Showing 341-350 of 2,899 items.
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
University of Texas Press
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Improbable Metropolis
Houston's Architectural and Urban History
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated, Improbable Metropolis is one of the few books to use architecture and urban planning to explain the growth of a major world city, and the only one of its kind on Houston or any other city in Texas.
Pictured Politics
Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections
By Emily Engel
University of Texas Press
Featuring almost eighty illustrations from between 1590 and 1830, Pictured Politics is the sole study in English or Spanish to examine the role of portraiture in constructing the history of South American colonialism.
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas
University of Texas Press
The first book on the history of escuelitas, Reading, Writing, and Revolution examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity.
Jericho
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Charles D'Ambrosio
University of Texas Press
In the fifth volume of his “Unnatural History of America” series, the award-winning journalist delivers a powerful meditation on human greed and bloodlust with razor-sharp reporting on Mexican drug cartels at the US border.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 74
Humanities
Edited by Katherine D. McCann
University of Texas Press
The 2020 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
Freddie Mercury
An Illustrated Life
Edited by Alfonso Casas; Translated by Ned Sublette
University of Texas Press
A vibrant illustrated biography packed with colorful, high-impact drawings capturing the flair, innovation, and dazzling energy that made Freddie Mercury and Queen transcendent superstars.
Haiku History
The American Saga Three Lines at a Time
By H. W. Brands
University of Texas Press
Melding history and poetry, the one-of-a-kind Haiku History gathers a selection of haikus to recount the story of America from the nation’s birth to the election of the forty-fifth president.
Lightning through the Clouds
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Mark Sanagan
University of Texas Press
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
Stay Informed
Subscribe nowRecent News