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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

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Modern period, c 1500 onwards

Paperback. When tragedy touched the adult life Irene Kacandes had constructed for herself, she realized she had to confront her family's wartime past. Daddy's War brings new understanding to how trauma, like the revenge of Greek gods, can visit each generation and offers a model for breaking the cycle. Num Pages: 408 pages, 51 illustrations, 1 glossary, 6 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1DVG; 3JJH; BGH; HBJD; HBLW. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 28. Weight in Grams: 562.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803240056
ISBN
9780803240056
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. One of the most preposterous series of events in boxing history. Num Pages: 23 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBBWM; 3JJG; HBT; WSTB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 16. Weight in Grams: 304.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803240049
ISBN
9780803240049
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 85 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJ; AJB; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 22. Weight in Grams: 576.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803237858
ISBN
9780803237858
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 71.97

paperback. Recovers one woman's compelling history through a modern-day family's adventures into realms of ultimately timeless experiences Series: American Lives. Num Pages: 328 pages, 14 illustrations, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JH; BGH. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
328
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803236387
ISBN
9780803236387
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Provides a grounded, yet poignant, description of what it was like to grow up during the 1930s and 1940s on a sharecropper's farm Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 240 pages, 1 genealogy. BIC Classification: 1KBBFN; 3JJG; BM; HBJK; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 15. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803235366
ISBN
9780803235366
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. Details the health issues faced by the Corps of Discovery on the famous Lewis and Clark Expedition. Num Pages: 360 pages, 40 illustrations, 1 map, 2 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBBW; 3JH; MBX; WTLP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 153 x 22. Weight in Grams: 492.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2011
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803235113
ISBN
9780803235113
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 25.99
€ 24.33

Paperback. The story of army camp life in the very early West from the perspective of George Armstong Custer's wife Elizabeth Num Pages: 342 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, 1 appendix. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGHA; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 203 x 128 x 18. Weight in Grams: 382.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
342
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803234567
ISBN
9780803234567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 21.04

Hardback. Explores a critical period of space history when humans dared an expansive leap into the inner solar system. With an irreverent and engaging style, Jay Gallentine conveys the trials and triumphs of the people on the ground who conceived and engineered the missions that put robotic spacecraft on the heavenly bodies nearest our own. Series: Outward Odyssey: A People's History of Spaceflight. Num Pages: 496 pages, 52 photographs. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HBL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 39. Weight in Grams: 825.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803234468
ISBN
9780803234468
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 40.09

Paperback. The story of the West Point graduating class of 1941, who became front line officers in World War II Num Pages: 408 pages, 19 illustrations, 4 appendixes. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JJH; HBJK; HBWQ; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 217 x 142 x 22. Weight in Grams: 546.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Edition
Reprint
SKU
V9780803234147
ISBN
9780803234147
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Hardback. Examines the army occupying Arizona and New Mexico in the nineteenth-century, its officers, their wives, and the enlisted men as agents of an American empire Num Pages: 360 pages, 9 photographs, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1KBBWX; 1KBBWZ; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JWD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 36. Weight in Grams: 658.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803232525
ISBN
9780803232525
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 60.49

Paperback. Drawing almost exclusively from extensive primary accounts, this title presents a detailed case study of mental stress that is exceptional in the vast literature of the American Civil War. It offers sobering insight into the horrors that war wreaked upon one young man and illuminates the psychological aspect of the War Between the States. Num Pages: 208 pages, 24 illustrations, 4 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; HBWJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 153 x 11. Weight in Grams: 294.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803228245
ISBN
9780803228245
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. The second in a series of books exploring the phenomenon of the pronunciamiento, this volume examines case studies of individual and collective pronunciados in regions across Mexico. Top scholars examine the motivations of individual pronunciados and the reasons they succeeded or failed. Editor(s): Fowler, Will. Series: The Mexican Experience. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 maps, 3 tables, 1 chronology. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; JPWQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803225428
ISBN
9780803225428
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 42.99
€ 38.84

