University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
The Pacific Northwest
An Interpretive History (Revised and Enlarged Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This edition contains significant additional material on early mining in the Pacific Northwest, sea routes to Oregon in the early discovery and contact period,...
Lucky Me
My Sixty-Five Years in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Eddie Robinson’s career lasted sixty-five years and spanned the era before and during World War II, integration, the organization of the players union, expansion, use of artificial turf, free agency, labor stoppages, and even the steroid era. He was a Minor League player, a Major League player,...
by Patricia Jabbeh Wesley
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
Described by African scholar and literary critic Chielozona Eze as “one of the most prolific African poets of the twenty-first century,” Patricia Jabbeh Wesley composed When the Wanderers Come Home during a four-month visit to her homeland of Liberia in 2013. She gives powerful voice to the pain...
by Bernard Farai Matambo
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poets, Zimbabwean writer Bernard Farai Matambo’s poems in Stray favor a prose-shaped line as they uncover the contradictory impulses in search of emotional and intellectual truth. Stray not only captures the essence of identity but also eloquently...
Champion of Choice
The Life and Legacy of Women's Advocate Nafis Sadik
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Not many women can claim to have changed history, but Nafis Sadik set that goal in her youth, and change the world she did. Champion of Choice tells the remarkable story of how Sadik, born into a prominent Indian family in 1929, came to be the world’s foremost advocate for women’s health and reproductive...
by Patrick Modiano
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
Patrick Modiano, winner of the 2014 Nobel Prize in Literature, is the author of more than thirty books and one of France’s most admired contemporary novelists. Out of the Dark is a moody, expertly rendered tale of a love affair between two drifters.
The narrator, writing in 1995, looks back...
The Shell Game
Writers Play with Borrowed Forms
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Within the recent explosion of creative nonfiction, a new type of form is quietly emerging, what Brenda Miller calls “hermit crab essays.” The Shell Game is an anthology of these intriguing essays that borrow their structures from ordinary, everyday sources: a recipe, a crossword puzzle, a Craig’s...
by Estelline Bennett
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
For roughnecks in search of trouble, Deadwood was the place to go. An outlaw town—its very beginnings as a mining camp violated government treaties with the Sioux—Deadwood soon acquired a reputation that dime novels could hardly exaggerate. It attracted both the great and the gritty. Calamity...
Ellen Browning Scripps
New Money and American Philanthropy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Molly McClain tells the remarkable story of Ellen Browning Scripps (1836–1932), an American newspaperwoman, feminist, suffragist, abolitionist, and social reformer. She used her fortune to support women’s education, the labor movement, and public access to science, the arts, and education.
Born...
Cover Me
A Health Insurance Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
Growing up in middle-class middle America, Sonya Huber viewed health care as did most of her peers: as an inconvenience or not at all. There were braces and cavities, medications and stitches, the family doctor and the local dentist. Finding herself without health insurance after college graduation,...
by Jan-Noël Thon
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
Narratives are everywhere—and since a significant part of contemporary media culture is defined by narrative forms, media studies need a genuinely transmedial narratology. Against this background, Transmedial Narratology and Contemporary Media Culture focuses on the intersubjective construction...
Abolishing Freedom
A Plea for a Contemporary Use of Fatalism
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Pushing back against the contemporary myth that freedom from oppression is freedom of choice, Frank Ruda resuscitates a fundamental lesson from the history of philosophical rationalism: a proper concept of freedom can arise only from a defense of absolute necessity, utter determinism, and predestination.
Abolishing...
American Colossus
Big Bill Tilden and the Creation of Modern Tennis
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Babe Ruth, Jack Dempsey, Bobby Jones, and Bill Tilden were the legendary quartet of the “Golden Age of Sports” in the 1920s. They transformed their respective athletic disciplines and captured the imagination of a nation. The indisputable force behind the emergence of professional tennis as a...
Cather Studies, Volume 11
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Willa Cather at the Modernist Crux examines Willa Cather’s position in time, in aesthetics, and in the world. Born a Victorian in 1873, Cather made herself a modernist through the poems, stories, and novels she wrote and published into the twentieth century. Beginning with a prologue locating Cather’s...