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Art Against Dictatorship

Making and Exporting Arpilleras Under Pinochet

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study of Chilean arpillera folk art and its makers, sellers, and buyers explores the creation of a solidarity art system and shows how art can be a powerful force for opposing dictatorship and empowering oppressed people.

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The Latina Advantage

Gender, Race, and Political Success

University of Texas Press

Challenging common assumptions and offering new alternatives in the debate over the current political status of women, this data-driven study indicates that minority female political candidates often have a strong advantage over male opponents when seekin

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Supplement to the Handbook of Middle American Indians, Volume 5

Epigraphy

University of Texas Press

This volume is designed to recognize the important role that epigraphy has come to play in Middle American scholarship and to document significant achievements in three areas: dynastic history, phonetic decipherment, and calendrics.

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Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins

A Memoir with Recipes

By Ellen Sweets; Introduction by Lou Dubose
University of Texas Press

In this delicious memoir, Molly Ivins’s long-time friend and fellow cook Ellen Sweets offers an intimate, fascinating portrait of the private Molly behind the “professional Texan” through stories of the fabulous meals she prepared for friends and family,

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Reading Magnum

A Visual Archive of the Modern World

Edited by Steven Hoelscher; Introduction by Geoff Dyer; By Harry Ransom Center
University of Texas Press

This first reading of the vast Magnum Photos archive as a body of work presents an astonishingly rich survey of life and death in the second half of the twentieth and the early twenty-first centuries, as well as a concise history of modern photography.

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Of Beasts and Beauty

Gender, Race, and Identity in Colombia

University of Texas Press

Here is a detailed investigation of the concept of beauty in Colombia—its cultural and political origins, its expression through fashion and pageants, and its effect on the people of a country plagued by violence, inequality, and corruption.

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Let the People In

The Life and Times of Ann Richards

University of Texas Press

Drawing on more than 100 interviews with Ann Richards’s friends and associates and her private correspondence, Let the People In offers a nuanced, fully realized portrait of the first feminist elected to high office in America and one of the most fascinat

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John Wayne’s World

Transnational Masculinity in the Fifties

University of Texas Press

Connecting John Wayne’s films to the transnational historical context of the 1950s, John Wayne’s World argues that Wayne’s depictions of heroic masculinity dovetailed with the rise of Hollywood’s cultural dominance and the development of global capitalism after World War II.

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Medicine and the Saints

Science, Islam, and the Colonial Encounter in Morocco, 1877-1956

By Ellen J. Amster; Introduction by Rajae El Aoued
University of Texas Press

Exploring the colonial encounter between France and Morocco as a process of embodiment, and the Muslim body as the place of resistance to the state, this book provides the first history of medicine, health, disease, and the welfare state in Morocco.

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Postcards from the Río Bravo Border

Picturing the Place, Placing the Picture, 1900s–1950s

University of Texas Press

Making innovative use of an extensive archive of photo postcards, this historical geography traces the transformation of Mexican border towns into modern cities and destinations for American tourists in the twentieth century.

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The Great Texas Wind Rush

How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power

University of Texas Press

Two environmental reporters tell the fascinating story behind Texas’s unlikely triumph in the clean-energy marketplace through wind farming.

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Kill for Peace

American Artists Against the Vietnam War

University of Texas Press

Surveying the major antiwar artists, art collectives, and iconic works, as well as offering an original typology of antiwar engagement, this is the first comprehensive history of American artistic protest against the Vietnam War.

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Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks

Redistricting in Texas

Edited by Gary A. Keith
University of Texas Press

Legislators, lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists offer a complete history of Texas redistricting during the past century—and the repercussions still felt from the map battles of the 1960s.

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Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws

From Islamic Empires to the Taliban

University of Texas Press

This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad’s peaceful vis

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Maya Ideologies of the Sacred

The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan

University of Texas Press

Using the Maya city of Itzmal as a case study, this book explores how indigenous conceptions of space and landscape both aided and subverted the Franciscan evangelical effort in Colonial Yucatan.

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The Neighbors

By Ahmad Mahmoud; Translated by Nastaran Kherad
University of Texas Press

This coming-of-age story set in southwestern Iran during the nationalization of the oil industry in 1951 is the first English translation of the work of a prominent Iranian novelist who helped set the stage for today’s struggle for democracy in Iran.

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Undocumented Dominican Migration

University of Texas Press

Based on extensive fieldwork among less-studied migrants, as well as wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multiple, interactive factors—structural, cultural, and personal—that influence people to

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Maya after War

Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala

University of Texas Press

A compelling study of a Guatemalan village, in the wake of civil war and genocide, facing an uneasy transition marked by gang violence, paramilitary security committees, and other power struggles.

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The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall

Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies

By Robert Lloyd Williams; Introduction by Rex Koontz
University of Texas Press

With a full-color reproduction of the entire codex and the first modern commentary in English on the pre-Hispanic history it records, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall unlocks the social and political cosmos of the ancient Mixtec.

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Photojournalists on War

The Untold Stories from Iraq

By Michael Kamber; Introduction by Dexter Filkins
University of Texas Press

With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the front lines, three dozen of the world’s leading photojournalists reveal the inside and untold stories of the Iraq war in this groundbreaking oral history.

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