University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Conquering Sickness
Race, Health, and Colonization in the Texas Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Published through the Early American Places initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Conquering Sickness presents a comprehensive analysis of race, health, and colonization in a specific cross-cultural contact zone in the Texas borderlands between 1780 and 1861. Throughout...
Outposts on the Frontier
A Fifty-Year History of Space Stations
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
The International Space Station (ISS) is the largest man-made structure to orbit Earth and has been conducting research for close to a decade and a half. Yet it is only the latest in a long line of space stations and laboratories that have flown in orbit since the early 1970s. The histories of these...
Bootleggers and Borders
The Paradox of Prohibition on a Canada-U.S. Borderland
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Between 1920 and 1933 the issue of prohibition proved to be the greatest challenge to Canada-U.S. relations. When the United States adopted national prohibition in 1920—ironically, just as Canada was abandoning its own national and provincial experiments with prohibition—U.S. tourists and dollars...
Westward Vision
The Story of the Oregon Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
“In one very real sense,” David Lavender writes, “the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus.” This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the “westward vision” that impelled the early explorers...
by Rex Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
For less expense than a lost bet on the links, you can learn how to get “out of the bunker and into the trees.” Rex Lardner, a unique stylist who hit his best shots when in a towering rage, reveals the secrets every golfer needs...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
There is mounting interest in services to strengthen families and, if possible, to keep them together, preventing unnecessary and costly out-of-home placements. Unfortunately, although these programs are proliferating throughout the country, many are developing without the benefit of existing historical,...
No Word for Welcome
The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong women,...
Range Wars
The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile...
Ogallala
Water for a Dry Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick.
Ogallala: Water for a Dry...
Rooney
A Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh...
Scars of Partition
Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular...
by Oana Sabo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to...
Mastering the Marketplace
Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Mastering the Marketplace examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Anne O’Neil-Henry examines how French...