University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Manassas
A Battlefield Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
This volume is the essential guide to the Manassas battlefields, site of two of the Civil War’s critical campaigns. Ethan S. Rafuse, a distinguished scholar of the Civil War, provides a clearly organized, thorough, and uniquely insightful account of both campaigns, along with expert analysis and...
The Life of Ten Bears
Comanche Historical Narratives
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The Life of Ten Bears is a remarkable collection of nineteenth-century Comanche oral histories given by Francis Joseph “Joe A” Attocknie. Although various elements of Ten Bears’s life (ca. 1790–1872) are widely known, including several versions of how the toddler Ten Bears survived the massacre...
Prophets of the Great Spirit
Native American Revitalization Movements in Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Prophets of the Great Spirit offers an in-depth look at the work of a diverse group of Native American visionaries who forged new, syncretic religious movements that provided their peoples with the ideological means to resist white domination. By blending ideas borrowed from Christianity with traditional...
Author Under Sail
The Imagination of Jack London, 1893-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
In Author Under Sail, Jay Williams offers the first complete literary biography of Jack London as a professional writer engaged in the labor of writing. It examines the authorial imagination in London’s work, the use of imagination in both his fiction and nonfiction, and the ways he defined imagination...
Culture on Two Wheels
The Bicycle in Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Bicycles have more cultural identities than many realize, functioning not only as literal vehicles in a text but also as “vehicles” for that text’s themes, ideas, and critiques. In the late nineteenth century the bicycle was seen as a way for the wealthy urban elite to reconnect with nature...
by Tsitsi Ella Jaji
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
The poems in Tsitsi Ella Jaji’s Beating the Graves meditate on the meaning of living in diaspora, an experience increasingly common among contemporary Zimbabweans. Vivid evocations of the landscape of Zimbabwe filter critiques of contemporary political conditions and ecological challenges, veiled...
Birthing a Nation
Gender, Creativity, and the West in American Literature
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Birthing a Nation is about national identity and the American West. If it is a truism that facing west was the American male version of invoking the Muse, what happened if you were female? Most past interpretations of western American literature have echoed Frederick Jackson Turner’s frontier hypothesis,...
The Black Christ of Esquipulas
Religion and Identity in Guatemala
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
On the eastern border of Guatemala and Honduras, pilgrims and travelers flock to the Black Christ of Esquipulas, a large statue carved from wood depicting Christ on the cross. The Catholic shrine, built in the late sixteenth century, has become the focal point of admiration and adoration from New...
The Cult of the Modern
Trans-Mediterranean France and the Construction of French Modernity
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
The Cult of the Modern focuses on nineteenth-century France and Algeria and examines the role that ideas of modernity and modernization played in both national and colonial programs during the years of the Second Empire and the early Third Republic. Gavin Murray-Miller rethinks the subject by examining...
Upside Down
Seasons among the Nunamiut
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
In the roadless Brooks Range Mountains of northern Alaska sits Anaktuvuk Pass, a small, tightly knit Nunamiut Eskimo village. Formerly nomadic hunters of caribou, the Nunamiut of Anaktuvuk now find their destiny tied to that of Alaska’s oil-rich North Slope, their lives suddenly subject to a century’s...
by Ann Marie Low
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
“Life in what the newspapers call ‘the Dust Bowl’ is becoming a gritty nightmare,” Ann Marie Low wrote in 1934. Her diary vividly captures that “gritty nightmare” as it was lived by one rural family—and by millions of other Americans.
The books opens in 1927—“the...
The Plan de San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and African...
The Colonel and Hug
The Partnership that Transformed the New York Yankees
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
From the team’s inception in 1903, the New York Yankees were a floundering group that played as second-class citizens to the New York Giants. With four winning seasons to date, the team was purchased in 1915 by Jacob Ruppert and his partner, Cap “Til” Huston. Three years later, when Ruppert...
Gil Hodges
A Hall of Fame Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
In descriptions of athletes, the word “hero” is bandied about and liberally attached to players with outstanding statistics and championship rings. Gil Hodges: A Hall of Fame Life is the story of a man who epitomized heroism in its truest meaning, holding values and personal interactions to be...