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Pictured Politics
Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections
By Emily Engel
University of Texas Press
Featuring almost eighty illustrations from between 1590 and 1830, Pictured Politics is the sole study in English or Spanish to examine the role of portraiture in constructing the history of South American colonialism.
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas
University of Texas Press
The first book on the history of escuelitas, Reading, Writing, and Revolution examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity.
Jericho
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Charles D'Ambrosio
University of Texas Press
In the fifth volume of his “Unnatural History of America” series, the award-winning journalist delivers a powerful meditation on human greed and bloodlust with razor-sharp reporting on Mexican drug cartels at the US border.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 74
Humanities
Edited by Katherine D. McCann
University of Texas Press
The 2020 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
Freddie Mercury
An Illustrated Life
Edited by Alfonso Casas; Translated by Ned Sublette
University of Texas Press
A vibrant illustrated biography packed with colorful, high-impact drawings capturing the flair, innovation, and dazzling energy that made Freddie Mercury and Queen transcendent superstars.
Haiku History
The American Saga Three Lines at a Time
By H. W. Brands
University of Texas Press
Melding history and poetry, the one-of-a-kind Haiku History gathers a selection of haikus to recount the story of America from the nation’s birth to the election of the forty-fifth president.
Lightning through the Clouds
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Mark Sanagan
University of Texas Press
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
The Ancient Roman Afterlife
Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead
University of Texas Press
Restoring the manes, or deified dead of Rome, to their dominant place in the Roman afterlife, this book offers a comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society.
Border Policing
A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
Edited by Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz
University of Texas Press
An interdisciplinary group of borderlands scholars provide the first expansive comparative history of the way North American borders have been policed—and transgressed—over the past two centuries.
Sunbelt Diaspora
Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando
University of Texas Press
An in-depth look at an emerging Latino presence in Orlando, Florida, where Puerto Ricans and others navigate differences of race, class, and place of origin in their struggle for social, economic, and political belonging.
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
By Sarah Luna
University of Texas Press
A nuanced exploration of life in la zona, the prostitution zone in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, where narcos, sex workers, and missionaries are entangled in revelatory relationships of love and obligation.
Glitter Up the Dark
How Pop Music Broke the Binary
By Sasha Geffen
University of Texas Press
From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.
The Swimming Holes of Texas
By Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy
University of Texas Press
Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas.
All I Ever Wanted
A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
University of Texas Press
Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down.
Democratic Law in Classical Athens
University of Texas Press
Controlled entirely by the city-state’s ordinary citizens, the Athenian legal system is one of the most unorthodox the world has ever known, and Michael Gagarin offers an in-depth explanation of how that worked.
Animals at the End of the World
By Gloria Susana Esquivel; Translated by Robin Myers
University of Texas Press
A poignant tale of childhood imagination that follows lonely six-year-old Inés as she explores both her fears about the outer world and the even greater mysteries of family life.
My Shadow Is My Skin
Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
Edited by Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery
University of Texas Press
Through more than thirty essays, My Shadow Is My Skin presents a broad, personal, and inclusive view of the Iranian diaspora in the US and reveals the intricate ways in which the diaspora continues to evolve.
Maya Bonesetters
Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala
By Servando Z. Hinojosa; Illustrated by Servando G. Hinojosa
University of Texas Press
The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.
The Last Days of El Comandante
University of Texas Press
Winner of the Tusquets prize in 2015 and previously translated into French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese, Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s Patria o muerte is now available in English.
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