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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 Poetic Edda

Translated by Lee M. Hollander

These verses are a treasure trove of mythic and spiritual verse holding an important place in Nordic culture, literature, and heritage.

  • Copyright year: 1962
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The Regional Vocabulary of Texas

A reference to Texas's regional vocabulary through the mid-20th century.

  • Copyright year: 1962
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Gay as a Grig

Memories of a North Texas Girlhood

The memoir of a young woman growing up in North Texas at the end of the nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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If I Can Do It Horseback

A Cow-Country Sketchbook

By John Hendrix; Illustrated by Malcolm Thurgood

John Hendrix drew upon his own varied experiences for this panoramic view of West Texas ranch life, presented here in an integral compilation of flavorful articles written originally for The Cattleman.

  • Copyright year: 1964
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Kant and the Southern New Critics

The theories and practices of some pioneers of philosophical criticism—John Crowe Ransom, Allen Tate, Cleanth Brooks, and others—and the influence of the Kantian generative idea on their assumption that a work of art is the celebration of one’s qualitative experience.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Pioneer Printer

Samuel Bangs in Mexico and Texas

This fine biography of Samuel Bangs, the first printer in the territory that is now Texas, is at the same time a fascinating history of northern Mexico (including Texas) in the first half of the nineteenth century.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Portugal's Other Kingdom

The Algarve

The geography and culture of an isolated province of Portugal as it first felt the impact of industrialization.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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Robert Estienne's Influence on Lexicography

Towering above printers of his time and their successors for many years afterward was the figure of Robert Estienne, the great French lexicographer of the sixteenth century, whose contribution to knowledge and its dissemination is the subject of this authoritative book.

  • Copyright year: 1963
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The Chief Executive In Texas

A Study in Gubernatorial Leadership

An analysis of the Texas governorship built on a broad historical foundation that places events and persons in a perspective perhaps not previously considered by the reader.

  • Copyright year: 1964
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The Cultural Milieu of Addison's Literary Criticism

A literary case study presented as partial answer to the complicated question: what cultural conditions are conducive to the development of a particular theory of literature?

  • Copyright year: 1963
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