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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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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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American Coal

Russell Lee Portraits

More than 100 powerful images by noted photographer Russell Lee that document the working conditions and lives of coal mining communities in the postwar United States; publication coincides with an exhibition at the National Archives in Washington, DC.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Conditionally Accepted

Navigating Higher Education from the Margins

A collection of essays that provides advice and strategies for BIPOC scholars on how to survive, thrive, and resist in academic institutions.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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A War of Colors

Graffiti and Street Art in Postwar Beirut

Demonstrates the role of Beirut’s postwar graffiti and street art in transforming the cityscape and animating resistance.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Across the Green Sea

Histories from the Western Indian Ocean, 1440-1640

A history of two centuries of interactions among the areas bordering the western Indian Ocean, including India, Iran, and Africa.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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Portraits of Persistence

Inequality and Hope in Latin America

Edited by Javier Auyero

Profiles of triumph and hardship amid massive inequality in Latin America.

  • Copyright year: 2024
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