University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Routes of Compromise
Building Roads and Shaping the Nation in Mexico, 1917-1952
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
In Routes of Compromise Michael K. Bess studies the social, economic, and political implications of road building and state formation in Mexico through a comparative analysis of Nuevo León and Veracruz from the 1920s to the 1950s. He examines how both foreign and domestic actors, working at local,...
by Grace Abbott
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
This reader features the most influential and insightful writings of Grace Abbott (1878–1939), a tireless and brilliant social reformer in the early twentieth century. These writings contributed to the development of social programs that safeguarded mothers and children, protected immigrants from...
From Jack Johnson to LeBron James
Sports, Media, and the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
The campaign for racial equality in sports has both reflected and affected the campaign for racial equality in the United States. Some of the most significant and publicized stories in this campaign in the twentieth century have happened in sports, including, of course, Jackie Robinson in baseball;...
Infinity Beckoned
Adventuring Through the Inner Solar System, 1969–1989
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
Infinity Beckoned illuminates a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic...
Colonized through Art
American Indian Schools and Art Education, 1889-1915
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
Colonized through Art explores how the federal government used art education for American Indian children as an instrument for the “colonization of consciousness,” hoping to instill the values and ideals of Western society while simultaneously maintaining a political, social, economic, and racial...
North American Wildland Plants
A Field Guide
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2017
North American Wildland Plants contains descriptions of the salient characteristics of the most important wildland plants of North America. This comprehensive reference assists individuals with limited botanical knowledge as well as natural resource professionals in identifying wildland plants. The...
by Ron Kaplan
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Propounding his “small ball theory” of sports literature, George Plimpton proposed that “the smaller the ball, the more formidable the literature.” Of course he had the relatively small baseball in mind, because its literature is formidable—vast and varied, instructive, often wildly entertaining,...
Intersectionality
Origins, Contestations, Horizons
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2016
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
Intersectionality intervenes in the field of intersectionality studies: the integrative examination of the effects of racial, gendered, and class power on people’s lives. While “intersectionality” circulates as a buzzword, Anna Carastathis joins...
Contesting French West Africa
Battles over Schools and the Colonial Order, 1900–1950
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
After the turn of the twentieth century, schools played a pivotal role in the construction of French West Africa. But as this dynamic, deeply researched study reveals, the expanding school system also became the site of escalating conflicts. As French authorities worked to develop truncated schools...
The Masters
A Hole-by-Hole History of America's Golf Classic, Third Edition
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
Revered as the most prestigious tournament in golf, the Masters commands international attention, even among nongolfers. The first and second editions of The Masters: A Hole-by-Hole History of America’s Golf Classic took the unique approach of tackling Augusta National hole by hole. Each hole had...
Hairs vs. Squares
The Mustache Gang, the Big Red Machine, and the Tumultuous Summer of '72
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
Hairs vs. Squares is an ode to an unforgettable season that began with the first major players’ strike in the history of North American sports and ended with a record-setting World Series played by two of the game’s greatest and most colorful dynasties. In a sign of the times it was Hippies vs....
by Ring Lardner
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2017
Ring Lardner’s influence on American letters is arguably greater than that of any other American writer in the early part of the twentieth century. Lauded by critics and the public for his groundbreaking short stories, Lardner was also the country’s best-known journalist in the 1920s and early...
The Hole Truth
Determining the Greatest Players in Golf Using Sabermetrics
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
Ever wonder whether Tiger Woods in his prime would have beaten Bobby Jones, Ben Hogan, or Jack Nicklaus in their primes? And could any of them have beaten Babe Zaharias? Obviously, if Bobby Jones were returned to life and health and then given his old hickory-shafted mashie, persimmon-headed driver,...
Iron Mac
The Legend of Roughhouse Cyclist Reggie McNamara
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
At a time when cycling in the United States rivaled baseball as the nation’s most popular professional sport, along came Reggie McNamara, a farmer’s son from Australia. Within a month of his arrival in the United States in 1913, he had earned the moniker “Iron Man” for his high tolerance of...