Unp Nebraska: 513 books
The Three-Minute Outdoorsman Returns
From Mammoth on the Menu to the Benefits of Moose Drool
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2018
Spending time in nature can raise some serious questions. After contemplating your own mortality, you may start to wonder: Why don’t deer noses freeze in the winter? What does mammoth taste like? Do fish feel pain? These are important questions, and Robert M. Zink has the answers.
Bringing...
Unlikely Heroes
The Place of Holocaust Rescuers in Research and Teaching
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Classes and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a prominent space in Holocaust courses and literature even though incidents of rescue were relatively few and rescuers constituted less than 1 percent of the population...
Baseball's New Frontier
A History of Expansion, 1961-1998
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
When Major League Baseball first expanded in 1961 with the addition of the Los Angeles Angels and the Washington Senators, it started a trend that saw the number of franchises almost double, from sixteen to thirty, while baseball attendance grew by 44 percent. The story behind this staggering growth,...
Courage and Grief
Women and Sweden's Thirty Years' War
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2018
Courage and Grief illuminates in a nuanced fashion Sweden’s involvement in Europe’s destructive Thirty Years’ War (1618–48). Focusing on the various roles women performed in the bloody and extended conflict, Mary Elizabeth Ailes analyzes how methods of warfare and Swedish society were...
Spring 1865
The Closing Campaigns of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2015
When Gen. Robert E. Lee fled from Petersburg and Richmond, Virginia, in April 1865, many observers did not realize that the Civil War had reached its nadir. A large number of Confederates, from Jefferson Davis down to the rank-and-file, were determined to continue fighting. Though Union successes...
The Southern Exodus to Mexico
Migration across the Borderlands after the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2015
After the Civil War, a handful of former Confederate leaders joined forces with the Mexican emperor Maximilian von Hapsburg to colonize Mexico with former American slaveholders. Their plan was to develop commercial agriculture in the Mexican state of Coahuila under the guidance of former slaveholders...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2019
The Spanish Caribbean and the Atlantic World in the Long Sixteenth Century breaks new ground in articulating the early Spanish Caribbean as a distinct and diverse group of colonies loosely united under Spanish rule for roughly a century prior to the establishment of other European colonies.
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Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2018
Histories of Anthropology Annual series presents diverse perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology. The series includes critical, comparative, analytical,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2014
Volume 8 of the Histories of Anthropology Annual series, the premier series published in the history of the discipline, explores national anthropological traditions in Britain, the United States, and Europe and follows them into postnational contexts. Contributors reassess the major theorists in twentieth-century...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The Histories of Anthropology Annual presents localized perspectives on the discipline’s history within a global context, with a goal of increasing awareness and use of historical approaches in teaching, learning, and conducting anthropology.
This tenth volume of the series, Local Knowledge,...
Walk of Ages
Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2015
On his seventieth birthday in 1909, a slim man with a shock of white hair, a walrus mustache, and a spring in his step faced west from Park Row in Manhattan and started walking. By the time Edward Payson Weston was finished, he was in San Francisco, having trekked 3,895 miles in 104 days.
Weston’s...
by Roy Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2010
Coyote Anthropology shatters anthropology’s vaunted theories of practice and offers a radical and comprehensive alternative for the new century. Building on his seminal contributions to symbolic analysis, Roy Wagner repositions anthropology at the heart of the creation of meaning—in terms of what...
Docu-Fictions of War
U.S. Interventionism in Film and Literature
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2019
Historical writing and fiction are not the same thing, though historians often creatively manipulate material in imposing plot structures, selecting starting and ending points, and fashioning compelling literary characters from historical figures. In Docu-Fictions of War, Tatiana Prorokova argues...
Playing Through
Modern Golf's Most Iconic Players and Moments
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2016
The game of golf has been witness to dramatic change since the early 1980s. Technology has relegated polished wooden drivers and wound balls covered with balata to the dustbin of history. The world’s great courses have been stretched unfathomable lengths to counter the game’s modern champions...