University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Captives
How Stolen People Changed the World
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
In Captives: How Stolen People Changed the World archaeologist Catherine M. Cameron provides an eye-opening comparative study of the profound impact that captives of warfare and raiding have had on small- scale societies through time. Cameron provides a new point of orientation for archaeologists, anthropologists,...
Talking Up a Storm
Voices of the New West
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In interviews with fifteen contemporary writers of the American West, Gregory L. Morris demonstrates what these widely divergent talents have in common: they all redefine what it is to be a western writer. No longer enthralled (though sometimes inspired) by the literary traditions of openness, place,...
Scarlet Experiment
Birds and Humans in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Emily Dickinson’s poem “Split the Lark” refers to the “scarlet experiment” by which scientists destroy a bird in order to learn more about it. Indeed, humans have killed hundreds of millions of birds—for science, fashion, curiosity, and myriad other reasons. In the United States alone,...
Playing with the Big Boys
Basketball, American Imperialism, and Subaltern Discourse in the Philippines
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
Basketball has a lock on the Filipino soul. From big arenas in Manila to makeshift hoops in small villages, basketball is played by Filipinos of all walks of life and is used to mark everything from summer breaks for students to religious festivals and many other occasions. Playing with the Big Boys...
Mussolini's Children
Race and Elementary Education in Fascist Italy
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Mussolini’s Children uses the lens of state-mandated youth culture to analyze the evolution of official racism in Fascist Italy. Between 1922 and 1940, educational institutions designed to mold the minds and bodies of Italy’s children between the ages of five and eleven undertook a mission to...
Corridor Talk to Culture History
Public Anthropology and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
The Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and doing anthropology. Critical, comparative, analytical, and narrative studies...
Colonial Mediascapes
Sensory Worlds of the Early Americas
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. Natives and newcomers made speeches, exchanged gifts, invented gestures, and inscribed their intentions...
by Steven G. Kellman
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
It is difficult to write well even in one language. Yet a rich body of translingual literature–by authors who write in more than one language or in a language other than their primary one—exists. The Translingual Imagination is a pioneering study of the phenomenon, which is as ancient as the use...
by Ted Kooser
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
For Valentine’s Day 1986, Ted Kooser wrote “Pocket Poem” and sent the tender, thoughtful composition to fifty women friends, starting an annual tradition that would persist for the next twenty-one years. Printed on postcards, the poems were mailed to a list of recipients that eventually grew...
Russian Formalist Criticism
Four Essays, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory.
Included...
Pitching in the Promised Land
A Story of the First and Only Season in the Israel Baseball League
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
It was the first (and last) season of professional baseball in Israel. Aaron Pribble, twenty-seven, had been out of Minor League Baseball for three years while he pursued a career in education when, at his coach’s suggestion, he tried out for the newly formed Israel Baseball League (IBL). Of Jewish...
Opening Acts
Narrative Beginnings in Twentieth-Century Feminist Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In the beginning there was . . . the beginning. And with the beginning came the power to tell a story. Few book-length studies of narrative beginnings exist, and not one takes a feminist perspective. Opening Acts reveals the important role of beginnings as moments of discursive authority with power...
Blurring the Boundaries
Explorations to the Fringes of Nonfiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2019
Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring...
Imagining Kashmir
Emplotment and Colonialism
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
During the 1947 partition of the Indian subcontinent, Kashmir—a Muslim-majority area ruled by a Hindu maharaja—became a hotly disputed territory. Divided between India and Pakistan, the region has been the focus of international wars and the theater of political and military struggles for self-determination....