Unp Nebraska: 513 books
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
"Wright Morris seems to me the most important novelist of the American middle generation. Through a large body of work –which, unaccountably, has yet to receive the wide attention it deserves—Mr. Morris has adhered to standards which we have come to identify as those of the most serious literary...
by Diane Glancy
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
At the end of the Southern Plains Indian wars in 1875, the War Department shipped seventy-two Kiowa, Cheyenne, Arapaho, Comanche, and Caddo prisoners from Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida. These most resistant Native people, referred to as “trouble causers,” arrived...
Performing Indigeneity
Global Histories and Contemporary Experiences
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of “being” indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about...
Yuwipi
Vision and Experience in Oglala Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2014
A profoundly spiritual book, Yuwipi describes a present-day Oglala Sioux healing ritual that is performed for a wide range of personal crises. The vivid narrative centers on the experience of a hypothetical father and son in need of spiritual and physical assistance.
The author combines the...
The Enjoy Agenda
At Home and Abroad
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Part memoir, part travelogue, The Enjoy Agenda takes readers from Rick Bailey’s one-stoplight town in Michigan farm country to Stratford, England, to the French Concession in Shanghai, the Adriatic coast of Italy, and to a small village in the Republic of San Marino. With his self-deprecating style,...
by Wright Morris
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
"A radiant expression of the art [Wright Morris] has developed through thirty years and fourteen earlier novels. Although it is anything but preachy it will stick in the minds of the congregation for a long time. . . . On the one hand, this is a novel of alienation and on the other, a novel about the...
Shattered Dreams
The Lost and Canceled Space Missions
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Shattered Dreams delves into the personal stories and recollections of several men and women who were in line to fly a specific or future space mission but lost that opportunity due to personal reasons, mission cancellations, or even tragedies. While some of the subjects are familiar names in spaceflight...
by Tobin Siebers
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
"The tone is personal, the subject matter timely and contemporary. At turns moving, funny, poignant, and haunting, Among Men is an insightful diary about talking man to man."—Voice Literary Supplement
A Scientific Way of War
Antebellum Military Science, West Point, and the Origins of American Military Thought
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
While faith in the Enlightenment was waning elsewhere by 1850, at the United States Military Academy at West Point and in the minds of academy graduates serving throughout the country Enlightenment thinking persisted, asserting that war was governable by a grand theory accessible through the study...
Colonial Suspects
Suspicion, Imperial Rule, and Colonial Society in Interwar French West Africa
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
A Vietnamese cook, a German journalist, and a Senegalese student—what did they have in common? They were all suspicious persons kept under surveillance by French colonial authorities in West Africa in the 1920s and 1930s. Colonial Suspects looks at the web of surveillance set up by the French...
Maryland, My Maryland
Music and Patriotism during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Historians have long treated the patriotic anthems of the American Civil War as colorful, if largely insignificant, side notes. Beneath the surface of these songs, however, is a complex story. “Maryland, My Maryland” was one of the most popular Confederate songs during the American Civil War,...
Hemispheric Indigeneities
Native Identity and Agency in Mesoamerica, the Andes, and Canada
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2018
Hemispheric Indigeneities is a critical anthology that brings together indigenous and nonindigenous scholars specializing in the Andes, Mesoamerica, and Canada. The overarching theme is the changing understanding of indigeneity from first contact to the contemporary period in three of the world’s...
Salish Blankets
Robes of Protection and Transformation, Symbols of Wealth
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2017
Salish Blankets presents a new perspective on Salish weaving through technical and anthropological lenses. Worn as ceremonial robes, the blankets are complex objects said to preexist in the supernatural realm and made manifest in the natural world through ancestral guidance. The blankets are protective...
Monstrous Nature
Environment and Horror on the Big Screen
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Godzilla, a traditional natural monster and representation of cinema’s subgenre of natural attack, also provides a cautionary symbol of the dangerous consequences of mistreating the natural world—monstrous nature on the attack. Horror films such as Godzilla invite an exploration of the complexities...