Political History
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Constructing Affirmative Action: The Struggle for Equal Employment Opportunity [Hardback]
David Hamilton Golland (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780813129976
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Civil Rights and the Struggle for Black Equality in the Twentieth Century
Between 1965, when President Lyndon B. Johnson defined affirmative action as a legitimate federal goal, and 1972, when President Richard M. Nixon named one of affirmative action's chief antagonists the head of the Department of Labor, government o... .... Learn More -
Cowboy Conservatism: Texas and the Rise of the Modern Right [Hardback]
Sean P. Cunningham (Author)
£40.00ISBN: 9780813125763
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Directions in Southern History
During the 1960s and 1970s, Texas was rocked by a series of political transitions. Despite its century-long heritage of solidly Democratic politics, the state became a Republican stronghold virtually overnight, and by 1980 it was known as "Reagan ... .... Learn More -
Congressional Ambivalence: The Political Burdens of Constitutional Authority [Hardback]
Jasmine Farrier (Author)
£54.00ISBN: 9780813192628
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Is the United States Congress dead, alive, or trapped in a moribund cycle? When confronted with controversial policy issues, members of Congress struggle to satisfy conflicting legislative, representative, and oversight duties. These competing goa... .... Learn More -
Bitter Legacy: Polish-American Relations in the Wake of World War II [Paperback]
Richard C. Lukas (Author)
£25.00ISBN: 9780813192734
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In this most timely book, Richard C. Lukas offers the historical perspective that any reader, scholar, or layman needs to grasp the political turmoil in Poland in the decades after World War II. Bitter Legacy is the first major analysis of Polish... .... Learn More -
Cotton Fields No More: Southern Agriculture, 1865-1980 [Paperback]
Gilbert C. Fite (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813101606
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: New Perspectives on the South
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 ... .... Learn More -
Clark Clifford: The Wise Man of Washington [Hardback]
John Acacia (Author)
£54.00ISBN: 9780813125510
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
One of the most renowned Washington insiders of the twentieth century, Clark Clifford (1906--1998) was a top advisor to four Democratic presidents. As a powerful corporate attorney, he advised Harry S. Truman, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, and ... .... Learn More -
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power [Hardback]
Yufan Hao (Editor); C.X. George Wei (Editor); Lowell Dittmer (Editor); Zhang Baijia (Contributor); Jianwei Wang (Contributor)
£36.00ISBN: 9780813125299
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power -- a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have co... .... Learn More -
Challenges to Chinese Foreign Policy: Diplomacy, Globalization, and the Next World Power [Paperback]
Yufan Hao (Editor); C.X. George Wei (Editor); Lowell Dittmer (Editor); Zhang Baijia (Contributor); Jianwei Wang (Contributor)
£27.00ISBN: 9780813192024
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Series: Asia in the New Millennium
When Beijing hosted the 2008 Summer Olympics, China symbolically asserted its role as an emerging world power -- a position it is not likely to relinquish anytime soon. China's growing economy, military reforms, and staggering productivity have co... .... Learn More -
Blood in the Sand: Imperial Fantasies, Right-Wing Ambitions, and the Erosion of American Democracy [Hardback]
Stephen Eric Bronner (Author)
£32.00ISBN: 9780813123677
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
Blood in the Sand is Stephen Eric Bronner's powerful critique of the current state of American foreign and domestic policy, ranging from the government's initial response to 9/11 and the assault on Afghanistan through the Iraqi War and the ramific... .... Learn More -
Crossroads Of Decision: The State Department and Foreign Policy, 1933-1937 [Paperback]
Howard Jablon (Author)
£23.00ISBN: 9780813190570
Published by : University Press of Kentucky
In this provocative interpretation of New Deal diplomacy, Howard Jablon challenges the view that the State Department was wiser and more expert at international maneuver than was President Franklin D. Roosevelt in the early years of his presidency... .... Learn More
