Author: Alan Gibson
Publisher: University Press Of Kansas
Keywords: political, thought, american, questions, founding, crucial, understanding
Number of Pages: 332
Published: 2007-04-27
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0700615199
ISBN-13: 9780700615193

Over the course of the last century, scholars have furiously debated four questions concerning the Founders and their act of creation. Were the Framers motivated by their economic interests? How democratic was the Framers’ Constitution? Should we interpret the Founding using philosophical or strictly historical approaches? What traditions of political thought were most important to the Framers? In Understanding the Founding: The Crucial Questions, Alan Gibson examines the preconceptions that scholars bring to these questions, explores the deepest sources of scholars’ disagreeme

Authors:Chester J. Pach, Elmo Richardson,
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: presidency, series, american, eisenhower, dwight
Number of Pages: 290
Published: 1991-04
List price: $15.95
ISBN-10: 0700604375
ISBN-13: 9780700604371

The focus of this revision is not how Eisenhower made policy, but how his decisions shaped American life in the 1950s and beyond. In this first post-revisionist study of the Eisenhower presidency, historian Chester Pach reaches beyond the issues the revisionists raised: Was Eisenhower in command of his own administration? Did he play a significant role in shaping foreign and domistic policy? Drawing on the wide range of works published within the past decade, Pach expands Elmo Richardson’s 1979 study by nearly one third. In addition to new material on national security policy, Pach de

Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: trail, santa
Number of Pages: 160
Published: 1986-11
List price: $9.95
ISBN-10: 0700603166
ISBN-13: 9780700603169

On the Santa Fe Trail, a collection of first-hand accounts by nineteenth-century overlanders, offers an intensely personal view of that arduous trip. In retrospect, the history of the Santa Fe Trail--crossing forests, prairies, rivers, and deserts--seems overlayed with the gloss of romance and chivalry. It is set off by heroic attitudes and picturesque adventures. And it has left a deep imprint on one region of the American West. The trail crossed parts of five modern states--Missouri, Kansas, Oklahoma, Colorado, and New Mexico. From the perspective of the overland trade, those five are for

Authors:Sherry Lee Linkon, John Russo,
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: youngstown, cultureamerica, memory, work, usa, steeltown
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 2003-06
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 0700612920
ISBN-13: 9780700612925

Once the symbol of a robust steel industry and blue-collar economy, Youngstown, Ohio, and its famous Jeannette Blast Furnace have become key icons in the tragic tale of American deindustrialization. Sherry Lee Linkon and John Russo examine the inevitable tension between those discordant visions, which continue to exert great power over Steeltown’s citizens as they struggle to redefine their lives. When "the Jenny" was shut down in 1978, 50,000 Youngstown workers lost their jobs, cutting the heart out of the local economy. Even as the community organized a nationally recognized effort

Author: William M. Hammond
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: war, military, media, vietnam, reporting
Number of Pages: 376
Published: 1999-12
List price: $19.95
ISBN-10: 0700609954
ISBN-13: 9780700609956

For many Americans during the Vietnam era, the war on the home front seemed nearly as wrenching and hardfought as the one in Southeast Asia. Its primary battlefield was the news media, its primary casualty the truth. But as William Hammond reveals, animosity between government and media wasn’t always the rule; what happened between the two during the Vietnam War was symptomatic of the nation’s experiences in general. As the "light at the end of the tunnel" dimmed, relations between them grew ever darker. Reporting Vietnam is an abridgement and updating of Hammond’s massive

Author: Alan Ray Gibson
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: american, foundations, republic, political, thought, origins, over, founding, guide, enduring, debates, interpreting
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2010-02-02
List price: $16.95
ISBN-10: 070061706X
ISBN-13: 9780700617067

Now widely regarded as the best available guide to the study of the Founding, the first edition of "Interpreting the Founding" provided summaries and analyses of the leading interpretive frameworks that have guided the study of the Founding since the publication of Charles Beard’s "An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution" in 1913. For this new edition, Gibson has revised and updated his study, including his comprehensive bibliography, and also added a new concluding chapter on the "Unionist Paradigm" or "Federalist Interpretation" of the Constitution. As in the original work, Gibs

Author: Denise J. Youngblood
Publisher: University Press of Kansas
Keywords: cinema, films, war, russian
Number of Pages: 319
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 0700614893
ISBN-13: 9780700614899

War movies have long been the most influential genre in Russian cinema, so much so that in the Soviet Union’s militaristic society, "cinema front" was used to describe the film industry itself. Denise J. Youngblood, an internationally recognized authority on Russian and Soviet cinema, provides the first comprehensive guide to this long-neglected genre. Youngblood explores more than 160 fiction films on Russian conflicts from World War I to Chechnya. These movies represent a wide range of cinematic styles and critical receptions. While not ignoring classic war films like Chapaev and Th