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Flash of Light, Wall of Fire
Japanese Photographs Documenting the Atomic Bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
University of Texas Press
Featuring over one hundred photographs taken after the bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, this book forces us to confront the human and environmental costs of nuclear war.
Making Houston Modern
The Life and Architecture of Howard Barnstone
University of Texas Press
This collection of essays examines the life and legacy of Houston architect Howard Barnstone, whose modernist designs and pioneering writings reshaped perceptions of the architecture of Texas.
Chican@ Artivistas
Music, Community, and Transborder Tactics in East Los Angeles
University of Texas Press
A Grammy Award–winning singer and scholar explores how Chican@ artivistas in East Los Angeles, from 1995 to the present, have created a unique community of process-based political engagement influenced by the Zapatista and Fandango movements.
Out of the Shadow
Revisiting the Revolution from Post-Peace Guatemala
Edited by Julie Gibbings and Heather Vrana
University of Texas Press
More than a dozen scholars, representing fields ranging from sociocultural anthropology to Latin American history, present a new understanding of Guatemala in the era from 1944 to 1954, when social reform flourished.
Futbolera
A History of Women and Sports in Latin America
By Brenda Elsey and Joshua Nadel
University of Texas Press
Capturing more than a century of struggles, this stirring cultural history traces the evolution of women’s participation in sports in Latin America, from physical education to amateur clubs to the creation of national teams.
Texas Snakes
A Field Guide
University of Texas Press
Featuring updates to the distribution maps, taxonomy, and checklist of Texas snakes, this fully illustrated field guide will help both novices and experts identify and appreciate the wide variety of snakes found in Texas.
Walker Evans
No Politics
University of Texas Press
This sweeping reinterpretation of Walker Evans reveals how the photographer’s work for hire during and after the Great Depression forces us to reconsider American documentary and its histories.
Seeing Time
Forty Years of Photographs
University of Texas Press
With more than three hundred images, some never before published, Seeing Time is the first career retrospective of Mark Klett, considered one of the most important landscape photographers of the past forty years.
Making It at Any Cost
Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace
By Matías Dewey
University of Texas Press
An examination of the vast counterfeit clothing marketplace in Buenos Aires known as La Salada, this book is the first ethnographic study to examine how aspirations shape behaviors of workers in an informal and illegal economy.
Exile and the Nation
The Parsi Community of India and the Making of Modern Iran
University of Texas Press
Connecting oft-disparate fields, this book explores the Zoroastrian diaspora living in India and its role in using antiquity to bolster twentieth-century Iranian nationalism.
Improbable Metropolis
Houston's Architectural and Urban History
University of Texas Press
Beautifully illustrated, Improbable Metropolis is one of the few books to use architecture and urban planning to explain the growth of a major world city, and the only one of its kind on Houston or any other city in Texas.
Pictured Politics
Visualizing Colonial History in South American Portrait Collections
By Emily Engel
University of Texas Press
Featuring almost eighty illustrations from between 1590 and 1830, Pictured Politics is the sole study in English or Spanish to examine the role of portraiture in constructing the history of South American colonialism.
Reading, Writing, and Revolution
Escuelitas and the Emergence of a Mexican American Identity in Texas
University of Texas Press
The first book on the history of escuelitas, Reading, Writing, and Revolution examines the integral role these grassroots community schools played in shaping Mexican American identity.
Jericho
By Charles Bowden; Introduction by Charles D'Ambrosio
University of Texas Press
In the fifth volume of his “Unnatural History of America” series, the award-winning journalist delivers a powerful meditation on human greed and bloodlust with razor-sharp reporting on Mexican drug cartels at the US border.
Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 74
Humanities
Edited by Katherine D. McCann
University of Texas Press
The 2020 volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American studies.
Freddie Mercury
An Illustrated Life
Edited by Alfonso Casas; Translated by Ned Sublette
University of Texas Press
A vibrant illustrated biography packed with colorful, high-impact drawings capturing the flair, innovation, and dazzling energy that made Freddie Mercury and Queen transcendent superstars.
Haiku History
The American Saga Three Lines at a Time
By H. W. Brands
University of Texas Press
Melding history and poetry, the one-of-a-kind Haiku History gathers a selection of haikus to recount the story of America from the nation’s birth to the election of the forty-fifth president.
Lightning through the Clouds
?Izz al-Din al-Qassam and the Making of the Modern Middle East
By Mark Sanagan
University of Texas Press
This is the first English-language book-length biography of ‘Izz al-Din al-Qassam, sometimes seen as a “Che Guevara of the Middle East”; understanding him is a key to understanding the region, particularly Palestinian nationalism.
The Ancient Roman Afterlife
Di Manes, Belief, and the Cult of the Dead
University of Texas Press
Restoring the manes, or deified dead of Rome, to their dominant place in the Roman afterlife, this book offers a comprehensive study of the manes, their worship, and their place in Roman conceptions of their society.
Border Policing
A History of Enforcement and Evasion in North America
Edited by Holly M. Karibo and George T. Díaz
University of Texas Press
An interdisciplinary group of borderlands scholars provide the first expansive comparative history of the way North American borders have been policed—and transgressed—over the past two centuries.
