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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.

Last of the Spanish Renaissance men, Diego Hurtado de Mendoza (1504-1575) was a master of the humanist disciplines as well as an active diplomat whose correspondence provides insight into the workings of power politics in the first post-Machiavellian decades.

A collection of sixty-two legendary narratives and twenty traditional tales from Mexican Americans in urban Los Angeles.

This book depicts a national calamity in which sincere people followed their convictions to often tragic ends.

The first study of this rich tradition, filled with details about plays, authors, artists, companies, houses, directors, and theatrical circuits.

The Sao Paulo Law School, the oldest institution of higher learning in Brazil, has long been the chief training center for that country's leadership; this book tells about the school's role in Brazilian historical events.

John S. Brushwood analyzes the twentieth-century Spanish American novel as an artistic expression of social reality.

The biography of a man who left his mark on world commerce through the development of a large cotton marketing firm, and who made an equally important impress on international economics and politics through special and vital service in the State Department during three crucial years of world history.

The first book to examine in detail how and why gender relations become skewed when classes and the state emerge in a society.

This book tells the story of four men and the county rings they shaped in South Texas during the Progressive Era.