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The University Press of Kansas publishes scholarly books that advance knowledge and regional books that contribute to the understanding of Kansas, the Great Plains, and the Midwest. Founded in 1946 and reorganized in 1967 and again in 1976, it represents the six state universities: Emporia State University, Fort Hays State University, Kansas State University, Pittsburg State University, the University of Kansas, and Wichita State University.
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Publication Creating the Modern Army: Citizen-Soldiers and the American Way of War, 1919–1939(University Press of Kansas, 2022-03-04) Woolley, William J.The modern US Army as we know it was largely created in the years between the two world wars. Prior to World War I, officers in leadership positions were increasingly convinced that building a new army could not take place as a series of random developments but was an enterprise that had to be guided by a distinct military policy that enjoyed the support of the nation. In 1920, Congress accepted that idea and embodied it in the National Defense Act. In doing so it also accepted army leadership’s idea of entrusting America’s security to a unique force, the Citizen Army, and tasked the nation’s Regular Army with developing and training that force. Creating the Modern Army details the efforts of the Regular Army to do so in the face of austerity budgets and public apathy while simultaneously responding to the challenges posed by the new and revolutionary mechanization of warfare. In this book Woolley focuses on the development of what he sees as the four major features of the modernized army that emerged due to these efforts. These included the creation of the civilian components of the new army: the Citizen’s Military Training Camps, the Officer Reserve Corps, the National Guard, and the Reserve Officer Training Corps; the development of the four major combat branches as the structural basis for organizing the army as well as creating the means to educate new officers and soldiers about their craft and to socialize them into an army culture; the creation of a rationalized and progressive system of professional military education; and the initial mechanization of the combat branches. Woolley also points out how the development of the army in this period was heavily influenced by policies and actions of the president and Congress. The US Army that fought World War II was clearly a citizen army whose leadership was largely trained within the framework of the institutions of the army created by the National Defense Act. The way that army fought the war may have been less decisive and more costly in terms of lives and money than it should have been. But that army won the war and therefore validated the citizen army as the US way of war.Publication American Political Parties: Why They Formed, How They Function, and Where They're Headed(University Press of Kansas, 2022-04) White, John Kenneth; Kerbel, Matthew R.American Political Parties is a core textbook on political parties in the United States that places the US party system into a framework designed around the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson. White and Kerbel argue that the two-party system in the United States began with a common agreement on the key values of freedom, individual rights, and equality of opportunity but that Hamilton and Jefferson disagreed—often vehemently—over how to translate these ideals into an acceptable form of governance. This text develops a unique historical perspective of US party development using the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson as a framework for analysis. While Hamilton wanted to marry freedom to a strong, active federal government with an energetic president who would act on behalf of all citizens, Jefferson believed that freedom should be allied to local civic virtue, with governmental responsibilities placed primarily at the local level. Today, Hamiltonian nationalism finds its home in the Democratic Party, while Republicans have espoused Jeffersonian localism since 1964. Using this historical framework, American Political Parties examines a range of topics including marketing and social media, campaign finance, reforms in the presidential nominating process, political demography, and third parties. In this new edition (previously published as Party On!), the authors describe four possible futures in the wake of the 2020 election and why Americans believed it was “the most important” election in their lifetimes. The unique history of US political parties as set forth by the disagreements between Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson is at an inflection point. Republicans have become an insurgent party fully under the control of Donald Trump while Democrats have an opportunity to create a new majority coalition. This juncture poses unique challenges to our democracy and constitutional framework, and the book describes four possible outcomes, postulating where American political parties are headed in this decade.Publication Empire of Direct Mail: How Conservative Marketing Persuaded Voters and Transformed the Grassroots(University Press of Kansas, 2022-05-06) Moriyama, TakahitoThe rapid growth of the conservative movement has long fascinated historians, many of whom have focused on the grassroots efforts in the Sunbelt. Empire of Direct Mail examines how conservative operatives got their message out to their supporters through computerized direct mail, a significant but understudied communications technology. The story centers on Richard Viguerie, a pioneer of political direct mail who was known as the “Funding Father” of the conservative movement. His consulting firm established a database of conservative prospects and mailed millions of unsolicited letters. By the 1970s, Viguerie emerged as the central fundraiser in conservative politics, financing right-wing organizations and politicians such as George Wallace, Jesse Helms, and Ronald Reagan. Moriyama shows that the rise of right-wing direct mail communication in the postwar years coincided with a new strategy: the use of this new technology to stoke negative emotions, such as fury and fear, among the letter recipients. In the period of broadcasting, conservative fundraisers established the new approach of targeting individual voters and promoting negative emotions to win elections. Before Rush Limbaugh’s talk show, Fox News, Twitter, and Cambridge Analytica, conservatives used direct mail to spread messages of anxiety and anger to raise funds and mobilize the grassroots. Through extensive archival research of fundraising activities in the conservative movement and key elections from 1950 to 1980, Empire of Direct Mail offers a political history of the role played by communications technology in the development of modern US conservatism.Publication Foreign-Language Units of Kansas (FLUK)(University of Kansas Press, 1962) Carman, Justice NealePublication From the workshop of discoveries(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1953) Loewi, OttoPublication Vesalius four centuries later. Medicine in the eighteenth century.(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1950) Fulton, John F.Publication The uses of penicillin and streptomycin(Lawrence, Univ. of Kansas Press, 1949) Keefer, Chester S.Publication Unfamiliar oxidation states and their stabilization(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1950) Kleinberg, JacobPublication Sturge Moore and the life of art(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1951) Gwynn, Frederick L.Publication Sexual behavior in penguins.(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1951) Richdale, L. E.Publication Recent advances in nutrition, with particular reference to protein metabolism, by Paul R. Cannon in collaboration with Earl P. Benditt [and others](Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1950) Cannon, Paul RobertsPublication The prenatal origin of behavior(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1952) Hooker, DavenportPublication Pictures on my wall, a lifetime in Kansas, by Florence L. Snow.(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1945) Snow, Florence LydiaPublication The old Egyptian medical papyri(Lawrence, Kan., University of Kansas Press, 1952) Leake, Chauncey DepewPublication A malariologist in many lands, by Marshall A. Barber, with a foreword by Paul F. Russell(Lawrence, Kan., University of Kansas press, 1946) Barber, Marshall A.Publication Charles Churchill: poet, rake, and rebel(Lawrence, University of Kansas Press, 1953) Brown, Wallace CablePublication Studies in honor of Albert Morey Sturtevant(Lawrence : University of Kansas Press, 1952) Lind, L. R.Publication A Surgeon in Wartime China(Lawrence, Kansas, University of Kansas Press, 1946) Powell, Lyle Stephenson