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zlib/no-category/Kilpatrick, Neva Jacquelyn/Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film_30111219.epub

Celluloid Indians: Native Americans and Film Kilpatrick, Neva Jacquelyn UNP - Bison Original, 2016

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zlib/no-category/Ervin D. Krause/You Will Never See Any God: Stories_117293127.fb2

You Will Never See Any God: Stories Ervin D. Krause UNP - Bison Original, Lincoln, 2014

A farmer perishing under a fallen tractor makes a last stab at philosophizing: “There was nothing dead that was ever beautiful.” It is a sentiment belied not only by the strange beauty in his story but also in the rough lives and deaths, small and large, that fill these haunting tales. Pulp-fiction grim and gritty but with the rhythm and resonance of classic folklore, these stories take place in a world of shadowy figures and childhood fears, in a countryside peopled by witches and skinflints, by men and women mercilessly unforgiving of one another’s trespasses, and in nights prowled by wolves and scrutinized by an “agonized and lamenting” moon. Ervin D. Krause’s characters pontificate in saloons, condemning the morals of others as they slowly get sloshed; they have affairs in old cars on winter nights; they traffic in gossip, terrorize their neighbors, steal, hunt, and spy. This collection includes award-winning stories like “The Snake” and “The Quick and the Dead” as well as the previously unpublished “Anniversary,” which stirred a national controversy when it was censored by the University of Nebraska and barred from appearing in Prairie Schooner. Krause’s portrayal of the matter-of-fact cruelty and hopeful fragility of humanity is a critical addition to the canon of twentieth-century American literature.

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zlib/Sports, Hobbies & Games/Football & Rugby/John M. Glionna/No Friday Night Lights_112459890.epub

No Friday Night Lights: Reservation Football on the Edge of America John M. Glionna, Glenn Stout, Ron Kantowski University of Nebraska Press, 2024

"No Friday Night Lights tells the story of eight-man football at McDermitt High School on the Fort McDermitt Indian Reservation located on the Nevada-Oregon border"--

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lgli/Guardians of Discourse Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico [3877354].pdf

Guardians of Discourse: Journalism and Literature in Porfirian Mexico Kevin M. Anzzolin University of Nebraska Press, PS, 2024

During Porfirio Díaz’s thirty-year rule, Mexico dealt with the press in disparate ways in hopes of forging an informed and, above all, orderly citizenry. Even as innumerable journalists were sent to prison on exaggerated and unfair charges of defamation or slander, Díaz’s government subsidized multiple newspapers to expand literacy and to aggrandize the image of the regime. In Guardians of Discourse Kevin M. Anzzolin analyzes the role and representation of journalism in literary texts from Porfirian Mexico to argue that these writings created a literate, objective, refined, and informed public. By exploring works by Porfirian writers such as Emilio Rabasa, Ángel del Campo, Rafael Delgado, Laura Méndez de Cuenca, and Salvador Quevedo y Zubieta, Anzzolin demonstrates that a primary goal of the lettered class was to define and shape the character of public life, establish the social position of citizens, and interrogate the character of civil institutions. These elite letrados —whom Anzzolin refers to as “guardians of discourse”—aimed to define the type of discourses that would buttress the transformed Mexico of the Díaz regime to forge a truly national literature that could be discussed among an expanded coterie of lettered thinkers. In addition, these Porfirian guardians hoped to construct an extensive and active public able to debate political and social issues via a press befitting a modern nation-state and create a press that would be independent, illuminating, and distinguished. Through an innovative look at Mexico’s public sphere via literary fiction in the Porfirian era, Anzzolin contributes to our knowledge of Mexican and Latin American political, cultural, and literary history in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

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lgli/Cast Out of Eden The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness [3877351].pdf

Cast Out of Eden: The Untold Story of John Muir, Indigenous Peoples, and the American Wilderness Robert Aquinas McNally Bison Books, 2024

John Muir is widely and rightly lauded as the nature mystic who added wilderness to the United States’ vision of itself, largely through the system of national parks and wild areas his writings and public advocacy helped create. That vision, however, came at a cost: the conquest and dispossession of the tribal peoples who had inhabited and managed those same lands, in many cases for millennia. Muir argued for the preservation of wild sanctuaries that would offer spiritual enlightenment to the conquerors, not to the conquered Indigenous peoples who had once lived there. “Somehow,” he wrote, “they seemed to have no right place in the landscape.” Cast Out of Eden tells this neglected part of Muir’s story—from Lowland Scotland and the Wisconsin frontier to the Sierra Nevada’s granite heights and Alaska’s glacial fjords—and his take on the tribal nations he encountered and embrace of an ethos that forced those tribes from their homelands. Although Muir questioned and worked against Euro-Americans’ distrust of wild spaces and deep-seated desire to tame and exploit them, his view excluded Native Americans as fallen peoples who stained the wilderness’s pristine sanctity. Fortunately, in a transformation that a resurrected and updated Muir might approve, this long-standing injustice is beginning to be undone, as Indigenous nations and the federal government work together to ensure that quintessentially American lands from Bears Ears to Yosemite serve all Americans equally.

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lgli/Youskauskas, Croft - Into the Void.pdf

Into the Void: Adventures of the Spacewalkers Youskauskas, John & Croft, Melvin The University of Nebraska Press, Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight, 2025

The world had been fascinated with astronauts and spaceflight since well before the first crewed launches in 1961, when Yuri Gagarin, Alan Shepard, and John Glenn became household names. But when Alexei Leonov of the Soviet Union exited his spacecraft in March of 1965, a new era in spaceflight began. And when Ed White, clad in his gleaming space suit with a large American flag on his left shoulder, eased himself outside his Gemini spacecraft later that year, Americans too had a new space hero. They also learned a new acronym: EVA, short for extravehicular activity, more commonly known as “spacewalking.” Though few understood the tremendous risks White was taking in his twenty-two-minute space walk, Americans watched with immense pride and patriotism as White, tethered to Gemini 4 , propelled himself around the spacecraft with a pressurized oxygen-fueled zip gun. But White’s struggle to fit his space-suited body back inside the claustrophobic Gemini spacecraft and close the hatch confirmed what NASA should have known: spacewalking wasn’t easy. More than fifty years and hundreds of space walks later, the art of EVA has evolved. The first space walks, preparation for walking on the moon, intended to prove that humans could function in raw space inside their own miniature spacecraft—a space suit. After the end of the lunar program, both the Americans and Soviets turned their focus to long-duration flights on space stations in low Earth orbit, and space walks were crucial to the success of these missions. The construction of the International Space Station—the most sophisticated spacecraft to date—required hundreds of hours of work by spacewalkers from many countries. In Into the Void John Youskauskas and Melvin Croft tell the unique story of those who have ventured outside the spacecraft into the unforgiving vacuum of space as we set our sights on the moon, Mars, and beyond.

