University Of Nevada Press imprint: 244 books

Unfit For Marriage

Impotent Spouses On Trial In The Basque Region Of Spain, 1650-1750

by Edward J. Behrend-Martinez, Edward J Behrend-Martínez
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2014

The Catholic Church of early modern Europe intended the sacrament of matrimony to represent a lifelong commitment, and it allowed few grounds for the dissolution of an unhappy marriage. One was nonconsummation owing to the sexual impotency of one of the partners. Even then, an annulment was granted...
by Anthony Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2016

When Gary Snyder’s long poem Mountains and Rivers Without End was published in 1996, it was hailed as a masterpiece of American poetry. Anthony Hunt offers a detailed historical and explicative analysis of this complex work using, among his many sources, Snyder’s personal papers, letters, and...
by Diana L. Ahmad
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2011

America’s current "war on drugs" is not the nation’s first. In the mid-nineteenth century, opium-smoking was decried as a major social and public health problem, especially in the West. Although China faced its own epidemic of opium addiction, only a very small minority of Chinese immigrants...

Rough-Water Man

Elwyn Blake'S Colorado River Expeditions

by Richard E. Westwood
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013

The passage of the 1902 Reclamation Act created a mandate for the federal government to build dams on the Colorado River and its powerful tributaries. By 1920 the US Geological Survey had surveyed the river’s main courses, but still needed accurate charts of the last stretches of deep canyons and...

Great Basin Indians

An Encyclopedic History

by Michael Hittman
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2013

The Native American inhabitants of North America’s Great Basin have a long, eventful history and rich cultures. Great Basin Indians: An Encyclopedic History covers all aspects of their world. The book is organized in an encyclopedic format to allow full discussion of many diverse topics, including...

Changing the Game

Women at Work in Las Vegas, 1940-1990

by Joanne L. Goodwin
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014

The growth of Las Vegas that began in the 1940s brought an influx of both women and men looking to work in the expanding hotel and casino industries. In fact, for the next fifty years the proportion of women in the labor force was greater in Las Vegas than the United States as a whole. Joanne L. Goodwin’s...

Atomic Comics

Cartoonists Confront the Nuclear World

by Ferenc Morton Szasz
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2012

The advent of the Atomic Age challenged purveyors of popular culture to explain to the general public the complex scientific and social issues of atomic power. Atomic Comics examines how comic books, comic strips, and other cartoon media represented the Atomic Age from the early 1920s to the present....

Dolly and Zane Grey

Letters from a Marriage

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Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2008

Popular western writer Zane Grey was a literary celebrity during his lifetime and the center of a huge enterprise based on his writing, which included books, magazine serials, film and stage versions of his stories, even comic strips. His wife, Dolly, closely guided Grey's career almost from its beginning,...

Unnatural Ecopoetics

Unlikely Spaces in Contemporary Poetry

by Sarah Nolan
Language: English
Release Date: April 28, 2017

What constitutes an environment in American literature is an issue that has undergone much debate across environmental humanities in the last decade. In the field, some have argued that environments are markedly natural or wild sites while others contend literary spaces can be both wild and urban,...

Purshia

The Wild And Bitter Roses

by James A. Young, Charlie D. Clements
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2002

A useful and complete summary of all the scientific information available on one of the most significant plant species in the western and intermountain regions. Among the plant species of the great Basin rangeland, the Purshia—ancient members of the rose family evolved to survive the aridity and...

Peregrinations

Walking in American Literature

by Amy T Hamilton
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2018

Peregrinate: To travel or wander around from place to place. The land of the United States is defined by vast distances encouraging human movement and migration on a grand scale. Consequently, American stories are filled with descriptions of human bodies walking through the land. In...
by Ronald H. Limbaugh
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2010

Tungsten is a rare ferrous metal whose ability to form molecular compounds with other elements has made it one of the essential elements in steelmaking, electronics, and various military technologies. This is the first comprehensive study of the use of tungsten and its role in modern technology, politics,...

With Distance in His Eyes

The Environmental Life and Legacy of Stewart Udall

by Scott Raymond Einberger
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2018

One of America’s most significant architects of conservation and the environment, Stewart Udall, comes to life in this environmental biography. Perhaps no other public official or secretary of the interior has ever had as much success in environmental protection, natural resource conservation, and...
by Michelle Follette Turk
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018

The United States has a long and unfortunate history of exposing employees, the public, and the environment to dangerous work. But in April 2009, the spotlight was on Las Vegas when the Pulitzer committee awarded its public service prize to the Las Vegas Sun for its coverage of the high fatalities...
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