Unp Nebraska: 513 books
California
Land of New Beginnings
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the Americans, the fabulous gold rushes, statehood...
Westward Vision
The Story of the Oregon Trail
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
“In one very real sense,” David Lavender writes, “the story of the Oregon Trail begins with Columbus.” This opening suggests the panoramic sweep of his history of that famous trail. In chiseled, colorful prose, Lavender illustrates the “westward vision” that impelled the early explorers...
by Rex Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
One of Sports Illustrated’s Top 100 Sports Books of All Time
For less expense than a lost bet on the links, you can learn how to get “out of the bunker and into the trees.” Rex Lardner, a unique stylist who hit his best shots when in a towering rage, reveals the secrets every golfer needs...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2017
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
The mythic American West, with its perilous frontiers, big skies, and vast resources, is frequently perceived as unchanging and timeless. The work of many western-based historical archaeologists over the past decade, however, has revealed narratives...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
There is mounting interest in services to strengthen families and, if possible, to keep them together, preventing unnecessary and costly out-of-home placements. Unfortunately, although these programs are proliferating throughout the country, many are developing without the benefit of existing historical,...
No Word for Welcome
The Mexican Village Faces the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2011
Wendy Call visited the Isthmus of Tehuantepec—the lush sliver of land connecting the Yucatan Peninsula to the rest of Mexico—for the first time in 1997. She found herself in the midst of a storied land, a place Mexicans call their country's “little waist,” a place long known for its strong women,...
Violence in Capitalism
Devaluing Life in an Age of Responsibility
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
What, James Tyner asks, separates the murder of a runaway youth from the death of a father denied a bone-marrow transplant because of budget cuts? Moving beyond our culture’s reductive emphasis on whether a given act of violence is intentional—and may therefore count as deliberate murder—Tyner...
Range Wars
The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American space program, and the primary site for testing U.S. missile...
Ogallala
Water for a Dry Land
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
The Ogallala aquifer, a vast underground water reserve extending from South Dakota through Texas, is the product of eons of accumulated glacial melts, ancient Rocky Mountain snowmelts, and rainfall, all percolating slowly through gravel beds hundreds of feet thick.
Ogallala: Water for a Dry...
Nationalist Myths and Ethnic Identities
Indigenous Intellectuals and the Mexican State
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
This timely study examines the processes by which modern states are created within multiethnic societies. How are national identities forged from countries made up of peoples with different and often conflicting cultures, languages, and histories? How successful is this process? What is lost and gained...
Rooney
A Sporting Life
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
Born to an Irish Catholic working-class family on the Northside of Pittsburgh, Art Rooney (1901–88) dabbled in semipro baseball and boxing before discovering that his real talent lay not in playing sports but in promoting them. Though he was at the center of boxing, baseball, and racing in Pittsburgh...
Scars of Partition
Postcolonial Legacies in French and British Borderlands
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Based on three decades of fieldwork throughout the developing world, Scars of Partition is the first book to systematically evaluate the long-term implications of French and British styles of colonialism and decolonization for ordinary people throughout the so-called Third World. It pays particular...
by Oana Sabo
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
The Migrant Canon in Twenty-First-Century France explains the causes of twenty-first-century global migrations and their impact on French literature and the French literary establishment. A marginal genre in 1980s France, since the turn of the century “migrant literature” has become central to...
Mastering the Marketplace
Popular Literature in Nineteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
Mastering the Marketplace examines the origins of modern mass-media culture through developments in the new literary marketplace of nineteenth-century France and how literature itself reveals the broader social and material conditions in which it is produced. Anne O’Neil-Henry examines how French...