Author: Robert Lima
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: studies, romance, languages, drama, theater, evil, occultism, western, stages
Number of Pages: 344
Published: 2005-12-23
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0813123623
ISBN-13: 9780813123622

"The evil that men do" has been chronicled for thousands of years on the European stage, and perhaps nowhere else is human fear of our own evil more detailed than in its personifications in theater. In Stages of Evil, Robert Lima explores the sociohistorical implications of Christian and pagan representations of evil and the theatrical creativity that occultism has engendered. By examining examples of alchemy, astronomy, demonology, exorcism, fairies, vampires, witchcraft, hauntings, and voodoo in prominent plays, Stages of Evil explores American and European perceptions of occultism from m

Author: LeRoy Ashby
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: culture, popular, american, history, amusement
Number of Pages: 688
Published: 2006-05-12
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0813123976
ISBN-13: 9780813123974

With Amusement for All is a sweeping interpretative history of American popular culture. Providing deep insights into various individuals, events, and movements, LeRoy Ashby explores the development and influence of popular culture from minstrel shows to hip-hop, from the penny press to pulp magazines, from the NBA to NASCAR, and much in between. By placing the evolution of popular amusement in historical context, Ashby illuminates the complex ways in which popular culture both reflects and transforms American society. He demonstrates a recurring pattern in democratic culture by showing how

Author: Richard A. Blake
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: allen, scorsese, lee, lumet, york, smart, new, street
Number of Pages: 360
Published: 2005-09-16
List price: $37.50
ISBN-10: 0813123577
ISBN-13: 9780813123578

New York has appeared in more movies than Michael Caine, and as a result of overfamiliarity, the City poses a problem for critics and casual moviegoers alike. Audiences mistake the New York image of skyscrapers and glitter for the real thing, but in fact the City is a network of small villages, each with its unique personality. Street Smart offers a novel approach to understanding the cultural influences of New York s neighborhoods on the work of four quintessentially New York filmmakers: Sidney Lumet, Woody Allen, Martin Scorsese, and Spike Lee. The city s diverse economic and ethnic enclaves

Author: Penny Loe
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: won, justice, coal, community, woman, mountains, one, moving
Number of Pages: 328
Published: 2007-09-07
List price: $27.95
ISBN-10: 0813124417
ISBN-13: 9780813124414

NOT A DESCRIPTION TO ADD--BUT A REQUEST You added the description I sent at the beginning of the week, but you have to click on additional reviews to find it. PLEASE could you put the description on the opening page for the book -- like it is for other books. Thankyou

Authors:Thomas G. Barnes, Deborah White, Marc Eva,
Publisher: University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: kentucky, wildflowers, rare
Number of Pages: 204
Published: 2008-05-30
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0813124964
ISBN-13: 9780813124964

Kentucky’s rich soil and wonderfully diverse landscapes have for centuries made the state a welcoming habitat for a dazzling variety of wildflowers. From the delicate Kentucky glade cress to the fiery royal catchfly, flowers, grasses, and sedges nestle on rocky hillsides, bask in open woodlands and prairies, and even manage to thrive in busy rights of way and roadsides. As demand for natural resources and land for development and housing in the Commonwealth grows, land use and habitats are quickly changing. Unfortunately, this translates into disappearing or degraded habitats for a host

Author: Carolle J. Carter
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: chinese, communists, liaison, american, yenan, mission
Number of Pages: 296
Published: 1997-04-24
List price: $39.95
ISBN-10: 0813120152
ISBN-13: 9780813120157

Conventional wisdom informs us that "only Nixon could go to China." In fact, in 1944, nearly thirty years before his historic trip, the American military established the first liaison and intelligence-gathering mission with the Chinese Communists in Yenan. Commonly referred to as the Dixie Mission, the detached military unit sent to Yenan was responsible for transmitting weather information, assisting the Communists in their rescue of downed American flyers, and laying the groundwork for an eventual rapprochement between the Communists and Nationalists, the two sides struggling in the ongoing

Author: Kathryn C. Statler
Publisher: The University Press of Kentucky
Keywords: intervention, vietnam, american, origins, france, replacing
Number of Pages: 392
Published: 1970-01-01
List price: unknow
ISBN-10: 0813193303
ISBN-13: 9780813193304

Using recently released archival materials from the United States and Europe, Replacing France: The Origins of American Intervention in Vietnam explains how and why the United States came to assume control as the dominant western power in Vietnam during the 1950s. Acting on their conviction that American methods had a better chance of building a stable, noncommunist South Vietnamese nation, Eisenhower administration officials systematically ejected French military, economic, political, bureaucratic, and cultural institutions from Vietnam. Kathryn C. Statler examines diplomatic maneuvers in Par