University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Docu-Fictions of War
U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning compelling literary characters from historical figures. In Docu-Fictions of War, Tatiana Prorokova argues...
Playing Through
Modern Golf's Most Iconic Players and Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The game of golf has been witness to dramatic change since the early 1980s. Technology has relegated polished wooden drivers and wound balls covered with balata to the dustbin of history. The world’s great courses have been stretched unfathomable lengths to counter the game’s modern champions...
Hitchhiking
Twelve German Tales
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
First published in East Germany in 1982 and in West Germany four years later, this collection of short prose firmly established Gabriele Eckart in German literary circles (her poetry had earlier won the critics' praise). Eckart's stories offer a panorama of East German life: sharply drawn vignettes in...
The Dust Rose Like Smoke
The Subjugation of the Zulu and the Sioux, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In 1876 Lakota and Cheyenne warriors annihilated Custer’s Seventh Cavalry at Little Bighorn. Three years later and half a world away, a British force was wiped out by Zulu warriors at Isandhlwana in South Africa. In both cases the total defeat of regular army troops by forces regarded as undisciplined...
Strange Narrators in Contemporary Fiction
Explorations in Readers' Engagement with Characters
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2016
A storyteller’s craft can often be judged by how convincingly the narrative captures the identity and personality of its characters. In this book, the characters who take center stage are “strange” first-person narrators: they are fascinating because of how they are at odds with what the reader...
by Frédéric Brun
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
Perla is the story of a woman who lived through the horrors of the Holocaust and would ultimately die unable to extricate herself from its corrosive memory. It is told from the point of view of her son, who, not long after losing her, learns that he is about to become a father. These two events become...
Topoi/Graphein
Mapping the Middle in Spatial Thought
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
In Topoi/Graphein Christian Abrahamsson maps the paradoxical limit of the in-between to reveal that to be human is to know how to live with the difference between the known and the unknown. Using filmic case studies, including Code Inconnu, Lord of the Flies, and Apocalypse Now, and focusing on...
The Age of Ruth and Landis
The Economics of Baseball during the Roaring Twenties
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the 1919 World Series scandal simmered throughout the 1920 season, tight pennant races drove attendance to new peaks and presaged a decade of general prosperity for baseball. Babe Ruth shattered his own home-run record and, buoyed by a booming economy, professional sports enjoyed what sportswriters...
The Rebounders
A Division I Basketball Journey
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Unlike the stories of most visible Division I college athletes, Amanda Ottaway’s story has more in common with those of the 80 percent of college athletes who are never seen on TV. The Rebounders follows the college career of an average NCAA Division I women’s basketball player in the twenty-first...
Pastime Lost
The Humble, Original, and Now Completely Forgotten Game of English Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Long before baseball became America’s national pastime, English citizens of all ages, genders, and classes of society were playing a game called baseball. It had the same basic elements as modern American baseball, such as pitching and striking the ball, running bases, and fielding, but was played...
The Trans-Mississippi and International Expositions of 1898–1899
Art, Anthropology, and Popular Culture at the Fin de Siècle
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
The Trans-Mississippi Exposition of 1898 celebrated Omaha’s key economic role as a center of industry west of the Mississippi River and its arrival as a progressive metropolis after the Panic of 1893. The exposition also promoted the rise of the United States as an imperial power, at the time on...
Gendering Radicalism
Women and Communism in Twentieth-Century California
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In 1919 Charlotte Anita Whitney, a wealthy white woman, received one of the first Communist Labor Party membership cards for the charter group of the northern California Communist Labor Party. Less than a decade later in Berkeley, California, a Jewish woman named Dorothy Ray Healey became a card-carrying...
Unpopular Sovereignty
Mormons and the Federal Management of Early Utah Territory
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Charles Redd Center Phi Alpha Theta Book Award for the Best Book on the American West
2018 Francis Armstrong Madsen Best Book Award from the Utah State Historical Society
2018 Best First Book Award from the Mormon History Association
Newly created territories in antebellum America were designed...
Yearning to Labor
Youth, Unemployment, and Social Destiny in Urban France
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
In the first decade of the twenty-first century, France underwent a particularly turbulent period during which urban riots in 2005 and labor protests in 2006 galvanized people across the country and brought the question of youth unemployment among its poorer, multiethnic outer cities into the national...