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It's All in the Delivery

Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

University of Texas Press

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights.

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Bordering on War

A Social and Political History of Khuzestan

University of Texas Press

A study of transnational identity, migration, and state loyalties told through the social and political history of Iran’s Khuzestan province.

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The Taste of Nostalgia

Women, Race, and Culinary Longing in Peru

University of Texas Press

An exploration of gender, race, and food in Peru in the 1950s and 1960s and today.

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The Earth That Modernism Built

Empire and the Rise of Planetary Design

University of Texas Press

Rewrites the history of architectural modernism for an age of environmental crisis and enduring colonialism.

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Violence in the Hill Country

The Texas Frontier in the Civil War Era

University of Texas Press

An in-depth history of the Civil War in the Texas Hill Country, this book examines patterns of violence on the Texas frontier to illuminate white Americans’ cultural and political priorities in the nineteenth century.

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Rehab on the Range

A History of Addiction and Incarceration in the American West

University of Texas Press

The first study of the Fort Worth Narcotic Farm, an institution that played a critical role in fusing the War on Drugs, mass incarceration, and public health in the American West.

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City of Wood

San Francisco and the Architecture of the Redwood Lumber Industry

University of Texas Press

How San Franciscans exploited natural resources such as redwood lumber to produce the first major metropolis of the American West.

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Redrawing the Western

A History of American Comics and the Mythic West

University of Texas Press

A history of American Western genre comics and how they interacted with contemporaneous political and popular culture.

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Maya Christian Murals of Early Modern Yucatán

University of Texas Press

The first study of Christian murals created by indigenous artists in sixteenth and seventeenth century Yucatán.

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Brazil's Sex Wars

The Aesthetics of Queer Activism in São Paulo

University of Texas Press

An ethnography and media analysis of LGBT+ activism in São Paulo during Brazil’s conservative turn from 2010 to 2018.

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For the Bees

A Handbook for Happy Beekeeping

University of Texas Press

A handbook for what to expect the first year of beekeeping and beyond.

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Ay Tú!

Critical Essays on the Life and Work of Sandra Cisneros

University of Texas Press

A comprehensive volume on the life and work of renowned Chicana author Sandra Cisneros.

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The São Paulo Neo-Avant-Garde

Radical Art and Mass Print Media in Cold War Brazil

University of Texas Press

How artists challenged a military dictatorship through mass print technologies in 1970s and 1980s São Paulo.

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Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

University of Texas Press

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy’s final works.

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Taking the Land to Make the City

A Bicoastal History of North America

University of Texas Press

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

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