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lgli/Sensing Others.pdf

Sensing Others: Voicing Batek Ethical Lives at the Edge of a Malaysian Rain Forest Alice Rudge University of Nebraska Press, 1, 2023

Sensing Others explores the lives of Indigenous Batek people in Peninsular Malaysia amid the strange and the new in the borderland between protected national park and oil palm plantation. As their ancestral forests disappear around them, Batek people nevertheless attempt to live well among the strange Others they now encounter: out-of-place animals and plants, traders, tourists, poachers, and forest guards. How Batek people voice their experiences of the good and the strange in relation to these Others challenges essentialized notions of cultural and species difference and the separateness of ethical worlds. Drawing on meticulous, long-term ethnographic research with Batek people, Alice Rudge argues that as people seek to make habitable a constantly changing landscape, what counts as Otherness is always under negotiation. Anthropology’s traditional dictum to “make the strange familiar, and the familiar strange” creates a binary between the familiar and the Other, often encapsulating Indigenous lives as the archetypal Other to the “modern” worldview. Yet living well amid precarity involves constantly negotiating Otherness’s ambivalences, as people, plants, animals, and places can all become familiar, strange, or both. Sensing Others reveals that when looking from the boundary, what counts as Otherness is impossible to pin down.

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nexusstc/Dog on Fire/04328b24f82d21d1e4563ed98900511f.epub

Dog on Fire (Flyover Fiction) Terese Svoboda University of Nebraska Press, Flyover fiction, Lincoln, 2023

Think George Saunders channeling Willa Cather. A ghost story wannabe, Dog on Fire begins with a vision of a brother with a shovel, and ends in Jell-O.Out of a Shakespearean-wild Midwest dust storm, a man rises. “Just a glimpse of him,” says his sister; “every inch of him,” says his guilt-filled lover. “Close your eyes,” says his nephew. “What about it?” asks his father. The cupboard is filled with lime Jell-O, and there are aliens, deadly kissing, and a restless, alcoholic mother who carries a gun. “Every family is this normal,” insists the narrator. “Whoever noticed my brother, with a family as normal as this?” the beleaguered sister asks. Against the smoky prairie horizon and despite his seizures, a brother builds a life. Imbued with melancholy cheer, Dog on Fire unfolds around a family’s turmoil, past loves, and a mysterious death.

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ia/pacificnorthwest0000carl.pdf

The Pacific Northwest. Revised And Enlarged Edition Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes University Of Nebraska Press, Revised and enlarge edition, Lincoln, 1996

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lgli/Grit_and_Ghosts_-_Robin_Foster.epub

Grit and Ghosts: Following the Trail of Eight Tenacious Women Across a Century Robin Foster Bison Books, FR, 2024

As a student and teacher of history, Robin Foster is well aware that humans have persisted through major hardships as long as they have existed. When faced with the anxious dread many felt at the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, Foster began seeking stories of tenacious women of the American West who had survived their own hardships in a world that threw the unexpected at them. During one of the most uncertain periods of her life, Foster hit the road, embarking on a journey to find these determined women of the past and finding herself along the way. Grit and Ghosts tells the stories of eight women who speak to a shared human experience of struggle, and the grit required to move through it. Landscape and memory become deeply intertwined throughout Grit and Ghosts as Foster wanders through park ranger Marguerite Lindsley's Yellowstone, through Mexican faith healer Teresa Urrea's Sonoran Desert, and through author Gertrude Stein's deeply altered Oakland. Part...

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ia/trumpetsoundethw0000glad.pdf

The trumpet soundeth : William Jennings Bryan and his democracy, 1896-1912 Paul W. Glad University of Nebraska Press, June 1966

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lgli/The_Sugar_King_of_California_-_Sandra_E._Bonura.epub

The Sugar King of California: The Life of Claus Spreckels Dr. Sandra E. Bonura University of Nebraska Press, PT, 2024

Claus Spreckels (1828–1908) emigrated from his homeland of Germany to the United States with only seventy-five cents in his pocket, built a sugar empire, and became one of the richest Americans in history alongside John D. Rockefeller, Warren Buffett, and Bill Gates. Migrating to San Francisco after the gold rush, Spreckels built the largest sugar beet factory of its kind in the United States. His sugar beet production in the Salinas Valley changed the focus of valley agriculture from dry to irrigated crops, resulting in the vast modern agricultural-industrial economy in today's "Salad Bowl of the World." When Spreckels gave America its first sugar cube, he became the "Sugar King." The indomitable Spreckels was a colorful and complicated character on both sides of the Pacific. A kingpin in the development of the Hawai'i-California sugarcane industry, he wielded a clenched fist over Hawai'i's economy for nearly two decades after occupying a position of unrivaled...

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upload/alexandrina/Collections/Project-Muse/University of Nebraska Press/Alexander Cartwright- The Life behind the Baseball Legend.pdf

Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Foreword 10 Acknowledgments 18 Introduction: A Baseball Diamond at Madison Square 22 1. Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. and Nineteenth-Century New York 38 2. The Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York 47 3. The Rush for Gold 58 4. The Allure of Paradise 79 5. An American in Kamehameha￢ﾀﾙs Kingdom 90 6. America￢ﾀﾙs National Pastime in Hawaii 108 7. Cartwright and the Monarchy in the 1860s and 1870s 138 8. Annexation and the Hawaiian League 158 9. Spalding Comes to Hawaii 181 10. The Death of Cartwright, a King, and a Kingdom 189 11. ￢ﾀﾜDear Old Knickerbockers￢ﾀﾝ 198 12. ￢ﾀﾜBaseball on Murray Hill￢ﾀﾝ 216 13. ￢ﾀﾜOn Mountain and Prairie￢ﾀﾝ 234 14. ￢ﾀﾜOn the Sunny Plains of Hawaii nei￢ﾀﾝ 248 15. Baseball and the ￢ﾀﾜFamily Lare￢ﾀﾝ 264 Conclusion: Alexander Cartwright, Father of Modern Baseball* 280 Notes 288 Bibliography 306 Index 312 Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2009,ISBN:9780803224605,Language:English,OCLC:440817215 Alexander Joy Cartwright Jr. (1820–92) was present during the organization of the Knickerbocker Base Ball Club of New York in the mid-1800s. That much is certain. Since that time, and especially with his induction into the Baseball Hall of Fame in 1938, Cartwright has been celebrated as the founder of our national pastime, much like Abner Doubleday. As with Doubleday, Cartwright’s claim to fame has caused all sorts of conjecture and controversy. His complex life, not just the mythography surrounding him, comes clearly into focus in Monica Nucciarone’s biography of the incomparable Cartwright.€Through journal entries, letters, and newspaper clippings, Nucciarone traces Cartwright’s path from Elysian Fields in New Jersey to a gold-rush adventure in California, and on to Honolulu, where he became involved in the movement to annex Hawaii to the United States. Beginning with the widely held notion that Cartwright created the game of baseball as we know it today, then spread it across North America to Hawaii like a Johnny Appleseed, Nucciarone’s book separates fact from speculation. Although the picture that emerges may not be the Alexander Cartwright of legend, it shows us a man as colorful, complicated, and immense in character—and as worthy of the history books—as any legend he inspired.

