University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
by Deborah Toner
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810...
Beyond the Fruited Plain
Food and Agriculture in U.S. Literature, 1850-1905
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Agriculture in the United States has changed dramatically in the last two hundred years. Economic transformation marked by the expansion of the industrial economy and big business has contributed to an increase in industrial food production. Amid this change, policymakers and cultural critics have...
Cather Studies, Volume 10
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Willa Cather and the Nineteenth Century explores, with textual specificity and historical alertness, the question of how the cultures of the nineteenth century—the cultures that shaped Willa Cather’s childhood, animated her education, supplied her artistic models, generated her inordinate ambitions,...
Should I Still Wish
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife’s violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with his in-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
Borderlands are complex spaces that can involve military, religious, economic, political, and cultural interactions—all of which may vary by region and over time. John W. I. Lee and Michael North bring together interdisciplinary scholars to analyze a wide range of border issues and to encourage...
Contra Instrumentalism
A Translation Polemic
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2019
*Contra Instrumentalism *questions the long-accepted notion that translation reproduces or transfers an invariant contained in or caused by the source text. This “instrumental” model of translation has dominated translation theory and commentary for more than two millennia, and its influence...
Bike Lanes Are White Lanes
Bicycle Advocacy and Urban Planning
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The number of bicyclists is increasing in the United States, especially among the working class and people of color. In contrast to the demographics of bicyclists in the United States, advocacy for bicycling has focused mainly on the interests of white upwardly mobile bicyclists, leading to neighborhood...
The French Army and Its African Soldiers
The Years of Decolonization
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
As part of France’s opposition to the independence of its former colonies in the years following World War II, its army remained deeply invested in preventing the decolonization of the territories comprising French West Africa (FWA). Even as late as the 1950s, the French Army clung to the hope that...
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico
The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul von Hintze, 1912-1914
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany’s ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany’s emperor Wilhelm II had selected Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous...
Holding On
African American Women Surviving HIV/AIDS
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2016
In Holding On anthropologist Alyson O’Daniel analyzes the abstract debates about health policy for the sickest and most vulnerable Americans as well as the services designated to help them by taking readers into the daily lives of poor African American women living with HIV at the advent of the...
The Awakening Coast
An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
by Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries...
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds
Creating Community by Voicing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly interlocutors...
The Sovereign Colony
Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in...