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Spanish Central America

A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720

University of Texas Press

Now with an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction—a sweeping history of the middle centuries of Spain’s colonial enterprise in Central America.

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Remembering Victoria

A Tragic Nahuat Love Story

University of Texas Press

An anthropological account of a Nahuat Mexican community that broke down into violence and fratricide following the destruction of its property by the Mexican army, told in the words of a Nahuat husband grieving for his murdered wife.

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Pyramids and Nightclubs

A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends about a Marauding Prince, and Blonde Belly Dancers

University of Texas Press

A revealing ethnography of the ways in which globalism, history, and other factors shape perceptions of identity in urban Egypt.

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Mother Earth and Uncle Sam

How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids

University of Texas Press

An assessment of the ways in which the government has failed to protect our youngest generation from toxic exposure and harm, and what can be done to correct these failures now.

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Life After Welfare

Reform and the Persistence of Poverty

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive, gripping study of how 179 families have managed in post–welfare reform Texas, and of the themes that define life after welfare.

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Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border

Growth, Development, and Quality of Life

By Joan B. Anderson and James Gerber; By (photographer) Lisa Foster
University of Texas Press

A study of cross-border economic issues and developments comparing the disparate industrial growth and income gap between the regions on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.

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Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America

A New History for a New World

University of Texas Press

A masterful examination of how Fernández de Oviedo’s General and Natural History of the Indies created a new model for writing history that reflected the vastness of the New World and Spain’s colonial enterprise there.

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Celluloid Vampires

Life After Death in the Modern World

University of Texas Press

In this entertaining and absorbing work, author Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype.

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Yard Art and Handmade Places

Extraordinary Expressions of Home

By Jill Nokes and Pat Jasper; Introduction by Betty Sue Flowers; By (photographer) Krista Whitson
University of Texas Press

A beautifully illustrated book that explores how the making of yard art expresses an exuberant sense of self and helps build communities.

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Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars

University of Texas Press

A fascinating look at seven American, Canadian, and English women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved popular success in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work is s

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