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ia/bookofsphinxtext0000will.pdf

Book of the Sphinx (Texts and Contexts) Regier, Willis Goth University of Nebraska Press, Illustrated, PT, 2007

Sought, the Sphinx seems everywhere, whether the guardian of the pyramids on Egypt's Giza plateau or the beautiful man-eater with a deadly riddle, to be approached with awful caution. The Sphinx, that icon painted, sculpted, engraved, and exalted in poetry, fiction, and music, so impressed the philosopher Hegel that he pronounced the creature “the symbol of the symbolic itself.” With a wealth of illustrations, Book of the Sphinx confirms Hegel's lofty judgment, finding the Sphinx everywhere: in tragedies, paintings, opera, murder mysteries, brothels, bars, and advertisements. Pursuing the Sphinx through kaleidoscopic sightings and encyclopedic observations, Willis Goth Regier plumbs the symbol's mysteries, conducting the reader down ever more perplexing and intriguing paths. Wonderfully readable, his highly idiosyncratic tour of the ages and the arts leads at last to a conception of the Sphinx that embraces nothing less than all that is unknowable—proving once again that confronting a Sphinx is one of the most dangerous and exhilarating adventures of the imagination.

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zlib/Linguistics/Stylistics/Sylvie Patron/The Narrator : A Problem in Narrative Theory_27523385.pdf

The Narrator : A Problem in Narrative Theory Sylvie Patron, Catherine Porter Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press,, Frontiers of narrative, Lincoln, 2023

The narrator (the answer to the question "who speaks in the text?") is a commonly used notion in teaching literature and in literary criticism, even though it is the object of an ongoing debate in narrative theory. Do all fictional narratives have a narrator, or only some of them? Can narratives thus be "narratorless"? This question divides communicational theories (based on the communication between real or fictional narrator and narratee) and noncommunicational or poetic theories (which aim to rehabilitate the function of the author as the creator of the fictional narrative). Clarifying the notion of the narrator requires a historical and epistemological approach focused on the opposition between communicational theories of narrative in general and noncommunicational or poetic theories of the fictional narrative in particular. The Narrator offers an original and critical synthesis of the problem of the narrator in the work of narratologists and other theoreticians of narrative communication from the French, Czech, German, and American traditions and in representations of the noncommunicational theories of fictional narrative. Sylvie Patron provides linguistic and pragmatic tools for interrogating the concept of the narrator based on the idea that fictional narrative has the power to signal, by specific linguistic marks, that the reader must construct a narrator; when these marks are missing, the reader is able to perceive other forms and other narrative effects, specially sought after by certain authors.

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ia/warchiefjoseph00haho.pdf

No single Indian in American History embodies so completely the attributes of the perfect leader as Chief Joseph, leader of the Nez Perces in their last days of independence. A military genius, a diplomatic strategist, a conciliator in time of war and peace, an able counsellor in tribal personal matter, he represents the best in Indian leadership. Although this great leader was a military genius of the first order, he was destined to bring his forces to defeat and the loss of all that was important to them - their lands, their horses, and their independence. But in the dramatic struggle of the Nez Perces for the freedom they considered paramount in life is found one of the most thrilling episodes of Indian history.

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ia/pleasuresofacade0000jame.pdf

in This Timely Book, Historian James Axtell Offers A Compelling Defense Of Higher Education. Drawing On National Statistics, Broad-ranging Scholarship, And Delightful Anecdotes, Axtell Describes The Professorial Work Cycle, The Evolution Of Scholarship In The Past Three Decades, The Importance Of “habitual Scholarship,” And The Best Ways To Judge A University. He Persuasively Confronts The Critics Of Higher Education, Arguing That They Have Perpetuated Misunderstandings Of Tenure, Research, Teaching, Curricular Change, And Professorial Politics. <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> today's Critics Of The Academy Charge That The Barbarians Are At The Western Gates, The Feminazis, Thought Police, Tenured Radicals And Pc Totalitarians Are Attacking The Noble Traditions Of Our Colleges And Universities. Not Only Is The Diverse Student Population (of Ethnics And Women) Forcing Changes In The Canon, But Professors Have Become Research Scholars Rather Than Classroom Teachers, Overpaid, Underworked And With Guaranteed Employment. Such Is The Indictment, But Axtell, Professor Of Humanities At William And Mary, Believes The Charges Are False And Attempts To Prove It. His Book Is Meant Not Only As A Refutation Of The Criticisms But As A Celebration Of American Higher Education, Its Worth And Its Enjoyments. According To Axtell, The Curriculum Has Always Been In Flux, Faculty Are Still Industrious, Working At Multifarious Tasks, And Research And Teaching Are False Dichotomies. While He Does Mention Genuine Problems Such As Rising Tuition Costs, Deficiencies In Student Writing, And Excessive Vocationalism, Axtell Is Nothing If Not An Optimist. He Can Spot The Silver Lining In Most Any Dark Cloud. The Tone Here Is That Of An Avuncular Club Man Who Informs Us (repeatedly) That He Has Been Part Of The Professoriat At Several Elite Institutions And Knows That All Is Well With The Academic World. Pangloss Is Expected Momentarily. (sept.)

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ia/wildhorseofwest0000wyma.pdf

The story of the mustang and the wild or feral horse, whether of Spanish or American ancestry, is recounted by Walker D. Wyman in this authoritative book, which has been called the final word on the history of the horse on the western range. Among matters treated are theories as to the origin of the wild horse; its place in the history and economy of the Indian (the coming of the hose was as important to him as the coming of steam to the white man); the origin of the western pony and the palomino; and the disappearance of the mustang and the extermination of the western horse from the range.

英语 [en] · PDF · 14.7MB · 1963 · 📗 未知类型的图书 · 🚀/ia · Save

lgli/Women on the Move PQ nd.pdf

Women on the move : the forgotten era of women's bicycle racing Roger Gilles University of Nebraska Press, Illustrated, 2018-10-01

The 1890s was the peak of the American bicycle craze, and consumers, including women, were buying bicycles in large numbers. Despite critics who tried to discourage women from trying this new sport, women took to the bike in huge numbers, and mastery of the bicycle became a metaphor for women’s mastery over their lives. Spurred by the emergence of the “safety” bicycle and the ensuing cultural craze, women’s professional bicycle racing thrived in the United States from 1895 to 1902. For seven years, female racers drew large and enthusiastic crowds across the country, including Cleveland, Detroit, Indianapolis, Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Louis, Kansas City, and New Orleans—and many smaller cities in between. Unlike the trudging, round-the-clock marathons the men (and their spectators) endured, women’s six-day races were tightly scheduled, fast-paced, and highly competitive. The best female racers of the era—Tillie Anderson, Lizzie Glaw, and Dottie Farnsworth—became household names and were America’s first great women athletes. Despite concerted efforts by the League of American Wheelmen to marginalize the sport and by reporters and other critics to belittle and objectify the women, these athletes forced turn-of-the-century America to rethink strongly held convictions about female frailty and competitive spirit. By 1900 many cities began to ban the men’s six-day races, and it became more difficult to ensure competitive women’s races and attract large enough crowds. In 1902 two racers died, and the sport’s seven-year run was finished—and it has been almost entirely ignored in sports history, women’s history, and even bicycling history. Women on the Move tells the full story of America’s most popular arena sport during the 1890s, giving these pioneering athletes the place they deserve in history. Purchase the audio edition.

