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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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Unruly Domestication

Poverty, Family, and Statecraft in Urban Peru

How the international war on poverty shapes identities, relationships, politics, and urban space in Peru.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Physicians of the Future

Doctor-Influencers, Patient-Consumers, and the Business of Functional Medicine

The first scholarly exploration of the forums, practice, and economics of functional medicine.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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William Hanson and the Texas-Mexico Border

Violence, Corruption, and the Making of the Gatekeeper State

An examination of the career of Texas Ranger and immigration official William Hanson illustrating the intersections of corruption, state-building, and racial violence in early twentieth century Texas.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Visible Ruins

The Politics of Perception and the Legacies of Mexico's Revolution

An examination of the failures of the Mexican Revolution through the visual and material records.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Rick Perry

A Political Life

How Rick Perry navigated and shaped Texas politics as the state’s longest serving governor.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Oil Cities

The Making of North Louisiana’s Boomtowns, 1901-1930

How international oil companies navigated the local, segregated landscape of north Louisiana in the first decades of the twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Home, Heat, Money, God

Texas and Modern Architecture

Thematically focused analaysis of modern architecture throughout Texas with gorgeous photographs illustrating works by famous and lesser-known architects.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Creating the Viewer

Market Research and the Evolving Media Ecosystem

A study of the largely hidden world of primary media market research and the different methods used to understand how the viewer is pictured in the industry.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Playing the Percentages

How Film Distribution Made the Hollywood Studio System

A history of film distribution in the United States from the 1910s to the 1930s, concentrating on booking, circuiting, and packaging marketing practices.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Loose of Earth

A Memoir

An arresting memoir of love and unbending religion, toxicity and disease, and one family’s desperate wait for a miracle that never came.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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The Jaguar Within

Shamanic Trance in Ancient Central and South American Art

An important new way of viewing the prehistoric art of the Americas, The Jaguar Within demonstrates that understanding a work of art’s connection with shamanic trance can lead to an appreciation of it as an extremely creative solution to the inherent challenge of giving material form to nonmaterial realities and states of being.

  • Copyright year: 2011
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Reading across Borders

Afghans, Iranians, and Literary Nationalism

The dynamic and interconnected ways Afghans and Iranians invented their modern selves through literature.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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