Bøger udgivet af University of Nebraska Press

Great Plains Birds tells the story of the birds of the plains, discussing where those birds can be found and the impact humans have had on them.

This comparative study of Edith Wharton and Willa Cather combines biographical, historical, and literary analyses with a focus on place and aesthetics to reveal the profound similarities in their theories of fiction, their understanding of the interconnectedness of place, culture, and experience, and their concerns about American culture.

Shannon Bontrager examines the culture of death, burial, and commemoration of fallen American soldiers in the Civil War, the Spanish-Cuban-American War, the Philippine-American War, and World War I. He links the cultural and political history of American war dead to explore the transatlantic and transpacific contexts of America's imperial ambitions.

Brand Jamaica is an empirical look at Jamaica's postindependence national image and global brand from multidisciplinary perspectives that interrogate various aspects of Jamaican national identity and the dominant paradigm that shaped it.

Alison Rose Jefferson examines how African Americans pioneered America's "frontier of leisure" by creating communities and business projects in conjunction with their growing population in Southern California during the nation's Jim Crow era.

An investigation into the controversial 1972 Olympic gold-medal basketball game between the United States and the USSR.

The Ultimate Engineer portrays NASA pioneer George M. Low's remarkable life, accomplishments, and legacy as a key visionary and leader.

Offers a variety of perspectives for analyzing representations of the mother in francophone literature and film at the turn of the twenty-first century in North America, including Quebec, Ontario, New England, and California.

A social history of baseball on Chicago's South Side in the early decades of the twentieth century, drawing on the writings of novelist James T. Farrell, along with historical sources related to baseball's rich history in this era.

An exploration of the relationship between Mediterranean mobile pastoralism and nineteenth-century French forestry through case studies in Provence, French colonial Algeria, and Ottoman Anatolia.

Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport.

The biography of Oscar Charleston, a Negro Leagues legend and one of baseball's greatest and most unjustifiably overlooked players.

Foregrounds the radical power of male intimacy and vulnerability in surveying each of James Baldwin's six novels. Asserting that manhood and masculinity hold the potential for both tragedy and salvation, Ernest Gibson highlights the complex and emotional choices Baldwin's men must make within their varied lives, relationships, and experiences.

Remembered in name but underappreciated in legacy, Forrest "Phog" Allen arguably influenced the game of basketball more than anyone else. Scott Morrow Johnson reveals Allen as a master recruiter, a transformative coach, and a visionary basketball mind. But Johnson also delves into Allen's occasionally tumultuous relationships with the NCAA, and the University of Kansas administration.

The intertwined story of five influential African American athletes who came together as teammates at UCLA in the 1930s, a time when racial discrimination in sports was widespread across the nation. Their career pursuits after college precipitated political and social change in the world of sports, entertainment, and politics.

Native Provenance challenges readers to consider the subtle ironies at the heart of Native American culture and oral traditions such as creation and trickster stories and dream songs, vividly exploring more than two centuries of shameful betrayal of native creativity.

The Distance Between is a nuanced exploration of and reckoning with absent fathers, fatherhood, addiction, adolescent rage, white male privilege, and the author's own toxic masculinity.

This collection, spanning nearly a decade of artistic activity, features selections of writings that trace the intellectual influences and track the development of one of the more formidable and productive minds in the contemporary art world.

The Grass Shall Grow is a succinct introduction to the work and world of Helen M. Post, who took thousands of photographs of Native Americans during a brief period of intense activity in the late 1930s and early years of World War II.

Paul Dickson chronicles the dramatic events and developments leading up to and resulting from the launch of the first artificial satellite, Sputnik.

In lyric and documentary poems and essayistic fragments, Hard Damage charts the intergenerational damage caused by war, environmental loss, and the collective grief of exile.

Marilyn Irvin Holt examines Nebraska's contribution to the Federal Writers' Project (FWP) in terms of its place within the national FWP as well as its operation in comparison to other state projects.

Spanning more than six decades of Sudan's post-independence history, this collection features work by some of Sudan's most renowned modern poets. Adil Babikir's extensive introduction provides a conceptual framework to help the English reader understand the cultural context.

This collection of short stories is a compendium of all the ways in which life can be annihilated.

Starring Red Wing! is a sweeping narrative of Lilian M. St. Cyr's evolution as America's first Native American film star, from her childhood and performance career to her days as a respected elder of the multi-tribal New York City Indian community.

This powerful and inviting collection of Tiffany Midge's musings on life, politics, and identity as a Native woman in America, reminds us that laughter is precious, even sacred.

Disruptive Voices and the Singularity of Histories explores the interplay of identities and scholarship through the history of anthropology, with a special section examining fieldwork predecessors and indigenous communities in Native North America.

A Grammar of Southern Pomo is the first comprehensive description of the Southern Pomo language, one of seven Pomoan languages once spoken in the vicinity of Clear Lake and the Russian River drainage of California.

Informed by new modes of contextualization, including the increasingly popular view of Willa Cather as a pivotal or transitional figure working between and across very different cultural periods, and by the recent publication of Cather's correspondence, the essays in this collection reassess Cather's lifelong encounter with, and interpretation and reimagining of, the arts.

Tison Pugh looks at the intersection of narratology, ludology, and queer studies, providing a range of theoretical interpretive strategies for uncovering the queer potential of gaming texts and textual games while demonstrating the wide applicability of queer ludonarratology throughout the humanities.