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Felipe Valencia examines the construction of lyric as a melancholy and masculinist discourse that sings of and perpetrates symbolic violence against the feminine and the female beloved in key texts of Spanish poetry from 1580 to 1620.

Asphalt: A History demonstrates that roads, parking lots, and civilian and military runways constitute the central arteries of our environment. Kenneth O'Reilly argues that although asphalt creates our environment, it eventually threatens it.

Hostages of Empire is a social, cultural, and political history of the colonial prisoners of war.

Indian Soldiers in World War I follows the experiences of Indian soldiers deployed to battlefields in Europe, Africa, and the Middle East during World War I; the contested representations British and Indian audiences drew from the soldiers' wartime experiences; and the impacts these had on the British Empire's racial politics.

Pseudo-Memoir explores the return in the twentieth century of a genre that had largely gone out of fashion after the novel came of age in Europe in the eighteenth century.

Presents maps and commentary about a variety of physiographic, climatological, demographic, political, social, economic, cultural, and other features of Nebraska.

Everybody’s Jonesin’ for Something takes an imagistic leap through the darker side of our search for life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, perusing what we lose, what we leave behind, and what strange beauty we uncover.

The Life of the Afterlife in the Big Sky State is a groundbreaking history of death in Montana. It offers a unique, reflective, and sensitive perspective on the evolution of customs and burial grounds.

Black Snake tells the story of the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline through the activism of four women from Standing Rock and Fort Berthold Reservations.

In this visionary sequel to Castro's Curveball, former Minor League catcher Billy Bryan finds himself back in Havana in 2016 with a small film role. He soon realizes that this place and his past remain as star-crossed as when he played winter ball in the Cuban capital decades before.

Beloved Nebraska folklorist Roger Welsch explores our passion and love for dogs.

Your Crib, My Qibla interrogates loss, the death of a child, and a father's pursuit of language able to articulate grief.

Part memoir, part travelogue, Get Thee to a Bakery explores both humorous and harrowing aspects of growing older and making sense of social, technological, and environmental change.

Set in central rural Montana in 1925, Waltzing Montana follows midwife Mildred Harrington as she grapples with feelings for her old sweetheart while also trying to overcome the horrific abuse that she suffered as a young teenager.

The Leave-Takers is a twenty-first-century American love story and a tale of internal migration to the Great Plains.

Gregg Lambert offers an unprecedented inquiry into the evolution of Deleuze's hopes for the revolutionary goals of minor literature and the related notion of the missing people in the conjuncture of contemporary critical theory.

Dinty W. Moore asks: What would the world be like if eternal damnation was not hanging constantly over our sheepish heads? Why do we persist in believing something that only makes us miserable?

Ten years after the original publication of Good Neighbors, Bad Times, an unexpected letter leads Mimi Schwartz to revisit the story of her father's German village during the Third Reich.

Winner of the Sillerman First Book Prize for African Poetry, The Rinehart Frames questions the boundaries of diaspora and narrative through a tethering of voices and forms that infringe upon monolithic categorizations of Blackness and what can be intersected with it.

The biography of Bobby Jones, the only golfer to win the Grand Slam and a key figure in America's Golden Age of Sports.

Here is the life story of Horace Stoneham, who inherited the New York Giants Major League Baseball franchise in 1936 and owned and operated the organization until 1976.

Geographic Personas explores how writers, dancers, actors, imposters, and con artists were influenced by three transformative factors-population growth, technology, and literary realism-that contributed to their personal reinvention during the late nineteenth and twentieth centuries in the American West.

This anthology features work by and about queer, trans, and gender nonconforming Latinx communities, including immigrants and social dissidents who reflect on and write about diaspora and migratory movements while navigating geographical and embodied spaces in the United States.

Heroic Hearts examines how young women in nineteenth-century France, authorized by a widespread cultural discourse that privileged individual authority over domesticity and marriage, sought to change the world.

Ashley M. Williard argues that early Caribbean reconstructions of masculinity and femininity sustained occupation, slavery, and nascent ideas of race.

Fruit, Fiber, and Fire explores the industrialization of apples, cotton, and chile to illustrate how agriculture has spurred migrations of plants and people and in turn shaped the culture of twentieth-century New Mexico.

Kathryn Cornell Dolan examines the role cattle played in narratives throughout the nineteenth century to show how the struggles within U.S. food culture mapped onto society's larger struggles with colonization, environmentalism, U.S. identity, ethnicity, and industrialization.

Daniel Patterson and Eric Russell present a groundbreaking case for considering John James Audubon's quadruped essays as worthy of literary analysis and at once redefine the role of John Bachman, the perpetually overlooked coauthor of the essays.