Sunbelt Diaspora
Race, Class, and Latino Politics in Puerto Rican Orlando
University of Texas Press
An in-depth look at an emerging Latino presence in Orlando, Florida, where Puerto Ricans and others navigate differences of race, class, and place of origin in their struggle for social, economic, and political belonging.
Love in the Drug War
Selling Sex and Finding Jesus on the Mexico-US Border
By Sarah Luna
University of Texas Press
A nuanced exploration of life in la zona, the prostitution zone in the border town of Reynosa, Mexico, where narcos, sex workers, and missionaries are entangled in revelatory relationships of love and obligation.
Glitter Up the Dark
How Pop Music Broke the Binary
By Sasha Geffen
University of Texas Press
From the Beatles to Prince to Perfume Genius, Glitter Up the Dark takes a historical look at the voices that transcended gender and the ways music has subverted the gender binary.
The Swimming Holes of Texas
By Julie Wernersbach and Carolyn Tracy
University of Texas Press
Full of practical information to help plan your visits and enticing color photos of one hundred freshwater swimming holes, here is the first-ever guide to the best places to swim in Texas.
All I Ever Wanted
A Rock 'n' Roll Memoir
University of Texas Press
Go-Go’s bassist Kathy Valentine’s story is a roller coaster of sex, drugs, and of course, music; it’s also a story of what it takes to find success and find yourself, even when it all comes crashing down.
Democratic Law in Classical Athens
University of Texas Press
Controlled entirely by the city-state’s ordinary citizens, the Athenian legal system is one of the most unorthodox the world has ever known, and Michael Gagarin offers an in-depth explanation of how that worked.
Animals at the End of the World
By Gloria Susana Esquivel; Translated by Robin Myers
University of Texas Press
A poignant tale of childhood imagination that follows lonely six-year-old Inés as she explores both her fears about the outer world and the even greater mysteries of family life.
My Shadow Is My Skin
Voices from the Iranian Diaspora
Edited by Katherine Whitney and Leila Emery
University of Texas Press
Through more than thirty essays, My Shadow Is My Skin presents a broad, personal, and inclusive view of the Iranian diaspora in the US and reveals the intricate ways in which the diaspora continues to evolve.
Maya Bonesetters
Manual Healers in a Changing Guatemala
By Servando Z. Hinojosa; Illustrated by Servando G. Hinojosa
University of Texas Press
The first book to thoroughly examine bonesetting in Guatemala, Maya Bonesetters offers an ethnographic portrait of an underdocumented yet culturally vital healing tradition within the lived landscape of its practitioners.
The Last Days of El Comandante
University of Texas Press
Winner of the Tusquets prize in 2015 and previously translated into French, German, Dutch, Polish, and Portuguese, Alberto Barrera Tyszka’s Patria o muerte is now available in English.
The Man Who Wrote the Perfect Novel
John Williams, Stoner, and the Writing Life
University of Texas Press
This biography by the New York Times best-selling author of Mockingbird: A Portrait of Harper Lee traces the life of National Book Award-winning novelist John Williams, author of the cult classic novel Stoner.
Border Citizens
The Making of Indians, Mexicans, and Anglos in Arizona
By Eric V. Meeks; Introduction by Patricia Nelson Limerick
University of Texas Press
A detailed and insightful look at one hundred years of politics, culture, and racial identity among diverse ethnic groups in south-central Arizona.
Medal Winners
How the Vietnam War Launched Nobel Careers
University of Texas Press, University of Texas Health Press
Examining an uplifting and unexpected outcome of a dark period in American history, this book shows how the Vietnam War made the National Institutes of Health an unparalleled training ground for trailblazing scientists.
Kalima wa Nagham
A Textbook for Teaching Arabic, Volume 3
University of Texas Press
This textbook presents an innovative Teaching Arabic as Foreign Language (TAFL) curriculum that enhances language learning and builds cultural awareness.
No Way but to Fight
George Foreman and the Business of Boxing
University of Texas Press
The first biography of the heavyweight boxing champion, preacher, and celebrity pitchman who fought his way out of urban poverty and through the venal world of prizefighting to make it in America.
Michael Ray Charles
A Retrospective
University of Texas Press
Featuring more than one hundred-and-fifty color images, this is the first in-depth examination of the work of Michael Ray Charles, whose provocative paintings recast images of racism in consumer culture.
meXicana Fashions
Politics, Self-Adornment, and Identity Construction
Edited by Aída Hurtado and Norma E. Cantú
University of Texas Press
Fifteen scholars examine the social identities, class hierarchies, regionalisms, and other codes of communication that are exhibited or perceived in meXicana clothing styles.
Cetamura del Chianti
University of Texas Press
A rare glimpse into an ancient Etruscan community that provides evidence for how smaller communities could flourish despite centuries of nearby wars with the Romans.
Agent of Change
Adela Sloss-Vento, Mexican American Civil Rights Activist and Texas Feminist
University of Texas Press
The first comprehensive biography of a formidable civil rights activist and feminist whose grassroots organizing in Texas made her an influential voice in the fight for equal rights for Mexican Americans.
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