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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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Reflections on Latin American Development

A comprehensive analysis of many aspects of Latin American economic development in the mid-twentieth century.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Sherwood Anderson and Other Famous Creoles

A Gallery of Contemporary New Orleans

Drawings of people in the arts in New Orleans in the 1920s.

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Spain and the Abolition of Slavery in Cuba, 1817–1886

This book explores the abolition of African slavery in Spanish Cuba from 1817 to 1886—from the first Anglo-Spanish agreement to abolish the slave trade until the removal from Cuba of the last vestige of black servitude.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Steel and Economic Growth in Mexico

A history of the Mexican iron and steel industry through the 1960s.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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The Brazilians

Their Character and Aspirations

  • Copyright year: 1967
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The Inter American Press Association

Its Fight for Freedom of the Press, 1926–1960

A study of the history of this group that has fought for freedom of the press in Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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The Meaning of Commercial Television

The Texas-Stanford Seminar, 1966

A collection of speeches from a 1966 seminar on television.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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The Negro and His Folklore in Nineteenth-Century Periodicals

Edited by Bruce Jackson

Originally published in 1967, this anthology examines how the folklore of blacks in America was portrayed in nineteenth-century periodicals.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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The United States and the Atlantic Community

Issues and Prospects

Edited by James R. Roach; Introduction by M. Donald Hancock

A series of lectures delivered by five eminent statesmen and political theorists at the University of Texas in the spring of 1966 on the general theme of “The United States and the Atlantic Community: Issues and Prospects.”

  • Copyright year: 1966
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Three Men in Texas

Bedichek, Webb, and Dobie

Edited by Ronnie Dugger

Essays on the three famous friends, originally published in the Texas Observer.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Vargas of Brazil

A Political Biography

A biography of the man who was the dominant public figure in Brazil from 1930 until 1954, a highly contradictory and controversial personality.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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Vasconcelos of Mexico

Philosopher and Prophet

A unified, inclusive, and occasionally critical presentation of the entire range of Vasconcelos’s thought.

  • Copyright year: 1967
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