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Ancient Andean Political Economy
University of Texas Press
A study of the political and economic dynamics of this complex region.
Francis Parkman, Historian as Hero
The Formative Years
University of Texas Press
A study of a controversial historian.
What is la hispanidad?
A conversation
By Ilan Stavans and Iván Jaksic
University of Texas Press
In a series of lively, provocative conversations, two prominent intellectuals debate the nature of “Hispanic-ness” as it has been expressed in Hispanic civilization around the world and across the centuries.
Speeches from Athenian Law
Edited by Michael Gagarin
University of Texas Press
A compilation of speeches covering key issues in Athenian law, drawn from the Oratory of Classical Greece series, that is intended primarily for use in teaching courses in Greek law or related areas such as Greek history.
Latin America's New Historical Novel
University of Texas Press
In this at-times tongue-in-cheek postmodern study, Seymour Menton explores why the New Historical Novel has achieved such popularity and offers discerning readings of numerous works.
History, Tragedy, Theory
Dialogues on Athenian Drama
Edited by Barbara Goff
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays on Athenian drama demonstrates that Greek tragedy still retains its power to provoke debate and to engage the interest of specialists and non-classicists alike.
Conquest of the New Word
Experimental Fiction and Translation in the Americas
By Johnny Payne
University of Texas Press
In this study of experimental fiction from both Americas, Johnny Payne offers new readings that detail the specific, historical relation between experimental fiction and various authors’ careful, deliberate deformations and reformations of the political r
Rocky Mountain Divide
Selling and Saving the West
University of Texas Press
A study of two western American states with different approaches to land conservation.
We Were Not Orphans
Stories from the Waco State Home
By Sherry Matthews; Introduction by Robert Draper
University of Texas Press
In these amazing stories, Texans who spent their youth in an institution for “dependent and neglected” children reveal both the positive outcomes and the horrific abuses that resulted when a government-run “home” was allowed to operate for decades without any public oversight.
Uchi
The Cookbook
By Tyson Cole and Jessica Dupuy
University of Texas Press
Expand your gastronomic boundaries with some of the most celebrated recipes of Tyson Cole, winner of the James Beard Award for Best Chef (Southwest) and founder of one of America’s premier restaurants for innovative Japanese cuisine, Uchi.
The Austin Chronicle Music Anthology
University of Texas Press
Three decades of music writing from Austin’s renowned alternative newspaper creates an invaluable record of one of America’s most vibrant musical communities—“the live music capital of the world”—and of musicians from Townes Van Zandt to Spoon.
State of Minds
Texas Culture and Its Discontents
By Don Graham
University of Texas Press
Offering his signature take on Texas literary giants from J. Frank Dobie to Larry McMurtry and Cormac McCarthy, and on films such as The Alamo, The Last Picture Show, and Brokeback Mountain, Don Graham demolishes the notion that “Texas culture” is a contr
Egyptian Mummies
University of Texas Press
Richly illustrated with the most superb examples of ancient funerary art found in the British Museum, Egyptian Mummies offers an illuminating account of the beliefs and rituals surrounding mummies, life, death, and the afterlife in ancient Egypt.
Don’t Make Me Go to Town
Ranchwomen of the Texas Hill Country
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated with rich black-and-white photographs of ranchwomen at work, Don’t Make Me Go to Town is a remarkable record of women of strength and determination who are striving to preserve an increasingly rare way of life.
Before the Echo
Essays on Nature
By Pete Dunne; Illustrated by Diana Marlinski
University of Texas Press
In these twenty-nine essays, one of America’s top nature writers trains his sights on the beauties and the vulnerabilities of the natural world.
Visualizing the Sacred
Cosmic Visions, Regionalism, and the Art of the Mississippian World
University of Texas Press
Advancing the study of prehistoric Mississippian art that began in Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms, this volume presents a groundbreaking examination of regional variations in the shared iconography of indigenous cultures in the southeastern United States.
Unruly Girls, Unrepentant Mothers
Redefining Feminism on Screen
University of Texas Press
Continuing the celebration of female unruliness she began in The Unruly Woman, Karlyn explores how representations of mothers and daughters in popular films and television shows both reflect and contribute to current debates within and about feminism.
The Glories of the Republic of Tlaxcala
Art and Life in Viceregal Mexico
By Jaime Cuadriello; Translated by Christopher J. Follett
University of Texas Press
Starting with the iconography of a parish church, this extensively contextualized study examines eighteenth-century art, society, religion, and history to offer a new social history of art in colonial Mexico.
Since When Is Fran Drescher Jewish?
Dubbing Stereotypes in The Nanny, The Simpsons, and The Sopranos
By Chiara Francesca Ferrari; Introduction by Joseph Straubhaar
University of Texas Press
This colorful examination of “translated” television characters in Italy looks at the implications for transnational intersections of commerce and culture.
Sacred Modern
Faith, Activism, and Aesthetics in the Menil Collection
University of Texas Press
This illuminating ethnography of the Menil Collection—the first such study of a major art museum—explores how the Collection embodies its founders’ desire to bind the sacred to the modern and how the Menils’ legacy is being perpetuated and contested beyon
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