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Cultural Economies Past and Present
University of Texas Press
An analytical tool kit for studying economic processes in all societies and at all times.
High Concept
Movies and Marketing in Hollywood
By Justin Wyatt
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study explores the development and dominance of the high concept movie within commercial Hollywood filmmaking since the late 1970s.
The Lancelot-Grail Cycle
Text and Transformations
Edited by William W. Kibler
University of Texas Press
This volume brings together thirteen essays by noted scholars from the first symposium ever devoted exclusively to the Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
Texas Log Buildings
A Folk Architecture
University of Texas Press
This book preserves a record of the log houses, stores, inns, churches, schools, jails, and barns that have already become all too few in the Texas countryside.
El Teatro Campesino
Theater in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
This study demythologizes and reinterprets the history of a Chicana/o performance ensemble.
The Civil War Memories of Elizabeth Bacon Custer
Reconstructed From Her Diaries and Notes
University of Texas Press
This book tells a fascinating story of a sheltered girl's maturation into a courageous woman in the crucible of war.
Covarrubias
By Adriana Williams; Edited by Doris Ober
University of Texas Press
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.
Otilia's Body
A Novel
University of Texas Press
Widely considered Sergio Galindo's best work, this novel dramatizes a sexually liberated woman's obsession with an outlaw lover, played against the backdrop of Mexican history from 1910 to 1940.
Twentieth-Century Spanish American Fiction
University of Texas Press
In this book, Naomi Lindstrom offers English-language readers a comprehensive survey of the twentieth century's literary production in Latin America (excluding Brazil).
Land of Bears and Honey
A Natural History of East Texas
By Joe C. Truett and Daniel W. Lay
University of Texas Press
The story of the land, wildlife, and ecology of East Texas.
How the Maya Built Their World
Energetics and Ancient Architecture
University of Texas Press
The social structures and engineering that enabled the Maya to build their massive buildings.
Giving Voice to Stones
Place and Identity in Palestinian Literature
University of Texas Press
Barbara McKean Parmenter explores the roots of Western and Zionist images of Palestine, then draws upon the work of Palestinian writers to trace how they have represented their experience of home and exile since the First World War.
German Seed in Texas Soil
Immigrant Farmers in Nineteenth-Century Texas
University of Texas Press
Terry Jordan explores how German immigrants in the nineteenth century influenced and were influenced by the agricultural life in the areas of Texas where they settled.
Adventures with a Texas Naturalist
University of Texas Press
A classic since its first publication in 1947, Adventures with a Texas Naturalist distills a lifetime of patient observations of the natural world.
The Social Production of Urban Space
University of Texas Press
A landmark work in urban studies.
The Jumanos
Hunters and Traders of the South Plains
University of Texas Press
The first full-length study of this native North American people.
The House on the Beach
A Novel
University of Texas Press
This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.
Mexican Literature
A History
Edited by David William Foster
University of Texas Press
This major reference work surveys more than five hundred years of Mexican literature from a sociocultural perspective.
Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico
From the Aztecs to Independence
University of Texas Press
A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses the problem of memory and changing ideas of time in the way Mexicans conceive of their history.
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