University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
"All Power to the Imagination!"
Art and Politics in the West German Counterculture from the Student Movement to the Greens
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
“All Power to the Imagination!” is a history of the counterculture’s immensely influential role in West German cultural and political life. Sabine von Dirke opens with an examination of nascent countercultural movements in West Germany during the 1950s. She then moves to a nuanced account of the...
The Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.
In The Inevitable Bandstand,...
JewAsian
Race, Religion, and Identity for America's Newest Jews
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
In 2010 approximately 15 percent of all new marriages in the United States were between spouses of different racial, ethnic, or religious backgrounds, raising increasingly relevant questions regarding the multicultural identities of new spouses and their offspring. But while new census categories...
In Trace of TR
A Montana Hunter's Journey
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2010
As a student of American history, as a hunter, horseman, and former Marine, and as someone passionate about the West, Dan Aadland had long felt a kinship with Theodore Roosevelt. One day, on a single-footing horse, lever-action rifle under his knee, Aadland set out to become acquainted with TR as...
by Kristine Stenzel
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2013
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
This volume is the first descriptive grammar of Kotiria (Wanano), a member of the eastern Tukanoan language family spoken in the Vaupes River basin of Colombia...
by Elena Mihas
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2014
Published through the Recovering Languages and Literacies of the Americas initiative, supported by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation
The rich storytelling traditions of the Alto Perené Arawaks of eastern Peru are showcased in this bilingual collection of traditional narratives, ethnographic...
by Jaime E. Rodriguez O.
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
2018 Outstanding Academic Title, selected by *Choice
Political Culture in Spanish America, 1500–1830* examines the nature of Spanish American political culture by reevaluating the political theory, institutions, and practices of the Hispanic world. Consisting of eight case studies with...
Perishing Heathens
Stories of Protestant Missionaries and Christian Indians in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
In Perishing Heathens Julius H. Rubin tells the stories of missionary men and women who between 1800 and 1830 responded to the call to save Native peoples through missions, especially the Osages in the Arkansas Territory, Cherokees in Tennessee and Georgia, and Ojibwe peoples in the Michigan Territory....
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Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
James Welch was one of the central figures in twentieth-century American Indian literature, and The Heartsong of Charging Elk is of particular importance as the culminating novel in his canon. A historical novel, Heartsong follows a Lakota (Sioux) man at the end of the nineteenth century as he travels...
Westerns
A Women's History
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2016
At every turn in the development of what we now know as the western, women writers have been instrumental in its formation. Yet the myth that the western is male-authored persists. Westerns: A Women’s History debunks this myth once and for all by recovering the women writers of popular westerns...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Glory, Trouble, and Renaissance at the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology chronicles the seminal contributions, tumultuous history, and recent renaissance of the Robert S. Peabody Museum of Archaeology (RSPM). The only archaeology museum that is part of an American high school, it also did cutting-edge...
Independent Mexico
The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2016
In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’état, these...
Crack of the Bat
A History of Baseball on the Radio
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
The crack of the bat on the radio is ingrained in the American mind as baseball takes center stage each summer. Radio has brought the sounds of baseball into homes for almost one hundred years, helping baseball emerge from the 1919 Black Sox scandal into the glorious World Series of the 1920s. The...
History on the Margins
People and Places in the Emergence of Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
In his distinguished career as a historian of modern France, John Merriman has published ten books and scores of scholarly articles. This volume collects some of his most notable and significant explorations of French history and culture.
In a wide-ranging introduction Merriman reflects on...