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The Posthumous Career of Emiliano Zapata
Myth, Memory, and Mexico's Twentieth Century
By Samuel Brunk
University of Texas Press
A vivid, comprehensive examination of the monumental Zapata legacy, incorporating new archival research and wide-ranging cultural issues.
Land Arts of the American West
By Chris Taylor and Bill Gilbert
University of Texas Press
A wide-ranging exploration of human interactions with the land over thousands of years, as well as a model for teaching art and design in the field.
Jewish Women in Fin de Siècle Vienna
By Alison Rose
University of Texas Press
The first broad examination of the role of Jewish women in Viennese society at the turn of the twentieth century, incorporating perspectives from within the Austrian Jewish community of that era.
Exodus/Éxodo
University of Texas Press
Just in time for the 2008 election and the national immigration debate, this searing documentary of the largest single transnational migration in history forces us to face the tremendous human cost of a failed Mexican state and a relentlessly globalizing
Brazil Imagined
1500 to the Present
University of Texas Press
A sweeping survey of Brazilian representations—encompassing literature, art, propaganda, mass media, and other realms—across five centuries of evolving identity, brimming with powerful photographs.
Spare Time in Texas
Recreation and History in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
A first-ever history of recreation in Texas that shows how our pastimes reveal our characters.
Notes on Blood Meridian
Revised and Expanded Edition
By John Sepich; Introduction by Edwin T. Arnold
University of Texas Press
Now back in print with a new preface and two new essays—the essential guide and companion to Blood Meridian, Cormac McCarthy’s acclaimed novel of the Old West that has been compared to the work of Dante, Homer, Melville, and Faulkner.
Kilgore Rangerettes
University of Texas Press
In this portrait of an American icon—the Kilgore College Rangerettes dance drill team—O. Rufus Lovett contributes to a body of work by internationally acclaimed photographers, including Elliot Erwitt and Annie Leibovitz, who have been fascinated by the ‘R
A Procession of Them
University of Texas Press
One of the world’s foremost documentary photographers offers an unflinching look at the inhuman conditions suffered by the mentally ill and disabled in many countries.
Water in Texas
An Introduction
University of Texas Press
An authoritative overview of water issues in Texas for a general readership.
Violence and Activism at the Border
Gender, Fear, and Everyday Life in Ciudad Juarez
University of Texas Press
A timely analysis of the disturbing murders that have taken the lives of nearly 400 Mexican women in El Paso's twin city.
Surrealism in Greece
An Anthology
University of Texas Press
A first-of-its-kind anthology of English translations of the key texts of Greek surrealism from the 1930s through the 1960s.
Imagining the Turkish House
Collective Visions of Home
University of Texas Press
An engaging discussion of how the concept of home inhabits the Turkish memory and imagination, becoming a muse that shapes personal and national identities.
Heraldry for the Dead
Memory, Identity, and the Engraved Stone Plaques of Neolithic Iberia
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking interpretation of the engraved stone plaques found in southwestern Portugal and Spain, with important implications for anthropological thought on the origins of writing and recording systems, the role of memory in the creation of social i
Fragmented Lives, Assembled Parts
Culture, Capitalism, and Conquest at the U.S.-Mexico Border
University of Texas Press
A compelling ethnographic examination of global capitalism's impact, colonial and post-colonial, in Mexico's Ciudad Juárez.
Branding Texas
Performing Culture in the Lone Star State
University of Texas Press
An intriguing study of how plays, films, television shows, museums, historical sites, and battle reenactments—that is, performances—have created “Texan” identity.
Food for the Few
Neoliberal Globalism and Biotechnology in Latin America
Edited by Gerardo Otero
University of Texas Press
The first empirically based, interdisciplinary assessment of the socioeconomic and political impact of agricultural biotechnology in Latin America.
Demosthenes, Speeches 20-22
Translated by Edward M. Harris
University of Texas Press
Three important speeches by the greatest orator of classical antiquity that illuminate Athenian law and culture in the fourth century BC.
Creating Outdoor Classrooms
Schoolyard Habitats and Gardens for the Southwest
University of Texas Press
A practical, hands-on guide for creating schoolyard gardens using native Southwestern plants, fully illustrated with photographs, drawings, and design plans.
