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Screening the Gothic
By Lisa Hopkins
University of Texas Press
Exploring how the Gothic has been deployed in contemporary films.
News from the New American Diaspora
and Other Tales of Exile
University of Texas Press
Short stories that depict the range of Jewish life in twentieth-century America.
Nationalist Voices in Jordan
The Street and the State
University of Texas Press
How the “Arab street” helped forge the national identity of Jordan.
Demosthenes, Speeches 18 and 19
Translated by Harvey Yunis
University of Texas Press
Two of the most famous and influential speeches by the greatest orator of classical antiquity.
Birds of Tropical America
A Watcher's Introduction to Behavior, Breeding, and Diversity
By Steven Hilty; Illustrated by Mimi Hoppe Wolf
University of Texas Press
The guide to neotropical bird behavior that picks up where field guides leave off.
Mexican Americans and World War II
Edited by Maggie Rivas-Rodríguez
University of Texas Press
A celebration of the overlooked contributions of the 750,000 Mexican American veterans of the “Greatest Generation”
Peregrine Falcon
Stories of the Blue Meanie
By James H. Enderson; Illustrated by Robert Katona
University of Texas Press
A leading expert on the peregrine falcon tells the story of the birds’ dramatic decline and spectacular recovery.
Indian Stereotypes in TV Science Fiction
First Nations' Voices Speak Out
University of Texas Press
A social study examining the harmful stereotyping of First Nations peoples in television science fiction.
Freedom Colonies
Independent Black Texans in the Time of Jim Crow
University of Texas Press
An authoritative text and historical and contemporary photographs that bring independent African American communities out of the shadows of history.
Family and Frontier in Colonial Brazil
Santana de Parnaíba, 1580–1822
University of Texas Press
How families adapted to rural life on the Brazilian frontier.
Conversations with Texas Writers
Edited by Frances Leonard and Ramona Cearley; By (photographer) Ramona Cearley; Introduction by Joe Holley
University of Texas Press
The largest single-volume collection of interviews with 50 of Texas’s most important writers—including a photo and bibliography for each author.
In the Maw of the Earth Monster
Mesoamerican Ritual Cave Use
Edited by James E. Brady and Keith M. Prufer
University of Texas Press
This volume gathers papers from twenty prominent Mesoamerican archaeologists, linguists, and ethnographers to present a state-of-the-art survey of ritual cave use in Mesoamerica from Pre-Columbian times to the present.
Words of the True Peoples/Palabras de los Seres Verdaderos: Anthology of Contemporary Mexican Indigenous-Language Writers/Antología de Escritores Actuales en Lenguas Indígenas de México
Volume One/Tomo Uno: Prose/Prosa
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking anthology gathers works by the leading generation of writers in thirteen Mexican indigenous languages.
The Uses of Failure in Mexican Literature and Identity
University of Texas Press
Studying the relationship between national identity and failure, John Ochoa revisits the foundational texts of Mexican intellectual and literary history, the “national monuments,” and offers a new vision of the pivotal events that echo throughout Mexican
Species at Risk
Using Economic Incentives to Shelter Endangered Species on Private Lands
Edited by Jason F. Shogren
University of Texas Press
In this book, lawyers, economists, political scientists, historians, and zoologists come together to assess the challenges and opportunities for using economic incentives as compensation for protecting species at risk on private property.
Spanish American Poetry at the End of the Twentieth Century
Textual Disruptions
University of Texas Press
Using a variety of interdisciplinary approaches, Kuhnheim explores how recent Spanish American poetry participates in the fundamental cultural debates of its time.
Palestinians Born in Exile
Diaspora and the Search for a Homeland
University of Texas Press
This original ethnography records the experiences of Palestinians born in exile who have emigrated to the Palestinian homeland.
Narratives of Greater Mexico
Essays on Chicano Literary History, Genre, and Borders
University of Texas Press
In this pioneering study, Héctor Calderón looks at seven Chicana and Chicano writers whose narratives constitute what he terms an American Mexican literature.
Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History
University of Texas Press
How five prominent Roman historians disclosed events that had been deliberately shrouded in secrecy and silence.
Bodily Arts
Rhetoric and Athletics in Ancient Greece
By Debra Hawhee
University of Texas Press
Debra Hawhee’s insightful study spotlights the notion of a classical gymnasium as the location for a habitual “mingling” of athletic and rhetorical performances, and the use of ancient athletic instruction to create rhetorical training based on rhythm, re
Apple Pie and Enchiladas
Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest
By Ann V. Millard and Jorge Chapa
University of Texas Press
The authors look at how Latinos fit into an already fractured social landscape with tensions among townspeople, farmers, and others.
