History Nebraska

Reducere. Walks on the Ground is a record of Louis V. Headman's personal study of the Southern Ponca people, spanning seven decades beginning with the histor...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. Recent decades have drawn more attention to the United States' treatment of Japanese Americans during World War II. Few people realize, however, th...

The natural wealth of the Amazon and Andes has long attracted fortune seekers, from explorers, farmers, and gold panners to multimillion-dollar min...

Reducere. The Storied Landscape of Iroquoia explores the creation, destruction, appropriation, and enduring legacy of one of early America's most important p...

Offers a collection of scholarship that reveals the important French element in the nineteenth- and twentieth-century creation of the singular Medi...

Reducere. In From Back Alley to the Border, Alicia Gutierrez-Romine examines the history of criminal abortion in California and the role abortion providers p...

Reducere. Toward the end of the nineteenth century, many African Americans moved westward as Greater Reconstruction came to a close. Though, along with Euro-...

Reducere. More than one million Indian soldiers were deployed during World War I, serving in the Indian Army as part of Britain's imperial war effort. These ...

Deza and Its Moriscos addresses an incongruity in early modern Spanish historiography: a growing awareness of the importance played by Moriscos in ...

Reducere. To many Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the West was simultaneously the greatest symbol of American opportunity, the greatest ...

Reducere. The Bents might be the most famous family in the history of the American West. From the 1820s to 1920 they participated in many of the major events...

DescriptionMore than any other nonhuman species, it was the sea otter that defined the world's largest oceanscape prior to the California gold rush...

Reducere. World War I prompted the first massive organized propaganda campaign of the twentieth century. Posters, pamphlets, and other media spread fear abou...

Reducere. Just as a sculptor chips away each piece of stone to uncover a work of art, author Greg Harm has been chipping away at Lee Lawrie's catalog raisonn...

This volume introduces the oral literature of Native American peoples in Puget Salish speaking areas of western Washington. Seven stories told by L...

Reducere. Joseph Hillaire (Lummi, 1894-1967) is recognized as one of the great Coast Salish artists, carvers, and tradition-bearers of the twentieth century....

From the eighth century through the Middle Ages feudalism determined the nature of European warfare. Medieval Warfare is full of recreations of fam...

Hans Delbruck's four-volume History of the Art of War is recognized throughout the world as the definitive work on the subject. Appearing in an Eng...

Considers developments including the use of gunpowder, the invention of firearms and iron balls. After reviewing the establishment of a European in...

Reducere. World History of Warfare is designed as a textbook for introductory college courses in military history. The text covers worldwide military history...

Reducere. In Grasslands Grown Molly P. Rozum explores the two related concepts of regional identity and sense of place by examining a single North American e...

Reducere. Winter counts--pictorial calendars by which Plains Indians kept track of their past--marked each year with a picture of a memorable event. The Lako...

Reducere. This book has been considered by academicians and scholars of great significance and value to literature. This forms a part of the knowledge base f...

Reducere. In The History of Anthropology Regna Darnell offers a critical reexamination of the Americanist tradition centered around the figure of Franz Boas ...

Provides a comprehensive overview of the pronunciamiento practice following the Plan of Iguala. This fourth and final instalment in, and culminatio...

Reducere. DescriptionAuthor and former Yell Squad member Debra Kleve White provides a firsthand account of game day in Lincoln. The Spirit of Nebraska offers...

Reducere. The Menominee Indians, or "wild rice people, " have lived for thousands of years in the region that is now called Wisconsin and are the oldest Nati...

DescriptionAs deputy to the U.S. ambassador in Rwanda, Joyce E. Leader witnessed the tumultuous prelude to genocide--a period of political wranglin...

Originally created to mark the territorial centennial of Nebraska and then revised to coincide with the statehood centennial, this one-volume histo...

Reducere. Carlos Arnaldo Schwantes has revised and expanded the entire work, which is still the most comprehensive and balanced history of the region. This e...

Description"Hegel's Geschichte der Philosophie was one of the grand products of the renaissance in historical learning that took place in early nin...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. Winner of the 2020 Catholic Press Association Book Award in History Apostles of Empire is a revisionist history of the French Jesuit mission to Ind...

Reducere. In this innovative, performative approach to the expressive culture of the Yaqui (Yoeme) peoples of the Sonora and Arizona borderlands, David Delga...

