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.

Proud Kentuckian Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 186
ISBN: 9780813193274
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Description:
In his brief life John C. Breckinridge embraced the roles of lawyer, politician, statesman, soldier, exile, and businessman. An imposing and tactful man, he was exceptional for evoking both loyal devotion from his followers and generous respect from his opponents during a strife-torn era.
William Goebel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 152
ISBN: 9780813193434
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Illustrations: 1 b&w photo, 6 line drawings
Description:
The turbulent career of William Goebel (1856--1900), which culminated in assassination, marked an end-of-the-century struggle for political control of Kentucky. Although populism had become a strong force in the nation, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad and ex-Confederates still dominated the state and its Democratic party. Touting reforms and attaching the railroad monopoly, Goebel challenged this old order.
Women in Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 146
ISBN: 9780813193458
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos
Description:
In more than two hundred years of statehood, most Kentucky women have been invisible to history. Yet from the first settlement, women have been prominent contributors to Kentucky history and culture. Women in Kentucky tells the stories of the ordinary women of lonely frontier farms, the women both black and white whose lives were shaped by slavery, and the laboring women of the factories and shops in rising urban centers.
Radical Innocence Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 280
ISBN: 9780813193281
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Illustrations: illus
Description:
On October 30, 1947, the House Committee on Un-American Activities concluded the first round of hearings on the allege Communist infiltration of the motion picture industry. Hollywood was ordered to "clean its own house," and ten witnesses who had refused to answer questions about their membership in the Screen Writers Guild and the Communist party eventually received contempt citations. By 1950 the Hollywood Ten, as they quickly became known, were serving prison sentences ranging from six months to a year.
Kentucky in the Reconstruction Era Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 112
ISBN: 9780813193151
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Description:
Although Kentucky was not subject to reconstruction as such, the period of readjustment following the Civil War was a troubled one for the Commonwealth. Violence begun by guerillas continued for years. In addition, white "Regulators" tried to cow the new freedmen and keep them in a perpetual state of fearful submission that would assure the agricultural labor supply.
Play of a Fiddle Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 264
ISBN: 9780813193267
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Description:
Play of a Fiddle gives voice to people who steadfastly hold to and build on the folk traditions of their ancestors. While encountering the influences of an increasingly overwhelming popular culture, the men and women in this book follow age-old patterns of folklife and custom, making their own music and dance in celebration of them. Shedding new light on a region that maintains ties to the cultural identities of its earliest European and African inhabitants, Gerald Milnes shows how folk music in West Virginia borrowed rhythmic, melodic, and vocal forms from the Celtic, Anglo, Germanic, and African traditions.
Medicine in Kentucky Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 114
ISBN: 9780813193229
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Description:
In this informed and entertaining essay, John H. Ellis describes the efforts of physicians and laymen to keep illness at bay during Kentucky's first 200 years. Medicine in Kentucky is part of the Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf, "a celebration of two centuries of the history and culture of The Commonwealth.
A Brittle Sword Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 138
ISBN: 9780813192772
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Illustrations: 4 b&w photos, 2 maps
Description:
As an outpost of the advancing frontier, Kentucky played a crucial military role. Kentucky's state militia, which, under federal law, enrolled every able-bodied male citizen aged eighteen to forty-five, helped to secure the West for white settlers during the bloody Indian wars. Its members suffered defeat, capture, and death in the War of 1812, but also contributed to victories in the battles of the Thames and New Orleans.
Becoming Bourgeois Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 308
ISBN: 9780813192710
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: New Directions in Southern History
Description:
Becoming Bourgeois is the first study to focus on what historians have come to call the "middling sort," the economic group falling between yeoman farmers and the planter class that dominated the antebellum South. At a time when Southerners rarely traveled far from their homes, these merchants annually ventured forth on buying junkets to northern cities. The southern merchant community promoted the kind of aggressive business practices that proponents of the "New South" would later claim as their own.
Bluegrass Cavalcade Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 398
ISBN: 9780813192758
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Description:
Kentucky history centers on the Bluegrass; this is not to say that the rest of Kentucky does not have a rich story, but chronologically, the beginning was here. Too, Bluegrass history can scarcely be separated from the rest of the state. Boonesboro and Harrodsburg, Henry Clay and Elizabeth Madox Roberts are the cherished possessions of all Kentuckians.
Boswell Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813192765
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Description:
These eleven original essays by well-known eighteenth-century scholars, five of them editors of James Boswell's journal or letters, commemorate the bicentenary of Boswell's death on May 19, 1795. The volume illuminates both the life and the work of one of the most important literary figures of the age and contributes significantly to the scholarship on this rich period.In the introduction, Irma S.
Chicago's White City of 1893 Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 400
ISBN: 9780813101408
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Illustrations: 31 b&w photos, 1 map, 2 line drawings
Description:
In 1893, the year that marked the four hundredth anniversary of the landing of Columbus in the New World, Chicago was host to an exposition to mark the occasion. Although the World's Columbian Exposition was the fifteenth world's fair, it was of vastly greater scope than any of its predecessors. Chicago created a veritable new city.
Cotton Fields No More Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 296
ISBN: 9780813101606
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: New Perspectives on the South
Illustrations: 16 b&w photos, 6 tables
Description:
No general history of southern farming since the end of slavery has been published until now. For the first time, Gilbert C. Fite has drawn together the many threads that make up commercial agricultural development in the eleven states of the old Confederacy, to explain why agricultural change was so slow in the South, and then to show how the agents of change worked after 1933 to destroy the old and produce a new agriculture.
Dark Prisms Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 208
ISBN: 9780813192864
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Studies in Romance Languages
Description:
The mythological, folkloric, and religious beliefs of Western culture have resulted in a long and ongoing history of esoteric themes in theatre from the Middle Ages to the present in Spain and the America. Now Robert Lima, a noted comparatist, brings to bear on this material his wide knowledge of the world of the occult. Lima defines the terms "occult" and "occultism" broadly to embrace the many ways in which humans have sought to fathom a secret knowledge held to be accessible only through such supernatural agencies as alchemy, angelology, asceticism, astrology, demonolatry, divination, ecstasy, magic, necromancy, possession, Santeria, séances, voudoun, and witchcraft.
Dear Alben Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 136
ISBN: 9780813192895
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Series: Kentucky Bicentennial Bookshelf
Illustrations: 8 b&w photos
Description:
Alben Barkley's final words before he was struck down by a heart attack summed up his long, eventful life: "I have served my country and my people for half a century as a Democrat. I went to the House of Representatives in 1913 and served fourteen years. I was a junior Congressman, then I became a senior Congressman, then I went to the Senate and became a junior Senator, and then I became a senior Senator; and then a Majority Leader in the Senate, and then Vice President of the United States, and now I am back again as a junior Senator.
Divided Counsel Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
ISBN: 9780813192925
Pub Date: 11 Nov 2009
Illustrations: illus
Description:
In the long controversy over the failure of the United States to extend early recognition to the People's Republic of China, the story of American efforts to maintain an official presence in the Communist-controlled areas of China until 1950 has been largely neglected. Moreover, the often bitter partisan strife over Sino-American relations during this period has obscured important facts or so distorted them that making an independent judgment is difficult indeed. In this book, Edwin Martin seeks to set the confused record straight by providing a well-documented, detailed account of American responses to the policies and actions of the victorious Chinese Communists from their capture of Mukden in November 1948 to their intervention in the Korean War and rejection of U.