Unp Nebraska: 513 books
The Awakening Coast
An Anthology of Moravian Writings from Mosquitia and Eastern Nicaragua, 1849-1899
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
The indigenous and Creole inhabitants (Mosquitians of African descent) of the Mosquito Reserve in present-day Nicaragua underwent a key transformation when two Moravian missionaries arrived in 1849. Within a few short generations, the new faith became so firmly established there that eastern Nicaragua...
Political Struggle, Ideology, and State Building
Pernambuco and the Construction of Brazil, 1817-1850
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
The collapse of the Portuguese empire in the Americas in the early nineteenth century did not immediately or easily translate into the formation of the independent nation-state of Brazil. While “Brazil” had geographic meaning, it did not constitute a cohesive political identity that could draw...
by Robin L. Murray, Joseph K. Heumann
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2014
Eco-disasters such as coal-mining accidents, oil spills, and food-borne diseases appear regularly in the news, making them seem nearly commonplace. These ecological crises highlight the continual tensions between human needs and the environmental impact these needs produce. Contemporary documentaries...
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds
Creating Community by Voicing the Past
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Rebuilding Shattered Worlds explores the ways a demolished neighborhood in Easton, Pennsylvania, still resonates in the imaginations of displaced residents. Drawing on six years of ethnographic research, the authors highlight the intersecting languages of blight, race, and place as elderly interlocutors...
The Heart in the Glass Jar
Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man’s literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters—as both symbols and material objects—of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s.
William...
The Sovereign Colony
Olympic Sport, National Identity, and International Politics in Puerto Rico
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2016
Ceded to the United States under the terms of the Treaty of Paris after the Spanish-American War of 1898, Puerto Rico has since remained a colonial territory. Despite this subordinated colonial experience, however, Puerto Ricans managed to secure national Olympic representation in the 1930s and in...
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...
The Time of the Generals
Latin American Professional Militarism in World Perspective
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
The quarter century from 1964 to 1989 was the "time of the generals," the most clearly defined era of military rule and influence in the history of Latin America. The effects of this rule were most evident in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Chile, where French- and German-style military professionalism...
Apostle of Progress
Modesto C. Rolland, Global Progressivism, and the Engineering of Revolutionary Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2019
From the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global progressive movement that thrived during the Mexican Revolution and influenced Mexico’s development during subsequent governments. Engineers and other revolutionary...
Crafting a Republic for the World
Scientific, Geographic, and Historiographic Inventions of Colombia
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
In the wake of independence, Spanish American leaders perceived the colonial past as looming over their present. Crafting a Republic for the World examines how the vibrant postcolonial public sphere in Colombia invented narratives of the Spanish “colonial legacy.” Those supposed legacies included...
From Idols to Antiquity
Forging the National Museum of Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2017
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential...
by Jun U. Sunseri
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
Situational Identities along the Raiding Frontier of Colonial New Mexico examines pluralistic communities that navigated between colonial and indigenous practices to negotiate strategic alliances with both sides of generations-old conflicts. The rich history of the southwestern community of Casitas...
by R. Lee Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Theodore E. White and the Development of Zooarchaeology in North America illuminates the researcher and his lasting contribution to a field that has largely ignored him in its history. The few brief histories of North American zooarchaeology suggest that Paul W. Parmalee, John E. Guilday, Elizabeth...