The Kent State University Press imprint: 560 books
The Supply for Tomorrow Must Not Fail
The Civil War of Captain Simon Perkins Jr., Union Quartermaster
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2014
Captain Simon Perkins Jr. and his fellow quartermasters helped make the Union’s victory possible by providing the Federal army with clothing and camp equipment, livestock and forage, wagon and railroad transportation, offices, warehouses, and hospitals, despite bad weather, unserviceable railroads,...
by Jack D. Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
During the Civil War, the majority of the 583 Union generals studied here were afflicted by disease, injured by accidents, or suffered wounds. Following the war, they often suffered lingering diseases and the effects of unhealed wounds. Medical Histories of Union Generals includes a glossary of medical...
by Mark Kwasny
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
"This solid, workmanlike monograph, based on impressive research and laced with first rate maps… gives the reader a greater appreciation of the performance of the states and their leaders in the northern theater of the war. And it shows that Washington was flexible in his use of the militia,...
Polynesian Seafaring and Navigation
Ocean Travel in Anutan Culture and Society
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2003
Revised to stimulate and engage an undergraduate student audience, Feinberg’s updated account of Anuta opens with a chapter on his varied experiences when he initially undertood fieldwork in this tiny, isolated Polynesian community in the Solomon Islands. The following chapters explore cominant...
Our Little Monitor
The Greatest Invention of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2018
On March 9, 1862, the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia met in the Battle of Hampton Roads-the first time ironclad vessels would engage each other in combat. For four hours the two ships pummeled one another as thousands of Union and Confederate soldiers and civilians watched from the shorelines. Although...
Women and the American Civil War
North-South Counterpoints
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The scholarship on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War is rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern peoples during the war. In a series of eight paired essays, scholars examine women's comparable experiences across...
Sabishi
Poems from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1994
These poems are like yen the color and the size of dollars. They are American poems, they are English, but they almost seem like versions of the Japanese. The music is lovely and the form is graceful. They are a delight to read.-Gerald Stem
Classic Reds
The 50 Greatest Games in Cincinnati Red History
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
The 50 most historically significant games of baseball's first all-professional team
Choosing the 50 greatest games is hard to do; ranking them is even harder. Now every Reds fan can relive memories of baseball before and after the Big Red Machine, debate about these choices, or make a list...
Though Murder Has No Tongue
The Lost Victim of Cleveland's Mad Butcher
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The unfortunate victim of a frightened city desperately in need of a scapegoat.
Though Murder Has No Tongue tells the story of Frank Dolezal, the only man actually arrested and charged with the infamous “Torso Murders” in Cleveland, Ohio, during the late 1930s. Dolezal, a fifty-two-year-old...
Translating Slavery, Volume 1
Gender and Race in French Abolitionist Writing, 1780-1830
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
A new, revised, and expanded edition of a translation studies classic
Translating Slavery explores the complex interrelationships that exist between translation, gender, and race by focusing on antislavery writing by or about French women in the French revolutionary period. Now in a two-volume...
by Hannah Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
Having children fundamentally disrupts and remakes us, in terms of body, identity, perspective, and voice. The world shrinks and exponentially expands. Our already fraught human experience of time is shredded and magnified.
Cadence captures the poet’s point of view as a new mother, reveling...
Caves and Culture
10,000 Years of Ohio History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio’s caves and rockshelters
Caves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. It presents new and updated, unreported research...
Arrow Talk
Transaction, Transition, and Contradiction in New Guinea Highlands History
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2013
Arrow Talk makes a significant contribution to the understanding of Melanesian culture and contemporary sociopolitical issues in Papua New Guinea. In a post modern era in which culture has been dismissed by many anthropologists as a reification, this book makes a cogent argument for cultural holism...
Renaissance Fantasies
The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio’s Decameron, Etienne Pasquier’s Monophile,...