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View book details for Before the West Was West
Critical Essays on Pre-1800 Literature of the American Frontiers
UNP - Nebraska
Before the West Was West examines the extent to which scholars have engaged in-depth with pre-1800 western texts and asks what we mean by western American literature in the first place and when that designation originated.Calling into question the implicit …
UNP - Nebraska
Britain was the industrial and political powerhouse of the nineteenth centurythe birthplace of the Industrial Revolution and the center of the largest empire of the time. With its broad imperial reachand even broader indirect influenceBritain had a major impact on …
View book details for Walk of Ages
Edward Payson Weston's Extraordinary 1909 Trek Across America
UNP - Nebraska
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 …
View book details for The Dome in the Forest
The Pelbar Cycle, Book Three
UNP - Bison Books
More than one thousand years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people of Pelbar conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes now settled peacefully around the citadel of …
View book details for Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism
Secrets of "The Guide for the Perplexed"
The Jewish Publication Society
A publishing sensation long at the top of the best-seller lists in Israel, the original Hebrew edition of Maimonides and the Book That Changed Judaism has been called the most successful book ever published in Israel on the preeminent medieval …
UNP - Bison Original
We must include Knopp among those whom Barry Lopez calls our local geniuses of the American landscape, Fran Shaw remarks in the journal Parabola. And, indeed, in this new book, Lisa Knopps singular genius burrows deep into that landscape in …
View book details for The Growth of Reform Judaism
American and European Sources
The Jewish Publication Society
This fiftieth anniversary edition of W. Gunther Plauts classic second volume on the history of the Jewish Reform Movement is a sourcebook of the original writings that shaped the second century of organized liberal Judaism. The Growth of Reform Judaism …
View book details for Range Wars
The Environmental Contest for White Sands Missile Range
UNP - Nebraska
Established in south-central New Mexico at the end of World War II, White Sands Missile Range is the largest overland military reserve in the western hemisphere. It was the site of the first nuclear explosion, the birthplace of the American …
View book details for Catholic Borderlands
Mapping Catholicism onto American Empire, 1905-1935
UNP - Nebraska
In 1905 Rev. Francis Clement Kelley founded the Catholic Church Extension Society of the United States of America. Drawing attention to the common link of religion, Kelley proclaimed the Extension Societys duty to be that of preventing American Protestant missionaries, …
UNP - Nebraska
An early modern domestic and spiritual memoir, My First Booke of My Life depicts the life of Alice Thornton (16261707), a complex, contradictory woman caught in the changing fortunes and social realities of the seventeenth century. Her memoir documents her …
Little, Brown and Company
A debut collection of moving and darkly witty stories from an "admirably fearless" (New York Times Book Review) writer whom critics have compared to Michael Chabon, E.L. Doctorow, and Dennis LehaneA Massachusetts Book Award "Must Read" SelectionWhen marriages, friendships, and …
Basic Books
An eye-opening and honest look at the enduring sexism within the scientific community and what women are doing to change it.
View book details for Oskar Schindler
The Untold Account of His Life, Wartime Activities, and the True Story Behind the List
Basic Books
Spy, businessman, bon vivant, Nazi Party member, Righteous Gentile. This was Oskar Schindler, the controversial man who saved eleven hundred Jews during the Holocaust but struggled afterwards to rebuild his life and gain international recognition for his wartime deeds. David …
View book details for Car Crazy
The Battle for Supremacy between Ford and Olds and the Dawn of the Automobile Age
PublicAffairs
Before the "Big Three," even before the Model T, the race for dominance in the American car market was fierce, fast, and sometimes farcical. Car Crazy takes readers back to the passionate and reckless years of the early automobile era, …
Little, Brown and Company
The leaders of the free world descend on Scotland for an international conference, and every cop in the country is needed for front-line duty...except one. John Rebus's reputation precedes him, and his bosses don't want him anywhere near Presidents Bush …
View book details for Careless Love
The Unmaking of Elvis Presley
Little, Brown and Company
Hailed as "a masterwork" by the Wall Street Journal, Careless Loveis the full, true, and mesmerizing story of Elvis Presley's last two decades, in the long-awaited second volume of Peter Guralnick's masterful two-part biography.Winner of the Ralph J. Gleason Music …
View book details for Remembering America
How We Have Told Our Past
UNP - Nebraska
American history is ubiquitous, underscoring everything from food to travel to architecture and design. It is also emotionally charged, frequently crossing paths with political and legal issues. In Remembering America, Lawrence R. Samuel examines the place that American history has …
View book details for California
Land of New Beginnings
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
From the earliest Spanish explorations in the late 1500s through the present, California's history and growth have been both tumultuous and phenomenal. All the historical facts are here: the missions and the Indians, the struggles between the Mexicans and the …
View book details for Native Diasporas
Indigenous Identities and Settler Colonialism in the Americas
UNP - Nebraska Paperback
The arrival of European settlers in the Americas disrupted indigenous lifeways, and the effects of colonialism shattered Native communities. Forced migration and human trafficking created a diaspora of cultures, languages, and people. Gregory D. Smithers and Brooke N. Newman have …
View book details for The Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
UNP - Nebraska
In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Musica del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights …
View book details for The Pat Boone Fan Club
My Life as a White Anglo-Saxon Jew
UNP - Nebraska
Gentile reader, and you, Jews, come too. Follow Sue William Silverman, a one-woman cultural mash-up, on her exploration of identity among the mishmash of American idols and ideals that confuse most of usor should. Pat Boone is our first stop. …
UNP - Bison Books
"In the figure of the old-time gamblin man and cold killer, John Myers has found a subject perfectly suited to his talents and his methods. . . . The result is a solid though lively biography. . . . As …
View book details for Forever Red
More Confessions of a Cornhusker Fan
UNP - Nebraska
On any given workday, any little thing might send Steve Smiths thoughts spinning back to Saturdaylast Saturday, Saturday two weeks ago, Saturday two years ago, back into the thrilling minutiae of game dayuntil reality reminds him: this is not how …
View book details for One Nation Under Baseball
How the 1960s Collided with the National Pastime
UNP - Nebraska
One Nation Under Baseball highlights the intersection between American society and Americas pastime during the 1960s, when the hallmarks of the sportfairness, competition, and mythologycame under scrutiny. John Florio and Ouisie Shapiro examine the events of the era that reshaped …
UNP - Nebraska
Toward an Anthropology of Nation Building and Unbuilding in Israel presents twenty-two original essays offering a critical survey of the anthropology of Israel inspired by Alex Weingrod, emeritus professor and pioneering scholar of Israeli anthropology. In the late 1950s Weingrods …
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