University of Nebraska Press

  • Reading “The Virginian” in the New West

    Although the origins of the western are as old as colonial westward expansion, it was Owen Wister’s novel The Virginian, published in 1902, that established most of the now-familiar conventions…

    $30.00
  • Reassessing Revitalization Movements

    The escalating political, economic, and cultural colonization of indigenous peoples over the past few centuries has spawned a multitude of revitalization movements. These movements promise liberation from domination by outsiders…

    $29.95
  • Reconciling Modernity

    Reconciling Modernity challenges the academic consensus of a simplistic Church-State reconciliation in postrevolutionary Mexico and reveals instead a cultural power struggle between entrenched elite factions, each intending to define Mexico’s…

    $24.95
  • Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens

    Featuring an array of tempting traditional Native recipes and no-nonsense practical advice about health and fitness, Recovering Our Ancestors’ Gardens, by the acclaimed Choctaw author and scholar Devon Abbott Mihesuah,…

    $26.95
  • Recovering Ruth

    The task of editing and annotating a nineteenth-century diary seemed straightforward at first, but as Robert Root assembled scattered fragments of lost history and immersed himself in background research, he…

    $30.00
  • Remember This!

    Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history…

    $32.00
  • Remember This!

    Situating Dakota language and oral tradition within the framework of decolonization, Remember This! Dakota Decolonization and the Eli Taylor Narratives makes a radical departure from other works in Indigenous history…

    $55.00
  • Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer

    Rock, Ghost, Willow, Deer is Allison Adelle Hedge Coke’s searching account of her life as a mixed-blood woman coming of age off reservation, yet deeply immersed in her Huron, Metis,…

    $34.95
  • Rockdale

    A celebrated triumph of historiography, Rockdale tells the story of the Industrial Revolution as it was experienced by the men, women, and children of the cotton-manufacturing town of Rockdale, Pennsylvania….

    $24.00
  • Ruth Benedict

    Considered one of the most influential and articulate figures in American anthropology, Ruth Benedict (1887–1948) was trained by Franz Boas and Elsie Clews Parsons and collaborated with the equally renowned…

    $60.00
  • Shadows on the Rock

    Shadows on the Rock, written after Willa Cather discovered Quebec City during an unplanned stay in 1928, is the second of her “Catholic” historical novels and reflects her fascination with…

    $80.00
  • Sounds of Defiance

    Language has frequently been at the center of discussions about Holocaust writing. Yet English, a primary language of neither the persecutors nor the victims, has generally been viewed as marginal…

    $24.95