University Press of Kentucky

University Press of Kentucky has a dual mission—the publication of academic books of high scholarly merit in a variety of fields and the publication of significant books about the history and culture of Kentucky, the Ohio Valley region, the Upper South, and Appalachia. The Press is the statewide nonprofit scholarly publisher for the Commonwealth of Kentucky, serving all Kentucky state-sponsored institutions of higher learning as well as seven private colleges and Kentucky’s two major historical societies.

The Kentucky Mint Julep Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 96
ISBN: 9780813122755
Pub Date: 11 Apr 2003
Illustrations: photos, map
Description:
The ultimate guide to the quintessential Derby drink! A simple concoction -- bourbon, mint, sugar, and water -- the mint julep is legendary. Few people know its history and even fewer know how to properly mix this classic cocktail.
God Bless America Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813122564
Pub Date: 28 Mar 2003
Illustrations: photos
Description:
After Pearl Harbor, Tin Pan Alley songwriters rushed to write the Great American War Song -- an "Over There" for World War II. The most popular songs, however, continued to be romantic ballads, escapist tunes, or novelty songs. To remedy the situation, the federal government created the National Wartime Music Committee, an advisory group of the Office of War Information (OWI), which outlined "proper" war songs, along with tips on how and what to write.
Dulcimer Maker Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 216
ISBN: 9780813190518
Pub Date: 14 Mar 2003
Illustrations: photos, illus
Description:
Dulcimer making has long been considered an art. The exquisite design is also functional, and the best instruments sound as beautiful as they look. Homer Ledford, a legend among dulcimer makers, is known for his innovative but traditional craftsmanship.
Agrarian Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813190525
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2003
Illustrations: illus
Description:
For subsistence farmers in eastern Kentucky, wealthy horse owners in the central Bluegrass, and tobacco growers in Western Kentucky, land was, and continues to be, one of the commonwealth's greatest sources of economic growth. It is also a source of nostalgia for a people devoted to tradition, a characteristic that has significantly influenced Kentucky's culture, sometimes to the detriment of education and development.As timely now as when it was first published, Thomas D.
Conversations with Kentucky Writers Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 408
ISBN: 9780813190433
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2003
Series: Kentucky Remembered: An Oral History Series
Illustrations: photos
Description:
Kentucky and Kentuckians are full of stories, which may be why so many present-day writers have Kentucky roots. Whether they left and returned, like Wendell Berry and Bobbie Ann Mason, or adopted Kentucky as home, like James Still and Jim Wayne Miller, or grew up and left for good, like Michael Dorris and Barbara Kingsolver, they have one connection: Kentucky has influenced their writing and their lives. L.
The Three Kentucky Presidents Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 88
ISBN: 9780813190532
Pub Date: 01 Mar 2003
Illustrations: illus
Description:
The three Kentucky presidents -- Abraham Lincoln, Zachary Taylor, and Jefferson Davis -- were profoundly shaped by their experiences in Kentucky, poised as it was on the border between the North and the South, the East and the Western Frontier. Holman Hamilton asserts that these leaders were personally and politically influenced by their connections to the state. The contrasting traits of western frontiersman and southern aristocrat illuminate Kentucky's heritage and affected Taylor, Lincoln, and Davis, presidents during one of America's most troubled eras.
While Father Is Away Cover

While Father Is Away

The Civil War Letters of William H. Bradbury
Format: 
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780813122595
Pub Date: 28 Feb 2003
Illustrations: illus, map
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780813156200
Pub Date: 15 Jul 2014
Illustrations: illus, map
Description:
While Father is Away reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a rare window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war.Yorkshire attorney turned Union volunteer soldier Bradbury became a "privileged private" with extraordinary access to powerful Union generals including Daniel Butterfield, future president Benjamin Harrison, and Clinton B.
Craftsman of the Cumberlands Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 304
ISBN: 9780813190389
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2003
Illustrations: photos, illus
Description:
Why do people consider aesthetic qualities as well as utilitarian ones in the making of everyday objects? Why do they maintain traditions? What is the nature of their creative process?
Bougainville, 1943-1945 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813190471
Pub Date: 14 Feb 2003
Illustrations: illus, maps
Description:
" 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 that took place on that now all-but-forgotten island. A maze of swamps, rivers, and rugged hills overgrown with jungle, Bougainville afforded the Allies a strategic site for airbases from which to attack the Japanese bastion of Rabaul.
Amadis of Gaul, Books I and II Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 688
ISBN: 9780813190341
Pub Date: 10 Jan 2003
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Description:
In the long history of European prose fiction, few works have been more influential and more popular than the romance of chivalry Amadis of Gaul. Although its original author is unknown, it was probably written during the early fourteenth century. The first great bestseller of the age of printing, Amadis of Gaul was translated into dozens of languages and spawned sequels and imitators over the centuries.
History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 600
ISBN: 9780813122632
Pub Date: 10 Jan 2003
Illustrations: photos
Description:
After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transcontinental travel. Through two world wars, federal government control, internal crises, external dissension, the Depression, and the great Ohio River flood of 1937, the L&N Railroad remained one of the country's most efficient lines. It is a southern institution and a railroad buff's dream.
Land Fever Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 248
ISBN: 9780813190679
Pub Date: 10 Jan 2003
Description:
James Marshall's illuminating study of dispossession on the frontier begins with the autobiography of a pioneer who met repeated failure. Writing in his old age, Omar Morse (1824-1901) looked back on the successive loss of three homesteads in mid-nineteenth century Wisconsin and Minnesota. The frontier as Morse encountered it was a place of runaway land speculation, of high railroad freight rates, of mortgage foreclosures, and of political and economic chaos.
The Lotus Unleashed Cover The Lotus Unleashed Cover
Format: 
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813122601
Pub Date: 27 Dec 2002
Pages: 232
ISBN: 9780813191669
Pub Date: 27 Dec 2002
Description:
During the Vietnam War, Vietnamese Buddhist peace activists made extraordinary sacrifices -- including self-immolation -- to try to end the fighting. They hoped to establish a neutralist government that would broker peace with the Communists and expel the Americans. Robert J.
Home and Beyond Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 426
ISBN: 9780813190198
Pub Date: 01 Dec 2002
Description:
With an introduction by Wade HallMorris Grubbs has sifted through vintage classics, little-known gems, and stunning debuts to assemble this collection of forty stories by popular and critically acclaimed writers. In subtle and profound ways they challenge and overturn accepted stereotypes about the land their authors call home, whether by birth or by choice. Kentucky writers have produced some of the finest short stories published in the last fifty years, much of which focuses on the tension between the comforts of community and the siren-like lure of the outside world.
Brigadier General John D. Imboden Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 392
ISBN: 9780813122663
Pub Date: 29 Nov 2002
Illustrations: photos, maps
Description:
" John D. Imboden is an important but often overlooked figure in Civil War history. With only limited militia training, the Virginia lawyer and politician rose to the rank of brigadier general in the Confederate Army and commanded the Shenandoah Valley District, which had been created for Stonewall Jackson.
To Reach the High Frontier Cover
Format: Hardback
Pages: 528
ISBN: 9780813122458
Pub Date: 15 Nov 2002
Illustrations: photos, figures
Description:
Access -- no single word better describes the primary concern of the exploration and development of space. Every participant in space activities -- civil, military, scientific, or commercial -- needs affordable, reliable, frequent, and flexible access to space. To Reach the High Frontier details the histories of the various space access vehicles developed in the United States since the birth of the space age in 1957.