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The Teotihuacan Trinity
The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City
University of Texas Press
A grand overview of the New World’s most recognizable but least understood ancient city—Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico—which proposes a new model for the city’s social and political structure.
The Projects
Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
A closer look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence.
Maya Calendar Origins
Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
University of Texas Press
A major rethinking of the origins of the two primary calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, proposing that the calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought.
Lone Star Sleuths
An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction
University of Texas Press
An engaging collection of crime fiction in which Texas is as much a character as a setting.
Leopoldo Méndez
Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print
University of Texas Press
The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Méndez—one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and José Guadalupe Posada—contains over 150 ill
Islamism and Modernism
The Changing Discourse in Iran
University of Texas Press
A timely study of the historical, religious, and social forces that have shaped Iran throughout the past century.
Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow
Color Design in the 1930s
University of Texas Press
The first scholarly history of Technicolor filmmaking, as well as a thoroughgoing analysis of how color works in film.
Eckhardt
There Once Was a Congressman from Texas
By Gary A. Keith; Introduction by Al Gore
University of Texas Press
A biography of renowned U.S. congressman, Texas state legislator, labor lawyer, and political organizer Bob Eckhardt.
Witness for Justice
The Documentary Photographs of Alan Pogue
By Alan Pogue
University of Texas Press
A visual survey of the career of acclaimed documentary photographer Alan Pogue, whose work has focused on social and political movements from Texas to the Middle East.
Thelma & Louise Live!
The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film
Edited by Bernie Cook
University of Texas Press
Essays by leading film scholars and an interview with screenwriter Callie Khouri explore the significant, on-going influence of the 1991 film Thelma & Louise.
Roger Tory Peterson
A Biography
University of Texas Press
The first authoritative biography of one of the 20th century’s foremost ornithologists, whose 1934 Field Guide to the Birds was one of the two foundational books that launched the environmental movement.
Resisting Brazil's Military Regime
An Account of the Battles of Sobral Pinto
University of Texas Press
The second and final volume of the definitive biography of one of Brazil’s greatest reformers.
Quilty as Charged
Undercover in a Material World
University of Texas Press
A fascinating look at the eccentric personalities, including the author, drawn into the world of serious quiltmaking.
Women in Texas Music
Stories and Songs
University of Texas Press
From the author of Telling Stories, Writing Songs: An Album of Texas Songwriters comes a fascinating collection of interviews with Texas women singer-songwriters and performers, including Emily Robison, Terri Hendrix, Lee Ann Womack, Rosie Flores, Betty B
Willie Wells
El Diablo of the Negro Leagues
By Bob Luke; Introduction by Monte Irvin
University of Texas Press
The first complete biography of an important Negro League baseball player from Austin, Texas.
Walking the Forest with Chico Mendes
Struggle for Justice in the Amazon
By Gomercindo Rodrigues; Introduction by Biorn Maybury-Lewis
University of Texas Press
The inspiring story of courageous labor and environmental activist Chico Mendes, who led Brazil’s rubber tappers until his assassination in 1988.
Varieties of Liberalism in Central America
Nation-States as Works in Progress
By Forrest D. Colburn and Arturo Cruz S.
University of Texas Press
A groundbreaking approach to the study of national development, using the five emerging nations of Central America as a prism.
The Quiet Revolutionaries
Seeking Justice in Guatemala
By Frank M. Afflitto and Paul Jesilow
University of Texas Press
A stirring examination of those who survived Guatemala’s civil war, and the mindset that helped them transform their society in the face of state-sanctioned terrorism.
Reframing Latin America
A Cultural Theory Reading of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
University of Texas Press
An illuminating primer that moves students and scholars beyond alienating terminology and toward accessible perspectives on Latin America and cultural studies.
From Bananas to Buttocks
The Latina Body in Popular Film and Culture
Edited by Myra Mendible
University of Texas Press
The first extensive study of the representation of the Latina body in U.S. popular culture, from “Latin bombshell” Carmen Miranda in the 1940s to Jennifer Lopez and Salma Hayek today.
Beautiful TV
The Art and Argument of Ally McBeal
University of Texas Press
Using Ally McBeal as a case study, Beautiful TV offers a new approach to analyzing television series by looking at their aesthetic principles and narrative construction.
Isaeus
Translated by Michael Edwards; Introduction by Michael Edwards
University of Texas Press
The first English translation since 1927 of the complete works of the classical orator Isaeus, whose speeches deal with Athenian inheritance law.
So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico
Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive examination of Middle Eastern immigrants in Mexico, from the open-door policy of the nineteenth century to contemporary multiculturalism.
Negotiating for the Past
Archaeology, Nationalism, and Diplomacy in the Middle East, 1919-1941
University of Texas Press
An overlapping analysis of archaeology and nationalism in Egypt, Iran, Iraq, and Turkey between World Wars I and II.
Reforming Intelligence
Obstacles to Democratic Control and Effectiveness
University of Texas Press
A timely anthology comprising a dozen case studies written by intelligence experts that collectively outline the best practices of intelligence services in a democratic state.
Globalization in Rural Mexico
Three Decades of Change
University of Texas Press
Three decades of anthropological fieldwork in a rural Mexican community challenge contemporary views of globalization and consumption.
Cultural Memory
Resistance, Faith, and Identity
By Jeanette Rodríguez and Ted Fortier
University of Texas Press
An interdisciplinary examination of four cases of cultural memory rooted in religion, and how those memories empowered their respective cultures.
Conceptualism in Latin American Art
Didactics of Liberation
University of Texas Press
An authoritative, firsthand account of conceptualism in Latin American art of the 1960s and 1970s by an artist who was at the forefront of the movement.
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 Three/Tomo Tres: Theater/Teatro
Edited by Carlos Montemayor and Donald Frischmann
University of Texas Press
The third and final book in a major three-volume trilingual anthology of Mexican indigenous writing.
This Land Was Mexican Once
Histories of Resistance from Northern California
University of Texas Press
A model for telling the multicultural history of the American West, starting with Napa County, California.
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