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Progressive Country
How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
An examination of the turbulent, transformative 1970s through the lens of central Texas’s counterculture, from the cosmic cowboys of the Armadillo World Headquarters to Américo Paredes and the performance folklore movement.
Performing Piety
Singers and Actors in Egypt's Islamic Revival
University of Texas Press
Tracing the Islamization of Egyptian celebrities and their fans and the emergence of an Islamic aesthetics, this book offers a unique history of the religious revival in Egypt through the lens of the performing arts.
I Ask for Justice
Maya Women, Dictators, and Crime in Guatemala, 1898–1944
By David Carey
University of Texas Press
This study of the Guatemalan legal system during the regimes of two of Latin America’s most repressive dictators reveals the surprising extent to which Maya women used the courts to air their grievances and defend their human rights.
The Dissenting Voice
The New Essay of Spanish America, 1960-1985
University of Texas Press
How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.
Ancient Architecture of the Southwest
By William N. Morgan; Introduction by Rina Swentzell
University of Texas Press
This study presents a comprehensive architectural survey of ancient structures in the region ranging from Colorado in the north to Chihuahua in the south and from Nevada in the west to eastern New Mexico.
Women, Gender, and the Palace Households in Ottoman Tunisia
University of Texas Press
This examination of Tunisia’s ruling family between 1700 and 1900 reveals the significance of the palace and the crucial political and economic roles women played in the family’s relationship with the imperial government.
The Best Way to Rob a Bank is to Own One
How Corporate Executives and Politicians Looted the S&L Industry
University of Texas Press
Now updated with an extensive afterword that reveals how the bank failures of 2008 resulted from the lack of regulatory oversight discussed in this book, here is the acclaimed insider’s account of how financial super predators brought down an industry by
Literature and Social Justice
Protest Novels, Cognitive Politics, and Schema Criticism
By Mark Bracher
University of Texas Press
Drawing insights from cognitive and social neuroscience, this book uncovers the cognitive roots of social injustice and makes a powerful case that literature can positively alter the way we view others and promote social justice.
Edible and Useful Plants of the Southwest
Texas, New Mexico, and Arizona
By Delena Tull
University of Texas Press
Now expanded to cover more plants of New Mexico and Arizona, here is the most complete guide to edible and useful Southwestern plants, including recipes, teas and spices, natural dyes, medicinal uses, poisonous plants, fibers, basketry, and industrial uses.
Color
American Photography Transformed
By John Rohrbach, Sylvie Pénichon, and Amon Carter Museum of American Art
University of Texas Press
The first book that addresses color in photography from the beginning of the medium to the present, this landmark copublication with the Amon Carter Museum of American Art explores how color transformed photography into today’s dominant artistic form.
Art Against Dictatorship
Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study of Chilean arpillera folk art and its makers, sellers, and buyers explores the creation of a solidarity art system and shows how art can be a powerful force for opposing dictatorship and empowering oppressed people.
The Latina Advantage
Gender, Race, and Political Success
University of Texas Press
Challenging common assumptions and offering new alternatives in the debate over the current political status of women, this data-driven study indicates that minority female political candidates often have a strong advantage over male opponents when seekin
Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5
Epigraphy
Edited by Victoria Reifler Bricker
University of Texas Press
This volume is designed to recognize the important role that epigraphy has come to play in Middle American scholarship and to document significant achievements in three areas: dynastic history, phonetic decipherment, and calendrics.
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins
A Memoir with Recipes
By Ellen Sweets; Introduction by Lou Dubose
University of Texas Press
In this delicious memoir, Molly Ivins’s long-time friend and fellow cook Ellen Sweets offers an intimate, fascinating portrait of the private Molly behind the “professional Texan” through stories of the fabulous meals she prepared for friends and family,
Reading Magnum
A Visual Archive of the Modern World
Edited by Steven Hoelscher; Introduction by Geoff Dyer; By Harry Ransom Center
University of Texas Press
This first reading of the vast Magnum Photos archive as a body of work presents an astonishingly rich survey of life and death in the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, as well as a concise history of modern photography.
Of Beasts and Beauty
Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia
University of Texas Press
Here is a detailed investigation of the concept of beauty in Colombia—its cultural and political origins, its expression through fashion and pageants, and its effect on the people of a country plagued by violence, inequality, and corruption.
Let the People In
The Life and Times of Ann Richards
By Jan Reid
University of Texas Press
Drawing on more than 100 interviews with Ann Richards’s friends and associates and her private correspondence, Let the People In offers a nuanced, fully realized portrait of the first feminist elected to high office in America and one of the most fascinat
John Wayne’s World
Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties
University of Texas Press
Connecting John Wayne’s films to the transnational historical context of the 1950s, John Wayne’s World argues that Wayne’s depictions of heroic masculinity dovetailed with the rise of Hollywood’s cultural dominance and the development of global capitalism after World War II.
Medicine and the Saints
Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956
By Ellen J. Amster; Introduction by Rajae El Aoued
University of Texas Press
Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the place of resistance to the state, this book provides the first history of medicine, health, disease, and the welfare state in Morocco.
Postcards from the Río Bravo Border
Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s–1950s
University of Texas Press
Making innovative use of an extensive archive of photo postcards, this historical geography traces the transformation of Mexican border towns into modern cities and destinations for American tourists in the twentieth century.
The Great Texas Wind Rush
How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power
By Kate Galbraith and Asher Price
University of Texas Press
Two environmental reporters tell the fascinating story behind Texas’s unlikely triumph in the clean-energy marketplace through wind farming.
Kill for Peace
American Artists Against the Vietnam War
University of Texas Press
Surveying the major antiwar artists, art collectives, and iconic works, as well as offering an original typology of antiwar engagement, this is the first comprehensive history of American artistic protest against the Vietnam War.
Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks
Redistricting in Texas
Edited by Gary A. Keith
University of Texas Press
Legislators, lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists offer a complete history of Texas redistricting during the past century—and the repercussions still felt from the map battles of the 1960s.
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
From Islamic Empires to the Taliban
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad’s peaceful vis
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred
The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
By Amara Solari
University of Texas Press
Using the Maya city of Itzmal as a case study, this book explores how indigenous conceptions of space and landscape both aided and subverted the Franciscan evangelical effort in Colonial Yucatan.
The Neighbors
By Ahmad Mahmoud; Translated by Nastaran Kherad
University of Texas Press
This coming-of-age story set in southwestern Iran during the nationalization of the oil industry in 1951 is the first English translation of the work of a prominent Iranian novelist who helped set the stage for today’s struggle for democracy in Iran.
Undocumented Dominican Migration
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive fieldwork among less-studied migrants, as well as wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multiple, interactive factors—structural, cultural, and personal—that influence people to
Maya after War
Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala
University of Texas Press
A compelling study of a Guatemalan village, in the wake of civil war and genocide, facing an uneasy transition marked by gang violence, paramilitary security committees, and other power struggles.
The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies
By Robert Lloyd Williams; Introduction by Rex Koontz
University of Texas Press
With a full-color reproduction of the entire codex and the first modern commentary in English on the pre-Hispanic history it records, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall unlocks the social and political cosmos of the ancient Mixtec.
Photojournalists on War
The Untold Stories from Iraq
By Michael Kamber; Introduction by Dexter Filkins
University of Texas Press
With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the front lines, three dozen of the world’s leading photojournalists reveal the inside and untold stories of the Iraq war in this groundbreaking oral history.
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