Kansas Open Books collection: Recent submissions
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Class and Community in Frontier Colorado
(University Press of Kansas, 1990-07-16)Spurred by the Gold Rush of 1859, settlers of diverse backgrounds and nationalities trekked to Colorado and began building towns. Existing accounts of their struggles and those of townbuilders throughout the American West ... -
The Truman White House: The Administration of the Presidency 1945-1953
(University Press of Kansas, 1980-02-20)This retrospective study brings together twenty-two key associates of President Truman’s to consider the administrative operation of the presidency from 1945 to 1953. A record of the discussions that took place at the ... -
Getting By: Women Homeworkers and Rural Economic Development
(University Press of Kansas, 1994-11-09)In this book Christina Gringeri investigates the effects of homeworking on workers, mainly women, and their families and explores the role of the state in subsidizing the development of homeworking jobs that depend on ... -
The Dance with Community: The Contemporary Debate in American Political Thought
(University Press of Kansas, 1991-07-25)Contemporary intellectuals have rushed to embrace the concept of *#8220;community.” What does this tell us about American political thought? Why are intellectuals uneasy with modern liberal individualism and its institutional ... -
The Johnson Years, Volume Two: Vietnam, the Environment, and Science
(University Press of Kansas, 1987-07-15)Stretching from November 1963 to January 1969, the administration of Lyndon Baines Johnson was marked both by division and tumult and by significant accomplishments. In this volume, Robert Divine has brought together seven ... -
Montesquieu's Comparative Politics and the Spirit of American Constitutionalism
(University Press of Kansas, 1988-11-15)“American republicans,” notes Forrest McDonald, “regarded selected doctrines of Montesquieu’s as being virtually on par with Holy Writ.” But exactly how the French jurist’s labyrinthian work, The Spirit of the Laws, with ... -
Timber and the Forest Service
(University Press of Kansas, 1988-12-01)Nearly one-quarter of America is covered with forests almost 800 million acres. There are 151 national forests, comprising close to 200 million acres in thirty-nine states and Puerto Rico. These protected lands are ... -
"The Constitution of the People": Reflections on Citizens and Civil Society
(University Press of Kansas, 1991-06)To be a U.S. citizen is to be a member of a constitutional order that requires political unity but is also committed to social and cultural diversity. How do we solve the riddle of the one and the many? What is, in Tom ... -
Marcuse: From the New Left to the Next Left
(University Press of Kansas, 1994-04)Marcuse brings back to center stage one of the most celebrated and controversial philosophers of the turbulent 1960s, the man Time magazine called the "guru of the New Left." In Reason and Revolution, Eros and Civilization, ... -
Thomas Hobbes and Political Theory
(University Press of Kansas, 1990-01-30)This volume explores, from a variety of perspectives, the political theory of the man who is arguably the greatest English political thinker. It is the first substantial collection of new, critical essays on Thomas Hobbes ... -
The United States and the Development of the Puerto Rican Status Question, 1936–1968
(University Press of Kansas, 1975-01-22)This study traces the evolution of political status in Puerto Rico from 1936 to 1968, with special emphasis on the events that led to the creation of the Commonwealth in 1952. No other work published in English has dealt ... -
Brandeis: Beyond Progressivism
(University Press of Kansas, 1993-09-02)Revered as the "People's Attorney," Louis D. Brandeis concluded a distinguished career by serving as an associate justice (1916-1939) of the U.S. Supreme Court. Philippa Strum argues that Brandeis—long recognized as a ... -
Brandeis on Democracy
(University Press of Kansas, 1995-01-18)Philippa Strum, our foremost authority on Louis Brandeis, gathers together for the first time a sterling selection from his most provocative and profound writings. A kind of "Portable Brandeis," this book provides a concise ... -
Kansas Populism: Ideas and Men
(University Press of Kansas, 1969-07-25)Because Kansas has been called “the leading Midwestern Populist state,” and the Midwestern phrase was the principle one of this significant movement in American history, this first comprehensive history of the Kansas ... -
Lady Bird Johnson and the Environment
(University Press of Kansas, 1988-02-29)In the 1960s Lady Bird Johnson sought to improve the natural appearance of Washington, D.C., to make the nation’s highways less cluttered with billboards and junkyards, and to advance the environmental agenda of Lyndon ... -
Keeping the People's Liberties: Legislators, Citizens, and Judges as Guardians of Rights
(University Press of Kansas, 1998-09-07)Which branch of government should be entrusted with safeguarding individual rights? Conventional wisdom assigns this responsibility to the courts, on the grounds that liberty can only be protected through judicial ... -
Landlord William Scully
(University Press of Kansas, 1979-08-24)William Scully, an Irishman who was a member of the lesser landed gentry, put his life’s energy into the accumulation of high-quality, low-cost land. He carefully husbanded his inheritance, and in 1850 he traveled to the ... -
Becoming Free: Autonomy and Diversity in the Liberal Polity
(University Press of Kansas, 2001-03-08)As ethnic, racial, religious, and gender-based groups demand rights to pursue radically diverse lifestyles or maintain their cultural traditions, conflict seems inevitable, even in a free society. Government may offer ... -
The Lost Promise of Progressivism
(University Press of Kansas, 1994-06-21)Long before the current calls for national service, civic responsibility, and the restoration of community values, the Progressives initiated a remarkably similar challenge. Eldon Eisenach traces the evolution of this ... -
Quest and Response: Minority Rights and the Truman Administration
(University Press of Kansas, 1973-05-03)Here is a thorough treatment of every important aspect of minority affairs during the Truman administration. The authors trace the significant developments in the quest for minority rights from 1945 to 1953, show the ...
