Books published by University of Nebraska Press

Over the years, anthologies have shifted from playing a relatively minor role in academic culture to a position of dominance. This title features essays that explore the significant intellectual, economic, political, pedagogical, and creative resonance of anthologies through many levels of academic life.

Often portrayed by past historians as an Indian fighter in the West, Kit Carson (1809-68) has become a historical pariah - a brutal murderer who betrayed the Navajos, an unwitting dupe of American expansion, and a racist. He was simply a man of the 19th century whose racial views and actions were like those of his contemporaries.

Defeat and death at the Little Bighorn gave General George Custer and his Seventh Cavalry a kind of immortality. This title investigates the body of legend surrounding that battle on a bloody Sunday in 1876.

Considers developments including the use of gunpowder, the invention of firearms and iron balls. After reviewing the establishment of a European infantry, this work discusses the transformation of loose confederations of knights into cavalry, the organization of fighting mercenaries, and the changing of mercenary bands into standing armies.

Presenting an interpretation of the famous appendix to Husserl's "The Crisis of European Sciences and Transcendental Phenomenology", this title relates writing to such key concepts as differing, consciousness, presence, and historicity.

A memoir by an American Indian, this title presents the recollections of a Seneca chief, also known as Governor Blacksnake. A fighter in the American Revolution, Chainbreaker told his story as an old man in the 1840s to a fellow Seneca, Benjamin Williams, who translated it and committed it to paper. His account is available in this edition.

Early Christianity faced the problem of the human word versus Christ the Word. Could language accurately describe spiritual reality? The Mirror of Language brilliantly traces the development of one prominent theory of signs from Augustine through Anselm of Canterbury, Thomas Aquinas, and Dante. Their shared epistemology validated human language as an authentic but limited index of preexistent reality, both material and spiritual. This sign theory could thereby account for the ways men receive, know, and transmit religious knowledge, always mediated through faith.Marcia L. Colish demonstrates how the three theologians used different branches of the medieval trivium to express a common sign theory: Augustine stressed rhetoric, Anselm shifted to grammar (including grammatical proofs of God's existence), and Thomas Aquinas stressed dialectic. Dante, the one poet included in this study, used the Augustinian sign theory to develop a Christian poetics that culminates in the Divine Comedy. The author points out not only the commonality but also the sharp contrasts between these writers and shows the relation between their sign theories and the intellectual ferment of the times.When first published in 1968, The Mirror of Language was recognized as a pathfinding study. This completely revised edition incorporates the scholarship of the intervening years and reflects the refinements of the author's thought. Greater prominence is given to the role of Stoicism, and sharper attention is paid to some of the thinkers and movements surrounding the major thinkers treated. Concerns of semiotics, philosophy, and literary criticism are elucidated further. The original thesis, still controversial, is now even wider ranging and more salient to current intellectual debate.

After answering a classified ad placed by an import-export company looking for energetic young men willing to take on responsibilities for its African branches - no diploma required - Victor finds himself on The Will of God, a dilapidated boat heading into the heart of darkness as even Conrad couldn't have imagined.