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zlib/no-category/Marvin Pokrant/New Principles of War: Enduring Truths With Timeless Examples_117014884.epub

New principles of war : enduring truths with timeless examples Marvin Pokrant Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2021

Influenced in part by the writings of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Henri Jomini, and other strategists, most major militaries have adopted principles of war that are widely promulgated. Marvin Pokrant argues that these commonly accepted principles fail to reflect the ideas that led to them. Looking at the fundamental and enduring concepts behind the original principles of war, Pokrant presents nine new principles of war. To illustrate his points Pokrant uses numerous examples drawn from military history, including land, sea, and air warfare from ancient times to the present. By analyzing and reforming the principles of war, Pokrant provides a modern, relevant, and useful way to guide decisions made in times of war.

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lgli/Pakistan and American Diplomacy Insights From 911 to the Afghanistan Endgame (ADST-DACOR Diplomats and Diplomacy Series) [3857784].pdf

Pakistan and American Diplomacy: Insights from 9/11 to the Afghanistan Endgame Theodore Craig University of Nebraska Press, PS, 2024

Pakistan and American Diplomacy offers an insightful, fast-moving tour through Pakistan-U.S. relations, from 9/11 to the U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan, as told from the perspective of a former U.S. diplomat who served twice in Pakistan. Ted Craig frames his narrative around the 2019 Cricket World Cup, a contest that saw Pakistan square off against key neighbors and cricketing powers Afghanistan, India, and Bangladesh, and its former colonial ruler, Britain. Craig provides perceptive analysis of Pakistan’s diplomacy since its independence in 1947, shedding light on the country’s contemporary relations with the United States, China, India, Sri Lanka, and Afghanistan. With insights from the field and from Washington, Craig reflects on the chain of policy decisions that led to the fall of the Kabul government in 2021 and offers a sober and balanced view of the consequences of that policy failure. Drawing on his post–Cold War diplomatic career, Craig presents U.S.-Pakistan policy in the context of an American experiment in promoting democracy while combating terrorism.

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ia/shelbysfollyjack0000kell.pdf

Shelby's folly : Jack Dempsey, Doc Kearns, and the shakedown of a Montana boomtown Kelly, Jason, 1972- Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press ; Chesham: Combined Academic [distributor], Lincoln, Neb., Chesham, 2012

In 1923, not long after oil had started gushing from northern Montana fields, declining real-estate sales in nearby Shelby were dimming the little townâs prospects of becoming the 'Tulsa of the West.' Then the mayorâs son dreamed up a marketing ploy: offer to host heavyweight champion Jack Dempseyâs next fight. What began as a publicity stunt soon spiraled into a civic drama unlike any Montana had ever seen. Shelbyâs Folly tells this story in full for the first time. Against the background of boom-and-bust Montana history, the folly of Shelbyâs would-be promoters unfolds in colorful detail. It took months to persuade Dempseyâs conniving manager, Jack 'Doc' Kearns, to sign a $300,000 contract. With less than two months before the July 4 fight, the town still had no stadium and no accommodations for tens of thousands of expected fans. Jason Kelly describes the promotersâ desperate measures and their disastrous results, from the first inkling of the idea to the bitter end of the fifteen-round boxing match. Shelby residents identified with the underdog challenger, Tommy Gibbons, who went toe-to-toe with the champion in an atmosphere crackling with tension. A soap opera of financial intrigue and chicanery, Shelbyâs Folly chronicles how Big Sky ambition and Doc Kearnsâs scheming mind collided to produce one of the most preposterous series of events in boxing history. Watch the Shelby's Folly book trailer on YouTube.

英语 [en] · PDF · 11.7MB · 2012 · 📗 未知类型的图书 · 🚀/ia · Save

zlib/no-category/Marvin Pokrant/New Principles of War: Enduring Truths With Timeless Examples_117014887.mobi

New principles of war : enduring truths with timeless examples Marvin Pokrant Potomac Books, an imprint of the University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 2021

Influenced in part by the writings of Sun Tzu, Carl von Clausewitz, Henri Jomini, and other strategists, most major militaries have adopted principles of war that are widely promulgated. Marvin Pokrant argues that these commonly accepted principles fail to reflect the ideas that led to them. Looking at the fundamental and enduring concepts behind the original principles of war, Pokrant presents nine new principles of war. To illustrate his points Pokrant uses numerous examples drawn from military history, including land, sea, and air warfare from ancient times to the present. By analyzing and reforming the principles of war, Pokrant provides a modern, relevant, and useful way to guide decisions made in times of war.

英语 [en] · MOBI · 1.9MB · 2021 · 📗 未知类型的图书 · 🚀/zlib · Save

ia/catherstudiesvol0001unse.pdf

Cather Studies, Volume 1 (Cather Studies) edited by Susan J. Rosowski Lincoln ; London: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, London, England, 1990

Discusses topics ranging from Cather's pictorial sources to her familiarity with Dante and Russian literature.

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Nazis at the Watercooler: War Criminals in Postwar German Government Agencies Terrence C. Petty University of Nebraska Press, 2023

After World War II, when a new German democracy was born in the western region of the vanquished Third Reich, tens of thousands of civil servants were hired to work for newly formed government agencies to get the new republic quickly on its feet. But there was an enormous flaw in the plan: no serious vetting system was put in place to keep war criminals out of government positions.Ex-Nazis—people who had been involved in mass murder, drafting antisemitic laws, and the persecution of Hitler’s opponents, as well as other depravities—resumed their careers without consequence in the newly created Federal Republic of Germany. Former Nazis who had established an early foothold in postwar government agencies helped each other get government work by writing letters of recommendation called Persilscheine. These “Persil Certificates,” named after a popular detergent, made an ex-Nazi’s recorded past just as clean as fresh laundry, and a whole generation of German government officials with Nazi pasts was never brought to account.Ex-Nazis were given preference for government jobs even over victims of Nazi policies and anti-Hitler resisters. They swapped Nazi uniforms for suits, Hitler salutes for handshakes. And with help from the highest levels of West German government and even the CIA, they swept their crimes under the carpet and resurrected their careers. Nazis at the Watercooler illuminates the network of ex–Third Reich loyalists and the U.S. government’s complicity that enabled this mass impunity.

