University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
The Cherokee Kid
Will Rogers, Tribal Identity, and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2015
Early in the twentieth century, the political humorist Will Rogers was arguably the most famous cowboy in America. And though most in his vast audience didn't know it, he was also the most famous Indian of his time. Those who know of Rogers's Cherokee heritage and upbringing tend to minimize its importance,...
Hitler's Police Battalions
Enforcing Racial War in the East
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
When the German Wehrmacht swarmed across Eastern Europe, an elite corps followed close at its heels. Along with the SS and Gestapo, the Ordnungspolizei, or Uniformed Police, played a central role in Nazi genocide that until now has been generally neglected by historians of the war.
Beginning...
The Passenger Cases and the Commerce Clause
Immigrants, Blacks, and States' Rights in Antebellum America
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2015
In 1849 Chief Justice Taney's Court delivered a 5-4 decision on the legal status of immigrants and free blacks under the federal commerce power. The closely divided decision, further emphasized by the fact there were eight opinions, played a part in the increasingly contested politics over growing...
Ambitious Politicians
The Implications of Career Ambition in Representative Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
"[T]hose people who must want to rule people are, ipso facto, those least suited to do it." This is how writer Douglas Adams neatly expressed the common view of political ambition. And yet, it’s hard to imagine any politician getting far without it. Ambitious Politicians brings a welcome...
Stalin's World War II Evacuations
Triumph and Troubles in Kirov
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2017
In the face of the German onslaught in World War II, the Soviets succeeded, as Molotov later recalled, “in relocating to the rear virtually an entire industrial country.” It was an official declared “one of the greatest feats of the war.” Focusing on the Kirov region, this book offers a different...
Diem's Final Failure
Prelude to America's War in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2017
Often portrayed as an inept and stubborn tyrant, South Vietnamese president Ngo Dinh Diem has long been the subject of much derision but little understanding. Philip Catton's penetrating study provides a much more complex portrait of Diem as both a devout patriot and a failed architect of modernization....
by Mervyn Edwin Roberts III
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2018
The Psychological War for Vietnam, 1960–1968, for the first time fully explores the most sustained, intensive use of psychological operations (PSYOP) in American history. In PSYOP, US military personnel use a variety of tactics—mostly audio and visual messages—to influence individuals and groups...
by Brian McAllister Linn
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2019
Society for Military History Distinguished Book Award
This year begins the centennial of the Philippine War, one of the most controversial and poorly understood events in American history. The war thrust the U.S. into the center of Pacific and Asian politics, with important and sometimes tragic...
Targeting the Third Reich
Air Intelligence and the Allied Bombing Campaigns
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2015
When large formations of Allied four-engine bombers finally flew over Europe, it marked the beginning of the end for the Third Reich. Their relentless hammering of Germany--totaling more than 1.4 million missions--took out oil refineries, industries, and transportation infrastructures vital to the...
Rush to Judgment
George W. Bush, The War on Terror, and His Critics
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
George W. Bush has been branded the worst president in history and forced to endure accusations that he abused his power while presiding over a "lawless" administration. Stephen Knott, however, contends that Bush has been treated unfairly, especially by presidential historians and the media....
Enduring Battle
American Soldiers in Three Wars, 1776-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2018
Throughout history, battlefields have placed a soldier's instinct for self-preservation in direct opposition to the army's insistence that he do his duty and put himself in harm's way. Enduring Battle looks beyond advances in weaponry to examine changes in warfare at the very personal level. Drawing...
Hoover's Secret War against Axis Spies
FBI Counterespionage during World War II
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
The world was at war, America precariously poised on the sidelines. But already a second secret war was well underway with the United States very much in the thick of it. While he fought on the home front to consolidate the FBI's intelligence gathering power, J. Edgar Hoover was conducting an all-out...
by Otis Graham
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2015
In 1891 Benjamin Harrison, the first president engaged in conservation, had to have this new area of public policy explained to him by members of the Boone and Crockett Club. This didn't take long, as he was only asked to sign a few papers setting aside federal timberland. But from such small moments...
Yamashita's Ghost
War Crimes, MacArthur's Justice, and Command Accountability
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2014
"I don't blame my executioners. I will pray God bless them."
So said General Tomoyuki Yamashita, Japan's most accomplished military commander, as he stood on the scaffold in Manila in 1946. His stoic dignity typified the man his U.S. Army defense lawyers had come to deeply respect...