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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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The Interior

Recentering Brazilian History

Edited by Frederico Freitas and Jacob Blanc

A new history of Brazil told through the lens of the often-overlooked interior regions.

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Sports through the Lens

Essays on 25 Iconic Photographs

Edited by Maureen M. Smith, Daniel A. Nathan, and Sarah K. Fields

The stories behind and legacies of important sports photos from the last 130 years.

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Handbook of Latin American Studies, Vol. 77

Social Sciences

By Katherine D. McCann

A new volume of the benchmark bibliography of Latin American Studies, compiled by the Library of Congress.

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Child Martyrs and Militant Evangelization in New Spain

Missionary Narratives, Nahua Perspectives

By Stephanie Schmidt

Examines the many iterations of a story of child martyrdom in colonial Mexico.

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Arretium (Arezzo)

Edited by Ingrid Edlund-Berry and Cristiana Zaccagnino

A comprehensive examination of the history and excavation of the Etruscan city of Arretium.

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The Modern Israeli and Palestinian Diasporas

A Comparative Approach

Edited by Nahum Karlinsky

A comparative study of contemporary Israeli and Palestinian diasporas.

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The Great Texas Stamp Collection

How Some Stubborn Texas Confederate Postmasters, a Handful of Determined Texas Stamp Collectors, and a Few of the World's Greatest Philatelists Created, Discovered, and Preserved Some of the World's M

By Charles W. Deaton

Seasoned with intrigue, mystery, and adventure, this history of rare, Civil War–era Texas stamps and those seeking to collect them offers a lively and insightful read for any philatelist or collector of Texana.

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Prohibition in Turkey

Alcohol and the Politics of Identity

By Emine Ö. Evered

A social history of alcohol, identity, secularism, and modernization from the late Ottoman and early Turkish republican eras to the present day.

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Ida Lupino, Forgotten Auteur

From Film Noir to the Director's Chair

By Alexandra Seros

An archival study of Ida Lupino’s work in film and television directing, writing, producing, and acting from the 1940s to the 1970s.

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Texian Exodus

The Runaway Scrape and Its Enduring Legacy

By Stephen L. Hardin

A narrative account of the evacuation of the Texians in 1836, which was redeemed by the defeat of the Mexican army and the creation of the Republic of Texas.

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Revolting Indolence

The Politics of Slacking, Lounging, and Daydreaming in Queer and Trans Latinx Culture

By Marcos Gonsalez

How indolent practices in Latinx LGBTQ culture challenge capitalist imperatives to be productive.

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It's All in the Delivery

Pregnancy in American Film and Television Comedy

By Victoria Sturtevant

How changing depictions of pregnancy in comedy from the start of the twentieth century to the present show an evolution in attitudes toward women’s reproductive roles and rights.

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