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The City in Texas
A History
University of Texas Press
The award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.
Cosmopolitan Minds
Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
University of Texas Press
Reading transnational American literature from a cognitive perspective, this book argues that our emotional engagements with others—real and imagined—are crucially important for the development of cosmopolitan imaginations.
The Fate of Earthly Things
Aztec Gods and God-Bodies
University of Texas Press
This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes foundational concepts of deities and deity embodiments in Aztec religion to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world.
Racine and English Classicism
University of Texas Press
A comparison of neo-classical English translations of Racine with the originals, and an analysis of what was changed and why.
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan
Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
University of Texas Press
Tracing the complex history of Jordan through its archaeology, Competitive Archaeology in Jordan examines how foreign and indigenous powers have competed for and used antiquities to create their own narratives, national identities, borders, and conceptions of the nation.
Architectural Vessels of the Moche
Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru
University of Texas Press
Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.
Kinship, Business, and Politics
The Martinez Del Rio Family in Mexico, 1823-1867
University of Texas Press
Using previously undiscovered primary source materials, Walker employs family history to analyze problems relating more generally to the development of state and society in newly independent Mexico.
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
University of Texas Press
Using Brazilian films about slavery as case studies, Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism offers new insight into the deployment of cinematic narrative strategies to influence viewers and their conceptions of Brazilian national identity.
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
University of Texas Press
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and over 115,000 copies sold, here is the essential, entertaining guide to speaking Spanish like a native, with a new preface by the author.
The Murals of Cacaxtla
The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
By Claudia Brittenham; Foreword by María Teresa Uriarte
University of Texas Press
Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still capture
North Africa, Revised Edition
A History from Antiquity to the Present
University of Texas Press
Now with a new afterword that surveys the “North African Spring” uprisings that roiled the region from 2011 to 2013, this is the most comprehensive history of North Africa to date, with accessible, in-depth chapters covering the pre-Islamic period through
Courage, Resistance, and Women in Ciudad Juárez
Challenges to Militarization
By Kathleen Staudt and Zulma Y. Méndez
University of Texas Press
This pioneering, timely study of civil society activism in Ciudad Juárez during the first decade of the twenty-first century captures the tenuous new alliances and discourses of resistance (augmented by social media) that have emerged in the face of escal
America
Icons and Ingenuity
By Dan Winters
University of Texas Press
Winner of the 2012 Los Angeles Book Festival Photography/Art Book Award, this lavishly illustrated volume surveys the entire oeuvre of internationally award-winning photographer Dan Winters, including iconic celebrity portraits, scientific photography, photojournalism, and lyrical personal expressions.
Mr. America
The Tragic History of a Bodybuilding Icon
By John D. Fair
University of Texas Press
Drawing on unique archival documents and fascinating interviews, an acclaimed sports historian delivers the first comprehensive examination of Mr. America, the iconic bodybuilding contest that honored ancient ideals while defining masculinity during the c
Modern Architecture in Latin America
Art, Technology, and Utopia
University of Texas Press
Designed as a survey and focused on key examples and movements arranged chronologically from 1903 to 2003, this is the first comprehensive history of modern architecture in Latin America in any language.
Guatemala-U.S. Migration
Transforming Regions
By Susanne Jonas and Nestor Rodriguez
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive study of five phases of Guatemalan migration—both Maya and ladino—to the United States from the late 1970s to the present illuminates the transregional experiences of those who pass through Mexico.
Royal Commentaries of the Incas and General History of Peru, Part Two
Translated by Harold V. Livermore; By Garcilaso de la Vega
University of Texas Press
Royal Commentaries of the Incas is the account of the origin, growth, and destruction of the Inca empire, from its legendary birth until the death in 1572 of its last independent ruler; Part Two covers the Spanish conquest of the Incas.
Cerro Palenque
Power and Identity on the Maya Periphery
University of Texas Press
The author combines archaeological data gleaned from site research in 1980–1983 with anthropological theory about the evolution of social power to reconstruct something of the culture and lifeways of the prehispanic inhabitants of Cerro Palenque.
Archaism, Modernism, and the Art of Paul Manship
By Susan Rather
University of Texas Press
The author considers the theory, practice, and criticism of early twentieth-century sculpture in order to reveal the changing meaning and significance of the archaic in the modern world.
With the Saraguros
The Blended Life in a Transnational World
By David Syring
University of Texas Press
The first humanistic portrait of life among the Saraguros of southern Ecuador is woven with a meditative self-reflection on the author’s role as anthropologist and the role of cross-cultural understanding itself in the Andean Highlands and beyond.
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