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Established in 1950, the University of Texas Press produces approximately one hundred new books each year and has over 3000 books in print. Their areas of scholarly concentration include American studies, anthropology, archaeology, architecture, art, classics, film and media studies, food studies and cookbooks, history, Jewish studies, Latin American and pre-Columbian studies, Latinx studies, Middle Eastern studies, music, nature and environment, photography, and Texas and the Southwest. In addition, UT Press publishes books of general interest for a wider audience on a variety of subjects, including history, current affairs, the visual arts, music, and food, among others, as well as books on the history, culture, arts, and natural history of Texas.

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Books Are Made Out of Books

A Guide to Cormac McCarthy's Literary Influences

By Michael Lynn Crews

A new edition of this groundbreaking exploration of Cormac McCarthy’s literary archive, which identifies over 150 writers and thinkers who influenced McCarthy, now including analysis of McCarthy’s final works.

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Taking the Land to Make the City

A Bicoastal History of North America

By Mary P. Ryan

The award-winning historian Mary P. Ryan offers a new vision of early American history that focuses on the contributions of cities and of West Coast Hispanic culture to the forging of an American system of democracy and capitalism.

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Finding Caspicara

Double Identities, Hidden Figures, and the Commerce of Sculpture in Colonial Quito

By Susan Verdi Webster

An examination of sculpture and authorship in eighteenth-century Quito that documents Caspicara as a participant in the innovative artistic production of the city’s workshops and its widespread commerce of polychrome sculptures.

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Searching for Feminist Superheroes

Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Marvel Comics

By Sam Langsdale

How superhero narratives in the margins of the mainstream tell innovative, feminist stories.

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Constructing Cuban America

Race and Identity in Florida's Caribbean South, 1868–1945

By Andrew Gomez

How Black and white Cubans navigated issues of race, politics, and identity during the post-Civil War and early Jim Crow eras in South Florida.

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Arrival

By David Roche

A study of Denis Villeneuve’s genre-transcendent film.

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Band People

Life and Work in Popular Music

By Franz Nicolay

A close look at the lives of working musicians who aren’t the center of their stage.

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The Burning Plain

By Juan Rulfo; Translated by Douglas J. Weatherford

A new translation of El Llano en llamas, an iconic collection of short stories that changed the course of Mexican and Latin American literature.

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American Tacos

A History and Guide

By José R. Ralat

The first history of tacos developed in the United States, now revised and expanded, this book is the definitive survey that American taco lovers must have for their own taco explorations.

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