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Dwight Yoakam
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
By Don McLeese
University of Texas Press
Award-winning music journalist Don McLeese offers the first musical biography of the electrifying artist who has most successfully bridged the disparate worlds of commercial country and alternative/Americana/roots music, Dwight Yoakam.
Desert Terroir
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
University of Texas Press
From the biology behind flavor to the stories and memories that taste evokes, here is a savory exploration of the terroir of the Southwestern borderlands—the geological, ecological, and cultural history embodied in the foods of this desert region.
Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood
University of Texas Press
Refuting virtually every previous account of the founding and development of the American motion picture industry, this entertaining biography pays tribute to a pioneer whose many innovations helped to create Hollywood as we know it today.
Chicano Satire
A Study in Literary Culture
University of Texas Press
In this groundbreaking study, Guillermo Hernández focuses on the uses of satire in the works of three authors—Luis Valdez, Rolando Hinojosa, and José Montoya—and on the larger context of Chicano culture in which satire operates.
Satire in Narrative
Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon
University of Texas Press
This study asserts that narrative satire performs a different function from poetic satire, in that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective.
A Route 66 Companion
Edited by David King Dunaway
University of Texas Press
With fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history from a stellar collection of writers, including Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Washington Irving, Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck, A Route 66 Companion offers a literary hi
The Chora of Metaponto 3
Archaeological FIeld Survey—Bradano to Basento
Edited by Joseph Coleman Carter and Alberto Prieto
University of Texas Press
The latest volume of archaeological investigations in southern Italy by the Institute of Classical Archaeology that will present a wealth of new information about the region’s ancient rural economy and culture.
Parson Henry Renfro
Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier
University of Texas Press
The life of a frontier preacher who served in the Civil War as soldier and chaplain and who eventually embraced the ideals of the Free Thought Movement.
The Shaman’s Mirror
Visionary Art of the Huichol
By Hope MacLean
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.
The Chora of Metaponto 4
The Late Roman Farmhouse at San Biagio
By Erminia Lapadula; Edited by Joseph Coleman Carter
University of Texas Press
Based on archaeological investigations in southern Italy by the Institute of Classical Archaeology, this volume features a small but viable social and economic entity that was an unexpected find from a period generally marked by large landholdings.
Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture
The Unborn, Women, and Creation
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking study of gestational imagery on ancient Olmec monuments and objects brings to light Mesoamerica’s earliest creation narrative and traces its evolution into one of the enduring themes of Mesoamerican ritual life and art.
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
University of Texas Press
Examining the complex interactions of numerous distinct groups of native peoples over a 400-year period, this book presents an entirely new archaeological conceptualization of Texas that links prehistory and history into a single continuum.
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers
The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
By S. K. Mendoza Forrest; Introduction by Prods Oktor Skjaervø
University of Texas Press
A deep exploration into how evil was understood and categorized, and then finally combated, in early Iranian traditions.
Vintage Moquegua
History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
University of Texas Press
This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.
Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America
The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life
University of Texas Press
A compelling study of the writers who used the genre of crónica—combining literary aestheticism with journalistic form—to capture seismic political and sociological shifts in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Governor's Hounds
The Texas State Police, 1870–1873
By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused primary sources, this book offers the first full-scale assessment of the much-reviled Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas.
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Artistic Developments in the Muslim World
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
University of Texas Press
Twelve leading scholars trace Islamic discourse on the performing arts to give insight into genres of pious productions throughout the world.
Demosthenes, Speeches 1–17
Translated by Jeremy Trevett
University of Texas Press
This collection of oratory by or ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators presents the Philippic and Olynthiac speeches—deliberative speeches denouncing Philip of Macedon—plus a letter from Philip to the Athenians.
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema
By Monika Mehta
University of Texas Press
An examination of the censorship of gender and heterosexuality—particularly female heterosexuality—in Bombay cinema.
