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Desert Terroir
Exploring the Unique Flavors and Sundry Places of the Borderlands
University of Texas Press
From the biology behind flavor to the stories and memories that taste evokes, here is a savory exploration of the terroir of the Southwestern borderlands—the geological, ecological, and cultural history embodied in the foods of this desert region.
Col. William N. Selig, the Man Who Invented Hollywood
University of Texas Press
Refuting virtually every previous account of the founding and development of the American motion picture industry, this entertaining biography pays tribute to a pioneer whose many innovations helped to create Hollywood as we know it today.
Chicano Satire
A Study in Literary Culture
University of Texas Press
In this groundbreaking study, Guillermo Hernández focuses on the uses of satire in the works of three authors—Luis Valdez, Rolando Hinojosa, and José Montoya—and on the larger context of Chicano culture in which satire operates.
Satire in Narrative
Petronius, Swift, Gibbon, Melville, & Pynchon
University of Texas Press
This study asserts that narrative satire performs a different function from poetic satire, in that it parodies both the established view of the world and that of its opponents, offering its own distinctive critical perspective.
A Route 66 Companion
Edited by David King Dunaway
University of Texas Press
With fiction, poetry, memoir, and oral history from a stellar collection of writers, including Raymond Chandler, Joan Didion, Washington Irving, Henry Miller, Sylvia Plath, Leslie Marmon Silko, and John Steinbeck, A Route 66 Companion offers a literary hi
The Chora of Metaponto 3
Archaeological FIeld Survey—Bradano to Basento
Edited by Joseph Coleman Carter and Alberto Prieto
University of Texas Press
The latest volume of archaeological investigations in southern Italy by the Institute of Classical Archaeology that will present a wealth of new information about the region’s ancient rural economy and culture.
Parson Henry Renfro
Free Thinking on the Texas Frontier
University of Texas Press
The life of a frontier preacher who served in the Civil War as soldier and chaplain and who eventually embraced the ideals of the Free Thought Movement.
The Shaman’s Mirror
Visionary Art of the Huichol
By Hope MacLean
University of Texas Press
This comprehensive study of one of the world’s great indigenous arts explores issues surrounding dreams and visions, ranging from what shamanic vision is to how artists use vision and how they perceive the soul in relation to their art.
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The Late Roman Farmhouse at San Biagio
By Erminia Lapadula; Edited by Joseph Coleman Carter
University of Texas Press
Based on archaeological investigations in southern Italy by the Institute of Classical Archaeology, this volume features a small but viable social and economic entity that was an unexpected find from a period generally marked by large landholdings.
Reconsidering Olmec Visual Culture
The Unborn, Women, and Creation
University of Texas Press
This groundbreaking study of gestational imagery on ancient Olmec monuments and objects brings to light Mesoamerica’s earliest creation narrative and traces its evolution into one of the enduring themes of Mesoamerican ritual life and art.
Land of the Tejas
Native American Identity and Interaction in Texas, A.D. 1300 to 1700
University of Texas Press
Examining the complex interactions of numerous distinct groups of native peoples over a 400-year period, this book presents an entirely new archaeological conceptualization of Texas that links prehistory and history into a single continuum.
Witches, Whores, and Sorcerers
The Concept of Evil in Early Iran
By S. K. Mendoza Forrest; Introduction by Prods Oktor Skjaervø
University of Texas Press
A deep exploration into how evil was understood and categorized, and then finally combated, in early Iranian traditions.
Vintage Moquegua
History, Wine, and Archaeology on a Colonial Peruvian Periphery
University of Texas Press
This fascinating, deeply human narrative of colonialism and capitalism captures the history of a New World winery in the desert mountains of southern Peru.
Urban Chroniclers in Modern Latin America
The Shared Intimacy of Everyday Life
University of Texas Press
A compelling study of the writers who used the genre of crónica—combining literary aestheticism with journalistic form—to capture seismic political and sociological shifts in the 1920s and 1930s.
The Governor's Hounds
The Texas State Police, 1870–1873
By Barry A. Crouch and Donaly E. Brice
University of Texas Press
Drawing on a wealth of previously unused primary sources, this book offers the first full-scale assessment of the much-reviled Texas State Police and its role in maintaining law and order in Reconstruction Texas.
Muslim Rap, Halal Soaps, and Revolutionary Theater
Artistic Developments in the Muslim World
Edited by Karin van Nieuwkerk
University of Texas Press
Twelve leading scholars trace Islamic discourse on the performing arts to give insight into genres of pious productions throughout the world.
Demosthenes, Speeches 1–17
Translated by Jeremy Trevett
University of Texas Press
This collection of oratory by or ascribed to the most renowned of the ancient Greek orators presents the Philippic and Olynthiac speeches—deliberative speeches denouncing Philip of Macedon—plus a letter from Philip to the Athenians.
Censorship and Sexuality in Bombay Cinema
By Monika Mehta
University of Texas Press
An examination of the censorship of gender and heterosexuality—particularly female heterosexuality—in Bombay cinema.
American Film Cycles
Reframing Genres, Screening Social Problems, and Defining Subcultures
University of Texas Press
Exploring how political sentiments, popular desires, and social anxieties have been reflected in movies from the Dead End Kids serial to the ghetto action flicks of the 1990s, this book offers the first full-length study of the American film cycle and its
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