The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
The American South and the Vietnam War
Belligerence, Protest, and Agony in Dixie
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2015
To fully comprehend the Vietnam War, it is essential to understand the central role that southerners played in the nation's commitment to the war, in the conflict's duration, and in the fighting itself. President Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas and Secretary of State Dean Rusk of Georgia oversaw the dramatic...
Privileged and Confidential
The Secret History of the President's Intelligence Advisory Board
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Above the politics and ideological battles of Washington, D.C., is a committee that meets behind locked doors and leaves its paper trail in classified files. The President's Intelligence Advisory Board (PIAB) is one of the most secretive and potentially influential segments of the U.S. intelligence...
Royal Portraits in Hollywood
Filming the Lives of Queens
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Few lives provide as much history or drama as those of monarchs. Filmmakers from the silent era to onward have displayed a deep fascination with the lives of royalty and with queens in particular. Still, the question remains: what do these films really tell us about the women beneath the crowns?
Drawing...
Stages of Evil
Occultism in Western Theater and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2005
"The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. Early writers used theater to communicate human experiences and to display reverence for...
Golf and Philosophy
Lessons from the Links
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
In a game where players are expected to call their own penalties and scoring the least points leads to victory, decorum takes precedence over showmanship and philosophical questions become par for the course. Few other sports are as suited for ethical and metaphysical examination as golf. It is a...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2010
Increasing evidence of the irreparable damage humans have inflicted on the planet has caused many to adopt a defeatist attitude toward the future of the global environment. Local Environmental Movements: A Comparative Study of the United States and Japan analyzes how local groups in both Japan and...
Japan after 3/11
Global Perspectives on the Earthquake, Tsunami, and Fukushima Meltdown
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2016
On March 11, 2011, an underwater earthquake off the Pacific coast of Tohoku, Japan, triggered one of the most devastating tsunamis of a generation. The aftermath was overwhelming: communities were reduced to rubble, thousands of people were missing or dead, and relief organizations struggled to reach...
From the Farm to the Table
What All Americans Need to Know about Agriculture
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
As with other areas of human industry, it has been assumed that technological progress would improve all aspects of agriculture. Technology would increase both efficiency and yield, or so we thought. The directions taken by technology may have worked for a while, but the same technologies that give...
Dying to Eat
Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Food, Death, and the Afterlife
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was common practice to build channels from the tops of graves into the crypts themselves, and mourners would regularly pour offerings of food and drink into...
African American Fraternities and Sororities
The Legacy and the Vision
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2012
The first African American fraternities and sororities were established at the turn of the twentieth century to encourage leadership, racial pride, and academic excellence among black college students confronting the legacy of slavery and the indignities of Jim Crow segregation. With a strong presence...
Democracy in Central Asia
Competing Perspectives and Alternative Strategies
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2015
Promoting democracy has long been a priority of Western foreign policy. In practice, however, international attempts to expand representative forms of government have been inconsistent and are often perceived in the West to have been failures. The states of Central Asia, in particular, seem to be...
The Gray Ghost
A Seckatary Hawkins Mystery
Language: English
Release Date: October 4, 2016
Everyone thought Stoner's Boy was dead. Seckatary Hawkins and the other boys saw him take that terrible fall into the cliff cave abyss. But the masked marauder known as the Gray Ghost is back -- running the river and causing mischief... or is he?It's not altogether clear whether or not someone from the...
At the Decisive Point in the Sinai
Generalship in the Yom Kippur War
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 2017
The Yom Kippur War pitted Israel against Syria in the north and Egypt in the south in October 1973. Caught by surprise and surrounded by enemies, Israel relied on the flexibility and creative thinking of its senior field commanders. After Israeli forces halted the Egyptian troops on the Sinai Peninsula,...
Aid Under Fire
Nation Building and the Vietnam War
Language: English
Release Date: May 6, 2016
In the aftermath of World War II, as longstanding empires collapsed and former colonies struggled for independence, the United States employed new diplomatic tools to counter unprecedented challenges to its interests across the globe. Among the most important new foreign policy strategies was development...