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Picturing the Proletariat
Artists and Labor in Revolutionary Mexico, 1908–1940
By John Lear
University of Texas Press
Spanning the late Porfiriato to the end of the Cardenista reforms, this is a multifaceted exploration of the production of visual narratives that offered competing interpretations of gender, class, nationalism, and internationalism that came to define modern Mexican identity.
Culture and Revolution
Violence, Memory, and the Making of Modern Mexico
University of Texas Press
This aesthetic reading of politics, society, and culture during and after the Mexican Revolution illuminates how culture mediates power and, rather than uniting a people, collects heterogeneous communities into a diverse archive of memory.
The Making of Hillary Clinton
The White House Years
University of Texas Press
These revealing, never-before-published photographs from the Clinton White House chronicle Hillary Clinton’s transformation into a national policymaker and foreshadow her unprecedented role as a trailblazer for women in presidential politics.
The Teabo Manuscript
Maya Christian Copybooks, Chilam Balams, and Native Text Production in Yucatán
University of Texas Press
Presenting the first English translation and analysis of a recently discovered late colonial Maya Christian manuscript, this volume opens important new insights into how the Maya made sense of Christianity within their own worldview.
Subversives and Mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean
A Subaltern History
Edited by Odile Moreau and Stuart Schaar
University of Texas Press
This book presents key moments from the lives of mavericks in the Muslim Mediterranean world at the turn of the twentieth century, showing how their nonconformity forced those around them to rethink basic values and mores.
Spectacular Wealth
The Festivals of Colonial South American Mining Towns
By Lisa Voigt
University of Texas Press
Drawing on archival research, this illuminating study shows how residents of all ethnicities in three colonial boomtowns used festivals to redefine wealth and present themselves as more than subjects of European power.
Sacred Consumption
Food and Ritual in Aztec Art and Culture
University of Texas Press
Making a foundational contribution to Mesoamerican studies, this book explores Aztec painted manuscripts and sculptures, as well as indigenous and colonial Spanish texts, to offer the first integrated study of food and ritual in Aztec art.
Midwives and Mothers
The Medicalization of Childbirth on a Guatemalan Plantation
University of Texas Press
Covering a forty-year period, this comparative and longitudinal study traces the medicalization of birth in Guatemala and its effects on women’s lives and their economic and social status.
The White Shaman Mural
An Enduring Creation Narrative in the Rock Art of the Lower Pecos
By Carolyn E. Boyd and Kim Cox
University of Texas Press
A landmark in the study of rock art, this extensively illustrated volume reveals that prehistoric hunter-gatherers in southwest Texas painted one of the earliest known pictorial creation narratives in North America.
Industrial Sexuality
Gender, Urbanization, and Social Transformation in Egypt
By Hanan Hammad
University of Texas Press
With fascinating glimpses into the lives of working-class men and women, this study of the urbanization of a provincial Egyptian factory town reveals how industrialization transformed masculine and feminine identities, sexualities, and public morality.
Caere
Edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Lisa Pieraccini
University of Texas Press
The inaugural volume in the Cities of the Etruscans series, edited by Nancy Thomson de Grummond and Lisa Pieraccini, this book presents a comprehensive study of the city of Caere by an international group of scholars.
The Portuguese-Speaking Diaspora
Seven Centuries of Literature and the Arts
University of Texas Press
Spanning seven centuries and four continents, this comprehensive survey of the Portuguese diaspora connects literary and artistic expression (including film) with the sociopolitical and economic factors that drove population migrations.
About Antiquities
Politics of Archaeology in the Ottoman Empire
By Zeynep Çelik
University of Texas Press
Masterfully examining the competing claims and aspirations of museums, government officials, archaeologists, and excavation laborers, this book sheds new light on the role of archaeology in empire-building around the turn of the twentieth century.
Theatre for Youth II
More Plays with Mature Themes
Edited by Coleman A. Jennings and Gretta Berghammer
University of Texas Press
This substantially updated edition of the classic anthology of plays for young audiences presents contemporary plays that treat more mature, realistic themes while still encouraging youth to embrace life and follow their dreams.
Notions of Genre
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Edited by Barry Keith Grant and Malisa Kurtz
University of Texas Press
With articles by such luminaries as Susan Sontag, Dwight Macdonald, Siegfried Kracauer, James Agee, André Bazin, Robert Warshow, and Claude Chabrol, this anthology is the only single-volume source for important early writing on genre films.
Flatbed Press at 25
University of Texas Press
A visual feast for connoisseurs of contemporary printmaking, this lavishly produced volume presents a twenty-five-year retrospective of one of America’s premier artists’ printshops and the prominent and emerging artists who have worked there.
Connecting with the Enemy
A Century of Palestinian-Israeli Joint Nonviolence
University of Texas Press
Surveying the initiatives of more than five hundred groups across the past century, this timely book reveals how thousands of ordinary Israelis and Palestinians have worked together to end violence and forge connections between their peoples.
Houston on the Move
A Photographic History
By Steven R. Strom; By (photographer) Bob Bailey Studios
University of Texas Press
Presenting over two hundred previously unpublished images from the city’s largest and most comprehensive photographic archive, this volume chronicles Houston’s transformation into a city of international importance.
El Eternauta, Daytripper, and Beyond
Graphic Narrative in Argentina and Brazil
University of Texas Press
The first study in English of Latin American graphic narrative, this book explores the genre’s Argentine and Brazilian traditions, illuminating the different social, political, and historical conditions from which they emerged.
The Burden of the Ancients
Maya Ceremonies of World Renewal from the Pre-columbian Period to the Present
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of evidence that ranges from Pre-Columbian texts to ethnographic accounts of contemporary rituals, a leading scholar traces the extensive continuity of pre-Hispanic elements in Maya ceremonies of world renewal.
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