The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books

Safe For Decolonization

The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore

by S. R. Joey Long
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011

How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States,...

Leading Them to the Promised Land

Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915

by Mark Benbow
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010

How Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution “In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction The First Amendment...

The Birth of Development

How the World Bank, Food And Agriculture Organization, And World Health Organization Have Changed the World, 1945-1965

by Amy L. S. Staples
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012

A comprehensive examination of economic globalization Focused on the creation and evolution of post-1945 internationalist ideology, The Birth of Development highlights efforts to diffuse the destructive role of the nation-state in world affairs by constructing truly international organizations...

The Bright Streets of Surfside

The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer

by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011

The Bright Streets of Surfside chronicles 10 years in the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, as witnessed and shared by a fellow writer close to him at the time.  In 1978, with a mixture of hero worship and academic responsibility as director of creative writing at the University of Miami, Lester Goran...

In Those Days

A Diplomat Remembers

by James W. Spain
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011

In Those Days is the candid, often funny, autobiography of a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. The story takes James Spain form an Irish Catholic childhood in gangster-era Chicago through military service as Douglas MacArthur’s...

Blue-Blooded Cavalryman

Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865

by J. Gregory Acken
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019

An intimate look into the daily life of a cavalry officer serving with the Army of the Potomac In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Traveling from...

Informal Ambassadors

American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945

by Dana Cooper
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014

From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary...

What is Translation?

Centrifugal Theories, Critical Interventions

by Douglas Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011

In What is Translation? Douglas Robinson investigates the present state of translation studies and looks ahead to the exciting new directions in which he sees the field moving. Reviewing the work of such theorists as Frederick Rener, Rita Copeland, Eric Cheyfitz, Andre Lefevere, Anthony Pym, Suzanne...

Death of an Assassin

The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee

by Ann Marie Ackermann
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017

From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German...

Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden

The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Detente

by Louise P. Woodroofe
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012

How the Cold War came to Africa—and everybody lost When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of...

Seeing Drugs

Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976

by Daniel Weimer
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011

A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States. Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of drug-addicted...

Chekhov's Doctors

A Collection Of Chekhov's Medical Tales

by Jack Coulehan, Saul Flanner
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2003

In his brief but distinguished life, Anton Chekhov was a doctor, a documentary essayist, an admired dramatist, and a humanitarian. He remains a nineteenth-century Russian literary giant whose prose continues to offer moral insight and to resonate with readers across the world. Chekhov experienced...
by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010

Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern...

Forbes Watson

Independent Revolutionary

by Lenore S. Clark
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 1997

Forbes Watson, art commentator for the New York Evening Post and New York World, was probably best known as the editor of The Arts, the liveliest and most influential art magazine of the 1920s. He quickly gained a reputation as an outspoken ally of progressive American artists and a caustic annihilator...
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