University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
This Strange Wilderness
The Life and Art of John James Audubon
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
Birds were “the objects of my greatest delight,” wrote John James Audubon (1785–1851), founder of modern ornithology and one of the world’s greatest bird painters. His masterpiece, The Birds of America depicts almost five hundred North American bird species, each image—lifelike and life...
The Coming Man from Canton
Chinese Experience in Montana, 1862–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
In The Coming Man from Canton Christopher W. Merritt mines the historical and archaeological record of the Chinese immigrant experience in Montana to explore new questions and perspectives. During the 1860s Chinese immigrants arrived by the thousands, moving into the Rocky Mountain West and tenaciously...
Freshwater Passages
The Trade and Travels of Peter Pond
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Peter Pond, a fur trader, explorer, and amateur mapmaker, spent his life ranging much farther afield than Milford, Connecticut, where he was born and died (1740–1807). He traded around the Great Lakes, on the Mississippi and the Minnesota Rivers, and in the Canadian Northwest and is also well known...
by Larry Cebula
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Fusing myriad primary and secondary sources, historian Larry Cebula offers a compelling master narrative of the impact of Christianity on the Columbian Plateau peoples in the Pacific Northwest from 1700 to 1850.
For the Native peoples of the Columbian Plateau, the arrival of whites...
Sustainable Compromises
A Yurt, a Straw Bale House, and Ecological Living
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Living simply isn’t always simple. When Alan Boye first lived in sustainable housing, he was young, idealistic, and not much susceptible to compromise—until rattlesnakes, black widow spiders, and loneliness drove him out of the utilities-free yurt he’d built in New Mexico. Thirty-five years...
The Continental League
A Personal History
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Long before there was Moneyball, a group of investors led by baseball legend Branch Rickey proposed a new economic model for baseball. Based on an innovative approach to evaluating and developing talent, the Continental League was the last serious attempt to form a third Major League. The league’s...
Reading Unruly
Interpretation and Its Ethical Demands
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Drawing on literary theory and canonical French literature, Reading Unruly examines unruliness as both an aesthetic category and a mode of reading conceived as ethical response. Zahi Zalloua argues that when faced with an unruly work of art, readers confront an ethical double bind, hesitating then...
Writing Brave and Free
Encouraging Words for People Who Want to Start Writing
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Sometimes setting pen to paper requires bravery, and writing well means breaking free of the rules learned in school. Liberating and emboldening the beginning writer are the goals of Ted Kooser and Steve Cox in this spirited book of practical wisdom that brings to bear decades of invaluable experience...
Modernity and Its Other
The Encounter with North American Indians in the Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Modernity and Its Other Robert Woods Sayre examines eighteenth-century North America through discussion of texts drawn from the period. He focuses on this unique historical moment when early capitalist civilization (modernity) in colonial societies, especially the British, interacted closely with...
So, How Long Have You Been Native?
Life as an Alaska Native Tour Guide
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
So, How Long Have You Been Native? is Alexis C. Bunten’s firsthand account of what it is like to work in the Alaska cultural tourism industry. An Alaska Native and anthropologist, she spent two seasons working for a tribally owned tourism business that markets the Tlingit culture in Sitka. Bunten’s...
Fluent Selves
Autobiography, Person, and History in Lowland South America
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Fluent Selves examines narrative practices throughout lowland South America focusing on indigenous communities in Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, and Peru, illuminating the social and cultural processes that make the past as important as the present for these peoples. This collection brings together leading...
by Rex Alan Smith
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
The last significant clash of arms in the American Indian Wars took place on December 29, 1890, on the banks of Wounded Knee Creek in South Dakota. Of the 350 Teton Sioux Indians there, two-thirds were women and children. When the smoke cleared, 84 men and 62 women and children lay dead, their bodies...
How the West Was Drawn
Mapping, Indians, and the Construction of the Trans-Mississippi West
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
How the West Was Drawn explores the geographic and historical experiences of the Pawnees, the Iowas, and the Lakotas during the European and American contest for imperial control of the Great Plains during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. David Bernstein argues that the American West was a...
Waheenee
An Indian Girl's Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
"I was born in an earth lodge by the mouth of the Knife River, in what is now North Dakota, three years after the smallpox winter." So begins the story of Waheenee, a Hidatsa Indian woman, born in 1839 amid a devastated tribe.
In 1906 Gilbert L. Wilson first visited the Fort Berthold...