Books published by University of Nebraska Press

As scenes only dimly understood by the child Lorenza are revisited by the woman she becomes, what seemed a family affair begins to outline the drama of history, in particular the tragedy of Italy's Jews during the Holocaust. This book presents a story set within a Catholic family in Italy on the eve of World War II.

A complete and up-to-date dictionary of Lakota, this new edition of Eugene Buechel's classic dictionary contains some 30,000 entries.

Includes twenty tales that add up to a true account of author's experiences around the corrals, livery stables, and wagon yards of the West. This title contains tales that range from tricks to make an old horse seem young (at least until the poor creature died from the side effects of the scam) to a recipe for making a dapple-gray mule.

Disagreeing with interpretations of the Fascist movement and regime as "revolutionary" and "leftist", this work, while not ignoring the importance of ideology, sees Fascism in Italy as a bourgeois response to the challenge of proletarian revolution and an approach to the problem of conservative control in an era of mass politics.

Traces the anthropological study of sex from the eighteenth century onwards, focusing primarily on social and cultural anthropology and the work done by researchers in North America and Great Britain. This title argues that the sexuality of those whom anthropologists studied has been conscripted into Western discourses about sex.

Offers an account that traces the histories of the Native peoples of the American West, from their arrival thousands of years ago to the early years of the nineteenth century. This book depicts Indian country west of the Appalachians to the Pacific, with emphasis on conflict and change.

Of Athapaskan and Tlingit ancestry, Angela Sidney, Kitty Smith, and Annie Ned lived in the southern Yukon Territory for nearly a century. They collaborated with Julie Cruikshank, an assistant professor in the Department of Anthropology at the University of British Columbia, to produce this unique autobiography.