University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building
Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation-state of Brazil. While “Brazil” had geographic meaning, it did not constitute a cohesive political identity that could draw...
The Heart in the Glass Jar
Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man’s literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters—as both symbols and material objects—of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s.
William...
The Time of the Generals
Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The quarter century from 1964 to 1989 was the "time of the generals," the most clearly defined era of military rule and influence in the history of Latin America. The effects of this rule were most evident in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile, where French- and German-style military professionalism...
Apostle of Progress
Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary...
Crafting a Republic for the World
Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included...
From Idols to Antiquity
Forging the National Museum of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential...
by Jun U. Sunseri
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas...
by R. Lee Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America illuminates the researcher and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. The few brief histories of North American zooarchaeology suggest that Paul W. Parmalee, John E. Guilday, Elizabeth...
The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic...
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas...
Here's the Pitch
The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American culture. The other was ostensibly just a game, yet it soon became emblematic of what it meant to be American, aiding in the creation of a...
Last Seasons in Havana
The Castro Revolution and the End of Professional Baseball in Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Last Seasons in Havana explores the intersection between Cuba and America’s pastime from the late 1950s to the early 1960s, when Fidel Castro overthrew Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista. César Brioso takes the reader through the triumph of the revolution in 1959 and its impact on professional baseball...
A Generation Removed
The Fostering and Adoption of Indigenous Children in the Postwar World
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
On June 25, 2013, the U.S. Supreme Court heard the case Adoptive Couple vs. Baby Girl, which pitted adoptive parents Matt and Melanie Capobianco against baby Veronica’s biological father, Dusten Brown, a citizen of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma. Veronica’s biological mother had relinquished...
Exceptional Mountains
A Cultural History of the Pacific Northwest Volcanoes
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Over the past 150 years, people have flocked to the Pacific Northwest in increasing numbers, in part due to the region’s beauty and one of its most exceptional features: volcanoes. This segment of the Pacific Ring of Fire has shaped not only the physical landscape of the region but also the psychological...