Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Argentina's established democracy endured the trauma of four major military uprisings between 1987 and 1990, continuing even after the rebels' original motivations faded. Exploring the causes of the rebellions and the rebel movement's development, this title underlines the inherently undefined nature of the democracies.

Max Nordau was a famous writer, a practicing physician, a bourgeois examplar of enterprise and energy when his "Degeneration" appeared in Germany in 1892. He argued that the spirit of the times was characterized by enervation, exhaustion, hysteria, egotism, and inability to adjust or to act.

A modern dictionary of the Creek language of the southeastern United States. It contains over seven thousand Creek-English entries, over four thousand English-Creek entries, and over four hundred Creek place names in Alabama, Georgia, Florida, and Oklahoma.

Assesses scholarship on and by Indigenous peoples and the opportunities awaiting them in the Ivory Tower. This title explains how activism shapes the careers of Native academics; the response of academe and Native scholars to issues and needs in Indian Country; and the problems of racism, territoriality, and ethnic fraud in academic hiring.