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Writing with both a wry sense of humor and an insider's compassion, Prudence Mackintosh offers us a fascinating look into the world of privileged, educated, well-married, well-connected, and mostly wealthy white Texas women.

An examination of the development of the Empress Eugenie's views on foreign affairs and their effect on the formation of the policies of the Second Empire.

This English-Spanish bilingual anthology introduces English-speaking readers to Teillier, with a representative selection of his best work from all phases of his career.

This bilingual collection, drawn primarily from Poesias completas y el minutero, offers English-language readers our first book-length introduction to Lopez Velarde's poetry.

Smitten by the modernity of Cervantes and Borges at an early age, Carlos Fuentes has written extensively on the cultures of the Americas and elsewhere. His work includes over a dozen novels, among them The Death of Artemio Cruz, Christopher Unborn, The Old Gringo, and Terra Nostra, several volumes of short stories, numerous essays on literary, cultural, and political topics, and some theater. In this book, Raymond Leslie Williams traces the themes of history, culture, and identity in Fuentes' work, particularly in his complex, major novel Terra Nostra. He opens with a biography of Fuentes that links his works to his intellectual life. The heart of the study is Williams' extensive reading of the novel Terra Nostra, in which Fuentes explores the presence of Spanish culture and history in Latin America. Williams concludes with a look at how Fuentes' other fiction relates to Terra Nostra, including Fuentes' own division of his work into fourteen cycles that he calls "La Edad del Tiempo," and with an interview in which Fuentes discusses his concept of this cyclical division.

This study explores the work of eight satirists of the colonial period and shows how their literary innovations had a formative influence on the development of the modern Latin American novel, essay, and autobiography.

Carlos Fuentes: A Critical View is the first full-scale examination in English of this major writer's work.

A biography of a 20th century Mexican philosopher and educator.

Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.

In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).

';Parker has used recently declassified American materials and interviews... to reconstruct the steps that led to the creation of Operation Brother Sam.' The American Historical Review When the Brazilian military overthrew President Joo Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a ';100 percent Brazilian movement.' It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup. Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker unravels the events of the coup in fascinating detail. The evidence she presents is corroborated by interviews with key participants. US interference in the Goulart regime began when normal diplomatic pressure failed to produce the desired enthusiasm from him for the Alliance of Progress. Political and economic manipulations also proving ineffective, the United States stood ready to back a military takeover of Brazil's constitutional democracy. US operation ';Brother Sam' involved shipments of petroleum, a naval task force, and tons of arms and ammunition in preparation for intervention during the 1964 coup. When the Brazilian military gained control without calling on the ready assistance, U.S. policy makers immediately accorded recognition to the new government and set in motion plans for economic support.

In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.

A rare diary illustrated with previously unpublished period drawings that records some of the most important naval campaigns of the Civil War.

The memoirs of a man who participlated in virtually every major event in Texas history from 1836 to 1896.

A queer reading of literary and cultural aspects of Latin American texts.

A detailed examination of the operations of a land company in the early twentieth century.

A study of the geography of northern Portgual through the medium of the grapes and wine produced there.

Nina Leibman analyzes many feature films and dozens of TV situation comedy episodes from 1954 to 1963 to find surprising commonalities in their representations of the family.

The first English-language history of Protestantism in Guatemala.

A collection of ten essays that offer interpretations of the survival and adaptation of lowland Maya culture from its earliest contact with the Spanish to the 1970s.

A history of the early years of the Mexican Revolution.

This book brings together an important collection of modern-day Aztec Indian folktales and vividly demonstrates how these tales have been shaped by the social structure of the communities in which they are told.

Recipes from the many cultures that make up modern Texas.

The life stories of two Peruvian indigenous people.

A groundbreaking study of alternative gender and sexuality in the colonial Andean world.

In this highly original ethnography, Benjamin Feinberg investigates how different understandings of Mazatec identity and culture emerge through talk that circulates within and among various groups, including Mazatec-speaking businessmen, curers, peasants,

The first empirically based, interdisciplinary assessment of the socioeconomic and political impact of agricultural biotechnology in Latin America.

This book is an attempt to integrate research on Latin American social organization within a single theoretical framework: development as fundamentally a political problem.