The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
by Maury Klein
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood...
Healing Appalachia
Sustainable Living through Appropriate Technology
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2007
Healing Appalachia is a practical guide for environmentally conscious residents of Appalachia and beyond. It is also the first book to apply "appropriate technology," or the most basic technology that can effectively achieve the desired result, to this specific region. Authors Al Fritsch...
Beeconomy
What Women and Bees Can Teach Us about Local Trade and the Global Market
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Queen bee. Worker bees. Busy as a bee. These phrases have shaped perceptions of women for centuries, but how did these stereotypes begin? Who are the women who keep bees and what can we learn from them? Beeconomy examines the fascinating evolution of the relationship between women and bees around...
The Violence of the Green Revolution
Third World Agriculture, Ecology, and Politics
Language: English
Release Date: January 22, 2016
The Green Revolution has been heralded as a political and technological achievement -- unprecedented in human history. Yet in the decades that have followed it, this supposedly nonviolent revolution has left lands ravaged by violence and ecological scarcity. A dedicated empiricist, Vandana Shiva takes...
Ranger
A Soldier's Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2017
On November 25, 1950, during one of the toughest battles of the Korean War, the US Eighth Army Ranger Company seized and held the strategically important Hill 205 overlooking the Chongchon River. Separated by more than a mile from the nearest friendly unit, fifty-one soldiers fought several hundred...
Yesterday's People
Life in Contemporary Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The distinctive way of life of the Southern Appalachian people has often been criticized, romanticized or derided, but rarely has it been understood. Yesterday's People, the fruit of many years' labor in the mountains, reveals the fears, anxieties, and hopes that underlie the mountaineers' way of...
Breaking the Magic Spell
Radical Theories of Folk and Fairy Tales
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2002
This revised, expanded, and updated edition of the 1979 landmark Breaking the Magic Spell examines the enduring power of fairy tales and the ways they invade our subjective world. In seven provocative essays, Zipes discusses the importance of investigating oral folk tales in their socio-political...
by Lee Trepanier, Claudia Franziska Brühwiler, Philip Roth
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2017
Philip Roth is widely acknowledged as one of the twentieth century's most prolific and acclaimed writers. Roth's first novel, Goodbye, Columbus (1959), received the National Book Award, and he followed this stunning debut with more than thirty books -- earning another National Book Award, two National...
Pola Negri
Hollywood's First Femme Fatale
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2014
Pola Negri (1897--1987) rose from an impoverished childhood in Warsaw, Poland, to become one of early Hollywood's greatest stars. After tuberculosis ended her career as a ballerina in 1912, she turned to acting and worked under legendary directors Max Reinhardt and Ernst Lubitsch in Germany. Negri...
by Eliza Haywood
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2005
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2005
The History of Jemmy and Jenny Jessamy, originally published as three volumes in 1753, is the last work by the prolific English novelist Eliza Haywood. Out of print since the early nineteenth century and never available in an edited and fully-annotated modern edition such as this, Haywood's novel...
The Agrarian Vision
Sustainability and Environmental Ethics
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
As industry and technology proliferate in modern society, sustainability has jumped to the forefront of contemporary political and environmental discussions. The balance between progress and the earth's ability to provide for its inhabitants grows increasingly precarious as we attempt to achieve sustainable...
Agrarianism and the Good Society
Land, Culture, Conflict, and Hope
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2007
Every society expresses its fundamental values and hopes in the ways it inhabits its landscapes. In this literate and wide-ranging exploration, Eric T. Freyfogle raises difficult questions about America's core values while illuminating the social origins of urban sprawl, dwindling wildlife habitats,...
by Paul Gilroy, Bernard Boxill, Margaret Kohn
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2018
Frederick Douglass (1818--1895) was a prolific writer and public speaker whose impact on American literature and history has been long studied by historians and literary critics. Yet as political theorists have focused on the legacies of such notables as W. E. B. Du Bois and Booker T. Washington,...
by John Sikes Jr., Benjamin B. Alexander, Michael L. Schroeder
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2017
Acclaimed author and Catholic thinker Flannery O'Connor (1925--1964) penned two novels, two collections of short stories, various essays, and numerous book reviews over the course of her life. Her work continues to fascinate, perplex, and inspire new generations of readers and poses important questions...