University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
by R.A. Villanueva
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
In his prize-winning poetry collection Reliquaria, R. A. Villanueva embraces liminal, in-between spaces in considering an ever-evolving Filipino American identity. Languages and cultures collide; mythologies and faiths echo and resound. Part haunting, part prayer, part prophecy, these poems resonate...
When Are You Coming Home?
Stories
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Humans have always connected deeply to the idea of home. In Bryn Chancellor’s nine stories, home means, in part, the physical spaces: the buildings, cities and towns, the fragile, imperious landscapes of the region. But home is also profoundly rooted in intangibles. Set in urban and rural Arizona,...
American English, Italian Chocolate
Small Subjects of Great Importance
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
American English, Italian Chocolate is a memoir in essays beginning in the American Midwest and ending in north central Italy. In sharply rendered vignettes, Rick Bailey reflects on donuts and ducks, horses and car crashes, outhouses and EKGs. He travels all night from Michigan to New Jersey to...
by Maurice Blanchot
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Modern history is haunted by the disasters of the century—world wars, concentration camps, Hiroshima, and the Holocaust—grief, anger, terror, and loss beyond words, but still close, still impending. How can we write or think about disaster when by its very nature it defies speech and compels silence,...
The Battle for Paradise
Surfing, Tuna, and One Town's Quest to Save a Wave
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
CORRECTION:
Regarding the book, The Battle for Paradise by Jeremy Evans, the following correction has been made on page 163 in paragraph three (3) to wit:
“Weston once worked in concert with government officials in a pre-planned sting operation, complete with marked bills: Weston,...
Pitching to the Pennant
The 1954 Cleveland Indians
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The 1954 Cleveland Indians were one of the most remarkable baseball teams of all time. Their record for most wins (111) fell only when the baseball schedule expanded, and their winning percentage, an astounding .721, is still unsurpassed in the American League. Though the season ended with a heartbreaking...
Young Widower
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2014
John W. Evans was twenty-nine years old and his wife, Katie, was thirty. They had met in the Peace Corps in Bangladesh, taught in Chicago, studied in Miami, and were working for a year in Romania when they set off with friends to hike into the Carpathian Mountains. In an instant their life together...
Falafel Nation
Cuisine and the Making of National Identity in Israel
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
When people discuss food in Israel, their debates ask politically charged questions: Who has the right to falafel? Whose hummus is better? But Yael Raviv’s Falafel Nation moves beyond the simply territorial to divulge the role food plays in the Jewish nation. She ponders the power struggles, moral...
Global Jewish Foodways
A History
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
The history of the Jewish people has been a history of migration. Although Jews invariably brought with them their traditional ideas about food during these migrations, just as invariably they engaged with the foods they encountered in their new environments. Their culinary habits changed as a result...
After the Ceremonies
New and Selected Poems
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Ama Ata Aidoo is one of the best-known African writers today. Spanning three decades of work, the poems in this collection address themes of colonialism, independence, motherhood, and gender in intimate, personal ways alongside commentary on broader social issues. *After the Ceremonies* is arranged...
Producing Predators
Wolves, Work, and Conquest in the Northern Rockies
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
In Producing Predators, Michael D. Wise argues that contestations between Native and non-Native people over hunting, labor, and the livestock industry drove the development of predator eradication programs in Montana and Alberta from the 1880s onward. The history of these anti-predator programs was...
Music Along the Rapidan
Civil War Soldiers, Music, and Community during Winter Quarters, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
In December 1863, Civil War soldiers took refuge from the dismal conditions of war and weather. They made their winter quarters in the Piedmont region of central Virginia: the Union’s Army of the Potomac in Culpeper County and the Confederacy’s Army of Northern Virginia in neighboring Orange County....
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active...
From Angel to Office Worker
Middle-Class Identity and Female Consciousness in Mexico, 1890–1950
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies
In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman’s presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared,...