed into near-barbarism in the 1970s.

The story of Mexico's emergence as a modern nation, including much material from interviews with principals of the Revolution.

A remarkable correspondence between the poet Robert Browning and his friend Isabella Blagden.

The first in-depth examination of Lyndon Johnson's Office of Economic Opportunity and its role in the rise and fall of postwar liberalism in the Lone Star State.

A unique intergenerational ethnography about Oaxaca that uses Pierre Bourdieu's practice-theoretical approach.

Reconstructing Beirut contributes to a new approach to Middle East studies that applies recent theories of memory and space/place, bringing a fresh framework for analyzing contemporary Arab cultures and post-conflict cities.

This monumental study is an account of the world economy since the eighteenth century, an analysis and prescription for the future, and a challenge to the neo-Keynesian theories of income determination and growth.

Paul Friedrich looks closely at the strong men of the Tarascan Indian village of Naranja: their leadership, friendship, kinship, and violent local politics (over a time depth of one generation), and ways to understand such phenomena.

In this culmination of over twenty years of research, the author employs modern science and anthropological studies innovatively and cautiously to demonstrate the substance to Dioscorides' authority in medicine.

In this volume, nine classicists approach the Homeric poems from the various perspectives of archaeology, economic history, philosophy, literary criticism, linguistics, and Byzantine history.

An exploration of how English words are translated.

A history of Texas-Mexican conflict during 1842, from the time of the Santa Fe Expedition through the return of the Somervell Expedition from the Rio Grande.

Brazilian Communism, 1935-1945 is an objective and remarkably comprehensive account of the Brazilian Communist Party's struggle to survive repression under the regime of Vargas.

This volume reports in detail how a particular portion of the American wilderness developed into a settled farming community.

This tomb and its offerings unearthed at Pashash, in the northern Andes, provide new perspectives on the cultural meaning of Andean funerary treasure.

An investigation into why some architects become famous while other equally talented ones do not.

This collection of essays by leading Yiddish scholars seeks to recover the authentic voice and vision of the writer known to his Yiddish readers as Yitskhok Bashevis.

Bauer synthesizes extensive archaeological survey work with archival research into the Inca social groups of the Cusco region, their land holdings, and the positions of the shrines to offer a comprehensive, empirical description of the ceque system.

A synthesis of the history of Southern Peruvian Quechua since the Spanish invasion, providing insights into the nature of language change in general, into the social and historical contexts of language change, and into the cultural conditioning of linguis

This book provides a full description of 103 Moche Valley burials, spanning a period of more than 3,500 years.

In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors' careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r

A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.

A collection of essays devoted to various aspects of folk tradition in Texas.

An authoritative study of the administrative, social, and economic structure of Afghanistan at the beginning of the twentieth century. Government and Society in Afghanistan covers a decisive stage in the country's history. The period coveredthe reign of the ';Iron' Amir Rahman Khanwas in many ways the beginning of modern Afghanistan as a cohesive nation. It was under the Amir that its borders were established, its internal unification completed, and the modern concept of nationhood implanted. Hsan Kawun Kakar considers both the internal and the external forces that influenced Afghanistan's development. Thus, modernization, centralization, and nationalization are seen as both defensive reactions to European imperialism and a necessary step toward capital formation and industrialization. The first part of the book covers the government of the Amir, from the personality of the ruler to a comprehensive overview of taxation and local government. The second part views these economic and social institutions from the perspective of the major segments of the populaceincluding nomads, townsmen, tribes, women, slaves, landowners, mullahs, merchants, and others.

A study of medieval southern French and Catalan society.

This unique collection of essays dedicated to the presentation of American tradition broadens our understanding of the regional differences and ethnic folkways that color American life.

This seminal work in the historical literature of race relations in Texas examines the attitudes of whites toward Mexicans in nineteenth-century Texas.

In this first comprehensive treatment of presidential management of such policy for any presidency, the authors focus on four tasks: developing and maintaining an information and decision-making system; coordination of policies in different macroeconomic

A comprehensive analysis of Argentina's Socialist Party's origins, its development, and its actions during the almost two decades of civilian, democratic government that ended with the military coup of 1930.