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The University of Nebraska Press extends the University’s mission of teaching, research, and service by promoting, publishing, and disseminating works of intellectual and cultural significance and enduring value.

The University of Nebraska Press, founded in 1941, is the largest university press between Chicago and California. It publishes scholarly and general-interest books (with more than 5,000 titles in print and an additional 150 new titles released each year) and journals (with more than 30 different journals published each year) in topics ranging from anthropology and literary criticism to history and sports. In addition to the Nebraska imprint, the Press also publishes books under Bison Books, The Backwaters Press, and Potomac Books imprints and publishes the books of The Jewish Publication Society. The Journals division produces the publications of Nebraska Extension, a division of the University of Nebraska’s Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.

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Murder in Manchuria

The True Story of a Jewish Virtuoso, Russian Fascists, a French Diplomat and a Japanese Spy in Occupied China

SCOTT D. SELIGMAN

In Murder in Manchuria, Scott D. Seligman explores an unsolved murder set amidst the chaos that reigned in China in the run-up to the Second World War. Against the backdrop of a three-country struggle for control of Manchuria – an area some called China’s “Wild East” – and an explosive mixture of nationalities, religions and ideologies, a young Jewish musician is kidnapped, tortured and ultimately murdered by disaffected White anti-Semitic Russians, secretly acting on the orders Japanese military overlords who covet his father’s wealth.

Part cold-case thriller and part social history, the true story of Semyon Kaspé is told in the context of the larger, improbable story of the exodus of the Jews of Harbin, who spooked and terrified by the events recounted in this book, soon departed from this part of the world. And like Midnight in Peking, the book solves a crime that has puzzled historians for decades.

Scott D. Seligman is a writer, historian, and genealogist.

October 2023

312 pages

True Crime

Rights: World English

October 2023

288 pages

Wine/History

Rights: World

The History and Identity of Spanish Wine KARL

J. TRYBUS

This book explores the history and identity of Spanish wine production from the nineteenth century until today. Nineteenth-century infestations of oidium mold and phylloxera aphids devastated French and Italian vineyards but didn’t extend to the Iberian Peninsula, which gave Spanish vintners the opportunity to increase their international sales. Once French and Italian wineries rebounded, however, Spanish wine producers had to up their game. Spain could not simply produce table wine but needed a quality product to compete with the supposedly superior French wines. Following the Spanish Civil War, the totalitarian Franco regime turned its attention to pain’s devastated agricultural sector, but the country’s wine industry rebounded only after World War II. In the postwar years, it rebranded itself to compete in a more integrated European and international marketplace with the creation of a new wine identity. As European integration continued, Spanish wine producers and the tourism industry worked together to promote the uniqueness of Spain and the quality of its wines.¡

Vino! explores the development of Spanish wine in the context of national and global events, tracing how the wine industry fared and ultimately prospered despite the civil war, regional concerns, foreign problems, and changing tastes.

Karl J. Trybus is an associate professor of history at Limestone University in South Carolina.

We Who Walk the Seven Ways

We Who Walk the Seven Ways is Terra Trevor’s memoir about seeking healing and finding belonging. After she endured a difficult loss, a circle of Native women elders embraced and guided Trevor (Cherokee, Lenape, Seneca, and German) through the seven cycles of life in Indigenous ways. Over three decades, these women lifted her from grief, instructed her in living, and showed her how to age from youth into beauty. With tender honesty, Trevor explores how every end is always a beginning. Her reflections on the deep power of women’s friendship, losing a child, reconciling complicated roots, and finding richness in every stage of life show that being an American Indian with a complex lineage is not about being part something, but about being part of something.

Terra Trevor is a professional writer with forty years of experience. She is a contributor to fifteen books and is the author of numerous essays and articles. Her first memoir is Pushing Up the Sky: A Mother's Story

May 2023

232 pages

Native Studies / Memoir

Rights: World