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The Gathering of Bastards (African Poetry Book) Romeo Oriogun University of Nebraska Press, African poetry book series, Lincoln, 2023

Like I knew, standing on the seashore, the hunger wracking a migrant’s body is movement. —from Romeo Oriogun’s “Migrant by the Sea” The Gathering of Bastards chronicles the movement of migrants as they navigate borders both internal and external. At the heart of these poems of vulnerability and sharp intelligence, the poet himself is the perpetual migrant embarked on forced journeys that take him across nations in West and North Africa, through Europe, and through American cities as he navigates the challenges of living through terror and loss and wrestles with the meaning of home.

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The State at War in South Asia Barua, Pradeep University of Nebraska Press, Studies in war, society, and the military, Lincoln, 2005

Much research has been done on Western warfare and state building but very little on the military effectiveness of states, until now. Using South Asia as a case study, The State at War in South Asia examines how the state, from prehistory to modern times, has managed to wage war. The State at War in South Asia is the first book to cover such a vast period of South Asian military history-more than three thousand years. In doing so, Pradeep P. Barua explores the state's military effectiveness and moves beyond the western and nonwestern dichotomy characterized by most military analysis to date. He leads the reader through a selective study of significant battles, campaigns, and wars fought on the subcontinent. Barua combines this overview with an analysis of the state-building process, showing how the South Asian state has conducted war under its many political guises from the prehistoric and ancient periods to the modern era, with its threat of nuclear war. He challenges the historiographic idea that the Western way of war is superior, while examining in detail those battles, such as the Maratha-Afghan battle of 1763, that offer the most insight into the introduction of new tactics, organization, and technology. This meticulous study offers a panoramic view of the evolution of the South Asian state's military system and its contribution to the effectiveness of the state itself

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Should I Still Wish: A Memoir (American Lives) Evans, John W. University of Nebraska Press, American lives, Lincoln, 2017

"In this candid and moving memoir, John W. Evans articulates the complicated joys of falling in love again as a young widower. Though heartbroken after his wife's violent death, Evans realizes that he cannot remain inconsolable and adrift, living with his in-laws in Indiana. Motivated by a small red X on a map, Evans musters the courage for a cross-country trip. From the Badlands to Yellowstone to the foothills of the Sierra Mountains, Evans's hope and determination propel him even as he contemplates his vulnerability and the legacy of a terrible tragedy. Should I Still Wish chronicles Evans's efforts to leave an intense year of grief behind, to make peace with the natural world again, and to reconnect with a woman who promises, like San Francisco itself, a life of abundance and charm. With unflinching honesty Evans plumbs the uncertainties, doubts, and contradictions of a paradoxical experience in this love story, celebration of fatherhood, meditation on the afterlife of grief and resilience, and, ultimately, showcase for life's many profound incongruities"-- Provided by publisher

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Richard Nixon : California's Native Son Paul Carter, Tricia Nixon Cox Potomac Books, Incorporated, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2023

2023 Foreword INDIES Finalist in Biography 2024 Eric Hoffer First Horizon Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Reference Book Award Winner 2024 Eric Hoffer Grand Prize Short List Modern biographies of Richard Nixon have been consumed with Watergate. All have missed arguably the most important perspective on Nixon as California’s native son, the only U.S. president born and raised in California. In addition, Nixon was also a son, brother, friend, husband, father, uncle, and grandfather. By shifting the focus from Watergate and Washington to Nixon’s deep, defining roots in California, Paul Carter boldly challenges common conceptions of the thirty-seventh president of the United States. More biographies have been written on Nixon than any other U.S. politician. Yet the territory traversed by Carter is unexplored, revealing for the first time the people, places, and experiences that shaped Richard Nixon and the qualities that garnered him respect from those who knew him well. Born in Yorba Linda and raised in Whittier, California, Nixon succeeded early in life, excelling in academics while enjoying athletics through high school. At Whittier College he graduated at the top of his class and was voted Best Man on Campus. During his career at Whittier’s oldest law firm, he was respected professionally and became a chief trial attorney. As a military man in the South Pacific during World War II, he was admired by his fellow servicemen. Returning to his Quaker roots after the war, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives, the Senate, and the vice presidency, all within six short years. After losing to John Kennedy in the 1960 presidential campaign, Nixon returned to Southern California to practice law. After losing his gubernatorial race he reinvented himself: he moved to New York and was elected president of the United States in 1968. He returned to Southern California after Watergate and his resignation to heal before once again taking a place on the world stage. Richard Nixon: California’s Native Son is the story of Nixon’s Southern California journey from his birth in Yorba Linda to his final resting place just a few yards from the home in which he was born.

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There was always the incantation: 'Whoever wishes you harm, may harm come to them!' And just in case that didnât work, there were garlic and cloves to repel the Evil Eye-or, better yet, the dried foreskin from a baby boyâs circumcision, ground to a fine powder. But whatever precautions Brenda Serotte was subjected to, they were not enough. Shortly before her eighth birthday, in the fall of 1954, she came down with polio-painfully singled out in a world already marked by differences. Her bout with the dreaded disease is at the heart of this poignant and heartbreakingly hilarious memoir of growing up a Sephardic Jew among Ashkenazi neighbors in the Bronx.This was a world of belly dancers and fortune tellers, shelter drills and vast quantities of Mediterranean food; a world of staunchly joined and endlessly contrary aunts and uncles, all drawn here in loving, merciless detail. The Fortune Tellerâs Kiss is a heartfelt tribute to a disappearing culture and a paean to the authorâs truly quirky clan, especially her beloved champion, her father. It is also a deft and intimate cultural history of the Bronx fifty years ago and of its middle-class inhabitants, their attitudes toward contagious illness, womanly beauty, poverty, and belonging.

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More than Merkle : a history of the best and most exciting baseball season in human history David W. Anderson, David W. Anderson Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press ; Chesham: Combined Academic, Lincoln, Neb., Chesham, 2003

I have done a report of some kind on the Fred Merkle story, whether in print, on radio, or on TV, on or about its anniversary, September 23, virtually every year since I was in college. The saga has always seemed to me to be a microcosm not just of baseball, nor of celebrity, but of life. The rules sometimes change while youre playing the game. Those you trust to tell you the changes often dont bother to. That for which history still mocks you, would have gone unnoticed if you had done it a year or a month or a day before. Thats who Fred Merkle is. I have often proposed September 23 as a national day of amnesty, in Fred Merkle's memory.Keith Olbermann, from his foreword.

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From back alley to the border : criminal abortion in California, 1920-1969 Alicia Gutierrez-Romine University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2020

In From Back Alley to the Border , Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers played in exposing and exploiting the faults in California's anti-abortion statute throughout the twentieth century. Focused on the patients who used this underground network and the physicians who facilitated it, Gutierrez-Romine provides insight into the world of illegal abortion from the 1920s through the 1960s, including regular physicians as well as women and African American abortionists, and the investigations, scandals, and trials that surrounded them. During the 1930s the Pacific Coast Abortion Ring, a large, coast-wide, and comparatively safe abortion syndicate, became the target of law enforcement agencies, forcing those needing abortions across the border into Mexico and ushering in an era of Tijuana "abortion tourism" in the early 1950s. The movement south of the border ultimately compelled the California Supreme Court to rule its abortion statute "void for vagueness" in People v. Belous in 1969—four years before Roe v. Wade . Gutierrez-Romine presents the first book focused on abortion on the West Coast and the U.S.-Mexico border and provides a new approach to studying how providers of illegal abortions and their clients navigated this underground network. In the post- Dobbs moment, From Back Alley to the Border shows us how little we have learned from history.

