University of Nebraska Press Livres

Breaking the Silence is the first comprehensive collection of literature from Liberia since before the nation's independence.

In Defense of Farmers illuminates anew the critical role farmers play in the future of agriculture and examines the social, economic, and environmental vulnerabilities of industrial agriculture, as well as its adaptations and evolution. Contextualizing the conversations about agriculture and rural societies within the disciplines of sociology, geography, economics, and anthropology, this volume addresses specific challenges farmers face in four Bolivia, Brazil, Canada, and the United States.By concentrating on countries with the most sophisticated production technologies capable of producing the largest quantities of grains, soybeans, and animal proteins in the world, this volume focuses attention on the farmers whose labors, decision-making, and risk-taking throw into relief the implications and limitations of our global industrial food system. The case studies here acknowledge the agency of farmers and offer ways forward in the direction of sustainable agriculture. The future of industrial agriculture depends on farmers’ decisions. 

Bodies Built for Game brings together poems, essays, and stories that challenge our traditional ideas of sport.

Earlier editions, published under title: The Killing of Chief Crazy Horse, are entered in bibliographic records under title.

This collection of essays brings together historians and policy scholars whose chapters offer insight into the ways the U.S. military manages the sexual behaviors, practices, and identities of its service members.

The story of a murder, a hanging, and the centuries-long search for justice for minorities under the American legal system.

The White Earth Nation of Anishinaabeg Natives ratified in 2009 a new constitution, the first indigenous democratic constitution, on a reservation in Minnesota. This volume includes the text of the Constitution of the White Earth Nation; an introduction by David E. Wilkins; an essay by Gerald Vizenor; and articles first published in Anishinaabeg Today by Jill Doerfler.

In colonial North and South America, print was only one way of communicating. Information in various forms flowed across the boundaries between indigenous groups and early imperial settlements. This book examines how textual and nontextual literatures interacted in colonial North and South America.

Folklorist and anthropologist Jason Baird Jackson and nine scholars of Yuchi (Euchee) Indian culture and history offer a revisionist and in-depth portrait of Yuchi community and society. By looking at the oral, historical, ethnographic, linguistic, and archaeological record, contributors illuminate Yuchi political circumstances and cultural identity.

An Incipient Mutiny covers 1892 to 1918: the events leading up to the U.S. Army pilots' revolt in 1915, as well as the resulting trials. This is a historical account of mismanagement, criminal fraud, and cover-up.