Resultaten gefilterd op "University Press of Kentucky"

Quilt Stories

• Paperback | Engels
• More than thirty stories, plays, poems, and songs featuring the making of quilts--written from 1845 to the present, mainly by American women--document... Lees meer

The High Design

George C Herndl

• Paperback | Engels
• This book, winner of the 1969 South Atlantic Modern Language Association Award, presents a new perspective in the criticism of Jacobean tragedy and a ... Lees meer

The Voice of the Frontier

• Hardcover | Engels
• From 1826 to 1829, John Bradford, founder of Kentucky's first newspaper, the Kentucky Gazette , reprinted in its pages sixty-six excerpts that he cons... Lees meer

The Spirit of Carnival

David Danow

• Paperback | Engels
• The world of literature responds to the "spirit of carnival" in ways that are both social and cultural, mythological and archetypal. Literature provid... Lees meer

A Political Companion to Ralph Waldo Emerson

• Paperback | Engels | Political Companions to Great American Authors
• From before the Civil War until his death in 1882, Ralph Waldo Emerson was renowned-and renounced-as one of the United States' most prominent abolitio... Lees meer

A Uniquely American Epic

• Hardcover | Engels | Screen Classics
• One of the most innovative films ever made, Sam Peckinpah's motion picture The Wild Bunch was released in 1969. From the outset, the film was consider... Lees meer

Foreign Policy at the Periphery

• Hardcover | Engels | Studies in Conflict, Diplomacy, and Peace
• As American interests assumed global proportions after 1945, policy makers were faced with the challenge of prioritizing various regions and determini... Lees meer

Droysen and the Prussian School of History

Robert Southard

• Hardcover | Engels
• The Prussian School of History first predicted and advocated, then celebrated and defended, the unification of Germany by Prussia. Experts in German h... Lees meer

Eating as I Go

Doris Friedensohn

• Paperback | Engels
• What do we learn from eating? About ourselves? Others? In this unique memoir of a life shaped by the pleasures of the table, Doris Friedensohn uses ea... Lees meer

Josie Underwood's Civil War Diary

Josie Underwood

• Paperback | Engels
• A well-educated, outspoken member of a politically prominent family in Bowling Green, Kentucky, Josie Underwood (1840--1923) left behind one of the fe... Lees meer

Every Hill a Burial Place

Peter H Reid

• Hardcover | Engels
• On March 28, 1966, Peace Corps personnel in Tanzania received word that volunteer Peppy Kinsey had fallen to her death while rock climbing during a pi... Lees meer

Holy Toledo

Marnie Jones

• Hardcover | Engels
• "Do unto others as ye would have them do unto you" are the words upon which Samuel M. Jones, self-made millionaire and mayor of Toledo, Ohio (1897-190... Lees meer

Culinary Tourism

• Paperback | Engels | Material Worlds
• ""From Kosher Oreos to the gentrification of Mexican cusine, from the charismatic cook of Basque communities in Spain and the United States to the mai... Lees meer

Hitchcock and the Censors

John Billheimer

• Hardcover | Engels | Screen Classics
• Throughout his career, Alfred Hitchcock had to contend with a wide variety of censors attuned to the slightest suggestion of sexual innuendo, undue vi... Lees meer

The Book of the Knight Zifar

Charles L. Nelson

• Paperback | Engels | Studies in Romance Languages | nr. 27
• The Book of the Knight Zifar (or Cifar), Spain's first novel of chivalry, is the tale of a virtuous but unfortunate knight who has fallen from grace a... Lees meer

History of the Louisville & Nashville Railroad

Maury Klein

• Hardcover | Engels
• After the Civil War, the Louisville and Nashville Railroad took the lead among southern railroads in developing rail systems and organizing transconti... Lees meer

What Ever Happened to Orson Welles?

Joseph McBride

• Hardcover | Engels
• At the age of twenty-five, Orson Welles (1915-1985) directed, co-wrote, and starred in Citizen Kane, widely regarded as the greatest film ever made. B... Lees meer

Sown in the Stars

Sarah L Hall

• Hardcover | Engels
• Volume bringing together the knowledge of Kentuckian farmers about the custom of planting by the signs. Lees meer

Golf and Philosophy

• Hardcover | Engels | Philosophy of Popular Culture
• In a game where players are expected to call their own penalties and scoring the least points leads to victory, decorum takes precedence over showmans... Lees meer

The Air Force Way of War

Brian D Laslie

• Hardcover | Engels | Aviation & Air Power
• On December 18, 1972, more than one hundred U.S. B-52 bombers flew over North Vietnam to initiate Operation Linebacker II. During the next eleven days... Lees meer

Gender, Class, Race and Reform in the Progressive Era

• Paperback | Engels
• In this collection of informative essays, Noralee Frankel and Nancy S. Dye bring together work by such notable scholars as Ellen Carol DuBois, Alice K... Lees meer

The Reluctant Film Art of Woody Allen

Peter J Bailey

• Paperback | Engels
• For three decades, no American filmmaker has been as prolific-or as paradoxical-as Woody Allen. From Play It Again, Sam (1972) through Celebrity (1998... Lees meer

Uncle Will of Wildwood

Frances Jewell McVey, Robert Berry Jewell

• Paperback | Engels
• Uncle Will of Wildwood is a warm and humorous memoir of the nineteenth-century Bluegrass that recalls a defining period of Kentucky's past. It was a t... Lees meer

Dying to Eat

• Hardcover | Engels | Material Worlds
• Food has played a major role in funerary and memorial practices since the dawn of the human race. In the ancient Roman world, for example, it was comm... Lees meer