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Ancient Andean Political Economy
University of Texas Press
A study of the political and economic dynamics of this complex region.
Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero
The Formative Years
University of Texas Press
A study of a controversial historian.
What is la hispanidad?
A conversation
By Ilan Stavans and Iván Jaksic
University of Texas Press
In a series of lively, provocative conversations, two prominent intellectuals debate the nature of “Hispanic-ness” as it has been expressed in Hispanic civilization around the world and across the centuries.
Speeches from Athenian Law
Edited by Michael Gagarin
University of Texas Press
A compilation of speeches covering key issues in Athenian law, drawn from the Oratory of Classical Greece series, that is intended primarily for use in teaching courses in Greek law or related areas such as Greek history.
Latin America's New Historical Novel
University of Texas Press
In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.
History, Tragedy, Theory
Dialogues on Athenian Drama
Edited by Barbara Goff
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays on Athenian drama demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike.
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
By Johnny Payne
University of Texas Press
In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors’ careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r
Rocky Mountain Divide
Selling and Saving the West
University of Texas Press
A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.
We Were Not Orphans
Stories from the Waco State Home
By Sherry Matthews; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press
In these amazing stories, Texans who spent their youth in an institution for “dependent and neglected” children reveal both the positive outcomes and the horrific abuses that resulted when a government-run “home” was allowed to operate for decades without any public oversight.
Uchi
The Cookbook
By Tyson Cole and Jessica Dupuy
University of Texas Press
Expand your gastronomic boundaries with some of the most celebrated recipes of Tyson Cole, winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef (Southwest) and founder of one of America’s premier restaurants for innovative Japanese cuisine, Uchi.
The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology
University of Texas Press
Three decades of music writing from Austin’s renowned alternative newspaper creates an invaluable record of one of America’s most vibrant musical communities—“the live music capital of the world”—and of musicians from Townes Van Zandt to Spoon.
State of Minds
Texas Culture and Its Discontents
By Don Graham
University of Texas Press
Offering his signature take on Texas literary giants from J. Frank Dobie to Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, and on films such as The Alamo, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, Don Graham demolishes the notion that “Texas culture” is a contr
Egyptian Mummies
University of Texas Press
Richly illustrated with the most superb examples of ancient funerary art found in the British Museum, Egyptian Mummies offers an illuminating account of the beliefs and rituals surrounding mummies, life, death, and the afterlife in ancient Egypt.
Don’t Make Me Go to Town
Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated with rich black-and-white photographs of ranchwomen at work, Don’t Make Me Go to Town is a remarkable record of women of strength and determination who are striving to preserve an increasingly rare way of life.
Before the Echo
Essays on Nature
By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Diana Marlinski
University of Texas Press
In these twenty-nine essays, one of America’s top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world.
Visualizing the Sacred
Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
University of Texas Press
Advancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers
Redefining Feminism on Screen
University of Texas Press
Continuing the celebration of female unruliness she began in The Unruly Woman, Karlyn explores how representations of mothers and daughters in popular films and television shows both reflect and contribute to current debates within and about feminism.
The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala
Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico
By Jaime Cuadriello; Translated by Christopher J. Follett
University of Texas Press
Starting with the iconography of a parish church, this extensively contextualized study examines eighteenth-century art, society, religion, and history to offer a new social history of art in colonial Mexico.
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos
By Chiara Francesca Ferrari; Introduction by Joseph Straubhaar
University of Texas Press
This colorful examination of “translated” television characters in Italy looks at the implications for transnational intersections of commerce and culture.
Sacred Modern
Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection
University of Texas Press
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyon
Film in the Middle East and North Africa
Creative Dissidence
Edited by Josef Gugler
University of Texas Press
A timely window on the world of Middle Eastern cinema, this remarkable overview includes many essays that provide the first scholarly analysis of significant works by key filmmakers in the region.
Drug Games
The International Olympic Committee and the Politics of Doping, 1960–2008
By Thomas M. Hunt; Introduction by John Hoberman
University of Texas Press
Based on research in both American and foreign archives, this first book-length study of doping in the Olympics connects the use and regulation of performance-enhancing drugs to developments in the larger global environment.
Cuban Youth and Revolutionary Values
Educating the New Socialist Citizen
University of Texas Press
This in-depth look at education in Cuba’s high schools and middle schools offers new insights into the links between school and society under Castro.
Kinship Myth in Ancient Greece
University of Texas Press
This examination of the use of ancestor myths in ancient Greece enriches the dialogue on how societies often use myth to construct political, social, and cultural identities and alliances.
