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The City in Texas
A History
University of Texas Press
The award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.
Cosmopolitan Minds
Literature, Emotion, and the Transnational Imagination
University of Texas Press
Reading transnational American literature from a cognitive perspective, this book argues that our emotional engagements with others—real and imagined—are crucially important for the development of cosmopolitan imaginations.
The Fate of Earthly Things
Aztec Gods and God-Bodies
University of Texas Press
This sophisticated, interdisciplinary study analyzes foundational concepts of deities and deity embodiments in Aztec religion to shed new light on the Aztec understanding of how spiritual beings take on form and agency in the material world.
Racine and English Classicism
University of Texas Press
A comparison of neo-classical English translations of Racine with the originals, and an analysis of what was changed and why.
Competitive Archaeology in Jordan
Narrating Identity from the Ottomans to the Hashemites
University of Texas Press
Tracing the complex history of Jordan through its archaeology, Competitive Archaeology in Jordan examines how foreign and indigenous powers have competed for and used antiquities to create their own narratives, national identities, borders, and conceptions of the nation.
Architectural Vessels of the Moche
Ceramic Diagrams of Sacred Space in Ancient Peru
University of Texas Press
Adding an important new chapter to pre-Columbian art history, this volume is the first to assemble and analyze a comprehensive body of ancient Andean architectural representations, as well as the first that explores their connections to full-scale pre-Hispanic ritual architecture.
Kinship, Business, and Politics
The Martinez Del Rio Family in Mexico, 1823-1867
University of Texas Press
Using previously undiscovered primary source materials, Walker employs family history to analyze problems relating more generally to the development of state and society in newly independent Mexico.
Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism
University of Texas Press
Using Brazilian films about slavery as case studies, Cinema, Slavery, and Brazilian Nationalism offers new insight into the deployment of cinematic narrative strategies to influence viewers and their conceptions of Brazilian national identity.
Breaking Out of Beginner's Spanish
University of Texas Press
Celebrating its twentieth anniversary and over 115,000 copies sold, here is the essential, entertaining guide to speaking Spanish like a native, with a new preface by the author.
The Murals of Cacaxtla
The Power of Painting in Ancient Central Mexico
By Claudia Brittenham; Foreword by María Teresa Uriarte
University of Texas Press
Presenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still capture
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