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Corporate Crops
Biotechnology, Agriculture, and the Struggle for Control
University of Texas Press
An eye-opening examination of four legal cases concerning genetically modified seeds in Saskatchewan and Mississippi, using the lens of political economy to make crucial connections between sociological repercussions and legal proceedings involving Monsan
Conspiracy Theory in Latin Literature
By Victoria Emma Pagán; Introduction by Mark Fenster
University of Texas Press
This provocative new companion to Conspiracy Narratives in Roman History shows how viewing an array of Latin texts through the lens of conspiracy theory reveals a host of socioeconomic tensions from the Roman Republic through the age of the emperors.
Americans All
Good Neighbor Cultural Diplomacy in World War II
University of Texas Press
This study of the most fully developed and intensive use of “soft power” diplomacy in U.S. history explores how the U.S. government enlisted Walt Disney, Orson Welles, John Ford, and other cultural leaders and institutions to bolster inter-American cultur
The Informal and Underground Economy of the South Texas Border
By Chad Richardson and Michael J. Pisani
University of Texas Press
This first comprehensive, multidisciplinary, longitudinal study of the “off-the-books” economic systems that fuel the Laredo-to-Brownsville corridor examines the complex repercussions of these legal and illegal forms of border commerce.
Speech Presentation in Homeric Epic
By Deborah Beck
University of Texas Press
Drawing on narratology and linguistics, this first systematic examination of all the speeches in the Iliad and the Odyssey reveals a unified system of speech presentation in the Homeric epics that includes supposedly “modern” techniques such as free indir
Sancho's Journal
Exploring the Political Edge with the Brown Berets
University of Texas Press
Completing the story of the Mexican American struggle for inclusion and equal rights that he began in Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836–1986 and Quixote’s Soldiers, Montejano presents a rich ethnography of the street-level Chicano movement.
Reclaiming Iraq
The 1920 Revolution and the Founding of the Modern State
By Abbas Kadhim
University of Texas Press
An essential exploration of the pivotal rebellion whose repercussions continue to be felt throughout the West, this timely study reclaims the early twentieth-century Iraqi revolution narrative to emphasize the voices of the vanquished, who lost the battle
Monumentality in Etruscan and Early Roman Architecture
Ideology and Innovation
University of Texas Press
Experts explore what factors drove the emergence of scale as a defining element in ancient Italian architecture, and how these factors influenced the origins and development of Etruscan and early Roman monumental designs.
Mexican Women in American Factories
Free Trade and Exploitation on the Border
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a rich data set of interviews with over 600 women maquila workers, this pathfinding book offers the first rigorous economic and sociological analysis of the impact of NAFTA and its implications for free trade around the world.
Desert Passions
Orientalism and Romance Novels
By Hsu-Ming Teo
University of Texas Press
Ranging from “high” literature to erotica and popular fiction, this pioneering cultural history explores the gendered societal and political purposes that have been served by tales of romance between Western women and Arab men.
A Future for Amazonia
Randy Borman and Cofán Environmental Politics
University of Texas Press
A remarkable story of empowerment, tracing the efforts of Randy Borman, the “gringo chief” who stemmed the tide of dispossession and rainforest destruction beginning in the 1990s and helped the Cofán of Amazonian Ecuador flourish as the result of unique c
Texas Furniture, Volume Two
The Cabinetmakers and Their Work, 1840–1880
University of Texas Press
With over 150 additional pieces of furniture that were not included in Volume One, color photographs, and a new introduction, Texas Furniture, Volume Two completes the definitive guide to the state’s rich heritage of locally made nineteenth-century furniture and the craftsmen who produced it.
Slingin' Sam
The Life and Times of the Greatest Quarterback Ever to Play the Game
By Joe Holley; Introduction by Peyton Manning
University of Texas Press
Paying long-overdue tribute to one of the greatest legends in football, here is a biography of the quarterback who single-handedly revolutionized the game—TCU All-American and Washington Redskins Hall-of-Famer Slingin’ Sammy Baugh.
Nic Nicosia
University of Texas Press
With lavish illustrations and an original short story by Philipp Meyer, this is the first major career retrospective of photographer and filmmaker Nic Nicosia, whose fabricated images evoke the sense of something askew or threatening within “normal” life.
Américo Paredes
Culture and Critique
University of Texas Press
A rich critical study of the literary legacies bestowed by the late Américo Paredes (1915–1999), and the intellectual paths he created as a distinguished folklore scholar and one of the forebears of Mexican American Studies.
A Book on the Making of Lonesome Dove
University of Texas Press
Forty interviews with members of the cast and crew; set designs, costumes, and props from the Wittliff Collections; and candid, on-the-set photographs offer a fascinating, behind-the-scenes look at the book, the miniseries, and the world of Lonesome Dove.
The Surprising Design of Market Economies
University of Texas Press
Bringing a fresh perspective to current debates over the “free market,” this wide-ranging look at how market economies are designed and constructed helps us understand how “the market” works and how we can build fairer and more effective markets.
The Fictional Christopher Nolan
By Todd McGowan
University of Texas Press
With close readings of Memento, Insomnia, Batman Begins, The Prestige, The Dark Knight, and Inception, this theoretically sophisticated study explores how Christopher Nolan has developed a politically engaged filmmaking that makes explicit use of cinema’s tendency toward the lie.
The Education of a Radical
An American Revolutionary in Sandinista Nicaragua
University of Texas Press
In the tradition of My Car in Managua, this is a wise and captivating memoir of a young leftist radical’s transformation while spending ten months as a Sandinista revolutionary in the early 1980s, and his struggle to reconcile uncomfortable truths with hi
Ryan Adams
Losering, a Story of Whiskeytown
University of Texas Press
A prominent music journalist with behind-the-scenes access chronicles the rise of singer-songwriter Ryan Adams from his North Carolina, alt-country roots with Whiskeytown to rock stardom, including stories about the making of the albums Strangers Almanac and Heartbreaker.
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