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Border Odyssey
Travels along the U.S./Mexico Divide
University of Texas Press
This compelling chronicle of a journey along the entire U.S.-Mexico border shifts the conversation away from danger and fear to the shared histories and aspirations that bind Mexicans and Americans despite the border walls.
Adventures of a Ballad Hunter
By John A. Lomax; Introduction by John Lomax, John Nova Lomax, and Anna Lomax Wood; Illustrated by Ken Chamberlain
University of Texas Press
Now back in print with a new foreword and photographs, this is the classic 1947 autobiography by pioneering folklorist John A. Lomax, who recorded and preserved thousands of American folk ballads for posterity.
Journey to Texas, 1833
University of Texas Press
The first English translation of the earliest German book about Texas, Journey to Texas, 1833 offers a unique portrait of colonial Texas on the eve of revolution and of the nascent German communities in Austin’s Colony.
Los Zetas Inc.
Criminal Corporations, Energy, and Civil War in Mexico
University of Texas Press
Arguing that the Zetas effectively constitute a transnational corporation, this book proposes a new theoretical framework for understanding the emerging actors, business structures, and economic implications of organized crime in Mexico.
Where the Land Meets the Sea
Fourteen Millennia of Human History at Huaca Prieta, Peru
Edited by Tom D. Dillehay
University of Texas Press
This landmark, interdisciplinary volume on the excavation of one of the longest-occupied yet most enigmatic sites in human history sheds new light on how civilization began among farmers and fishermen some fourteen thousand years ago.
Classics from Papyrus to the Internet
An Introduction to Transmission and Reception
University of Texas Press
This major overview of how classical texts were preserved across millennia addresses both the process of transmission and the issue of reception, as well as the key reference works and online professional tools for studying literary transmission.
Why Harry Met Sally
Subversive Jewishness, Anglo-Christian Power, and the Rhetoric of Modern Love
University of Texas Press
Explicating one of the most potent and recurring mass-culture fantasies, this book explores Jewish-Christian couplings across a century of popular American literature, theater, film, and television.
Batos, Bolillos, Pochos, and Pelados
Class and Culture on the South Texas Border
By Chad Richardson and Michael J. Pisani
University of Texas Press
Now thoroughly revised and updated, this classic account of life on the Texas-Mexico border reveals how the borderlands have been transformed by NAFTA, population growth and immigration crises, and increased drug violence.
The Mobility of Modernism
Art and Criticism in 1920s Latin America
University of Texas Press
Presenting a paradigm-shifting view of early Latin American modernism, this book looks at how a transnational intellectual community of writers and critics forged an anticolonial aesthetic based in abstract artistic forms.
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