Understanding the Chiapas Rebellion
Modernist Visions and the Invisible Indian
University of Texas Press
This book offers a new way of understanding the Zapatista conflict as a counteraction to the forces of modernity and globalization that have rendered indigenous peoples virtually invisible throughout the world.
The Twentieth-Century Spanish American Novel
University of Texas Press
The first complete analytical and critical overview of the Spanish American novel throughout the entire twentieth century, now available in paperback.
The Culture of Migration in Southern Mexico
University of Texas Press
This book explores the complex constellation of factors that cause rural Oaxacans to migrate, the historical and contemporary patterns of their migration, the effects of migration on families and communities, and the economic, cultural, and social reasons
Reading Palestine
Printing and Literacy, 1900-1948
By Ami Ayalon
University of Texas Press
Addressing an exciting aspect of Middle Eastern history as well as the power of the printed word itself, Reading Palestine describes how the sudden rise of literacy in Palestine intensified the role of literacy in every sphere of community life.
Torah Today
A Renewed Encounter with Scripture
By Pinchas H. Peli; Introduction by Harold M. Schulweis
University of Texas Press
Newly reissued—an acclaimed volume of commentaries on the Torah by one of the twentieth century’s leading teachers of Judaism.
The Last Jews in Baghdad
Remembering a Lost Homeland
By Nissim Rejwan; Introduction by Joel Beinin
University of Texas Press
In this beautifully written memoir, Nissim Rejwan recalls the lost Jewish community of Baghdad, in which he was a child and young man from the 1920s through 1951.
Rise and Fall of the Cosmic Race
The Cult of Mestizaje in Latin America
University of Texas Press
This study charts the history of Latin America’s experience of mestizaje through the prisms of literature, the visual and performing arts, social commentary, and music.
Rio Grande
Edited by Jan Reid
University of Texas Press
Rio Grande explores the ecology, history, culture, and politicization of the river.
Mayas in the Marketplace
Tourism, Globalization, and Cultural Identity
University of Texas Press
Drawing on over a decade of fieldwork, Walter Little presents the first ethnographic study of Maya handicraft vendors in the international marketplace.
Maya Political Science
Time, Astronomy, and the Cosmos
University of Texas Press
Rice builds a new model of Classic lowland Maya (AD 179–948) political organization and political geography.
Mary, Mother and Warrior
The Virgin in Spain and the Americas
University of Texas Press
This wide-ranging and highly readable book explores the veneration of the Virgin Mary in Spain and the Americas from the colonial period to the present.
Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places
Community and Cultural Diversity in Contemporary America
Edited by Daniel D. Arreola
University of Texas Press
Sixteen geographers and two sociologists map the regional and cultural diversity of the Hispanic/Latino population of the United States.
Early Spanish American Narrative
University of Texas Press
To give everyone interested in contemporary Spanish American fiction a broad understanding of its literary antecedents, this book offers an authoritative survey of four centuries of Spanish American narrative.
Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault
Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862-1900
University of Texas Press
Drawing on the trial transcripts of Cajamarca, a northern Peruvian province, from more than a century ago, this book shares eye-opening details about life among this community, in which reputation could determine a woman’s chances of survival.
Creole Economics
Caribbean Cunning under the French Flag
University of Texas Press
Browne draws on a decade of ethnographic fieldwork and interview data from all socioeconomic sectors to question the common understanding of informal economies as culture-free, survival strategies of the poor.
Coming Attractions
Reading American Movie Trailers
By Lisa Kernan
University of Texas Press
Starting from the premise that movie trailers can be considered a film genre, this pioneering book explores the genre’s conventions and offers a primer for reading the rhetoric of movie trailers.
Ancient Maya Commoners
Edited by Jon C. Lohse and Fred Valdez
University of Texas Press
This pathfinding book marshals a wide array of archaeological, ethnohistorical, and ethnographic evidence to offer the fullest understanding to date of the lifeways of ancient Maya commoners.
Alexander Watkins Terrell
Civil War Soldier, Texas Lawmaker, American Diplomat
University of Texas Press
Alexander Terrell’s career placed him at the center of some of the most pivotal events in nineteenth- and early twentieth-century history, ranging from the Civil War to Emperor Maximilian’s reign over Mexico and an Armenian genocide under the Ottoman Empi
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