University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
The Hidden Language of Baseball
How Signs and Sign-Stealing Have Influenced the Course of Our National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2019
Baseball is set apart from other sports by many things, but few are more distinctive than the intricate systems of coded language that govern action on the field and give baseball its unique appeal. During a nine‑inning game, more than one thousand silent instructions are given—from catcher to...
The Grand Old Man of Baseball
Connie Mack in His Final Years, 1932-1956
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
In The Grand Old Man of Baseball, Norman L. Macht chronicles Connie Mack’s tumultuous final two decades in baseball. After Mack had built one of baseball’s greatest teams, the 1929–31 Philadelphia Athletics, the Depression that followed the stock market crash fundamentally reshaped Mack’s...
Joe Cronin
A Life in Baseball
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
From the sandlots of San Francisco to the power centers of baseball, this book tells the story of Joe Cronin, one of twentieth-century baseball’s major players, both on the field and off.
For most of his playing career, Cronin (1906–84) was the best shortstop in baseball. Elected...
Shelby's Folly
Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the Shakedown of a Montana Boomtown
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2010
In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were declining, dimming the little town’s prospects of becoming the “Tulsa of the West.” Then the mayor’s son dreamed up a marketing ploy: offer to host heavyweight champion Jack Dempsey’s...
In the Best Interests of Baseball?
Governing the National Pastime
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
In the Best Interests of Baseball? is a thoughtful, balanced look at the impact of the ninth commissioner of baseball, Bud Selig, on the sport as well as an examination of the commissioner’s position in a historical context. The more controversial topics Andrew Zimbalist probes include the conflicts...
Growing Local
Case Studies on Local Food Supply Chains
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
In an increasingly commercialized world, the demand for better quality, healthier food has given rise to one of the fastest growing segments of the U.S. food system: locally grown food. Many believe that “relocalization” of the food system will provide a range of public benefits, including lower...
The Pedagogical Imagination
The Republican Legacy in Twenty-First-Century French Literature and Film
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
French school debates of recent years, which are simultaneously debates about the French Republic’s identity and values, have generated a spate of internationally successful literature and film on the topic of education. While mainstream media and scholarly essays tend to treat these works as faithful...
by Catharine Maria Sedgwick
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Married or Single?, published in 1857, was Catharine Maria Sedgwick’s final novel and a fitting climax to the career of one of antebellum America’s first and most successful woman writers. Insisting on women’s right to choose whether to marry, Married or Single? rejects the stigma of spinsterhood...
Queen of the Fall
A Memoir of Girls and Goddesses
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
Whether pulled from the folds of memory, channeled through the icons of Greek mythology and Roman Catholicism, or filtered through the lens of pop culture, Sonja Livingston’s Queen of the Fall considers the lives of women. Exploring the legacies of those she has crossed paths with in life and in...
People of the Saltwater
An Ethnography of Git lax m'oon
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2016
A 2017 Choice Outstanding Academic Title
In People of the Saltwater, Charles R. Menzies explores the history of an ancient Tsimshian community, focusing on the people and their enduring place in the modern world. The Gitxaała Nation has called the rugged north coast of British Columbia home...
In the Lands of Fire and Sun
Resistance and Accommodation in the Huichol Sierra, 1723–1930
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggled to maintain their independence over two centuries. From the days of the Aztec Empire, the history...
The Proustian Fabric
Associations of Memory
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
The association of ideas became the foundation of Freudian psychoanalysis, informed the nascent semiology of Saussure, and characterized the literary works of Sterne, Joyce, Woolf, and especially Marcel Proust. The author of Remembrance of Things Past, acutely aware of how philosophical, historical,...
by Jerry Mader
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
A bittersweet cross-cultural friendship and the richness and melancholy of modern Cheyenne life are unforgettably recorded in the words and photographs of The Road to Lame Deer. In the 1970s photographer and writer Jerry Mader was drawn into the community of Lame Deer on the Northern Cheyenne Reservation...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2015
In Indian Territory the Civil War is a story best told through shades of gray rather than black and white or heroes and villains. Since neutrality appeared virtually impossible, the vast majority of territory residents chose a side, doing so for myriad reasons and not necessarily out of affection...