An evocative account of the months Stephen Harrigan spent diving on the coral reefs off Grand Tur...

This volume brings together twenty-nine pieces dating from before 1932, none of which appeared in...

Until fairly recently, Arab women rarely received professional health care, since few women docto...

From All Quiet on the Western Front, the Academy Award-winning 'Best Picture' of 1929-1930, to Da...

The love affair between humans and the machines that have made us faster and more powerful has ex...

This classic story told in narrative form seeks to illuminate a little-known theater of the Civil...

In his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: 'An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is th...

In Gideon Lincecum's lifetime the United States expanded from fifteen to thirty-eight states-and ...

Popular lore has long depicted the Karankawa Indians as primitive scavengers (perhaps even cannib...

One Hundred Bottles, with its intersecting characters and unresolved whodunits, can be read as a ...

Unruly women have been making a spectacle of themselves in film and on television from Mae West t...

During the Middle Ages, a thriving center for learning and research was Muslim Spain, where stude...

The Wind stirred up a fury among Texas readers when it was first published in 1925.

Myth and misconception have obstructed a clear understanding of the poetry and person of Marianne...

The Weimar Republic of Germany, covering the post-World War I period of civil and governmental st...

For almost four centuries, the indigenous ChiripÁ (GuaranÍ) people of eastern Paraguay have maint...

The Maya of Santiago Chimaltenango have experienced increasingly rapid, even violent, integration...

Recognized in Mexico as one of the country's most important contemporary dramatists, Emilio Carba...

Popular images of women in Mexico-conveyed through literature and, more recently, film and televi...

Maury Maverick was possibly the first liberal United States Congressman from Texas to achieve nat...

More than any other filmmaker, Sam Peckinpah opened the door for graphic violence in movies. In t...

In his life and writings, William Faulkner continually created and 'performed' selves. Even in le...

'The exploration of the interrelationships among soldiers, civilian settlers, missionaries, and I...

In the minds of many, black street speech-the urban dialect of black Americans-bespeaks illiterac...

Telling an inspiring, largely unknown story, Thursday Night Lights recounts how African American ...

Founded by Mexican American men in 1929, the League of United Latin-American Citizens (LULAC) has...

How Mexican writers responded to a 1968 student massacre.

Written anonymously in 1838–39 by a 'Citizen of Ohio,' Texas in 1837 is the earliest known accoun...

Maya architecture is often described as 'massive' and 'monumental,' but experiments at Copan, Hon...

The physical signs of Roman Catholicism pervade the Mexican countryside. Colonial churches and ne...

Opening a new area in Latin American studies, The Birth of the Penitentiary in Latin America show...

More than two months after Robert E. Lee surrendered the Army of Northern Virginia on April 9, 18...

Ramón Beteta was an important figure in Mexican life: politician, Cabinet member, diplomat, econo...

John Henry Faulk was a popular radio and television personality during the McCarthy era. He was h...

This biting commentary on the follies of humankind by a noted Mexican author cuts deeply yet leav...

This tale of a repressive priest and his small Mexican village during the eighteen months precedi...

The years 1945-1965 saw heavy partisan conflict in the rural areas of Colombia, with at least 200...

Perhaps the most amazing thing of all about Garcilaso de la Vega's epic account of the De Soto ex...

More than a mode of gathering information about the past, oral history has become an internationa...

As United States television programs, movies, music, and other cultural products make their way a...

Astaire and Rogers, Tracy and Hepburn. Just the mention of their names evokes the powerful chemis...

The years 1913-1920 were the most critical years of the Mexican revolution. This study of the per...

The ruins of Maya city-states occur throughout the Yucatan peninsula, Guatemala, Belize, and in p...

After an introductory discussion of Colombian regionalism and novelistic development, Williams co...

Pioneering surgeon Dr. Denton Cooley recalls his extraordinary career and achievements, which inc...

Imagery, broadly defined as all that people may construe in cognitive models pertaining to vision...

A funny thing happened on the way to the movies. Instead of heading downtown to a first-run movie...

This is the travel diary of a young German businessman who came to Texas and worked for several y...