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An intensive study of a large Texas ranch, particularly of its business and financial aspects, in which the author has utilized many company records and firsthand accounts by the men who were engaged in the difficult task of establishing and maintaining a

How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.

The first modern, well-researched history of the Karankawa from prehistoric times until their extinction in the nineteenth century.

With telling vignettes of boyish disasters that drive her to despair, as well as the rare quiet moments of hugs and confidences that make it all worthwhile, Prudence Mackintosh perfectly captures the early years of parenthood, when a young mother still lo

Vance T. Holliday synthesizes the data from earlier studies with his own recent research to offer the most current and comprehensive overview of the geoarchaeology of the Southern High Plains during the earliest human occupation.

How religion and community economics affect each other in rural Guatemala.

Alexander Terrell's career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging from the Civil War to Emperor Maximilian's reign over Mexico and an Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empi

The first biography of the broadcast journalist who was once rated second in credibility only to Walter Cronkite and who co-founded the TV newsmagazine 60 Minutes.

This book seeks to redeem and refine the theory of magical realism in U.S. multiethnic and British postcolonial literature and film.

An investigation of the ways in which race and sexuality intersect and function in Chicano/a literature and film.

A working-class history of the Texas oil fields, as told by one of its workers.Oil, the black gold of Texas, has given rise to many a myth. Oil could turn a man overnight into a millionaireand didfor some. But these myths have obscured what life was really like in the oil patch, a place that was neither the El Dorado of legend nor quite the unredeemed den of sin and iniquity that some feared. In Roughnecks, Drillers, and Tool Pushers, Gerald Lynch provides a much-needed insider's view of the oil industry, describing life in various oil fields in and around Texas. He also chronicles changes in drilling methods and oil-field technology and how these changes affected him and his fellow oil-field workers. No one else has written a working-class history of the oil fields as colorful and articulate as this one.</

An exploration of Caddoan cultural change from the perspectives of both archaeological data and historical, ethnographic, and archival records.

This book explores the institutional and aesthetic foundations of the New Latin American Cinema.

A study of Mexico during 1913-1920.

Readings of Poniatowska's work from a variety of critical approaches.

This book argues that poststructuralism offers important and revealing insights into all aspects of Lispector's writing,

A comprehensive study of the history and archaeology of a Spanish colonial mission in south Texas.

The first in-depth biography of a Texas senator.

The definitive portrait of a legendary Texas rabbi, written by his grandson.

A cogent economic analysis of why the Black Death devastated Egypt while it revitalized England.

This book examines the ways in which the people of an Oaxacan village practice traditional cooperative and reciprocal relationships.

A probing look at film representations of women lawyers during the Reagan-Bush era.

The social structures and engineering that enabled the Maya to build their massive buildings.

The first detailed account of the popular film as it has grown and changed during the tumultuous decades of Indian nationhood.

A novel about a girl growing up in the seaport town of Fortaleza, in northeastern Brazil.

Thirteen of Uruguayan writer Horacio Quiroga's most compelling tales.

The classic account of what day-to-day life was like for cowboys and pioneer families in the American West. Born in a log cabin in 1879Edward Everett Dale sought education and become a prolific and versatile professional writerbut always remained rooted in his close connection to the frontier. He lived in a sod house, and once rode the range as cook to a group of cowboys. His life experiences brought exceptional authenticity to his work, including this classic first-hand account of the way pioneers lived. In Frontier Ways he describes all aspects of frontier life: the building of a home, the problems of finding wood and water, the procuring and cooking of food, medical practices, and the cultural, social, and religious life of pioneer families. Lively and involving, this collection of his essays has allowed generations of readers to look back on the West's fascinating past. ';At times [Dale] was the serious scholarly research-bent historian, but more often he was the folklorist, humorist, on-the-spot frontier reporter.' Great Plains Journal

The first overall survey of the effects of glasnost on the work of Soviet filmmakers and their films.

A biography of the noted Chilean poet.