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The Great Texas Wind Rush
How George Bush, Ann Richards, and a Bunch of Tinkerers Helped the Oil and Gas State Win the Race to Wind Power
By Kate Galbraith and Asher Price
University of Texas Press
Two environmental reporters tell the fascinating story behind Texas’s unlikely triumph in the clean-energy marketplace through wind farming.
Kill for Peace
American Artists Against the Vietnam War
University of Texas Press
Surveying the major antiwar artists, art collectives, and iconic works, as well as offering an original typology of antiwar engagement, this is the first comprehensive history of American artistic protest against the Vietnam War.
Rotten Boroughs, Political Thickets, and Legislative Donnybrooks
Redistricting in Texas
Edited by Gary A. Keith
University of Texas Press
Legislators, lawyers, community organizers, political historians, and political scientists offer a complete history of Texas redistricting during the past century—and the repercussions still felt from the map battles of the 1960s.
Pakistan’s Blasphemy Laws
From Islamic Empires to the Taliban
University of Texas Press
This pioneering study of the evolution of blasphemy laws from the early Islamic empires to the present-day Taliban uncovers the history and questionable motives behind Pakistan’s blasphemy laws and calls for a return to the prophet Muhammad’s peaceful vis
Maya Ideologies of the Sacred
The Transfiguration of Space in Colonial Yucatan
By Amara Solari
University of Texas Press
Using the Maya city of Itzmal as a case study, this book explores how indigenous conceptions of space and landscape both aided and subverted the Franciscan evangelical effort in Colonial Yucatan.
The Neighbors
By Ahmad Mahmoud; Translated by Nastaran Kherad
University of Texas Press
This coming-of-age story set in southwestern Iran during the nationalization of the oil industry in 1951 is the first English translation of the work of a prominent Iranian novelist who helped set the stage for today’s struggle for democracy in Iran.
Undocumented Dominican Migration
University of Texas Press
Based on extensive fieldwork among less-studied migrants, as well as wide-ranging, interdisciplinary research, this book offers a comprehensive understanding of the multiple, interactive factors—structural, cultural, and personal—that influence people to
Maya after War
Conflict, Power, and Politics in Guatemala
University of Texas Press
A compelling study of a Guatemalan village, in the wake of civil war and genocide, facing an uneasy transition marked by gang violence, paramilitary security committees, and other power struggles.
The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall
Mixtec Lineage Histories and Political Biographies
By Robert Lloyd Williams; Introduction by Rex Koontz
University of Texas Press
With a full-color reproduction of the entire codex and the first modern commentary in English on the pre-Hispanic history it records, The Complete Codex Zouche-Nuttall unlocks the social and political cosmos of the ancient Mixtec.
Photojournalists on War
The Untold Stories from Iraq
By Michael Kamber; Introduction by Dexter Filkins
University of Texas Press
With visceral, previously unpublished photographs and eyewitness accounts from the front lines, three dozen of the world’s leading photojournalists reveal the inside and untold stories of the Iraq war in this groundbreaking oral history.
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