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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.
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.
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
By L. L. Wynn
University of Texas Press
A revealing ethnography of the ways in which globalism, history, and other factors shape perceptions of identity in urban Egypt.
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.
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.
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
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.
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America
A New History for a New World
By Kathleen Ann Myers; Translated by Nina M. Scott
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.
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.
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Extraordinary Expressions of Home
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.
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars
By Faye Hammill
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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