Kent Press: 598 books
by Kate Northrop
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
Kate Northrop’s Back Through Interruption is a deeply moving and thought-provoking collection of poetry. It takes the reader through a world that is at once beautiful and tragic, sacrosanct and profane.
“Kate Northrop’s elegant, intelligent, wonderfully plotted first book, Back Through...
Building Utopia
Erecting Russia's First Modern City, 1930
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2000
Perhaps the most challenging project under Stalin's first five-year plan was the race to build Europe's largest automobile factory and an adjacent city in just 18 months. The site was Nizhny Novgorod, later named Gorky. To design and construct both factory and city, Soviet officials approached the...
by John M. Schechter
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2013
A musical instrument that has played a vital role in Latin American music cultures—the harp—is the subject of this new work, the first study of its kind to be published in English. John Schechter presents a history of the harp in Spain, traces its introduction into colonial Latin America, and...
Bandersnatch
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the Creative Collaboration of the Inklings
Language: English
Release Date: December 8, 2015
An inside look at the Inklings and their creative process
C. S. Lewis, J. R. R. Tolkien, and the other Inklings met each week to read and discuss each other’s works-in-progress, offering both encouragement and blistering critique. How did these conversations shape the books they were writing?...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
The election of 1860 was a crossroad in American history. Faced with four major candidates, voters in the North and South went to the polls not knowing that the result of the election would culminate in the bloodiest conflict the United States had ever seen. Despite its obvious importance, surprisingly...
by Robert Boenig
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Medieval literature and the imagination of C. S. Lewis
2015 winner of the Mythopoeic Society’s Award for Inkling Studies
In C. S. Lewis and the Middle Ages, medievalist Robert Boenig explores Lewis’s personal and professional engagement with medieval literature and culture and argues...
by Jonathan Goodman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A new look at some gruesome and riveting murdersIn this grisly and gripping collection of essays-some revised and updated, some never before published, but all new to American audiences-prize-winning English crime historian Jonathan Goodman turns his attention to a variety of British and American...
A Man of Distinction Among Them
Alexander McKee and British-Indian Affairs Along the Ohio Country Frontier, 1754-1799
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
A Man of Distinction among Them represents an important step in under standing the complexities surrounding the early history of the Ohio Country and the Old Northwest and provides the clearest and most comprehensive portrait of a central figure in that history: Alexander McKee.
Fathered by...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2017
In the fall of 1764, Col. Henry Bouquet led a British-American army into what is today eastern Ohio with the intention of ending the border conflict called “Pontiac’s War.” Brokering a truce without violence and through negotiations, he ordered the Delawares and Shawnees to release all of their...
Lincoln's Lover
Mary Lincoln in Poetry
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
In his Poetics, Aristotle said a historian and a poet do not differ from each other-one simply writes in verse and the other in prose. In fact, history and poetry have a long connection; much of what we know about ancient history throughout the world came to us through the centuries and millennia...
Kilroy Was There
A GI's War in Photographs
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2000
When I saw Frank Kessler’s collection of photographs I was struck by how different they were from the movie-camera views I see on television. No public relations pictures here, intended to glorify battle and rally support. These were up-close snapshots of the dirty, damp, and disheveled men in the...
The Eyes of Orion
Five Tank Lieutenants in the Persian Gulf War
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 1997
Winner of the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Book Award, The Eyes of Orion is a highly personal account of the day-to-day experiences of five platoon leaders who served in the same tank battalion in the 24th Infantry Division during Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm.
While...
To Plead Our Own Cause
African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831—a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society....
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: September 11, 2012
The definitive biography of America's 20th president, James A. Garfield. Exhaustively researched and skillfully written.
Winner of the Ohio Academy of History Award, the Ohioana Book Award in History, and a Choice Outstanding Academic Book of the Year.
“Garfield’s military career, the congressional...