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Spanish Central America
A Socioeconomic History, 1520–1720
University of Texas Press
Now with an updated historiographical and bibliographical introduction—a sweeping history of the middle centuries of Spain’s colonial enterprise in Central America.
Remembering Victoria
A Tragic Nahuat Love Story
University of Texas Press
An anthropological account of a Nahuat Mexican community that broke down into violence and fratricide following the destruction of its property by the Mexican army, told in the words of a Nahuat husband grieving for his murdered wife.
Pyramids and Nightclubs
A Travel Ethnography of Arab and Western Imaginations of Egypt, from King Tut and a Colony of Atlantis to Rumors of Sex Orgies, Urban Legends about a Marauding Prince, and Blonde Belly Dancers
By L. L. Wynn
University of Texas Press
A revealing ethnography of the ways in which globalism, history, and other factors shape perceptions of identity in urban Egypt.
Mother Earth and Uncle Sam
How Pollution and Hollow Government Hurt Our Kids
University of Texas Press
An assessment of the ways in which the government has failed to protect our youngest generation from toxic exposure and harm, and what can be done to correct these failures now.
Life After Welfare
Reform and the Persistence of Poverty
University of Texas Press
A comprehensive, gripping study of how 179 families have managed in post–welfare reform Texas, and of the themes that define life after welfare.
Fifty Years of Change on the U.S.-Mexico Border
Growth, Development, and Quality of Life
University of Texas Press
A study of cross-border economic issues and developments comparing the disparate industrial growth and income gap between the regions on either side of the U.S.-Mexico border.
Fernández de Oviedo's Chronicle of America
A New History for a New World
By Kathleen Ann Myers; Translated by Nina M. Scott
University of Texas Press
A masterful examination of how Fernández de Oviedo’s General and Natural History of the Indies created a new model for writing history that reflected the vastness of the New World and Spain’s colonial enterprise there.
Celluloid Vampires
Life After Death in the Modern World
University of Texas Press
In this entertaining and absorbing work, author Stacey Abbott challenges the conventional interpretation of vampire mythology and argues that the medium of film has completely reinvented the vampire archetype.
Yard Art and Handmade Places
Extraordinary Expressions of Home
University of Texas Press
A beautifully illustrated book that explores how the making of yard art expresses an exuberant sense of self and helps build communities.
Women, Celebrity, and Literary Culture between the Wars
By Faye Hammill
University of Texas Press
A fascinating look at seven American, Canadian, and English women writers—Dorothy Parker, Anita Loos, Mae West, L. M. Montgomery, Margaret Kennedy, Stella Gibbons, and E. M. Delafield—who achieved popular success in the 1920s and 1930s and whose work is s
The Teotihuacan Trinity
The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican City
University of Texas Press
A grand overview of the New World’s most recognizable but least understood ancient city—Teotihuacan, in the Valley of Mexico—which proposes a new model for the city’s social and political structure.
The Projects
Gang and Non-Gang Families in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
A closer look into the reality of life in an East Los Angeles housing project where gangs have a longstanding presence.
Maya Calendar Origins
Monuments, Mythistory, and the Materialization of Time
University of Texas Press
A major rethinking of the origins of the two primary calendars used by the ancient lowland Maya, proposing that the calendars developed about a millennium earlier than commonly thought.
Lone Star Sleuths
An Anthology of Texas Crime Fiction
University of Texas Press
An engaging collection of crime fiction in which Texas is as much a character as a setting.
Leopoldo Méndez
Revolutionary Art and the Mexican Print
University of Texas Press
The first major overview of the works and career of Leopoldo Méndez—one of the most distinguished printmakers of the twentieth century and a contemporary and countryman of Diego Rivera, José Clemente Orozco, and José Guadalupe Posada—contains over 150 ill
Islamism and Modernism
The Changing Discourse in Iran
University of Texas Press
A timely study of the historical, religious, and social forces that have shaped Iran throughout the past century.
Harnessing the Technicolor Rainbow
Color Design in the 1930s
University of Texas Press
The first scholarly history of Technicolor filmmaking, as well as a thoroughgoing analysis of how color works in film.
Eckhardt
There Once Was a Congressman from Texas
By Gary A. Keith; Introduction by Al Gore
University of Texas Press
A biography of renowned U.S. congressman, Texas state legislator, labor lawyer, and political organizer Bob Eckhardt.
Witness for Justice
The Documentary Photographs of Alan Pogue
By Alan Pogue
University of Texas Press
A visual survey of the career of acclaimed documentary photographer Alan Pogue, whose work has focused on social and political movements from Texas to the Middle East.
Thelma & Louise Live!
The Cultural Afterlife of an American Film
Edited by Bernie Cook
University of Texas Press
Essays by leading film scholars and an interview with screenwriter Callie Khouri explore the significant, on-going influence of the 1991 film Thelma & Louise.
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