Afro-Mexico
Dancing between Myth and Reality
By Anita Gonzalez; By (photographer) George O. Jackson and José Manuel Pellicer; Introduction by Ben Vinson
University of Texas Press
This study of African-based dance in Mexico explores the influence of African people and their cultural productions on Mexican society, showing how dance can embody social histories and relationships.
The Red-cockaded Woodpecker
Surviving in a Fire-Maintained Ecosystem
University of Texas Press
Three of the leading experts on the Red-cockaded Woodpecker offer a comprehensive overview of all that is currently known about its biology and natural history and about the ecology of the fire-maintained forests it requires for survival.
The Spectacular City, Mexico, and Colonial Hispanic Literary Culture
University of Texas Press
Stephanie Merrim offers a dynamic interdisciplinary approach to colonial Hispanic writing based on the spectacular city, a model that encompasses three driving forces of New World literary culture: cities, festivals, and wonder.
The Jaguar and the Priest
An Ethnography of Tzeltal Souls
By Pedro Pitarch; Introduction by Roy Wagner
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding ethnography investigates how Indian concepts of the soul offer a new way of understanding personhood and historical memory in highland Chiapas, Mexico.
Spies and Holy Wars
The Middle East in 20th-Century Crime Fiction
University of Texas Press
From World War I to the twenty-first century, this is a watershed examination of British and American thrillers whose villains are jihadists rather than Cold War nemeses.
One Hundred Bottles
By Ena Lucía Portela; Translated by Achy Obejas
University of Texas Press
A literary murder mystery set in Havana, One Hundred Bottles is also a survivor’s story of very rough love, intense friendship, and creating family in the chaos that Cuba experienced during the 1990s.
Making a Killing
Femicide, Free Trade, and La Frontera
Edited by Alicia Gaspar de Alba and Georgina Guzmán
University of Texas Press
Bringing together diverse perspectives, including feminism, Marxism, critical race theory, semiotics, and textual analysis, this is the first anthology to focus exclusively on the murders of more than five hundred women and girls in Ciudad Juárez, Mexico
Left of Hollywood
Cinema, Modernism, and the Emergence of U.S. Radical Film Culture
By Chris Robé
University of Texas Press
The first study dedicated to the emergence of U.S. Left film theory and criticism, combining close readings of films with archival research to explore the origins of a movement that aspired toward a popular cinema of social change.
Painted Light
By Kate Breakey
University of Texas Press
With luminous images from nine suites of photographs, this is the first career retrospective of internationally acclaimed artist Kate Breakey, encompassing works ranging from early images that bridge art and science to her mature still lifes.
Vernon Fisher
University of Texas Press
With over 150 superb illustrations, this is the most current and comprehensive retrospective of the work of internationally acclaimed postmodern artist Vernon Fisher, whose bold and innovative multimedia work suggests stories with multiple meanings and indecipherable conclusions.
Texas, A Modern History
Revised Edition
University of Texas Press
Thoroughly updated since its original publication in 1989, this popular history by award-winning author David G. McComb brings the story of Texas into the twenty-first century.
Hollywood Incoherent
Narration in Seventies Cinema
University of Texas Press
Looking at iconic films such as The Godfather, The French Connection, The Exorcist, Taxi Driver, and A Woman Under the Influence, this book reveals that the narrative and stylistic innovations of the 1970s opened a new era in American cinema.
Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers
American Hilltop Fox Chasing
By Thad Sitton
University of Texas Press
Based on thousands of fascinating primary accounts in letters, magazine articles, and interviews, Gray Ghosts and Red Rangers is the definitive social history of a vanishing American pastime—folk fox hunting.
Feeding the City
From Street Market to Liberal Reform in Salvador, Brazil, 1780–1860
University of Texas Press
This social and cultural history of the provisioning of Salvador, Brazil, as it moved from colony to independent city encompasses a whole society by looking at a broadly defined occupation—the food trade—and showing the connections between and among social categories.
Desert Duty
On the Line with the U.S. Border Patrol
University of Texas Press
Covering a fifty-year span of law enforcement, Desert Duty reveals the patriotic sense of duty and compassionate calling that motivates the men and women who guard the borders of the United States.
The Gernsheim Collection
University of Texas Press
This selection of masterpieces from the Gernsheim Collection, one of the world’s most important collections of photography, effectively constitutes a visual history of photography from the earliest-known photograph to images of the mid-twentieth century.
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