Author: Gerald R. Gem
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: cultural, imperialism, american, sport, crusade, athletic
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2006-06-01
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0803222165
ISBN-13: 9780803222168

The Athletic Crusade is the first book to systematically analyze the role of sports in the expansion of U.S. empire from the 1890s through World War II. Gerald R. Gems details how white, Anglo-Saxon Protestant males set the standard for inclusion within American society, transferred that standard to foreign territories, and subtly used American sports to instill allegedly desirable racial, moral, and commercial virtues in colonial subjects. In the realm of such expansion, sports provided a less harsh, less militaristic means of instilling belief in a dominant system’s values and principl

Authors:Douglas R. Parks, Lula Nora Pratt,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: north, ame, anthropology, studies, skiri, pawnee, dictionary
Number of Pages: 568
Published: 2008-12-01
List price: $85.00
ISBN-10: 0803219261
ISBN-13: 9780803219267

A Dictionary of Skiri Pawnee is the first dictionary ever published of a Caddoan language. Formerly an independent tribe living along the North Fork of the Loup River in central Nebraska, the Skiris united with South Band Pawnee groups in the late eighteenth century, and in 1874–76 they were forced to abandon their reservation in central Nebraska for a new reservation that became Pawnee County in north-central Oklahoma, where most Skiris live today.The volume comprises approximately 4,500 entries that represent the basic vocabulary of the Skiri language. To assist users, the introduction fea

Author: Jackson J. Benso
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: guthrie, biography, sky
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2009-05-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0803222866
ISBN-13: 9780803222861

Author of The Big Sky series, The Way West, and the screenplay for the classic Shane, among many other timeless stories of frontier mountain men, icon of Western literature A. B. “Bud” Guthrie Jr. brought a blazing realism to the story of the West. That realism, which astounded and even shocked some readers, came out of the depth of Guthrie’s historical research and an acuity that had seldom been seen in the work of Western novelists. In Under the Big Sky, the latest in his celebrated series of biographies of Western writers, Jackson J. Benson details the life and work of this true giant

Author: Jill St. Germai
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: lakotas, plains, cree, relations, canadian, treaties, united, states, broken
Number of Pages: 484
Published: 2009-06-01
List price: $60.00
ISBN-10: 0803215894
ISBN-13: 9780803215894

Broken Treaties is a comparative assessment of Indian treaty negotiation and implementation focusing on the first decade following the United States–Lakota Treaty of 1868 and Treaty Six between Canada and the Plains Cree (1876). Jill St. Germain argues that the “broken treaties” label imposed by nineteenth-century observers and perpetuated in the historical literature has obscured the implementation experience of both Native and non-Native participants and distorted our understanding of the relationships between them. As a result, historians have ignored the role of the Treaty of 1868 as

Author: Benjamin T. Smith
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: postrevolutionary, oaxaca, mexican, experience, formation, state, popular, movements, politics, pistoleros
Number of Pages: 596
Published: 2009-07-01
List price: $35.00
ISBN-10: 0803222807
ISBN-13: 9780803222809

The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through Mexico’s local and political networks in countless different ways and resulted in a myriad of regional arrangements. It is this process of diffusion, politicking, and conflict that Benjamin T. Smith examines in Pistoleros and Popular Movements.Oaxaca’s urban social movements and the tension between fede

Authors:C. Clare Hinrichs, Thomas A. Lyso,
Publisher: University of Nebraska Pre
Keywords: sustainability, sustainable, future, strategies, system, north, american, food, remaking
Number of Pages: 384
Published: 2008-01-01
List price: $45.00
ISBN-10: 0803224389
ISBN-13: 9780803224384

Food and agriculture are in the news daily. Stories in the media highlight issues of abundance, deprivation, pleasure, risk, health, community, and identity. Remaking the North American Food System examines the resurgence of interest in rebuilding the links between agricultural production and food consumption as a way to overcome some of the negative implications of industrial and globalizing trends in the food and agricultural system. Written by a diverse group of scholars and practitioners, the chapters in this volume describe the many efforts throughout North America to craft and sustain al

Authors:Christopher Marlowe,  John D. Jum,
Publisher: University of Nebraska
Keywords: drama, ser, renaissance, regents, parts, tamburlaine
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 1967-01-01
List price: $17.95
ISBN-10: 0803252714
ISBN-13: 9780803252714

"Arguably the single-most important play of the Elizabethan era, Tamburlaine did more than any other to transform an insignificant form of public entertainment, barely distinguishable from the juggling, fencing, and animal-baiting with which it shared its performance space, into an art of national importance...Tamburlaine cranks the excitements of language and spectacle to an unprecedented pitch, not simply to indulge the fantasies of the audience but as an exemplary demonstration of poetry’s dangerous potency."-The New York Review of Books. Christopher Marlowe (1564-1593) has been calle