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  • Kentucky Confederates

    Secession, Civil War, and the Jackson Purchase

    by Berry Craig ...
    "This book will become the definitive work on the political, social, and military climate of the Purchase region during the Civil War." — Kentucky LibrariesDuring the Civil War, the majority of Kentuckians supported the Union under the leadership of Henry Clay, but one part of the state presented a striking exception. The Jackson Purchase—bounded by the Mississippi River to the west, the Ohio ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • True Tales of Old-Time Kentucky Politics

    Bombast, Bourbon & Burgoo

    by Berry Craig ...
    Did you know that William Goebel of Kentucky remains the only state governor to be assassinated while in office? Or that Abraham Lincoln, now a favorite son of the Bluegrass State, garnered less than 1 percent of the state's vote in 1860? How about Matthew Lyon, the congressman who won reelection from a jail cell and once bit off the thumb of a voter during a brawl on the House floor? These are ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Hidden History of Kentucky in the Civil War

    by Berry Craig ...
    Series series Hidden History
    Kentucky's motto may be "united we stand, divided we fall," but during the civil war, brother fought brother to the bitter end. The Civil War sharply split the Bluegrass State. Kentuckians fought Kentuckians in some of the bloodiest battles of America's bloodiest war. The names and faces of the winning and losing generals of those battles are in most history books. But this book is not like most ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Kentucky's Rebel Press

    Pro-Confederate Media and the Secession Crisis

    by Berry Craig ...
    "A history of Kentucky's pro-Confederate press and its decidedly unsuccessful campaign to take the Bluegrass State out of the Union." — Civil War Books and AuthorsThroughout the Civil War, the influence of the popular press and its skillful use of propaganda was extremely significant in Kentucky. Union and Confederate sympathizers were scattered throughout the border slave state, and in 1860, at ... Read more

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  • Hidden History of Kentucky Soldiers

    by Berry Craig ...
    A look at the lesser-known heroics of Kentucky soldiers, from the French and Indian War to World War II.Daniel Boone is celebrated as a Kentucky frontiersman, but what about his service in the French and Indian War? Custer's Last Stand in the Great Sioux War is legendary, but few remember Custer's "next-to-last-stand" in Elizabethtown, where he was sent to suppress the Ku Klux Klan and hunt down ... Read more

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  • Pensions Imperilled

    The Political Economy of Private Pensions Provision in the UK

    by Craig Berry ...
    Private pensions provision in the UK is in crisis, yet it is not the crisis often depicted in political and popular discourses. While population ageing has affected traditional pensions practice, the imperilment of UK pensions is due in fact to the peculiar way policy-makers have responded to wider social and economic change. Pensions are a mechanism for managing failed futures, yet this function ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • Globalisation and Ideology in Britain

    Neoliberalism, free trade and the global economy

    by Craig Berry ...
    The 'globalisation' concept has become ubiquitous in British politics, as it has in many countries of the world. This exciting new book examines discourse on foreign economic policy to determine the impact of globalisation across the ideological landscape of British politics.The book critically interrogates the assumption that the idea of globalisation is derivative solely of neo-liberal ideology ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Austerity Politics and UK Economic Policy

    by Craig Berry ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Craig Berry assesses UK economic policy in the wake of the financial crisis through the lens of the austerity agenda, focusing on monetary policy, economic rebalancing, industrial and regional policy, the labour market, welfare reform and budgetary management. He argues that austerity is geared towards a resurrection of financialisation and the UK’s pre-crisis economic model, through the ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • Kentuckians and Pearl Harbor

    Stories from the Day of Infamy

    by Berry Craig ...
    When the air raid alarm sounded around 7:55 a.m. on December 7, 1941, Gunner's Mate Second Class James Allard Vessels of Paducah was preparing to participate in morning colors aboard the USS Arizona. In the scramble for battle stations, Vessels quickly climbed to a machine gun platform high atop the mainmast as others descended below decks to help pass ammunition up to gunners. At 8:06, a bomb ... Read more

    $28.69 USD

  • General E.A. Paine in Western Kentucky

    Assessing the "Reign of Terror" of the Summer of 1864

    by Dieter C. Ullrich, Berry Craig ...
    When General E. A. Paine assumed command of the U.S. Army's District of Western Kentucky at Paducah in the summer of 1864, he faced a defiant populace, a thriving black market and undisciplined troops plagued by low morale. Guerrillas pillaged towns and murdered the vocal few that supported the Union. Paine's task was to enforce discipline and mollify the secessionist majority in a 2,300-square ... Read more

    $21.39 USD

  • Unconditional Unionist

    The Hazardous Life of Lucian Anderson, Kentucky Congressman

    by Berry Craig, Dieter C. Ullrich ...
    When U.S. Congressman Lucian Anderson from Kentucky voted for the 13th Amendment to the Constitution in January 1865, abolishing slavery, he gambled more than his political career. Anderson was from Mayfield, one of the most rabidly secessionist towns in the Bluegrass State. During the Civil War, his political alignment changed from pro-slavery Union Democrat to Unconditional Unionist to ... Read more

    $16.39 USD

  • Developing England’s North

    The Political Economy of the Northern Powerhouse

    Edited by Craig Berry, Arianna Giovannini ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explores the politics of local economic development in Northern England. Socio-economic conditions in the North – and its future prospects – have become central to national debates in the UK. The status of Northern regions and their local economies is intimately associated with efforts to ‘rebalance’ the economy away from the South East, London and the finance sector in the wake of the ... Read more

    $134.09 USD