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 Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection
A History and Catalog
A beautifully illustrated exploration of the Rob Roy Kelly American Wood Type Collection that combines images of type from the collection with a history of the origin of nineteenth-century wood type designs.
The Islamic Movement in Israel
By Tilde Rosmer
The only book in English that recounts how the Islamic Movement in Israel originated and developed into a popular grassroots organization focused on protecting the Palestinian people, their land, and their religious sites.
Chicanx Utopias
Pop Culture and the Politics of the Possible
By Luis Alvarez
Exploring race, politics, Chicanx history, and social movements, this book offers a broad and encompassing examination of Chicanx popular culture since World War II and the utopian visions it articulated.
Rethinking the Inka
Community, Landscape, and Empire in the Southern Andes
Leading researchers offer a dramatic reappraisal of the Inka Empire through the lens of Qullasuyu, a conquered region largely absent from existing English-language scholarship.
Riot and Rebellion in Mexico
The Making of a Race War Paradigm
By Ana Sabau
Challenging conventional narratives of Mexican history, this book establishes race-making as a central instrument for the repression of social upheaval in nineteenth-century Mexico rather than a relic of the colonial-era caste system.
Rethinking Zapotec Time
Cosmology, Ritual, and Resistance in Colonial Mexico
As the first exhaustive translation and analysis of an extraordinary Zapotec calendar and ritual song corpus, seized in New Spain in 1704, this book expands our understanding of Mesoamerican history, cosmology, and culture.
Abecedario de Juárez
An Illustrated Lexicon
By Julián Cardona and Alice Leora Briggs
Illustrated with evocative drawings by artist Alice Leora Briggs, this glossary uses the vocabulary created by the violence in Juárez, Mexico, to tell the stories of the people who live there.
Gothic Sovereignty
Street Gangs and Statecraft in Honduras
Contributes to current conversations about Central American security crises and immigration stemming from gang violence by tracing the evolution of Honduran gangs from small, neighborhood groups to members of violent cartels.
Selling Black Brazil
Race, Nation, and Visual Culture in Salvador, Bahia
This book explores visual portrayals of blackness in Brazil to reveal the integral role of visual culture in crafting race and nation across Latin America.
The Mexican American Experience in Texas
Citizenship, Segregation, and the Struggle for Equality
A historical overview of Mexican Americans’ social and economic experiences in Texas, told through the lens of their fight for civil rights, from the Spanish period to the present.
Image Encounters
Moche Murals and Archaeo Art History
By Lisa Trever
The first comprehensive study of Moche mural art, this landmark book develops a methodology of archaeo art history to examine image-making and visual experience in an era of ancient Peruvian history before the use of writing.
Comic Book Women
Characters, Creators, and Culture in the Golden Age
A revisionist history of the origins of comic books that reclaims women’s pioneering and pivotal roles as both creators and characters.
