University Press Of Kansas imprint: 325 books
by Glenn E. Torrey
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2014
Despite a strategically vulnerable position, an ill-prepared army, and questionable promises of military support from the Allied Powers, Romania intervened in World War I in August 1916. In return, it received the Allies' formal sanction for the annexation of the Romanian-inhabited regions of Austria-Hungary....
Congress
Protecting Individual Rights
Language: English
Release Date: February 29, 2016
When asked which branch of government protects citizens’ rights, we tend to think of the Supreme Court—stepping in to defend gay rights, for example, in the recent same-sex marriage case. But as constitutional scholar Louis Fisher reveals in his new book, this would be a mistake—and not just...
Marbury v. Madison
The Origins and Legacy of Judicial Review, Second Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2018
On the surface, the case itself seems a minor one at best. William Marbury, a last-minute judicial appointee of outgoing Federalist president John Adams, demanded redress from the Supreme Court when his commission was not delivered. But Chief Justice John Marshall could clearly see the danger his...
Race, Sex, and the Freedom to Marry
Loving v. Virginia
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2014
In 1958 Mildred Jeter and Richard Loving, two young lovers from Caroline County, Virginia, got married. Soon they were hauled out of their bedroom in the middle of the night and taken to jail. Their crime? Loving was white, Jeter was not, and in Virginia—as in twenty-three other states then—interracial...
The Russian Army in the Great War
The Eastern Front, 1914-1917
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2015
A full century later, our picture of World War I remains one of wholesale, pointless slaughter in the trenches of the Western front. Expanding our focus to the Eastern front, as David R. Stone does in this masterly work, fundamentally alters—and clarifies—that picture. A thorough, and thoroughly...
Traumatic Defeat
POWs, MIAs, and National Mythmaking
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
War breeds myths, especially those made up by the vanquished to explain or soften their loss. Occasionally the myths of the defeated center on prisoners of war (POWs) and those missing in action (MIAs) to justify the lost struggle, mute national guilt, and sometimes even reject the reality of defeat...
MacArthur's Coalition
US and Australian Military Operations in the Southwest Pacific Area, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
From 1942–1945 the Allies’ war in the Southwest Pacific was effectively a bilateral coalition between the United States and Australia under the command of General Douglas MacArthur. By charting the evolution of the military effectiveness of the US-Australian alliance, MacArthur’s Coalition puts...
The Wehrmacht's Last Stand
The German Campaigns of 1944-1945
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2017
By 1943, the war was lost, and most German officers knew it. Three quarters of a century later, the question persists: What kept the German army going in an increasingly hopeless situation? Where some historians have found explanations in the power of Hitler or the role of ideology, Robert M. Citino,...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 14, 2018
Why does the Civil War still speak to us so powerfully? If we listen to the most thoughtful, forceful, and passionate voices of that day we find that many of the questions at the heart of that conflict are also central to the very idea of America—and that many of them remain unresolved in our own...
Shiloh
Conquer or Perish
Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2014
A critical moment in the Civil War, the Battle of Shiloh has been the subject of many books. However, none has told the story of Shiloh as Timothy Smith does in this volume, the first comprehensive history of the two-day battle in April 1862—a battle so fluid and confusing that its true nature has...
Grant Invades Tennessee
The 1862 Battles for Forts Henry and Donelson
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2016
When General Ulysses S. Grant targeted Forts Henry and Donelson, he penetrated the Confederacy at one of its most vulnerable points, setting in motion events that would elevate his own status, demoralize the Confederate leadership and citizenry, and, significantly, tear the western Confederacy asunder....
by Daniel J. Hughes, Richard L. DiNardo
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
An in-depth, finely detailed portrait of the German Army from its greatest victory in 1871 to its final collapse in 1918, this volume offers the most comprehensive account ever given of one of the critical pillars of the German Empire—and a chief architect of the military and political realities...
Working the Navajo Way
Labor and Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2005
Gaspar Perez de Villagra Award
The Diné have been a pastoral people for as long as they can remember; but when livestock reductions in the New Deal era forced many into the labor market, some scholars felt that Navajo culture would inevitably decline. Although they lost a great deal with the...
Through the Maelstrom
A Red Army Soldier's War on the Eastern Front, 1942-1945
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2015
The monumental battles of World War II's Eastern Front—Moscow, Stalingrad, Kursk—are etched into the historical record. But there is another, hidden history of that war that has too often been ignored in official accounts.
Boris Gorbachevsky was a junior officer in the 31st Army who first...