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Unpapered : writers consider Native American identity and cultural belonging Diane Glancy; Linda Rodriguez editors University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2023

Unpapered is a collection of personal narratives by Indigenous writers exploring the meaning and limits of Native American identity beyond its legal margins. Native heritage is neither simple nor always clearly documented, and citizenship is a legal and political matter of sovereign nations determined by such criteria as blood quantum, tribal rolls, or community involvement. Those who claim a Native cultural identity often have family stories of tenuous ties dating back several generations. Given that tribal enrollment was part of a string of government programs and agreements calculated to quantify and dismiss Native populations, many writers who identify culturally and are recognized as Native Americans do not hold tribal citizenship. With essays by Trevino Brings Plenty, Deborah Miranda, Steve Russell, and Kimberly Wieser, among others, Unpapered charts how current exclusionary tactics began as a response to "pretendians"—non-indigenous people assuming a Native identity for job benefits—and have expanded to an intense patrolling of identity that divides Native communities and has resulted in attacks on peoples' professional, spiritual, emotional, and physical states. An essential addition to Native discourse, Unpapered shows how social and political ideologies have created barriers for Native people truthfully claiming identities while simultaneously upholding stereotypes.

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No One Ever Asked Me: The World War II Memoirs of an Omaha Indian Soldier (American Indian Lives) Hollis D. Stabler; edited by Victoria Smith University of Nebraska Press; Combined Academic [distributor], 1, 2008

as A Young Adolescent, Hollis Dorion Stabler Underwent A Native Ceremony In Which He Was Given The New Name Na-zhin-thia, Slow To Rise. It Was A Name That No White Person Asked To Know During Hollis's Tour Of Duty In Anzio, His Unacknowledged Difference As An Omaha Indian Adding To The Poignancy Of His Uneasy Fellowship With Foreign And American Soldiers Alike. Stabler’s Storycoming Of Age On The American Plains, Going To War, Facing New Estrangement Upon Coming Homeis A Universal One, Rendered Wonderfully Strange And Personal By Stabler’s Uncommon Perspective, Which Embraces Two Worlds, And By His Unique Voice. stabler's Experiences During World War Iitours Of Duty In Tunisia And Morocco As Well As Italy And France, And The Loss Of His Brother In Battleare At The Center Of This Powerful Memoir, Which Tells Of Growing Up As An Omaha Indian In The Small-town Midwest Of Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, And Oklahoma In The 1920s And 1930s. A Descendant Of The Indians Who Negotiated With Lewis And Clark On The Missouri River, Stabler Describes A Childhood That Was A Curious Mixture Of Progressivism And Indian Tradition, And That Culminated In His Enlisting In The Old Horse Cavalry When War Broke Outa Path Not So Very Different From That Walked By His Ancestors. Victoria Smith, Of Cherokee-delaware Descent, Interweaves Historical Insight With Stabler’s Vivid Reminiscences, Providing A Rich Context For This Singular Life. <h3>annals Of Iowa</h3> [stabler's] Vivid Recollections Of Hardship, Sacrifice, And Camaraderie Are Poignant Reminders Of What The Greatest Generation Went Through To Preserve American Liberties At Home. Stabler's Memoirs Are Also Significant For What They Reveal About Native American Experiences And Perceptions Of The War. A Member Of The Omaha Nation Of Nebraska, Stabler Was One Of 25,000 Indian Soldiers Who Served During World War Ii. . . . [victoria Smith] Does A Fine Job Of Organizing The Story And Placing It In Its Proper Historical Context. I Highly Recommend It.

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Sacred Seeds: New World Plants in Early Modern English Literature (Early Modern Cultural Studies) Test, Edward McLean University of Nebraska Press, 2019 Jan

More than five hundred years after the fact, present-day writers still use hyperbolic adjectives to describe the “discovery” of the Americas. Columbus’s crossing of the Atlantic—and the age of exploration that ensued—dramatically and forever changed the early modern world. The societies, economies, cultures, arts, and burgeoning sciences of Europe were quickly transformed by the ongoing encounter with the New World. The meeting of the New and the Old Worlds, however, was more than a meeting of disparate civilizations. It was also a confluence of exciting and often surprising associations that continually created new interfaces between materials and knowledge. The Western and Eastern Hemispheres, brought together by sailing ships for the first time on a large scale, helped create the global landscape we take for granted today. Central to this formative moment in global history were New World plants. The agriculture of indigenous peoples mythically and materially shaped English society and, subsequently, its literature in new and startling ways. Sacred Seeds examines New World plants—tobacco, amaranth, guaiacum, and the prickly pear cactus—and their associated Native myths as they moved across the Atlantic and into English literature. Edward McLean Test reinstates the contributions of indigenous peoples to European society, charting an alternative cultural history that explores the associations and assemblages of transatlantic multiplicity rather than Eurocentric homogeny. **ISBN : 9781496207883

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Blurring the boundaries : explorations to the fringes of nonfiction Hollars, B. J. University of Nebraska Press, 2018

Contemporary discussions on nonfiction are often riddled with questions about the boundaries between truth and memory, honesty and artifice, facts and lies. Just how much truth is in nonfiction? How much is a lie? Blurring the Boundaries sets out to answer such questions while simultaneously exploring the limits of the form. This collection features twenty genre-bending essays from today's most renowned teachers and writers--including original work from Michael Martone, Marcia Aldrich, Dinty W. Moore, Lia Purpura, and Robin Hemley, among others. These essays experiment with structure, style, and subject matter, and each is accompanied by the writer's personal reflection on the work itself, illuminating his or her struggles along the way. As these innovative writers stretch the limits of genre, they take us with them, offering readers a front-row seat to an ever-evolving form. Readers also receive a practical approach to craft thanks to the unique writing exercises provided by the writers themselves. Part groundbreaking nonfiction collection, part writing reference, Blurring the Boundaries serves as the ideal book for literary lovers and practitioners of the craft.ISBN : 9781496210128

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One size fits none : a farm girl's search for the promise of regenerative agriculture Anderson, Stephanie University of Nebraska Press, 2019 Jan

“Sustainable” has long been the rallying cry of agricultural progressives; given that much of our nation’s farm and ranch land is already degraded, however, sustainable agriculture often means maintaining a less-than-ideal status quo. Industrial agriculture has also co-opted the term for marketing purposes without implementing better practices. Stephanie Anderson argues that in order to provide nutrient-rich food and fight climate change, we need to move beyond sustainable to regenerative agriculture, a practice that is highly tailored to local environments and renews resources. In One Size Fits None Anderson follows diverse farmers across the United States: a South Dakota bison rancher who provides an alternative to the industrial feedlot; an organic vegetable farmer in Florida who harvests microgreens; a New Mexico super-small farmer who revitalizes communities; and a North Dakota midsize farmer who combines livestock and grain farming to convert expensive farmland back to native prairie. The use of these nontraditional agricultural techniques show how varied operations can give back to the earth rather than degrade it. This book will resonate with anyone concerned about the future of food in America, providing guidance for creating a better, regenerative agricultural future. Download a discussion guide (PDF). **ISBN : 9781496205056

