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The Lotus Unleashed - The Buddhist Peace Movement In South Vietnam, 1964-1966

by Robert J. Topmiller

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 In Contemporary Chinese Political Thought: Debates and Perspectives, Fred Dallmayr and Zhao Tingyang bring together leading Chinese intellectuals to debate the main political ideas shaping the rapidly changing nation.
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America Overcommitted - United States National Interests In The 1980s

by Donald E. Nuechterlein

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 Is the United States seriously overcommitted in its worldwide relationships? This book provides the answers to that question. It will be essential reading for makers of American foreign and national security policy, for journalists reporting on international affairs, for scholars seeking better ways to analyze United States foreign policy objectives, and for informed citizens who ask why the United States is involved militarily in all parts of the world.
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United States National Interests In A Changing World

by Donald E. Nuechterlein

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 Although the term national interest has long been used in reference to the foreign policy goals of nations, there has been no generally agreed upon definition of the concept; as a result, Donald E. Nuechterlein contends, there has been a tendency for foreign policy to be determined by institutional prejudice and past policy rather than by a systematic assessment of national interests.
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The Clays Of Alabama - A Planter-Lawyer-Politician Family

by Ruth Ketring Nuermberger

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 Of unique interest to the student of nineteenth century America is this account of the Alabama Clays, who in their private life were typical of the slaveholding aristocracy of the old South, but as lawyer-politicians played significant roles in state and national politics, in the development of the Democratic party, and in the affairs of the Confederacy.
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Tara'S Healing

by Janice Holt Giles

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 This is the story of Tara Cochrane, who had been Hod's captain during World War II. On Piney Ridge, Tara meets Jory, a minister of the Church of the Brethren of Christ, a sect popularly know as the White Caps because of the little caps worn by the women members.
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The United States And Japan In The Postwar World

by Akira Iriye

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 A major phenomenon in the post-World War II world is the rise of Japan as a leading international economic and industrial power. This advance began with American aid in rebuilding the nation after the war, but it has now seen Japan rival and even outstrip the United States on several fronts.
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The Heart Of The Hills

by John Fox

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 The U.S. Cavalry, which began in the nineteenth century as little more than a mounted reconnaissance and harrying force, underwent intense growing pains with the rapid technological developments of the twentieth century. From its tentative beginnings duri
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Religion And Politics In The Early Republic - Jasper Adams And The Church-State Debate

by Daniel L. Dreisbach e J Adams

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 Dreisbach compellingly argues that the issues in our current debate were framed in earlier centuries by documents crucial to an understanding of church-state relations, the First Amendment, and our present concern with the constitutional role of religion in American public life.
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Appalachia'S Path To Dependency - Rethinking A Region'S Economic History, 1730-1940

by Paul Salstrom

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 In Appalachia's Path to Dependency, Paul Salstrom examines the evolution of economic life over time in southern Appalachia. Covering Appalachia's economic history from early white settlement to the end of the New Deal, this work is not simply an economic interpretation but draws as well on other areas of history.
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Fighter Pilot - The First American Ace Of World War Ii

by William R. Dunn

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 Written from first hand experience, Dun conveys a fighter pilot's experience of war. Both a story and a historical document.
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The Wpa Guide To Kentucky

by F. Kevin Simon, Federal Writers' Project Of The Work Projects Administration For The S e Federal Writers' Project Of The Work Projects Administration For The State Of Kentucky.

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 While it includes brief essays describing Kentucky's history, folklore, education, industry, geology, ethnic mix and other topics, the most remarkable feature is the driving tours that are as accurate today as they were more than half a century ago.
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Mothers And Daughters In Nineteenth-Century America - The Biosocial Construction Of Femininity

by Nancy M. Theriot

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 The feminine script of early nineteenth century centered on women's role as patient, long-suffering mothers. This provocative study applies interdisciplinary methodology to new and long-standing questions in women's history and invites women's historians to explore alternative explanatory frameworks.
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God In The Stadium - Sports And Religion In America

by Robert J. Higgs

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Religion In Antebellum Kentucky

by John B. Boles

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 A frank and refreshing evaluation of several Chief Executives, their Directors of Central Intelligence, and even some lower in the hierarchy, Executive Secrets shines light on the development and execution of foreign policy through the understanding of the tools available, of which covert action may be least known and understood.
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Aunt Jane Of Kentucky

by Eliza Calvert Hall

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 "This collection of short stories about the fictional quiltmaker Aunt Jane Parish was originally published in 1907 by Caroline Obenchain (who published under the name of Eliza Calvert Hall). Known for her gentle folk wisdom, Aunt Jane vividly describes a picturesque way of life in the rural South of the nineteenth century."
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Daughters Of Canaan - A Saga Of Southern Women

by Margaret Ripley Wolfe

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 From Gone with the Wind to Designing Women, images of southern females that emerge from fiction and film tend to obscure the diversity of American women from below the Mason-Dixon line. The historical southern woman, argues Wolfe, has operated under a number of handicaps, bearing the full weight of southern history, mythology, and legend.
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Killings - Folk Justice In The Upper South

by William Lynwood Montell

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 The "State Line Country" of this book is a rugged area of small farms on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. This close examination of homicide in the State Line Country, which views the tradition from regional and national perspectives, adds a significant dimension to the study of homicide in the South.
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Sociomedical Perspectives On Patient Care

by Jeffrey M Clair, Jeffrey Michael Clair e Richard M. Allman

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 Social change has placed new demands on the practice of medicine, altering almost every aspect of patient care relationships. In this book, social scientists contribute to such challenges by using social evidence to indicate appropriate new goals for health care in a changing environment.
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The Public Papers Of Governor Martha Layne Collins, 1983-1987 - Martha Layne Collins

by Martha Layne Collins

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 Presents the important speeches and correspondence of Governor Martha Layne Collins, the first and only woman to be elected governor of Kentucky. This work contains papers from the state archives that chronicle the agenda and rhetoric that Collins used to accomplish the intertwining goals of education reform and economic development.
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While Father Is Away - The Civil War Letters Of William H.Bradbury

by William H. Bradbury

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 This work reveals the intimate story of a British-American's role in the American Civil War. William Bradbury's letters home provide a window on the unique relationships among husband, wife, and children while a father was away at war.
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God Bless America - Tin Pan Alley Goes To War

by Kathleen E.R. Smith

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 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. This text explores the government's search for the perfect war song.
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The Brief, Madcap Life Of Kay Kendall

by Eve Golden

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 This is the biography of comedic film actress Kay Kendall, who found stardom in 1953. Her private life was even more colourful than the plots of her films as she had a number of love affairs before marrying actor Rex Harrison. She died from leukemia at the age of 32.
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Challenge And Change In Appalachia - The Story Of Hindman Settlement School

by Jess Stoddart

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 Since its founding in 1902 the Hindman Settlement School has received accolades for the quality of its education, health and community services that have measurably improved the lives of people in the region. This book tells the story behind the school.
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Chief Justice Fred M.Vinson Of Kentucky - A Political Biography

by James E. St. Clair e Linda C. Gugin

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 Fred M. Vinson, the 13th Chief Justice of the United States, started his political career as a small-town Kentucky lawyer and rose to positions of power in all three branches of federal government. This biography offers a wealth of insight into a highly regarded political figure.
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