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Border Odyssey
Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
University of Texas Press
This compelling chronicle of a journey along the entire U.S.-Mexico border shifts the conversation away from danger and fear to the shared histories and aspirations that bind Mexicans and Americans despite the border walls.
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
By John A. Lomax; Introduction by John Lomax, John Nova Lomax, and Anna Lomax Wood; Illustrated by Ken Chamberlain
University of Texas Press
Now back in print with a new foreword and photographs, this is the classic 1947 autobiography by pioneering folklorist John A. Lomax, who recorded and preserved thousands of American folk ballads for posterity.
Journey to Texas, 1833
University of Texas Press
The first English translation of the earliest German book about Texas, Journey to Texas, 1833 offers a unique portrait of colonial Texas on the eve of revolution and of the nascent German communities in Austin’s Colony.
Los Zetas Inc.
Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
University of Texas Press
Arguing that the Zetas effectively constitute a transnational corporation, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging actors, business structures, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico.
Where the Land Meets the Sea
Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru
Edited by Tom D. Dillehay
University of Texas Press
This landmark, interdisciplinary volume on the excavation of one of the longest-occupied yet most enigmatic sites in human history sheds new light on how civilization began among farmers and fishermen some fourteen thousand years ago.
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
University of Texas Press
This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.
Why Harry Met Sally
Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love
University of Texas Press
Explicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
Class and Culture on the South Texas Border
By Chad Richardson and Michael J. Pisani
University of Texas Press
Now thoroughly revised and updated, this classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border reveals how the borderlands have been transformed by NAFTA, population growth and immigration crises, and increased drug violence.
The Mobility of Modernism
Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America
University of Texas Press
Presenting a paradigm-shifting view of early Latin American modernism, this book looks at how a transnational intellectual community of writers and critics forged an anticolonial aesthetic based in abstract artistic forms.
Make Ours Marvel
Media Convergence and a Comics Universe
Edited by Matt Yockey
University of Texas Press
Tracing the rise of the Marvel Comics brand from the creation of the Fantastic Four to the development of the Marvel Cinematic Universe, this volume of original essays considers how a comic book publisher became a transmedia empire.
Cormac McCarthy and Performance
Page, Stage, Screen
University of Texas Press
Drawing on Cormac McCarthy’s recently opened archive, as well as interviews with several of his collaborators, this book presents the first comprehensive overview of McCarthy’s writing for film and theater, as well as film adaptations of his novels.
Whiskey River (Take My Mind)
The True Story of Texas Honky-Tonk
By Johnny Bush and Rick Mitchell
University of Texas Press
The legendary singer-songwriter who wrote Willie Nelson’s signature song “Whiskey River” tells about his life in honky-tonk music.
The Peculiar Revolution
Rethinking the Peruvian Experiment Under Military Rule
Edited by Carlos Aguirre and Paulo Drinot
University of Texas Press
Bringing much-needed historical perspectives to debates about an idiosyncratic period in modern Latin American history, scholars from the United States and Peru reassess the meaning and legacy of Peru’s left-leaning military dictatorship.
Rewrite Man
The Life and Career of Screenwriter Warren Skaaren
By Alison Macor
University of Texas Press
This lively biography of the screenwriter of 1980s hit movies Top Gun, Beverly Hills Cop II, Beetlejuice, and Batman illuminates issues of film authorship that have become even more contested in the era of blockbuster filmmaking.
Infrastructures of Race
Concentration and Biopolitics in Colonial Mexico
University of Texas Press
With case studies that link practices of concentration to the emergence of new racial categories, this groundbreaking book convincingly argues that race was a product of, rather than a starting point for, the spatial politics of colonial rule in Latin Ame
A History of Slavery and Emancipation in Iran, 1800-1929
University of Texas Press
The leading authority on slavery and the African diaspora in modern Iran presents the first history of slavery in this key Middle Eastern country and shows how slavery helped to shape the nation’s unique character.
One More Warbler
A Life with Birds
By Victor Emanuel and S Kirk Walsh
University of Texas Press
With stories of sighting rare birds ranging from an Eskimo Curlew to the cranes of Asia, one of America’s foremost birders recalls a lifetime of birding adventures, including friendships with luminaries Roger Tory Peterson, Peter Matthiessen, and George Plimpton.
The American Idea of Home
Conversations about Architecture and Design
By Bernard Friedman; Introduction by Meghan Daum
University of Texas Press
Wide-ranging interviews with leading architectural thinkers, including Thom Mayne, Richard Meier, Robert Venturi, Paul Goldberger, Robert Ivy, Denise Scott Brown, Kenneth Frampton, and Robert A. M. Stern, spotlight some of the most significant issues in a
A Perfectly Good Guitar
Musicians on Their Favorite Instruments
By Chuck Holley
University of Texas Press
Musicians including Rosanne Cash, Guy Clark, JD Souther, Jorma Kaukonen, Bill Frisell, and Kelly Willis pose with and tell stories about the classic Gibsons, Fenders, Martins, and other guitars that have become their most prized instruments.
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