Paperback. Though America did not join rebellious Cuban forces against the Spanish empire until 1898, Frederick Funston (1865-1917) was so moved by a speech by Gen Daniel Sickles that he went to Cuba as a filibuster in the battle for Cuban independence. This title presents an account of his adventures in the Cuban Revolution and the Philippine-American war. Num Pages: 472 pages. BIC Classification: 1FMP; 1KBB; 1KJC; 3JJC; 3JJPG; BM; HBJF; HBJK; HBLW; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5487 x 3556 x 25. Weight in Grams: 545.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
472
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803222892
ISBN
9780803222892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

paperback. Coupled with problems such as speculation, food and clothing shortages, conscription, taxation, and a focus on the protection of local interests, desertion started as a military problem and spilled over into the civilian world. This book studies desertion in the Confederate army. It confronts a question: did desertion hurt the Confederacy? Num Pages: 346 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBWJ; JWD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 21. Weight in Grams: 567.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
346
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220805
ISBN
9780803220805
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.44

Paperback. By developing the concept of critical space, this title presents a fresh genealogy of twentieth-century American fiction. It argues that the radical American fiction of Jack London, Upton Sinclair, John Dos Passos, and Josephine Herbst re-imagines the spatial concerns of late nineteenth-century utopian American texts. Num Pages: 276 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 2AB; 3JJ; DSBH; DSK. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 16. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
276
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220768
ISBN
9780803220768
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 26.99
€ 25.38

Hardback. With full-colour photographs of over 587 quilts, this title offers a visual and tactile understanding of American culture and society, bridging the transition from traditional folk culture to the age of mass production and consumption. It shows us some of America's treasured material culture as it was pieced and stitched into place. Editor(s): Hanson, Marin F; Crews, Patricia Cox. Num Pages: 496 pages, 812 color photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; 3JJC; 3JJF; AFW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 7112 x 5487 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2246.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
496
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803220546
ISBN
9780803220546
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 102.17

paperback. Born in a small village in the Everglades in 1920, Buffalo Tiger grew up immersed in the traditional customs and language of the Miccosukees. As the modern world encroached on the Miccosukees and the Everglades shrank around them, he became an energetic and outspoken leader of the community. This is the biography of a tireless leader. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 208 pages, 14 photographs, map. BIC Classification: 1KBBFL; 3JJ; BGA; JFSL9. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5969 x 4039 x 13. Weight in Grams: 295.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218857
ISBN
9780803218857
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 17.63

Paperback. Documents the trading relationship in the eighteenth century between the Creek Indians and the Anglo-American peoples who settled in what is now the southeastern US. This book is the first to examine extensively the Creek side of this trade, especially the impact of commercial hunting on all aspects of Indian society. Series: Indians of the Southeast. Num Pages: 13 images; 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; JFSL9; KCZ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 20. Weight in Grams: 454.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780803218567
ISBN
9780803218567
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

Paperback. The occupation of Alcatraz Island by American Indians from November 20, 1969, through June 11, 1971, focused the attention of the world on Native Americans and helped develop pan-Indian activism. This work examines the takeover, and tells the story of those who organized the occupation and those who participated. Num Pages: 312 pages, 15 photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBWF; 3JJPK; HBJK; HBLW3; JFSL9; JPW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 431.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
312
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803217799
ISBN
9780803217799
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 20.99

Paperback. Robert Falcon Scott's 1901-4 expedition to the Antarctic was a landmark event in the history of Antarctic exploration, creating a sensation comparable to the Arctic efforts of the American Robert E Peary. This book studies the purpose, composition, and real accomplishments of the expedition of Robert Falcon Scott. Num Pages: 360 pages, 6 line drawings, 2 maps. BIC Classification: 1MTS; 3JJC; RGR; WTLP. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 230 x 156 x 20. Weight in Grams: 486.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
University of Nebraska Press United States
Number of pages
360
Condition
New
Edition
Illustrated
SKU
V9780803216396
ISBN
9780803216396
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 22.10

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