Author: University of Texas. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 724

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Author: Philippines
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Category : Gazettes
Languages : en
Pages : 702

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Languages : en
Pages : 44

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As the magazine of the Texas Exes, The Alcalde has united alumni and friends of The University of Texas at Austin for nearly 100 years. The Alcalde serves as an intellectual crossroads where UT's luminaries - artists, engineers, executives, musicians, attorneys, journalists, lawmakers, and professors among them - meet bimonthly to exchange ideas. Its pages also offer a place for Texas Exes to swap stories and share memories of Austin and their alma mater. The magazine's unique name is Spanish for "mayor" or "chief magistrate"; the nickname of the governor who signed UT into existence was "The Old Alcalde."

Author: Ronald Hilton
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810812758
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 694

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Author: Manuel Medrano
Publisher: University of North Texas Press
ISBN: 1574412876
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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Américo Paredes (1915-1999) was a folklorist, scholar, and professor at the University of Texas at Austin who is widely acknowledged as one of the founding scholars of Chicano Studies. Born in Brownsville, Texas, along the southern U.S.-Mexico Border, Paredes’ early experiences impacted his writing during his later years as an academic. He grew up between two worlds—one written about in books, the other sung about in ballads and narrated in folktales. He attended a school system that emphasized conformity and Anglo values in a town whose population was 70 percent Mexican in origin. During World War II, he worked for the International American Red Cross and wrote for the Stars and Stripes army newspaper in the Far East. He returned to Texas with a new bride and a passion for continuing his formal education and his writing. Paredes did both at the University of Texas at Austin, where he completed his Ph.D. in 1956. With the publication of his dissertation, “With His Pistol in His Hand”: A Border Ballad and Its Hero in 1958, Paredes soon emerged as a challenger to the status quo. His book questioned the mythic nature of the Texas Rangers and provided an alternative counter-cultural narrative to the existing traditional narratives of Walter Prescott Webb and J. Frank Dobie, among others. For the next forty years he was a brilliant teacher and prolific writer who championed the preservation of border culture and history. He was a soft-spoken, at times temperamental, yet fearless professor. He was a co-founder in 1970 of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin and is credited with introducing the concept of Greater Mexico, decades before its wider acceptance today among transnationalist scholars. He received numerous awards, including La Orden del Aguila Azteca, Mexico’s most prestigious service award to a foreigner. Paredes became a scholar of scholars, guiding many students to become academic leaders. Manuel F. Medrano interviewed Paredes over a five-year period before Paredes’ death in 1999, and also interviewed his family and colleagues. For many Mexican Americans, Paredes’ historical legacy is that he raised, carried, and defended their cultural flag with a dignity that both friends and foes respected.

Author: Christopher Lawrence
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195109047
Category : Health & Fitness
Languages : en
Pages : 402

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This book sheds new light on orthodox medicine and medical science in the interwar years. It challenges the accepted story that medicine in the twentieth century was subject to icreasing reductionism and shows instead that there was a holistic turn in the medical sciences and clinical practice that challenged reductionism and medical specialization.

Author: Frank Robert Palmer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521804790
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 262

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Palmer investigates the category of modality, drawing on a wealth of examples from a wide variety of languages.

Author: Julio A. Martínez
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810812055
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596

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Author: Dennis McEldowney
Publisher: Auckland University Press
ISBN: 1775580067
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 172

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Written by a former managing editor who is also a distinguished writer, this book charts the origins of the Auckland University Press up to its formal recognition in 1972. It provides a valuable document in the history of the book in New Zealand, an intriguing view of university politics and administration, and glimpses of New Zealand culture in the making.

Author: University of Texas at Austin. Library. Latin American Collection
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 782

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