University Of Nebraska Press imprint: 513 books
Separation Scenes
Domestic Drama in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
This analysis of five exemplary domestic plays—the anonymous Arden of Faversham and A Warning for Fair Women (1590s), Thomas Heywood’s A Woman Killed with Kindness (1607), Thomas Middleton’s Women Beware Women (ca. 1613), and Walter Mountfort’s The Launching of the Mary, or The Seaman’s...
Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas
The Ghost Dance, Peyote, and Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
Framed by theories of syncretism and revitalization, Religious Revitalization among the Kiowas examines changes in Kiowa belief and ritual in the final decades of the nineteenth century. During the height of the horse-and-bison culture, Kiowa beliefs were founded in the notion of daudau, a force permeating...
by Alice Thornton
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (1626–1707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her perspective on the Irish rebellion and...
Tales from the Journey of the Dead
Ten Thousand Years on an American Desert
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
One hundred miles south of Albuquerque, two parallel chains of mountains isolate a 120-mile jumble of black rock, dry lake beds, flesh-colored sand, and desolation. This is the Jornada del Muerto, the Journey of the Dead.
So named because of a particular death centuries ago, this desert has...
Comedy and the Woman Writer
Woolf, Spark, and Feminism
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2015
Recent critics have affirmed the difficulty—perhaps the impossibility—of defining modern comedy; at the same time, some feminist scholars are seeking to understand the special comedy often present in literature written by women. Comedy and the Woman Writer responds to both these concerns of recent...
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2015
During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were...
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation
The Negotiation of Values in Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2014
Ethos and Narrative Interpretation examines the fruitfulness of the concept of ethos for the theory and analysis of literary narrative. The notion of ethos refers to the broadly persuasive effects of the image one may have of a speaker’s psychology, world view, and emotional or ethical stance. How...
French Mediterraneans
Transnational and Imperial Histories
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2016
While the Mediterranean is often considered a distinct, unified space, recent scholarship on the early modern history of the sea has suggested that this perspective is essentially a Western one, devised from the vantage point of imperial power that historically patrolled the region’s seas and controlled...
Bird at the Buzzer
UConn, Notre Dame, and a Women's Basketball Classic
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2019
On March 6, 2001, the top two women’s college basketball teams in the nation, UConn and Notre Dame, played what was arguably the greatest game in the history of the sport. When UConn’s Sue Bird hit a twelve-foot pull-up jumper at the buzzer over national player of the year Ruth Riley in the Big...
The Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente de Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2015
Mexico’s Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.
The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican...
The Hard Way Home
Alaska Stories of Adventure, Friendship, and the Hunt
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2010
A lifelong Alaskan, Steve Kahn moved at the age of nine from the “metropolis” of Anchorage to the foothills of the Chugach Mountains. A childhood of berry picking, fishing, and hunting led to a life as a big-game guide. When he wasn’t guiding in the spring and fall, he worked as a commercial...
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2017
A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary...
Religious, Feminist, Activist
Cosmologies of Interconnection
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2018
In Religious, Feminist, Activist, Laurel Zwissler investigates the political and religious identities of women who understand their social-justice activism as religiously motivated. Placing these women in historical context as faith-based activists for social change, this book discusses what their...
Soldiers of the Nation
Military Service and Modern Puerto Rico, 1868-1952
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
As the island of Puerto Rico transitioned from Spanish to U.S. imperial rule, the military and political mobilization of popular sectors of its society played important roles in the evolution of its national identities and subsequent political choices. While scholars of American imperialism have examined...