American Film Cycles
Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures
University of Texas Press
Exploring how political sentiments, popular desires, and social anxieties have been reflected in movies from the Dead End Kids serial to the ghetto action flicks of the 1990s, this book offers the first full-length study of the American film cycle and its
The Journey of a Tzotzil-Maya Woman of Chiapas, Mexico
Pass Well over the Earth
University of Texas Press
Enhancing our understanding of the struggle for indigenous rights in Chiapas, this testimonial presents a unique account of that struggle by a woman who has been active at the grassroots level for three decades.
The American University of Beirut
Arab Nationalism and Liberal Education
University of Texas Press
This history of the American University of Beirut presents a rich 150-year process of conflict, cooperation, and growth that has balanced the goals of American liberal education with the quest for Arab national identity and empowerment.
The Albatross and the Fish
Linked Lives in the Open Seas
University of Texas Press
Sounding an alarm over the potential extinction of many albatross species, this book encourages individuals, environmental groups, fishery oversight bodies, and governments to create sustainable management practices for whole ocean ecosystems.
Missing Mila, Finding Family
An International Adoption in the Shadow of the Salvadoran Civil War
University of Texas Press
While adding an engrossing new chapter to the story of the Salvadoran civil war and its long aftermath, Missing Mila, Finding Family deepens our understanding of the issues involved in international adoptions and the desire of birth families to find their disappeared sons and daughters.
Kitchenspace
Women, Fiestas, and Everyday Life in Central Mexico
By Maria Elisa Christie; Introduction by Mary Weismantel
University of Texas Press
A pioneering ethnography of a crucial, yet often undervalued, site of family and community building—the kitchen.
Horror after 9/11
World of Fear, Cinema of Terror
Edited by Aviva Briefel and Sam J. Miller
University of Texas Press
The first major exploration of the horror film genre through the lens of 9/11 and the subsequent transformation of American and global society.
Anthropology, Economics, and Choice
University of Texas Press
This book presents the first extended critique of rational choice theory from an anthropological perspective.
West of 98
Living and Writing the New American West
Edited by Lynn Stegner and Russell Rowland
University of Texas Press
The first collection of its kind in scope and ambition, this volume brings together the most prominent western writers of the current generation to create new visions of the American West—“the West that is still becoming.”
The Trials of Eroy Brown
The Murder Case That Shook the Texas Prison System
University of Texas Press
The shocking story of the black inmate who was acquitted after killing two high-ranking prison guards in a case that publicized the horrors of Texas’s “plantation-style” prison system.
Texas State Cemetery
University of Texas Press
Illustrated with superb images by renowned Texas photographer Laurence Parent, this history of the Texas State Cemetery tells the story of Texas through the lives of notable Texans, from Stephen F. Austin to Barbara Jordan, who are buried in this hallowed ground.
Tell Me the Story of How I Conquered You
Elsewheres and Ethnosuicide in the Colonial Mesoamerican World
By José Rabasa
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book presents a new understanding of the pictorial vocabulary presented in Codex Telleriano-Remensis, which reveals a native painter’s perspective on the tandem of ethnosuicide and ethnogenesis, and the topology of conquest.
Super Black
American Pop Culture and Black Superheroes
By Adilifu Nama
University of Texas Press
An exploration of black superheroes as a fascinating racial phenomenon and a powerful source of racial meaning, narrative, and imagination in American society.
My Stone of Hope
From Haitian Slave Child to Abolitionist
By Jean-Robert Cadet and Jim Luken
University of Texas Press
From the author of Restavec: From Haitian Slave Child to Middle-Class American, which has sold more than 25,000 copies, comes a searing memoir that puts a human face on the issue of child slavery and sounds a call to end it through advocacy and education.
Greenback Planet
How the Dollar Conquered the World and Threatened Civilization as We Know It
By H. W. Brands
University of Texas Press
With fascinating stories of money men, from Alexander Hamilton to Alan Greenspan and Ben Bernanke, and deft explanations of the ins and outs of monetary policy, Greenback Planet clarifies why the dollar rules the world—and why that should frighten us all.
