The University Press Of Kentucky: 775 books
Land of Pure Vision
The Sacred Geography of Tibet and the Himalaya
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
The landscapes of Tibet, Nepal, and Bhutan are filled with holy places. Some are of natural origin -- summits, rivers and lakes, caves, or forest sanctuaries. Others are consecrated by religious practice -- shrines, temples, monasteries, or burial grounds. The holy sites of the Himalaya unite faith...
The Myth and Reality of German Warfare
Operational Thinking from Moltke the Elder to Heusinger
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Surrounded by potential adversaries, nineteenth-century Prussia and twentieth-century Germany faced the formidable prospect of multifront wars and wars of attrition. To counteract these threats, generations of general staff officers were educated in operational thinking, the main tenets of which were...
Jutland
World War I's Greatest Naval Battle
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
During the first two years of World War I, Germany struggled to overcome a crippling British blockade of its mercantile shipping lanes. With only sixteen dreadnought-class battleships compared to the renowned British Royal Navy's twenty-eight, the German High Seas Fleet stood little chance of winning...
Fighting Jim Crow in the County of Kings
The Congress of Racial Equality in Brooklyn
Language: English
Release Date: May 17, 2013
The Congress of Racial Equality (CORE) established a reputation as one of the most important civil rights organizations of the early 1960s. In the wake of the southern student sit-ins, CORE created new chapters all over the country, including one in Brooklyn, New York, which quickly established itself...
Passing the Test
Combat in Korea, April-June 1951
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2011
For U.S. and UN soldiers fighting the Korean War, the spring of 1951 was brutal. The troops faced a tough and determined foe under challenging conditions. The Chinese Spring Offensive of 1951 exemplified the hardships of the war, as the UN forces struggled with the Chinese troops over Line Kansas,...
Thomas C. Mann
President Johnson, the Cold War, and the Restructuring of Latin American Foreign Policy
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2018
Lyndon Johnson was often blamed for abandoning Kennedy's vision of development and progress in Latin America in favor of his own domestic concerns: anti-communism and economic stability. Johnson, along with his fellow Texan and chief adviser on inter-American affairs Thomas C. Mann, nonetheless offered...
My Life in Focus
A Photographer's Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet Set
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2016
When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of candid moments drew the attention of the film's star, Elizabeth Taylor, and prompted her to hire him as...
Southern History on Screen
Race and Rights, 1976-2016
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2018
Hollywood films have been influential in the portrayal and representation of race relations in the South and how African Americans are cinematically depicted in history, from The Birth of a Nation (1915) and Gone with the Wind (1939) to The Help (2011) and 12 Years a Slave (2013). With an ability...
Bougainville, 1943-1945
The Forgotten Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2013
" The 1943 invasion of Bougainville, largest and northernmost of the Solomon Islands, and the naval battles during the campaign for the island, contributed heavily to the defeat of the Japanese in the Pacific War. Here Harry Gailey presents the definitive account of the long and bitter fighting...
A War of Logistics
Parachutes and Porters in Indochina, 1945--1954
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2015
Following the French reoccupation of Indochina at the end of World War II, the pro-Communist Vietnamese nationalists, or Viet Minh, launched a grassroots insurgency that erupted into a full-fledged war in 1949. After nearly ten years of savage combat, the western world was stunned when Viet Minh forces...
Freedom to Offend
How New York Remade Movie Culture
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2007
In the postwar era, the lure of controversy sold movie tickets as much as the promise of entertainment did. In Freedom to Offend, Raymond J. Haberski Jr. investigates the movie culture that emerged as official censorship declined and details how the struggle to free the screen has influenced our contemporary...
The Origins of the Grand Alliance
Anglo-American Military Collaboration from the Panay Incident to Pearl Harbor
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
On December 12, 1937, Japanese aircraft sank the American gunboat Panay, which was anchored in the Yangtze River outside Nanjing, China. Although the Japanese apologized, the attack turned American public opinion against Japan, and President Roosevelt dispatched Captain Royal Ingersoll to London to...
by Yan Xu
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: January 23, 2019
Based on groundbreaking research, this book is the first of its kind to provide a close examination in English of the extensive imagery of the soldier figure in the war culture of early twentieth-century China. This study moves away from the traditional military history perspectives and focuses on...
by Rolf-Dieter Müller
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Since the end of World War II, Germans have struggled with the legacy of the Wehrmacht -- the unified armed forces mobilized by Adolf Hitler in 1935 to ensure the domination of the Third Reich in perpetuity. Historians have vigorously debated whether the Wehrmacht's atrocities represented a break...