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Covered Wagon Women, Volume 2: Diaries and Letters from the Western Trails 1850 2 Kenneth L. Holmes, Lillian Schlissel University of Nebraska Press, 2, 2020

The women who traveled west in covered wagons during the 1840s speak through these letters and diaries. Here are the voices of Tamsen Donner and young Virginia Reed, members of the ill-fated Donner party; Patty Sessions, the Mormon midwife who delivered five babies on the trail between Omaha and Salt Lake City; Rachel Fisher, who buried both her husband and her little girl before reaching Oregon. Still others make themselves heard, starting out from different places and recording details along the way, from the mundane to the soul-shattering and spirit-lifting.

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Pinon Country (Bison Book) Haniel Long; foreword by Tony Hillerman Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, Nebraska, 1986

Pion Country. The pion country of New Mexico and Arizona is here celebrated by Haniel Long, who came to it in 1929. It covers a wealth of topics; the Spanish explorers Coronado and Cabeza de Vaca, Kit Carson, Billy the Kid, the Pueblo Indians, the Mormons, marijuana, the peyote religion, miner's strikes, the Grand Canyon, and Carlsbad Caverns. The book originally appeared in the American Folkways Series edited by Erskine Caldwell. This Bison Book edition adds a new foreword by Tony Hillerman.

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Here's the pitch : the amazing, true, new, and improved story of baseball and advertising Roberta J. Newman Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2019

2020 SABR Baseball Research Award 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 national identity. Today, whenever the AT&T call to the bullpen is heard, fans enter Minute Maid Park, or vote for favorite All-Stars (brought to us by MasterCard), we are reminded that advertising has become inseparable from the MLB experience. Here's the Pitch examines this connection between baseball and advertising, as both constructors and reflectors of culture. Roberta J. Newman considers the simultaneous development of both industries from the birth of the partnership, paying particular attention to the ways in which advertising spread the gospel of baseball at the same time professional baseball helped develop a body of consumers ready for the messages of advertising. Newman considers the role of product endorsements in the creation of the culture of celebrity, and of celebrity baseball players in particular, as well as the ways in which new technologies have impacted the intersection of the two industries. From Ty Cobb to Babe Ruth in the 1920s and 1930s to Mickey Mantle, Yogi Berra, and Willie Mays in the postwar years, to Derek Jeter, Rafael Palmeiro, and David Ortiz in the twenty-first century, Newman looks at many of baseball's celebrated players and shows what qualities made them the perfect pitchmen for new products at key moments. Here's the Pitch tells the story of the development of American and an increasingly international culture through the marriage between Mad Men and The Boys of Summer that made for great copy, notable TV advertisements, and lively social media, and shows how baseball's relationship with advertising is stronger than ever.

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#x98;The#x9C; New York City draft riots their significance for American society and politics in the age of the Civil War Bernstein, Iver Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1. Nebraska paperback print, Lincoln, 2010

for Five Days In July 1863, At The Height Of The Civil War, New York City Was Under Siege. Angry Rioters Burned Draft Offices, Closed Factories, Destroyed Railroad Tracks And Telegraph Lines, And Hunted Policemen And Soldiers. Before Long, The Rioters Also Turned Their Murderous Wrath Against The Black Community. In The End, At Least 105 People Were Killed, Making The Draft Riots The Most Violent Insurrection In American History. iver Bernstein Tells The Story Of The New York City Draft Riots, Detailing How What Began As A Demonstration Against The First Federal Draft Quickly Expanded Into A Sweeping Assault Against Local Institutions And The Personnel Of Abraham Lincoln’s Republican Party As Well As A Grotesque Race Riot. In A Tour De Force Of Historical Detection, Bernstein Shows That To Evaluate The Significance Of The Riots We Must Enter The Minds And Experiences Of A Cast Of Characters: Irish And German Immigrant Workers, Wall Street Businessmen Who Frantically Debated Whether To Declare Martial Law, Nervous Politicians In Washington And At City Hall. An In-depth Study Of One Of The Most Troubling And Least Understood Crises In American History, the New York City Draft Riots Is The First Book To Reveal The Complex Social, Cultural, And Political Relations That Made The Bloody Events Of July 1863 Possible. <h3>reviews In American History</h3> an Outstanding Piece Of Social, Economic, And Political History, Suggesting The Benefits Of Integrating New And Older Historiography. . . . An Excellent, Revelatory Book. . . . [bernstein's] Writing Is Clear And His Immense Research Shines On Every Page.

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The Poison Belt: Being an Account of Another Amazing Adventure of Professor Challenger (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) Sir Arthur Conan Doyle; introduction to the Bison Books edition by Katya Reimann Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, Bison frontiers of imagination series, Bison frontiers of imagination., Lincoln, Nebraska, April 1976

"Nothing could be done. The thing was universal and beyond our human knowledge or control. It was death for young and old, for weak and strong, for rich and poor, without hope or possibility of escape." Must Professor George Challenger and friends, barricaded in a room, see Earth die? As globe passes through a belt of poisonous ether, terror sweeps mankind; cities riot; communications cease. Novella.

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Cover 1 Frontmatter 2 Contents 8 Illustrations 10 Foreword 12 Preface: The Real Rosebud 14 Acknowledgments 16 Introduction: Making the Promise 22 Chapter 1. White Thunder to Yellow Robe 28 Chapter 2. Chauncey Yellow Robe 34 Chapter 3. Life in South Dakota 47 Chapter 4. New York 57 Chapter 5. Jones Beach 63 Chapter 6. Later Years 71 Epilogue: Keeping the Promise 84 Notes 90 References 100 Index 104 Photo Section 108 Publisher:University of Nebraska Press,Published:2004,ISBN:9780803204034,Language:English,OCLC:54669636 Her great-grandfather was a famed Lakota warrior, her father a buffalo hunter, and Rosebud Yellow Robe hosted a CBS radio show in New York City. From buffalo hunting to the hub of twentieth-century urban life, this book chronicles the momentous changes in the life of a prominent Plains Indian family over three generations. At the center of the story is Rosebud (1907–92), whose personal recollections, family memoirs, letters, and stories form the basis of this book.Rosebud’s father, Chauncey Yellow Robe, was the son of a Lakota chief and had a traditional childhood until he was sent to the Carlisle Indian School, where he became an advocate for Indian education and citizenship. He was instrumental in planning the 1927 ceremony that brought his daughter into national prominence—an induction of Calvin Coolidge into the Lakota tribe, capped by Rosebud placing a feathered war bonnet on the president’s head. Marjorie Weinberg follows the young woman from Rapid City, South Dakota, to New York City, where she became a noted lecturer and teller of Indian tales (and where her broadcasting career brought her name to the attention of Orson Welles, who may indeed have used her name for his famous sled in Citizen Kane). Reflecting a lifelong interest and a friendship that provided Weinberg access to family archives and a rich reservoir of family oral tradition, The Real Rosebud offers an intimate picture of a century and a half of a remarkable Lakota family.

