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A full account of a single risky venture, this inquiry is a microcosm of early foreign economic penetration into the Mexican mining industry.

Internationally renowned scholar Renzo De Felice's pioneering study of the Jews of Libya is, in many ways, a microcosm of the major sources of conflict in the modern Middle East.

The first biography of Sir Walter Mildmay, who dutifully served Queen Elizabeth I for thirty years as Chancellor of the Exchequer.

A comprehensive and compact field guide, Trees of Central Texas introduces 186 species of tree life in Central Texas.

';A frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution.' Time Martn Luis Guzmn, eminent historian of Mexico, knew and traveled with Pancho Villa at various times during the Revolution. When many years later some of Villa's private papers, records, and what was apparently the beginning of an autobiography came into Guzmn's hands, he was ideally suited to blend all these into an authentic account of the Revolution as Pancho Villa saw it, and of the General's life as known only to Villa himself. This is Villa's story, his account of how it all began when as a peasant boy of sixteen he shot a rich landowner threatening the honor of his sister. This lone, starved refugee hiding out in the mountains became the scourge of the Mexican Revolution, the leader of thousands of men, and the hero of the masses of the poor. The assault on Ciudad Jurez in 1911, the battles of Tierra Blanca, of Torreon, of Zacatecas, of Celaya, all are here, told with a feeling of great immediacy. This volume ends as Villa and Obregon prepare to engage each other in the war between victorious generals into which the Revolution degenerated before it finally ended. The Memoirs were first published in Mexico in 1951, where they were extremely popular. This volumetranslated by Virginia H. Taylorwas the first English publication. ';This biographical history presents as revealing a historical portrait of the Revolution as the author's earlier historical novel, The Eagle and the Serpent.' The Hispanic American Historical Review

Essays, fiction, poetry, and illustrations about British life and culture in the mid-twentieth century.

A fresh look at the Athenian korai-sculptures of beautiful young women presenting offerings to the goddess Athena that stood on the Acropolis.

Spanning over two thousand years of Maya prehistory, from the Middle Preclassic through the Classic and the poorly understood Postclassic, the papers in this volume address such topics as epigraphy and iconography, architecture, site planning, settlement

In this detailed study of early and mid-twentieth-century regulation of commercial aviation Emmette S. Redford illustrates what happens when government regulates a particular industry.

These lectures in functional analysis cover several aspects of Banach spaces, a conceptualization of complete normed linear spaces developed by Stefan Banach in 1932, and include a number of topics which had never before been treated in expository form.

The life and times of Edmund Gosse glow warmly in these letters, delightful to even the most casual reader, engrossing to one with an interest in the distinguished correspondents or in the late-Victorian and Edwardian eras.

Articles on number theory.

This handbook provides students and scholars with a highly readable yet detailed analysis of all surviving Greek tragedies and satyr plays.

Based on extensive research in previously unavailable sources, A Search for Solvency relates intriguing and often complicated issues of economic analysis and diplomatic history.

A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.

Unrest in Brazil describes in exciting detail the government crises and resulting military interventions that punctuated the power struggle between supporters and opponents of Vargas in the decade following his death.

Fifteen letters that George Armstrong Custer contriuted to the New York-based sportsman's journal Turf, Field and Farm under the pseudonym Nomad.

The first European-authored study of Arabian horses.

A detailed and comprehensive analysis of small-scale peasant and artisan enterprise in the Oaxaca Valley of Mexico.

A study of a group of earlier Spaniards in America.

This is a study of the early years of manufacturing in Sao Paulo: how it was influenced by the growth and decline of the coffee trade; where it found its markets, its credit, and its labor force; and how it confronted the competition of imports.

A collection of essays that represent development in folklore genre studies, diverging into literary, ethnographic, and taxonomic questions.

Forty essays by most of the principal authorities on the biology and management of cowbirds.

An analysis of the Texas governorship built on a broad historical foundation that places events and persons in a perspective perhaps not previously considered by the reader.

How the ruling elite of ancient Rome sought -- and often failed -- to eradicate the memory of their deceased opponents.

This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.

Originally delivered at a symposium held in May 1968 during the national meeting of the Society for American Archaeology, these essays offer differing points of view and considerable evidence on the pros and cons of pre-Columbian contact between the Old W

The story of a man who lived through the final days of the Inca empire.

Essays on Portugal in the mid-1970s.

Where more poignantly than in a small country graveyard can a traveler fathom the flow of history and tradition? During the past twenty years, Terry G. Jordan has traveled the back roads and hidden trails of rural Texas in search of such cemeteries. With camera in hand, he has visited more than one thousand cemeteries created and maintained by the Anglo-American, black, Indian, Mexican, and German settlers of Texas. His discoveries of sculptured stones and mounds, hex signs and epitaphs, intricate landscapes and unusual decorations represent a previously unstudied and unappreciated wealth of Texas folk art and tradition. Texas Graveyards not only marks the distinct ethnic and racial traditions in burial practices but also preserves a Texas legacy endangered by changing customs, rural depopulation, vandalism, and the erosion of time.