Gael Stack
University of Texas Press
Lavishly illustrated with color plates, Gael Stack is the first retrospective monograph on the art of one of America’s most accomplished contemporary painters, whose work charts the uncertain territories of memory.
From Uncertain to Blue
By Keith Carter; Introduction by Horton Foote
University of Texas Press
This superb re-envisioning of Keith Carter’s highly acclaimed first book presents classic images of small-town life in a completely redesigned volume that also offers insight into Carter’s creative process through a new essay, contact sheets, and an amplified travel journal.
Border Junkies
Addiction and Survival on the Streets of Juárez and El Paso
By Scott Comar; Introduction by Howard Campbell
University of Texas Press
From the sweaty summer days of a junky’s nightmare to the bittersweet success of true surrender and emergence into a new way of life, Border Junkies paints a searing, first-hand portrait of addiction, poverty, and recovery on the U.S.-Mexico border.
Zaprudered
The Kennedy Assassination Film in Visual Culture
University of Texas Press
This fascinating account examines how Abraham Zapruder’s accidental footage of the Kennedy assassination has been transformed from documentary evidence to an aesthetic and cultural lodestone.
Portuguese
A Reference Manual
University of Texas Press
A boon for students and instructors of the language, culture, and literature of the Portuguese-speaking world, this language resource manual delves beyond the realm of traditional language textbooks.
Lone Stars III
A Legacy of Texas Quilts, 1986-2011
University of Texas Press
Completing a landmark documentation of 175 years of Texas quilt history they began in Lone Stars I and II, Texas’s leading quilt experts present two hundred traditional and art quilts that represent “the best of the best” quilts being made in Texas today.
Cultures of Migration
The Global Nature of Contemporary Mobility
By Jeffrey H. Cohen and Ibrahim Sirkeci
University of Texas Press
Exploring the motivations of migrants in countries around the world, this book proposes a new model of immigration that accounts for the cultural beliefs and social patterns that influence people to move—or to remain at home.
Colonialism and Christianity in Mandate Palestine
By Laura Robson
University of Texas Press
This crucial history of Palestinian Christians from the late Ottoman period through the British mandate reveals the British role in diminishing Arab Christian influence.
Analyzing World Fiction
New Horizons in Narrative Theory
Edited by Frederick Luis Aldama
University of Texas Press
A sweeping collection of approaches to narrative theory, with analyses drawn from a variety of truly global literature, films, and television shows.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1935-2009
Fourth Edition
University of Texas Press
With nearly 1,000 new biographies, updates of the existing biographies and appendices, and a fully searchable CD, this is the definitive source for biographical information on some 3,000 of Mexico’s leading state and national politicians.
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Jean Rhys at "World's End"
Novels of Colonial and Sexual Exile
University of Texas Press
In this pathfinding study, Mary Lou Emery focuses on Rhys’s handling of tense oppositions, using a Caribbean cultural perspective to replace the mainly European aesthetic, moral, and psychological standards that have served to misread and sometimes devalu
The Unexamined Orwell
By John Rodden
University of Texas Press
Continuing his masterful investigation of the ongoing reception and continual reinvention of George Orwell six decades after his death, Rodden delves into numerous aspects of Orwell’s legacy that have been surprisingly neglected.
Foxboy
Intimacy and Aesthetics in Andean Stories
By Catherine J. Allen; Illustrated by Julia Meyerson
University of Texas Press
With a powerful, erotic, and entertaining Quechua story as a master narrative, Foxboy explores the acts of storytelling and story listening in the Andes to discover how these arts are used to communicate deeply held cultural values.
¡Chicana Power!
Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of oral histories from pioneering Chicana activists, as well as the vibrant print culture through which they articulated their agenda and built community, this book presents the first full-scale investigation of the social and politica
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