Books published by University of Texas Press

This richly orchestrated novel, which won a national literary prize in the author's native land, Venezuela, also earned international recognition when the William Faulkner Foundation gave it an award as the most notable novel published in Ibero America between 1945 and 1962.

';[A] compulsively readable biography... Essential for fans of Yoakam and lovers of good music writing.' Library Journal From his formative years playing pure hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he's successfully bridged two musical worlds that usually have little use for each other: commercial country and its alternative/Americana/roots-rocking counterpart. Defying the label ';too country for rock, too rock for country,' Yoakam has triumphed while many of his peers have had to settle for cult acceptance. Four decades into his career, he's sold more than twenty-five million records and continues to tour regularly. Now award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of this acclaimed artist. Tracing the seemingly disparate influences in Yoakam's music, McLeese shows how he's combined rock and roll, rockabilly, country, blues, and gospel into a seamless whole. In particular, McLeese explores the essential issue of ';authenticity' and how it applies to Yoakam, as well as to country music and popular culture in general. Drawing on wide-ranging interviews with Yoakam and his management, while also benefiting from the perspectives of others closely associated with his success (including producer-guitarist Pete Anderson, partner throughout Yoakam's most popular and creative decades), Dwight Yoakam pays tribute to the musician who has established himself as a visionary beyond time, an artist who could title an album Tomorrow's Sounds Today and deliver it.

This book is about the phenomenon of realignment, a sharp, enduring shift in voter support of the two major parties, in American politics.

A Mexican Family Empire is a careful examination of the largest latifundio ever to have existed, not only in Mexico but also in all of Latin America-the latifundio of the Sanchez Navarros.

In providing a detailed account of the leftist opposition and its bloody repression in Brazil during the Old Republic and the early years of the Vargas regime, John W. F. Dulles gives considerable attention to the labor movement, generally neglected by historians.

A detailed biography of this pensman of the American Revolution and early Republic.

Richard N. Adams argues that social power affects humanity's approach to ecological, economic, and political problems, directing people to seek solutions which are often deceptively shortsighted.

This is the story of and by an outspoken Texian, complete with his attitudes, principles, and moralizings, and the nineteenth-century style and flavor of his writing.

Drawn from a wealth of primary material in the Lyndon Baines Johnson Library, the study probes the objectives of President Johnson and other framers of new policies and programs, within the institutional and political context of the 1960s.

This carefully documented study of the first two years of Austrian reoccupation of Lombardy-Venetia examines all aspects of the Habsburg provisional regimes and draws some conclusions about the reasons for the different attitudes in the two provinces.

In nineteenth century, Cuban economy rested on twin pillars of sugar and slaves. Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. This book raises important questions about the process of canon-formation and reveals Cuba's rich heritage of Afro-Latin literature and culture.

This volume presents significant developments in the field of Montague Grammar and outlines its past and future contributions to philosophy and linguistics.

Fourteen articles on the mechanisms of syntactic change.

A historical narrative of one of the great experiments in modern physical science.

The essays here offer a conspectus of late-twentieth century Maya research and a series of case histories of the work of some of the leading scholars in the field.

This book provides dramatic evidence of the effects of several volcanic disasters on a major civilization of the Western Hemisphere, that of the Maya.

The story of the growth of an unlikely inland port situated at a "tent city" that many Texans thought would die young.

Dramatists in Revolt, through studies of the major playwrights, explores significant movements in Latin American theater.

This witty, observant, and highly perceptive woman captured the infant Texas in her journal-the Mexican state moving toward rebellion and the new Republic, dynamic and struggling with a great destiny.

The result of the first German-American geography seminar, held at the University of Texas in September 1979, this book deals with the impact of geographic policy planning by various governmental agencies in both the Federal Republic of Germany and the Un

A study of the regional peasant marketing system in the Valley of Oaxaca, Mexico.

The first anthropological study to document the social change in an urban community in Saudi Arabia since the oil book of the mid-1970s.

A pioneering foray into one of the major puzzles of human communication: the communication of emotion in dance.

A sparkling account of the life and times of a couple who fostered a renaissance of interest in the history and traditional arts of Mexico's indigenous peoples.

This classical synthesis of Mexican history, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders.

Land of the Underground Rain is a study in human use and threatened exhaustion of the High Plains' most valuable natural resource.

This is the first work to deal systematically with Tuscan folklore from a semiotic and structural viewpoint and to examine the veglia as a means of handing down traditional values.

This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886-from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude.

How the quest for secure and stable supplies of industrial materials has been an important underlying theme of international relations and American diplomacy.

A reference work describing Polynesian syntax, an investigation of the role of grammatical relations in syntax, and a discussion of ergativity, case marking, and other areas of syntactic diversity in Polynesian.