The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Conversations with Legendary Television Stars
Interviews from the First Fifty Years
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2019
During television's first fifty years -- long before cable networks, Hulu, Netflix, and the like -- families would gather around their television sets nightly to watch entertaining shows such as I Love Lucy, Gunsmoke, M*A*S*H, The Beverly Hillbillies, Fantasy Island, and The Rockford Files. Many of...
by Robert V. Haynes
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2010
Originally inhabited by Native American tribes, territorial Mississippi has a complex history rife with fierce contention. Since 1540, when Hernando de Soto of Spain journeyed across the Atlantic and became the first European to stumble across its borders, the territory has been the center of passionate...
Why Air Forces Fail
The Anatomy of Defeat
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2016
Since the publication of the first edition of Why Air Forces Fail, the debate over airpower's role in military operations has only intensified. Here, eminent historians Robin Higham and Stephen J. Harris assemble a team of experts to add essential new details to their cautionary tale for current practitioners...
The Influence of Airpower upon History
Statesmanship, Diplomacy, and Foreign Policy since 1903
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2013
From early zeppelins, to the Luftwaffe and the Enola Gay, to the unmanned aerial vehicles of today, air power has long been regarded as an invaluable instrument of war. However, nations have employed aircraft for many other purposes as well; they provide security and surveillance, and they are vital...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document women's literary history. Featuring the work of Bobbie Ann Mason, Joyce Carol Oates, Alice Walker, Sharyn McCrumb, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Marge Piercy,...
Victorious Insurgencies
Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Insurgencies, especially in the form of guerrilla warfare, continue to erupt across many parts of the globe. Most of these rebellions fail, but Four Rebellions that Shaped Our World analyzes four twentieth-century conflicts in which the success of the insurgents permanently altered the global political...
Wendell Berry
Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2009
Essayist, social critic, poet, "mad farmer," novelist, teacher, and prophet: Wendell Berry has been called many things, but the broad sweep of his contemporary relevance and influence defies facile labels. With his unique perspective and far-reaching vision, Berry poses complex questions...
The Lotus Unleashed
The Buddhist Peace Movement in South Vietnam, 1964-1966
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2006
During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J. Topmiller explores South...
Explaining Traditions
Folk Behavior in Modern Culture
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2011
Why do humans hold onto traditions? Many pundits predicted that modernization and the rise of a mass culture would displace traditions, especially in America, but cultural practices still bear out the importance of rituals and customs in the development of identity, heritage, and community. In Explaining...
Harry Langdon
King of Silent Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2017
Among silent film comedians, three names stand out -- Charlie Chaplin, Buster Keaton, and Harold Lloyd -- but Harry Langdon indisputably deserves to sit among them as the fourth "king." In films such as The Strong Man (1926) and Long Pants (1927) , Langdon parlayed his pantomime talents,...
Appalachia in Regional Context
Place Matters
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2018
In an increasingly globalized world, place matters more than ever. Nowhere is that more true than in Appalachian studies -- a field which brings scholars, activists, artists, and citizens together around a region to contest misappropriations of resources and power and combat stereotypes of isolation...
Hitchcock Lost and Found
The Forgotten Films
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2015
Known as the celebrated director of critical and commercial successes such as Psycho (1960) and The Birds (1963), Alfred Hitchcock is famous for his distinctive visual style and signature motifs. While recent books and articles discussing his life and work focus on the production and philosophy of...
Nixon's Back Channel to Moscow
Confidential Diplomacy and Détente
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2017
Most Americans consider détente -- the reduction of tensions between the United States and the Soviet Union -- to be among the Nixon administration's most significant foreign policy successes. The diplomatic back channel that national security advisor Henry Kissinger established with Soviet ambassador...
Camp Colt to Desert Storm
The History of U.S. Armored Forces
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2013
The tank revolutionized the battlefield in World War II. In the years since, additional technological developments--including nuclear weapons, ballistic missiles, computer assisted firing, and satellite navigation--have continued to transform the face of combat. The only complete history of U.S. armed...