University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
by Philip Wylie
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In The End of the Dream, venerated science-fiction author Philip Wylie trains his sights on the ultimate catastrophe—the destruction of the world through human beings’ unheeding and willful poisoning of the atmosphere, the land, the seas and rivers, and finally of the human race itself. The End...
Fallen Astronauts
Heroes Who Died Reaching for the Moon, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Near the end of the Apollo 15 mission, David Scott and fellow moonwalker James Irwin conducted a secret ceremony unsanctioned by NASA: they placed on the lunar soil a small tin figurine called The Fallen Astronaut, along with a plaque bearing a list of names. By telling the stories of those sixteen...
The Space of Literature
A Translation of "L'Espace littéraire"
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Maurice Blanchot, the eminent literary and cultural critic, has had a vast influence on contemporary French writers—among them Jean Paul Sartre and Jacques Derrida. From the 1930s through the present day, his writings have been shaping the international literary consciousness.
The Space of...
The Limits of Liberty
Mobility and the Making of the Eastern U.S.-Mexico Border
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2018
The Limits of Liberty chronicles the formation of the U.S.-Mexico border from the perspective of the “mobile peoples” who assisted in determining the international boundary from both sides in the mid-nineteenth century. In this historic and timely study, James David Nichols argues against the...
Violence in Capitalism
Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture’s reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional—and may therefore count as deliberate murder—Tyner...
Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities
Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This timely study examines the processes by which modern states are created within multiethnic societies. How are national identities forged from countries made up of peoples with different and often conflicting cultures, languages, and histories? How successful is this process? What is lost and gained...
Rivers of Sand
Creek Indian Emigration, Relocation, and Ethnic Cleansing in the American South
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
2017 James F. Sulzby Book Award from the Alabama Historical Association
At its height the Creek Nation comprised a collection of multiethnic towns and villages stretching across large parts of Alabama, Georgia, and Florida. By the 1830s, however, the Creeks had lost almost all this territory...
Gifts from the Thunder Beings
Indigenous Archery and European Firearms in the Northern Plains and Central Subarctic, 1670-1870
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Gifts from the Thunder Beings examines North American Aboriginal peoples’ use of Indigenous and European distance weapons in big-game hunting and combat. Beyond the capabilities of European weapons, Aboriginal peoples’ ways of adapting and using this technology in combination with Indigenous weaponry...
Coming of Age in Chicago
The 1893 World's Fair and the Coalescence of American Anthropology
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Coming of Age in Chicago explores a watershed moment in American anthropology, when an unprecedented number of historians and anthropologists of all subfields gathered on the 1893 Chicago Columbian Exposition fairgrounds, drawn together by the fair’s focus on indigenous peoples. Participants included...
by Brandi Denison
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Ute Land Religion in the American West, 1879–2009 is a narrative of American religion and how it intersected with land in the American West. Prior to 1881, Utes lived on the largest reservation in North America—twelve million acres of western Colorado. Brandi Denison takes a broad look at the...
Home Team
The Turbulent History of the San Francisco Giants
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
In 1957 Horace Stoneham took his Giants of New York baseball team and headed west, starting a gold rush with bats and balls rather than pans and mines. But San Francisco already had a team, the Seals of the Pacific Coast League, and West Coast fans did not immediately embrace the newcomers.
Starting...
Race Experts
Sculpture, Anthropology, and the American Public in Malvina Hoffman's Races of Mankind
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
2019 Finalist for the Charles Rufus Morey Book Award from the CAA
In *Race Experts *Linda Kim examines the complicated and ambivalent role played by sculptor Malvina Hoffman in *The *Races of Mankind series created for the Chicago Field Museum in 1930. Although Hoffman had training...
Rockets and Revolution
A Cultural History of Early Spaceflight
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Rockets and Revolution offers a multifaceted study of the race toward space in the first half of the twentieth century, examining how the Russian, European, and American pioneers competed against one another in the early years to acquire the fundamentals of rocket science, engineer simple rockets,...
Honyocker Dreams
Montana Memories
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2011
Whether they were actually Hungarian or Bohemian, “Hunkies” or “Bohunks,” or even from Eastern Europe at all, to the old ranchers of the Great Plains, the farmers and settlers who moved in and fenced off the open land were no-account “Honyockers.” And to Honyockers like David Mogen’s...