Kansas Open Books collection: Recent submissions

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    • Quipus and Witches’ Knots: The Role of the Knot in Primitive and Ancient Cultures 

      Day, Cyrus Lawrence (University Press of Kansas, 1967-12-29)
      This essay in cultural anthropology provides a comprehensive view of the way primitive people in all parts of the world once utilized knots; mnemonic knots—to record dates, numbers, and cultural traditions; magic knots—to ...

    • Jet Makers: The Aerospace Industry from 1945 to 1972 

      Bright, Charles D. (University Press of Kansas, 1978-11-11)
      This volume presents the history of the American jet aircraft manufacturing industry from World War II to 1972, documenting the evolution of its technology and covering the intricacies of its management, economics, and ...

    • Life at Four Corners: Religion, Gender, and Education in a German-Lutheran Community, 1868–1945 

      Coburn, Carol K. (University Press of Kansas, 1992-11-30)
      Defined less by geography than by demographic character, Block, Kansas, in many ways exemplifies the prevalent yet seldom-scrutinized ethnic, religion-based community of the rural Midwest. Physically small, the town sprang ...

    • Diplomat in Khaki: Major General Frank Ross McCoy and American Foreign Policy, 1898–1949 

      Bacevich, A. J. (University Press of Kansas, 1989-06-26)
      Hailed by the New York Times as “one of the best soldiers this country has produced,” Frank Ross McCoy was, throughout his distinguished career, much more than just a good soldier. As friend and confidant to such leaders ...

    • Groundwater Exploitation in the High Plains  

      Kromm, David E.; White, Stephen E. (University Press of Kansas, 1992-08-20)
      The High Plains region was once called the Great American Desert and thought to be, in the words of explorer Stephen Long, “wholly unfit for cultivation.” Now we know that beneath the surface, unbeknownst to the explorers ...

    • The Democratic State 

      Benjamin, Roger; Elkin, Stephen L. (University Press of Kansas, 1985-04-18)
      One outcome of the declining economic growth and rising political conflict of the 1980s has been a renewed interest in political theory and increased questioning about the durability of the capitalist state. More and more ...

    • The Vanishing Farmland Crisis: Critical Views of the Movement to Preserve Agricultural Land 

      Baden, John (University Press of Kansas, 1984-09-26)
      The 1979 publication Where Have All the Farmlands Gone? by the National Agricultural Lands Study painted a bleak future for American farmlands. Threatened by encroaching construction and soil erosion, these lands were seen ...

    • The Development of Rural America 

      Brinkman, George (University Press of Kansas, 1974-03-20)
      In the last decade, rural development emerged as one of the prominent challenges facing the United States. Strong support for rural development is now found in both major political parties and at federal, state, and local ...

    • In Search of Canaan: Black Migration to Kansas, 1879–80 

      Athearn, Robert G. (University Press of Kansas, 1978-11-01)
      Word spread across the southern farm country, and into the minds of those who labored over cotton or sugar crops, that the day of reckoning was near at hand, that the Lord had answered black prayers with the offer of ...

    • Walt Whitman's Western Jaunt 

      Eitner, Walter H. (University Press of Kansas, 1981-05-20)
      In 1879, when Walt Whitman was sixty, he made a trip to the West—first to Kansas to attend the quarter-centennial celebration of Kansas settlement, then on to Denver and the Rockies. Biographers have only briefly reported ...