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First published in Germany in 1867, this fascinating autobiographical novel of German immigrants on the antebellum Texas frontier provides a trove of revelations about the myriad communities that once called the Hill Country home.

A history of Argentina that examines how trans bodies were understood, policed, and shaped in a country that banned medically assisted gender affirmation practices and punished trans lives.

A new look at the last 150 years of Texas's contentious political history, told decade by decade through the prism of the state's famous, infamous, and unsung figures.

The award-winning author of Texas, a Modern History and Galveston: A History presents the first comprehensive narrative of urban development in Texas from the Spanish Conquest to the present.

A revisionist history of Method acting that connects the popular reception of “methodness” to entrenched understandings of screen performance still dominating American film discourse today.

A history of racism and segregation in twentieth-century Houston and beyond.

A study of Maya dental modification from archaeological sites spanning three millennia.

The first comprehensive biography of one of Texas's most important female writers-made complete with examples of her work, excerpts from her private papers, and eighteen previously unpublished letters from her mentor, H. L. Mencken.

New case studies documenting ten thousand years of cuisines across the cultures of Oaxaca, Mexico, from the earliest gathered plants, such as guajes, to the contemporary production of tejate and its health implications.

A collection of essays that offers an intimate view of Larry McMurtry, America's preeminent western novelist, through the eyes of a pantheon of writers he helped shape through his work over the course of his unparalleled literary life

This collection ponders the personal and political implications for Haitians at home and abroad resulting from the devastating 2010 earthquake.

An exploration of Colombian maps in New Granada.

An insight into the struggles of paid domestic workers in Latin America through an exploration of films, texts, and digital media produced since the 1980s in collaboration with them or inspired by their experiences.

Unheard Witness foregrounds a young woman’s experience of domestic abuse, resistance, and survival before the mass shooting at the University of Texas at Austin in 1966.

A data-driven deep dive into a legendary comics author’s subversion of gender norms within the bestselling comic of its time.

How China’s borderlands transformed politically and culturally throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

An intimate retelling of Lyndon B. Johnson’s politics and pre.sidency by one of his closest advisors.

An examination of the art in superhero comics and how style influences comic narratives.

How science fiction films in the 1950s were marketed and helped create the broader genre itself.