University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Franco-America in the Making
The Creole Nation Within
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
Every June the city of Lowell, Massachusetts, celebrates Franco-American Day, raising the Franco-American flag and hosting events designed to commemorate French culture in the Americas. Though there are twenty million French speakers and people of French or francophone descent in North America, making...
by Kevin J. Hayes
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Cyclotourism has recently risen to prominence with growing national media coverage and thousands of participants taking to America’s roadways on two wheels and under their own pedal power.
But the concept is not new. More than a century ago, George B. Thayer took his own first “century,”...
History of Nevada
(Second Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
This updated edition of History of Nevada is still the most comprehensive one-volume economic, political, and social history of a state that was once thought of as "a bridge to somewhere else." It will be welcomed by students and general readers.
Present at the Creation
My Life in the NFL and the Rise of America's Game
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2017
To understand how the NFL became the sports phenomenon it is today, you can study its history or you can live its history as an active participant. Upton Bell grew up at the knee of the NFL’s first great commissioner, his father, the legendary Bert Bell, who not only saved the game from financial...
Carlisle Indian Industrial School
Indigenous Histories, Memories, and Reclamations
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Carlisle Indian School (1879–1918) was an audacious educational experiment. Lieutenant Richard Henry Pratt, the school’s founder and first superintendent, persuaded the federal government that training Native children to accept the white man’s ways and values would be more efficient than...
America's Digital Army
Games at Work and War
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
America’s Digital Army is an ethnographic study of the link between interactive entertainment and military power, drawing on Robertson Allen’s fieldwork observing video game developers, military strategists, U.S. Army marketing agencies, and an array of defense contracting companies that worked...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Women’s Life Writing and Early Modern Ireland provides an original perspective on both new and familiar texts in this first critical collection to focus on seventeenth-century women’s life writing in a specifically Irish context. By shifting the focus away from England—even though many...
Baseball's New Frontier
A History of Expansion, 1961-1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
When Major League Baseball first expanded in 1961 with the addition of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, it started a trend that saw the number of franchises almost double, from sixteen to thirty, while baseball attendance grew by 44 percent. The story behind this staggering growth,...
Courage and Grief
Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s destructive Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were...
Spring 1865
The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes...
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
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 conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century...
by Roy Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology’s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning—in terms of what...