University Press Of Kansas: 325 books
Secret Messages
Codebreaking and American Diplomacy, 1930-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2000
To defeat your enemies you must know them well. In wartime, however, enemy codemakers make that task much more difficult. If you cannot break their codes and read their messages, you may discover too late the enemy's intentions. That's why codebreakers were considered such a crucial weapon during...
The Pope's Soldiers
A Military History of the Modern Vatican
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2016
Most students of history assume that the age of the "warlord popes" ended with the Renaissance, but, long after the victory of Catholic powers at the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, the Papacy continued to entangle itself in martial affairs. The Vatican participated in six major military campaigns...
Red, White, and Blue
A Critical Analysis of Constitutional Law
Language: English
Release Date: July 12, 2015
The first paperback edition of a classic of American constitutional theory. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I Professor Tushnet appraises the five major competing "grand theories" of constitutional law and interpretation, and, argues that none of them satisfy their own requirements...
by Stephen Daniels, Joanne Martin
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
Tort reform is a favorite cause for many business leaders and right-leaning politicians, who contend that out-of-control lawsuits throttle growth and inflate costs, particularly in healthcare. Less is said about how such reforms might affect the ability of individuals to recover damages for injuries...
Parchment Barriers
Political Polarization and the Limits of Constitutional Order
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2018
The United States has become ever more deeply entrenched in powerful, rival, partisan camps, and its citizens more sharply separated along ideological lines. The authors of this volume, scholars of political science, economics, and law, examine the relation between our present-day polarization and...
Irreparable Harm
A Firsthand Account of How One Agent Took on the CIA in an Epic Battle Over Free Speech
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2001
Among the last CIA agents airlifted from Saigon in the waning moments of the Vietnam War, Frank Snepp returned to headquarters determined to secure help for the Vietnamese left behind by an Agency eager to cut its losses. What he received instead was a cold shoulder from a CIA that in 1975 was already...
The Crusade for Equality in the Workplace
The Griggs v. Duke Power Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2014
On March 8, 1971, the Supreme Court of the United States decided a case, Griggs v. Duke Power Co., brought by thirteen African American employees who worked as common laborers and janitors at one of Duke Power's facilities. The decision, in plaintiffs' favor, marked a profound and enduring challenge...
The New Americans?
Immigration, Protest, and the Politics of Latino Identity
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2017
In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that these unprecedented protests marked a turning point for the Latino population—a point that is even more salient ten years...
by Charles Jean Jacques Joseph Ardant du Picq
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2017
A classic of military thought that merits a place alongside the works of Clausewitz and Sun Tzu, Battle Studies was first published in Paris ten years after the death of its author, French army officer Charles Ardant du Picq (1821–1870). Updated to provide a more complete and accurate biographical...
The Search for Domestic Bliss
Marriage and Family Counseling in 20th-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2014
Why are Americans so bad at marriage? It's certainly not for lack of trying. By the early 21st century Americans were spending billions on marriage and family counseling, seeking advice and guidance from some 50,000 experts. And yet, the divorce rate suggests that all of this therapeutic intervention...
God against the Revolution
The Loyalist Clergy's Case against the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2018
Because, it’s said, history is written by the victors, we know plenty about the Patriots’ cause in the American Revolution. But what about the perhaps one-third of the population who opposed independence? They too were Americans who loved the land they lived in, but their position is largely missing...
Kesselring's Last Battle
War Crimes Trials and Cold War Politics, 1945-1960
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
In 1947 German Field Marshal Albert Kesselring was tried and convicted of war crimes committed during World War II. He was held responsible for his troops having executed nearly 9,000 Italian citizens—women, children, elderly men—in retaliation for partisan attacks. His conviction, however, created...
Democratic Religion from Locke to Obama
Faith and the Civic Life of Democracy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2016
Debating or making speeches, American politicians invariably cite tenets of Christian faith—even as they unfailingly defend the liberal principles of tolerance and religious neutrality that underpin a pluralistic democracy. How these seemingly contradictory impulses can coexist—and whether this...
African American Environmental Thought
Foundations
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2019
Choice Outstanding Book
African American intellectual thought has long provided a touchstone for national politics and civil rights, but, as Kimberly Smith reveals, it also has much to say about our relationship to nature. In this first single-authored book to link African American and environmental...