Reducere. This detailed study of the excavation and restoration of the city of Nauvoo, Illinois, takes readers back to the roots of historical archaeology. B...

Reducere. The Business of Leisure critically surveys a wide selection of travel practices, places, and time periods in considering the development of the hos...

Reducere. Boarding School Seasons offers a revealing look at the strong emotional history of Indian boarding school experiences in the first half of the twen...

Reducere. The Black Populations of France is a study of Black peoples and their history in France and the French Empire during the modern era, from the eight...

French Canadian workers who paddled canoes, transported goods, and staffed the interior posts of the northern North American fur trade became popul...

Reducere. 2018 Nebraska Book Award The state of Nebraska has a rich and varied culture, from the eastern metropolitan cities of Omaha and Lincoln to the ranc...

During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of Wo...

Reducere. Bike racers were America's media darlings less than a century ago--dashing, eccentric, and very rich daredevils. Until the 1920s bike races drew la...

Reducere. The University of Nebraska Press is utilizing Docutech technology to make some out-of-print books available again. All on-demand titles are produce...

Reducere. The Lavi fighter program, the largest weapons-development effort ever undertaken by the State of Israel, envisioned a new generation of high-perfor...

Reducere. DescriptionUnforgettable people. Beloved places. Enduring memories. From its beginning in 1869 as a land-grant institution on the edge of the prair...

Reducere. A unique history of Nebraska is presented in these pages, drawing on fifty-eight short topical chapters and a rich gallery of illustrations. Profes...

Reducere. Biographer and historian Stephen B. Oates tells the story of the coming of the American Civil War through the voices and perspectives of thirteen p...

Reducere. Eighty-five percent of Italy's Jews survived World War II. Nevertheless, more than six thousand Italian Jews were destroyed in the Holocaust and th...

DescriptionClasses and books on the Holocaust often center on the experiences of victims, perpetrators, and bystanders, but rescuers also occupy a ...

These essays cast new light on Paleoindians, the first settlers of North America. Recent research strongly suggests that big-game hunting was but o...

Reducere. It has been home to the Lakota and Pawnee, to Buffalo Bill and the "Great Commoner." From its earliest days, Nebraska has held a strategic place in...

Reducere. Musical genius, polemicist, explosive personality--that was the nineteenth-century German composer Richard Wagner, who paid as much attention to hi...

DescriptionFrom the late nineteenth century to the middle of the twentieth century, Mexico experienced major transformations influenced by a global...

This volume emphasizes theory schools, institutional connections, social networks, and collaborative research with Indigenous communities in North ...

Reducere. After the Apollo program put twelve men on the moon and safely brought them home, anything seemed possible. In this spirit, the team at NASA set ab...

In comparison to such regions as the South, the far West, and New England, the Midwest and its culture have been neglected both by scholars and by ...

Reducere. On September 4, 1805, in the upper Bitterroot Valley of what is now western Montana, more than four hundred Salish people were encamped, pasturing ...

Reducere. The northern plains are often ignored by the rest of the nation or, if not, are mentioned in the context of the weather, Mount Rushmore, or the Bla...

In Mexico environmental struggles have been fought since the nineteenth century in such places as Zacatecas, where United States and European minin...

Reducere. During the two centuries following European contact, the world of late prehistoric Mississippian chiefdoms collapsed and Native communities there f...

Reducere. How can we learn more about Native women's lives in North America in earlier centuries? This question is answered by this landmark anthology, an es...

Reducere. This rich and authoritative chronicle of the Yellowstone Basin covers a span of more than a century and half, from the 1740s, when the Verendryé br...

Publisher: University of Nebraska PressAuthor(s): Matthew G. StanardIllustration(s): 10 photographs, 1 chartNumber of pages: 406Publication date: 2...

Reducere. For many, Nebraska is the flat prairie seen from the interstate. Yet with the Sandhills, bluffs and river valleys, the state has an abundance of ri...

At a time when hostilities and violence in the Middle East and Persian Gulf continually threaten the world with war, anyone seeking to understand t...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Reducere. After Ross Benes left Nebraska for New York, he witnessed his polite home state become synonymous with "Trump country." Long dismissed as "flyover"...

Reducere. As a part of the New Deal that offered hope during the Great Depression, scores of public art projects were commissioned around the country. Now th...

Reducere. Considered a classic study of southeastern Indians, Powhatan's Mantle demonstrates how ethnohistory, demography, archaeology, anthropology, and car...