Blood Lines
Myth, Indigenism, and Chicana/o Literature
University of Texas Press
Placing texts of Chicana/o indigenism and nationalism alongside European and Euro-American ethnographic, travel, and journalistic writing, this is the first comprehensive, comparative literary study of its kind.
Authorship in Film Adaptation
Edited by Jack Boozer
University of Texas Press
Opening a new area in the study of film adaptation, twelve scholars investigate the crucial role of the screenplay in transforming written narratives into film.
Why the Humanities Matter
A Commonsense Approach
University of Texas Press
A rousing rethinking of current critical theory and the role of culture in realms ranging from art and literature to justice and history.
When the Center Is on Fire
Passionate Social Theory for Our Times
By Diane Harriford and Becky Thompson
University of Texas Press
A provocative reappraisal of how classic social thinkers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries—W. E. B. Du Bois, Max Weber, Karl Marx, and Émile Durkheim—can help us understand the social traumas of the twenty-first century, including 9/11.
There Was a Woman
La Llorona from Folklore to Popular Culture
University of Texas Press
A critical analysis of the important ways in which La Llorona—the Weeping Woman—has shaped Mexican cultural identity, from folktales to acts of political resistance.
Palace Politics
How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico
University of Texas Press
Drawing on candid interviews with former Mexican officials, a journalist reveals the inside story of the “perfect dictatorship” they once ran.
Monkey Business Theatre
University of Texas Press
A history of and collection of translated plays from Mexico's most renowned Mayan theatre group.
Electronic Tribes
The Virtual Worlds of Geeks, Gamers, Shamans, and Scammers
Edited by Tyrone L. Adams and Stephen A. Smith
University of Texas Press
From MySpace.com to Nigerian e-mail scams, sixteen competitively selected essays inquire into the causes and consequences of the “tribes” that are facilitated by the Internet.
Chicano Rap
Gender and Violence in the Postindustrial Barrio
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive look at the meanings and uses of rap music and hip hop culture among Chicano/a youth.
Deception and Abuse at the Fed
Henry B. Gonzalez Battles Alan Greenspan's Bank
University of Texas Press
An authoritative, well-documented exposé of abuses of power at the U.S. Federal Reserve Bank (the Fed) during the tenure of renowned chairman, Alan Greenspan.
Around the World with LBJ
My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant
University of Texas Press
LBJ’s personal pilot—one of the few to fly Air Force One and simultaneously hold a full-time job in the White House—offers vivid recollections of the thirty-sixth president.
World War II and Mexican American Civil Rights
Edited by Richard Griswold del Castillo
University of Texas Press
The first book-length account of how World War II galvanized Mexican Americans of the “Greatest Generation” to seek full rights and inclusion in American society.
The Los Angeles Plaza
Sacred and Contested Space
By William David Estrada; Introduction by Devra Weber
University of Texas Press
The first in-depth study of Los Angeles through the lens of its original core at the old city Plaza.
Texas Monthly On . . .
Food
Edited by editors of Texas Monthly; Introduction by Evan Smith
University of Texas Press
Some of the most delicious writing about food and food culture in Texas—recipes included—from the state's tastemaker magazine, Texas Monthly.
Teatro Chicana
A Collective Memoir and Selected Plays
University of Texas Press
A firsthand history of a Chicana women's political theatre group that operated in the 1970s and 1980s in San Diego.
Santiago's Children
What I Learned about Life at an Orphanage in Chile
By Steve Reifenberg; Introduction by Paul Farmer
University of Texas Press
A beautifully written memoir about life among the most vulnerable, yet resilient residents of Latin America—its poor children.
Arabs in the Mirror
Images and Self-Images from Pre-Islamic to Modern Times
University of Texas Press
A fascinating look at how Arabs have sought to define their own identity and how they have been viewed by others from pre-Islamic times to the last decades of the twentieth century.
The Color of Loss
An Intimate Portrait of New Orleans after Katrina
By Dan Burkholder; Introduction by Andrei Codrescu
University of Texas Press
Using an innovative digital technology that creates photographs that look almost like paintings, Dan Burkholder offers a powerful new way of seeing New Orleans in the wake of Hurricane Katrina.
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