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From his film festival debut Hard Eight to his ambitious studio epics, Paul Thomas Anderson's cinematic vision focuses on postmodern excess and media culture. This book explores his films in relation to the aesthetic and economic shifts within the film industry and to America's changing social and political sensibilities since the mid-1990s.

An eye-opening study of the new coalitions between Latinos and African Americans emerging throughout the Gulf South, where previously divided ethnicities are forging an unprecedented challenge to white hegemony.

Originally published in 1974, this is a collection of original essays by distinguished scholars proposing original concepts and methods for analyzing crucial problems in Latin American history.

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.

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.

The inspiring story of the courageous Houston mailman whose struggle to attend the University of Texas School of Law provided the precedent for the landmark Supreme Court decision Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka that ended segregation in public education.

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.