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Separation scenes : domestic drama in early modern England Ann C. Christensen University of Nebraska Press, 2016

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 Honest Wife (1632)—offers a new approach to the emerging ideology of the private and public, or what Ann C. Christensen terms “the tragedy of the separate spheres.” Feminist scholarship has identified the fruitful gaps between theories and practices of household government in early modern Europe, while work on the global Renaissance attends to commercial expansion, cross-cultural encounters, and colonial settlements. Separation Scenes brings these critical concerns together to expose the intimate and disruptive relationships between the domestic culture and business culture of early modern England. Separation Scenes argues that domestic plays make the absence of husbands for business the subject of tragedy by focusing not on where men traveled but on whom and what they left behind. Elements that critics have rightly associated with domestic tragedy—adultery, sensational murders, and the lavishly articulated operations of domestic life—define this world, which, Christensen argues, was equally shaped by the absence of husbands. Her interpretations of these domestic plays invite us to historicize and further complicate the seemingly universal binary between a feminine “private sphere” and a masculine “public sphere.” Separation Scenes demonstrates how domestic drama played an active, dynamic, and critical role in deliberating the costs of commercial travel as it disrupted domestic conduct and prompted realignments within the home.

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The allotment plot : Alice C. Fletcher, E. Jane Gay, and Nez Perce survivance Nicole Tonkovich University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2022

xviii, 418 p. : 24 cm

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Gullivar of Mars (Bison Frontiers of Imagination) Edwin L. Arnold; introduction to the Bison Books Edition by Richard A. Lupoff; afterword by Gary Hoppenstand; illustration by Thomas Floyd Lincoln, Neb.: University of Nebraska Press, Bison frontiers of imagination, Commemorative ed., Lincoln, Neb, Nebraska, 2003

Edwin L. Arnold ; Introduction To The Bison Books Edition By Richard A. Lupoff ; Afterword By Gary Hoppenstand ; Illustration By Thomas Floyd. Original Title: Lieut. Gullivar Jones, His Vacation.

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Deer Season Erin Flanagan; OverDrive, Inc University of Nebraska Press, University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln, 2021

Winner of the 2022 Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel It's the opening weekend of deer season in Gunthrum, Nebraska, in 1985, and Alma Costagan's intellectually disabled farmhand, Hal Bullard, has gone hunting with some of the locals, leaving her in a huff. That same weekend, a teenage girl goes missing, and Hal returns with a flimsy story about the blood in his truck and a dent near the headlight. When the situation escalates from that of a missing girl to something more sinister, Alma and her husband are forced to confront what Hal might be capable of, as rumors fly and townspeople see Hal's violent past in a new light. A drama about the complicated relationships connecting the residents of a small-town farming community, Deer Season explores troubling questions about how far people will go to safeguard the ones they love and what it means to be a family.

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Reading the Contemporary Author: Narrative, Authority, Fictionality (Frontiers of Narrative) Alison Gibbons (editor), Elizabeth King (editor) University of Nebraska Press, S.l, 2023

Readers, literary critics, and theorists alike have long demonstrated an abiding fascination with the author, both as a real person—an artist and creator—and as a theoretical concept that shapes the way we read literary works. Whether anonymous, pseudonymous, or trending on social media, authors continue to be an object of critical and readerly interest. Yet theories surrounding authorship have yet to be satisfactorily updated to register the changes wrought on the literary sphere by the advent of the digital age, the recent turn to autofiction, and the current literary climate more generally. In Reading the Contemporary Author the contributors look back on the long history of theorizing the author and offer innovative new approaches for understanding this elusive figure. Mapping the contours of the vast territory that is contemporary authorship, this collection investigates authorship in the context of narrative genres ranging from memoir and autobiographically informed texts to biofiction and novels featuring novelist narrators and characters. Bringing together the perspectives of leading scholars in narratology, cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, comparative literature, and autobiography studies, Reading the Contemporary Author demonstrates that a variety of interdisciplinary viewpoints and critical stances are necessary to capture the multifaceted nature of contemporary authorship.

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Deconstructing Dr. Strangelove: The Secret History of Nuclear War Films Maloney, Sean M. Potomac Books; U of Nebraska Press, Havertown, 2020

King of the Cold War crisis film, Dr. Strangelove became a cultural touchstone from the moment of its release in 1964. The duck-and-cover generation saw it as a satire on nuclear issues and Cold War thinking. Subsequent generations, removed from the film's historical moment, came to view it as a quasi-documentary about an unfathomable secret world. Sean M. Maloney uses Dr. Strangelove and other genre classics like Fail Safe and The Bedford Incident to investigate a curious pop cultural contradiction. Nuclear crisis films repeatedly portrayed the failures of the Cold War's deterrent system. Yet the system worked. What does this inconsistency tell us about the genre? What does it tell us about the deterrent system, for that matter? Blending film analysis with Cold War history, Maloney looks at how the celluloid crises stack up against reality—or at least as much of reality as we can reconstruct from these films with confidence. The result is a daring intellectual foray that casts new light on Dr. Strangelove , one of the Cold War era's defining films.

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Taking the field : soldiers, nature, and empire on American frontiers Amy Lee Kohout University of Nebraska Press, Many Wests, 1, 2023

2024 WHA Robert M. Utley Prize Winner 2024 WHA Hal K. Rothman Prize Winner Published in Cooperation with the William P. Clements Center for Southwest Studies, Southern Methodist University. In the late nineteenth century, at a time when Americans were becoming more removed from nature than ever before, U.S. soldiers were uniquely positioned to understand and construct nature’s ongoing significance for their work and for the nation as a whole. American ideas and debates about nature evolved alongside discussions about the meaning of frontiers, about what kind of empire the United States should have, and about what it meant to be modern or to make “progress.” Soldiers stationed in the field were at the center of these debates, and military action in the expanding empire brought new environments into play. In Taking the Field Amy Kohout draws on the experiences of U.S. soldiers in both the Indian Wars and the Philippine-American War to explore the interconnected ideas about nature and empire circulating at the time. By tracking the variety of ways American soldiers interacted with the natural world, Kohout argues that soldiers, through their words and their work, shaped Progressive Era ideas about both American and Philippine environments. Studying soldiers on multiple frontiers allows Kohout to inject a transnational perspective into the environmental history of the Progressive Era, and an environmental perspective into the period’s transnational history. Kohout shows us how soldiers—through their writing, their labor, and all that they collected—played a critical role in shaping American ideas about both nature and empire, ideas that persist to the present.

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