The University Press Of Kentucky imprint: 774 books
The War That Never Ends
New Perspectives on the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
More than three decades after the final withdrawal of American troops from Southeast Asia, the legacy of the Vietnam War continues to influence political, military, and cultural discourse. Journalists, politicians, scholars, pundits, and others have used the conflict to analyze each of America's subsequent...
Southern Farmers and Their Stories
Memory and Meaning in Oral History
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2006
The industrial expansion of the twentieth century brought with it a profound shift away from traditional agricultural modes and practices in the American South. The forces of economic modernity -- specialization, mechanization, and improved efficiency -- swept through southern farm communities, leaving...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Relations between China and Russia have evolved dramatically since their first diplomatic contact, particularly during the twentieth century. During the past decade China and Russia have made efforts to strengthen bilateral ties and improve cooperation on a number of diplomatic fronts. The People's...
Art for Equality
The NAACP's Cultural Campaign for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2014
The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) is the nation's oldest civil rights organization, having dedicated itself to the fight for racial equality since 1909. While the group helped achieve substantial victories in the courtroom, the struggle for civil rights extended...
Endkampf
Soldiers, Civilians, and the Death of the Third Reich
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2004
At the end of World War II, Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower, fearing that retreating Germans would consolidate large numbers of troops in an Alpine stronghold and from there conduct a protracted guerilla war, turned U.S. forces toward the heart of Franconia, ordering them to cut off and destroy German units...
Uneven Ground
Appalachia since 1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2009
Appalachia has played a complex and often contradictory role in the unfolding of American history. Created by urban journalists in the years following the Civil War, the idea of Appalachia provided a counterpoint to emerging definitions of progress. Early-twentieth-century critics of modernity saw...
The Unknown Dead
Civilians in the Battle of the Bulge
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2005
Traditional histories of the hard-fought Battle of the Bulge routinely include detailed lists of the casualties suffered by American, British, and German troops. Conspicuously lacking in most accounts, however, are references to the civilians in Belgium and Luxembourg who lost their lives in the same...
Inside Israel's Northern Command
The Yom Kippur War on the Syrian Border
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2016
On October 6, 1973, Israel's Northern Command was surprised by the thunder of cannon fire and the sight of dense, black smoke. A Syrian force of 1,400 tanks supported by artillery and air power had attacked from the north while the Egyptian military invaded the Sinai Peninsula in the south. Syria...
by John J. Pershing
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 25, 2013
Few American military figures are more revered than General John J. "Black Jack" Pershing (1860--1948), who is most famous for leading the American Expeditionary Forces in World War I. The only soldier besides George Washington to be promoted to the highest rank in the U.S. Army (General...
Voices from the Korean War
Personal Stories of American, Korean, and Chinese Soldiers
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2014
"In three days the number of so-called 'volunteers' reached over three hundred men. Very quickly they organized us into military units. Just like that I became a North Korean soldier and was on the way to some unknown place." -- from the book
South Korean Lee Young Ho was seventeen...
Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization
Citizens without States
Language: English
Release Date: August 30, 2011
Thanks to advances in international communication and travel, it has never been easier to connect with the rest of the world. As philosophers debate the consequences of globalization, cosmopolitanism promises to create a stronger global community. Cosmopolitanism in the Age of Globalization examines...
Landpower in the Long War
Projecting Force After 9/11
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
War and landpower's role in the twenty-first century is not just about military organizations, tactics, operations, and technology; it is also about strategy, policy, and social and political contexts. After fourteen years of war in the Middle East with dubious results, a diminished national reputation,...
My Brother Slaves
Friendship, Masculinity, and Resistance in the Antebellum South
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
Trapped in a world of brutal physical punishment and unremitting, back-breaking labor, Frederick Douglass mused that it was the friendships he shared with other enslaved men that carried him through his darkest days.
In this pioneering study, Sergio A. Lussana offers the first in-depth investigation...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: March 11, 2005
African American Fraternities and Sororities: The Legacy and the Vision explores the rich past and bright future of the nine Black Greek-Letter organizations that make up the National Pan-Hellenic Council. In the long tradition of African American benevolent and secret societies, intercollegiate African...