Author: J.M.G. Le Clezio
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: onitsha
Number of Pages: 206
Published: 1997-04-01
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 0803229151
ISBN-13: 9780803229150

Onitsha tells the story of Fintan, a youth who travels to Africa in 1948 with his Italian mother to join the English father he has never met. Fintan is initially enchanted by the exotic world he discovers in Onitsha, a bustling city prominently situated on the eastern bank of the Niger River. But gradually he comes to recognize the intolerance and brutality of the colonial system. His youthful point of view provides the novel with a notably direct, horrified perspective on racism and colonialism. In the words of translator Alison Anderson, Onitsha is remarkable for its “almost mythological

Author: Walter Prescott Webb
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: plains
Number of Pages: 525
Published: 1981-08-01
List price: $21.95
ISBN-10: 0803297025
ISBN-13: 9780803297029

This classic description of the interaction between the vast central plains of America and the people who lived there has, since its first publication in 1931, been one of the most influential, widely known, and controversial works in western history. Arguing that "the Great Plains environment. . .constitutes a geographic unity whose influences have been so powerful as to put a characteristic mark upon everything that survives within its borders," Webb singles out the revolver, barbed wire, and the windmill as evidence of the new phase of civilization required for settlement of that arid, tree

Author: Stephen Roth Institute
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: antisemitism, worldwide, series
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2002-09-01
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 080325945X
ISBN-13: 9780803259454

The annual publication Antisemitism Worldwide is compiled by the Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism at Tel Aviv University. Unique in scope, structure, and variety of sources, this volume is an analysis of antisemitism in 2000 and early 2001. It includes scholarly articles and book reviews as well as country-by-country surveys. In 2000, the number of major violent acts of antisemitism more than doubled from 1999, and other acts of violence increased by over 50 percent. Antisemitism Worldwide is based on information systematically collected by the insti

Author: Dee Brown
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: yankees, galvanized
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 1986-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 080326075X
ISBN-13: 9780803260757

Here is the fascinating and little-known story of the Galvanized Yankees, who stood watch over a nation that they had once sought to destroy. They were Confederate soldiers who were recruited from Union prison camps in the North to serve in the West. On the condition they would not be sent south to fight their former comrades, they exchanged gray for blue uniforms. From 1864 to 1866 six regiments of Galvanized Yankees fought Indians, escorted supply trains along the Oregon and Sante Fe trails, accompanied expeditions, guarded surveying parties for the Union Pacific Railroad, and manned lonely

Author: Frederick Manfred
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: tales, man, buckskin, plume, scarlet
Number of Pages: 365
Published: 1983-09-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 080328120X
ISBN-13: 9780803281202

In 1862, the largest Indian uprising in American history occurred in southern Minnesota. Enraged Sioux attempted to throw off the broken treaties that still bound them and to avenge the insults and depredations they had been forced to bear. Hundreds of whites were killed. Women were taken captive. Told from the point of view of Judith Raveling, a young woman widowed by the uprising, Scarlet Plume draws on the brutal history of the conflict from beginning to end. Taken captive by the Sioux she is given to Scarlet Plume, one of the many warriors who know their cause is lost. Caught between the m

Author: Max Brand
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: luck
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 1997-07-28
List price: $40.00
ISBN-10: 0803212771
ISBN-13: 9780803212770

Pierre Ryder has been forged by the sternest of frontier Jesuits for the hard life of a missionary priest in the frozen wastes of the Far North. Although a novice short of his vows, he is a young David, mighty in faith and learning, able to ride any horse, to run a hundred miles a day behind a dog-team, to fight skillfully, and to shoot unerringly. Yet he remains gentle and unaffected, his thoughts as clear as spring water. Into this life a thunderbolt descends: a letter from his father, long thought dead, who lies dying of a bullet wound. Ignoring the pleas of the good priests, Pierre rides

Author: Theodore Roosevelt
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Keywords: riders, rough
Number of Pages: 316
Published: 1998-11-01
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0803289731
ISBN-13: 9780803289734

The Spanish-American War of 1898 was brief but decisive, marking the United States as a world power, Theodore Roosevelt as a national hero, and the Rough Riders as a legendary force in winning the independence of Cuba from Spain. This volunteer cavalry regiment was one of the most colorful ever assembled, with lawyers, cowboys and ranchers, actors and musicians, hunters and trappers, football players, Indian fighters, ivy-league scholars, and blacksmiths proving equal to each other in stoic bravery. Commanding them, inspiring them, dashing through gunfire, was the ebullient Colonel Roosevelt.