Unp Nebraska: 513 books
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,...
The Spanish Craze
America's Fascination with the Hispanic World, 1779–1939
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
The Spanish Craze is the compelling story of the centuries-long U.S. fascination with the history, literature, art, culture, and architecture of Spain. Richard L. Kagan offers a stunningly revisionist understanding of the origins of hispanidad in America, tracing its origins from the early republic...
Medical Imperialism in French North Africa
Regenerating the Jewish Community of Colonial Tunis
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2017
French-colonial Tunisia in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries witnessed shifting concepts of identity, including varying theories of ethnic essentialism, a drive toward “modernization,” and imperialist interpretations of science and medicine. As French colonizers worked to realize ideas...
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...
At the First Table
Food and Social Identity in Early Modern Spain
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2017
Research on European food culture has expanded substantially in recent years, telling us more about food preparation, ingredients, feasting and fasting rituals, and the social and cultural connotations of food.
At the First Table demonstrates the ways in which early modern Spaniards used food...
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....
Urban Shocker
Silent Hero of Baseball's Golden Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2017
2018 SABR Baseball Research Award Winner
Baseball in the 1920s is most known for Babe Ruth and the New York Yankees, but there was another great Yankee player in that era whose compelling story remains untold. Urban Shocker was a fiercely competitive and colorful pitcher, a spitballer who had...
Here's the Pitch
The Amazing, True, New, and Improved Story of Baseball and Advertising
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2019
In the mid-nineteenth century, two industries arrived on the American scene. One was strictly a business, yet it helped create, define, and disseminate American culture. The other was ostensibly just a game, yet it soon became emblematic of what it meant to be American, aiding in the creation of a...