Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Through a comparative framework, this volume weaves together narratives of US and Spanish empire, globalization, resistance, and identity, as well as social, labor, and political movements. Contributors examine multiethnic celebrities and key figures, migratory paths, cultural productions, and social and political formations among these three groups.

John Milton Oskison, born in the Indian Territory to a Cherokee mother and an immigrant English father, and was brought up engaging in his Cherokee heritage. Oskison left Indian Territory to attend college and went on to have a long career in New York City journalism. This is the first comprehensive collection of Oskison's writings.

We don't have an energy crisis. We have a consumption crisis.

A sequel to "Giants in the Earth", this work tells the tale of Norwegian settlers in the Dakotas. Beret and their children, Syvert Tonseten and Kjersti, and Sorine struggle to adapt, and to become Americans. This is a novel of youth and youth's self-discovery. It is a story of Beret's pain and dismay at the Americanization of her children.

Includes works such as "The Art-Work of the Future", "Autobiographical Sketch," "Art and Climate"; "Wieland the Smith"; "Art and Revolution", and "A Communication to My Friends".

Several years in the future, the conservative borders of Pelbar society continue to crumble as the people conduct trade, form friendships, and intermarry with members of the tribes that have settled around the citadel of Northwall. This book is the third volume in the "Pelbar Cycle", a series of 7 postapocalyptic novels about the people of Pelbar.

Provides a study of European pro-empire propaganda in Belgium, with particular emphasis on the period 1908-60. Matthew G. Stanard questions the nature of Belgian imperialism in the Congo and considers the Belgian case in light of literature on the French, British, and other European overseas empires.

Divided into two sections, the essays in Cather Studies, Volume 9 examine Willa Cather as an author with an innovative receptivity to modern cultures and a powerful affinity with the visual and musical arts. The essays are unified by an understanding of Cather as a writer of transition whose fiction meditates on the cultural movement from Victorianism into the twentieth century.