Daniel J. Burge examines the belief in manifest destiny through the nineteenth century, focusing on contested moments in the United States' continental expansion to show that the ideology was not wildly popular, nor did it typically succeed in unifying expansionists.
U.S. Southern Identity and Citizenship in Nineteenth-Century South America
by Claire M. Wolnisty
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496237064
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
A Different Manifest Destiny traces the way southerners capitalized on Latin American connections to promote visions of modernity compatible with slave labor from the antebellum to the Civil War era.
Settler Colonialism and the Erosion of the Racial Frontier, 1877-1930
by Anthony W. Wood
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CA$40.95
ISBN: 9781496237484
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Black Montana argues that the state of Montana, in its capacity as a settler colony, worked to exclude the Black community that began to form within its borders after Reconstruction.
Adam Raider examines the signature seasons of the Minnesota North Stars from the late 1970s, when the club was at its worst, to its two surprising runs to the Stanley Cup Finals.
This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel.
This edited volume is situated at the intersection of cultural and political geographies that offers innovative reflections on power, colonialism, and anti-colonialism in contemporary Palestine and Israel.
Modern Jewish Theology is the first comprehensive collection of Jewish theological ideas from the pathbreaking nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, featuring selections from more than thirty of the most influential modern Jewish thinkers of the era.
Great Plains Forts introduces readers to the fortifications that have aided and impacted the lives of Indigenous peoples, fur trappers and traders, travelers, and military personnel on the Great Plains from precontact times to the present.
Reading the Contemporary Author brings together leading scholars in cultural theory, literary criticism, stylistics, narratology, comparative literature, and autobiography studies to interrogate how we read the contemporary author in public and cultural life, in life writing, and in literature.
This first biography of artist and carver Clitso Dedman presents the life and work of one of the most important but overlooked Navajo artists of his generation.
Sharing Our Knowledge brings together Native elders, tradition bearers, educators, cultural activists, anthropologists, linguists, historians, and museum professionals to explore the culture, history, and language of the Tlingit people of southeast Alaska and their coastal neighbors.
How Global Consumer Culture Shapes Our Perceptions of the Ice Continent
by Hanne Elliot Fønss Nielsen
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CA$81.95
ISBN: 9781496221216
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
Brand Antarctica analyses advertisements and related cultural products to identify common framings that have emerged in representations of Antarctica from the late nineteenth century to the present.
Of Love and War details the intimate relationships forged during wartime between women and U.S. servicemen stationed in the South Pacific, traces the fate of wartime marriages, and addresses consequences for the women and children left behind.
Printing and Education in Evangelical Colonialism, 1790-1850
by Stuart McKee
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CA$108.95
ISBN: 9781496237309
Pub Date: December 2023
Imprint: University of Nebraska Press
In Indigenous Enlightenment Stuart D. McKee examines the methodologies, tools, and processes that British and American educators developed to inculcate Indigenous cultures of reading and learning between 1790 and 1850.
Featuring hundreds of photos of the art on display in Nebraska's capitol building, Creative Genius reveals the meaning behind the artwork, the inspiration of the artists, and the history of the Nebraska capitol building.
