Books published by University of Nebraska Press

The Southern Exodus to Mexico is an examination of the post-Civil War migration of former southern slaveholders into Mexico.

1879 marked the beginning of one of the longest, bloodiest conflicts of nineteenth-century Latin America. The War of the Pacific pitted Peru and Bolivia against Chile in a struggle initiated over a festering border dispute. Employing the primary and secondary sources, William F. Sater offers the definitive analysis of the conflict's naval and military campaigns.

James A. Rawley fills a scholarly gap in the historical discussion of the slave trade from the fifteenth to the nineteenth century by providing one volume covering the economics, demography, epidemiology, and politics of the trade. This revised edition of Rawley's classic includes emended text to reflect the major changes in historiography.

Analyzes three dramatic years in the history of FWA, from 1940 to 1943, in which the Vichy regime tried to impose the ideology of the National Revolution in the region. This book shows how this was a watershed period in the history of the region by providing an in-depth examination of the Vichy colonial visions and practices in FWA.