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Greek Sport and Social Status
By Mark Golden
University of Texas Press
A noted authority on ancient sport discusses various ways in which the ancient Greeks, as well as people today, used sports to achieve social status.
Death and the Classic Maya Kings
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive study of ancient Maya death rites in twenty years.
Art and Archaeology of Challuabamba, Ecuador
University of Texas Press
An important baseline study of ceramics and material culture in southern Ecuador, which establishes the region’s artistic and trade connections with better-known areas of the prehistoric Andes.
Walls of Empowerment
Chicana/o Indigenist Murals of California
University of Texas Press
The first book-length study of its kind, charting recurrent imagery of a fragmented past in Chicana/o murals throughout Los Angeles, San Francisco, and San Diego.
The Art and Archaeology of the Moche
An Ancient Andean Society of the Peruvian North Coast
Edited by Steve Bourget and Kimberly L. Jones
University of Texas Press
A state-of-the-art overview of prehistoric Moche culture by an international, multidisciplinary team of scholars who are at the forefront of Moche research.
Temples of the Earthbound Gods
Stadiums in the Cultural Landscapes of Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires
University of Texas Press
In this groundbreaking tale of two cities, a geography scholar and soccer aficionado delivers a fascinating tour of the sport's hallowed grounds.
Neo-Confederacy
A Critical Introduction
University of Texas Press
An interdisciplinary team examines the mainstreaming of the New Dixie movement, whose calls range from full secession to the racist exaltation of “Celtic” Americans and whose advocates can be found far north of the Mason-Dixon Line.
Native Speakers
Ella Deloria, Zora Neale Hurston, Jovita Gonzalez, and the Poetics of Culture
University of Texas Press
The first book-length comparative analysis of three intellectual women of color working in the academic mainstream in the early twentieth century.
Kiowa Ethnogeography
University of Texas Press
An enlightening study of more than 300 place names and geographical features that reveal a rich trove of findings related to Kiowa culture and history.
Israeli Culture between the Two Intifadas
A Brief Romance
By Yaron Peleg
University of Texas Press
An intriguing portrait of Israel’s “Generation X,” and the perceived decline in Zionism among contemporary urban Israeli youth between the Palestinian uprisings that began in 1987 and 2000
Border Bandits
Hollywood on the Southern Frontier
University of Texas Press
An examination of how major Hollywood films exploit the border between Mexico and the United States to tell a story about U.S. dominance in the Western hemisphere.
William Wayne Justice
A Judicial Biography
University of Texas Press
Now in paperback—the acclaimed biography of one of Texas’s most influential and controversial judges, with a new epilogue that traces William Wayne Justice’s impact and legacy.
The Tira de Tepechpan
Negotiating Place under Aztec and Spanish Rule
University of Texas Press
An interpretive analysis of a sixteenth-century Aztec painted history from a provincial city in Central Mexico.
The Concubine, the Princess, and the Teacher
Voices from the Ottoman Harem
University of Texas Press
Three women who lived in the Ottoman imperial harem between 1876 and 1924 describe the lifeways of the imperial family, dispelling Western stereotypes of harem debauchery.
Islamism in the Shadow of al-Qaeda
By François Burgat; Translated by Patrick Hutchinson
University of Texas Press
A provocative rethinking of the war on terror that exposes the dangers of Western blindness to colonial Middle Eastern history and breaks the deadlock of geopolitics and religious identity.
Harry Huntt Ransom
Intellect in Motion
By Alan Gribben
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive biography of the visionary university chancellor who propelled the University of Texas at Austin to lasting levels of stature and established one of the world’s finest cultural archives, the Harry Ransom Center.
Gabriel García Moreno and Conservative State Formation in the Andes
University of Texas Press
A new political history that addresses five major themes of nineteenth-century Latin American history through the life and times of Ecuador’s most controversial politician.
For Glory and Bolívar
The Remarkable Life of Manuela Sáenz
By Pamela S. Murray; Introduction by Fredrick B. Pike
University of Texas Press
A sweeping biography of Simón Bolívar’s most passionate revolutionary, the Colombian precursor to Eva Perón.
Conquistadores de la Calle
Child Street Labor in Guatemala City
University of Texas Press
A stirring ethnography of Guatemala City’s juvenile street vendors and the surprising economies of power they construct.
Understanding Indian Movies
Culture, Cognition, and Cinematic Imagination
University of Texas Press
A cultural-cognitive analysis of Indian cinema intended to increase understanding and appreciation of Indian films in the English-speaking world.
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