The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Enemies to Allies
Cold War Germany and American Memory
Language: English
Release Date: December 9, 2015
At the close of World War II, the United States went from being allied with the Soviet Union against Germany to alignment with the Germans against the Soviet Union -- almost overnight. While many Americans came to perceive the German people as democrats standing firm with their Western allies on the...
Twilight of the Republic
Empire and Exceptionalism in the American Political Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
The uniqueness of America has been alternately celebrated and panned, emphasized and denied, for most of the country's history -- both by its own people and by visitors and observers from around the world. The idea of "American exceptionalism" tends to provoke strong feelings, but few are...
A Coat of Many Colors
Religion and Society along the Cape Fear River of North Carolina
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2006
While religious diversity is often considered a recent phenomenon in America, the Cape Fear region of southeastern North Carolina has been a diverse community since the area was first settled. Early on, the region and the port city of Wilmington were more urban than the rest of the state and thus...
by Anthony James Joes
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2007
Guerrilla insurgencies continue to rage across the globe, fueled by ethnic and religious conflict and the easy availability of weapons. At the same time, urban population centers in both industrialized and developing nations attract ever-increasing numbers of people, outstripping rural growth rates...
Vietnam Declassified
The CIA and Counterinsurgency
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2010
Vietnam Declassified is a detailed account of the CIA's effort to help South Vietnamese authorities win the loyalty of the Vietnamese peasantry and suppress the Viet Cong. Covering the CIA engagement from 1954 to mid-1972, it provides a thorough analysis of the agency and its partners. Retired CIA operative...
The Old Fashioned
An Essential Guide to the Original Whiskey Cocktail
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
American tavern owners caused a sensation in the late eighteenth century when they mixed sugar, water, bitters, and whiskey and served the drink with rooster feather stirrers. The modern version of this "original cocktail," widely known as the Old Fashioned, is a standard in any bartender's...
by Michael W. Austin, Raymond Angelo Belliotti, Scott F. Parker
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: June 21, 2012
It is said the champions of the ancient Olympic Games received a crown of olive leaves, symbolizing a divine blessing from Nike, the winged goddess of victory. While the mythology of the ancient games has come to exemplify the highest political, religious, community, and individual ideals of the time,...
The Dream Is Lost
Voting Rights and the Politics of Race in Richmond, Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2017
Once the capital of the Confederacy and the industrial hub of slave-based tobacco production, Richmond, Virginia has been largely overlooked in the context of twentieth century urban and political history. By the early 1960s, the city served as an important center for integrated politics, as African...
The Arthurdale Community School
Education and Reform in Depression Era Appalachia
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2016
The first of many homestead communities designed during the rollout of the New Deal, Arthurdale, West Virginia, was a bold experiment in progressive social planning. At the center of the settlement was the school, which was established to improve the curriculum offered to Appalachian students. Offering...
The Enemy in Our Hands
America's Treatment of Prisoners of War from the Revolution to the War on Terror
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Revelations of abuse at Baghdad's Abu Ghraib prison and the U.S. detention camp at Guantánamo Bay had repercussions extending beyond the worldwide media scandal that ensued. The controversy surrounding photos and descriptions of inhumane treatment of enemy prisoners of war, or EPWs, from the war...
Lessons in Leadership
My Life in the US Army from World War II to Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
John R. Deane Jr. (1919--2013) was born with all the advantages a man needs to succeed in a career in the US Army, and he capitalized on his many opportunities in spectacular fashion. The son of one of George C. Marshall's closest assistants, Deane graduated from West Point with the first class of...
Faith in Black Power
Religion, Race, and Resistance in Cairo, Illinois
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
In 1969, nineteen-year-old Robert Hunt was found dead in the Cairo, Illinois, police station. The white authorities ruled the death a suicide, but many members of the African American community believed that Hunt had been murdered -- a sentiment that sparked rebellions and protests across the city....
by Bernard Norling
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Following the Japanese invasion of the islands in 1942, North Luzon was the staging area for several Filipino-American guerrilla bands who sought to gather intelligence and to destroy enemy military installations or supplies. Bernard Norling focuses on the Cagayan-Apayao Forces, or CAF, commanded...
Totalitarianism on Screen
The Art and Politics of The Lives of Others
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
From its creation in 1950, to the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989, the German Democratic Republic's Ministry for State Security closely monitored its nation's citizens. Known as the Staatssicherheit or Stasi, this organization was regarded as one of the most repressive intelligence agencies in the...