University Of Nevada Press: 244 books
Unfit For Marriage
Impotent Spouses On Trial In The Basque Region Of Spain, 1650-1750
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...
A History of Occupational Health and Safety
From 1905 to the Present
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...