The Kent State University Press: 559 books
John J. Gilligan
The Politics of Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
The life and public service of Ohio’s transformative governor
This first full-length biography of John Joyce Gilligan argues that Ohio’s sixty-second governor was the most significant Democrat in the state’s postwar years. But it is more than the story of a governor. Through painstaking...
Recording the Classics
Maestros, Music, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
“There is no doubt that this book will appeal to specialists, including conductors, recording enthusiasts, musicologists, and performers. It provides unique information about conductors’ views regarding the artistic, procedural and commercial aspects of recording. Of greatest importance is the...
by Denise Seachrist
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Biography of an important figure in 20th-century musical history
Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh has studied with the giants of 20th-centruy musical composition and conducting. Although The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh focuses on his career from his arrival in the U.S. in 1950 to his...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How the Civilian Conservation Corps transformed our understanding of nature
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions...
Whatever's Fair
The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator
“The politics that Vern describes—when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature at the county fair (or fairs, if you were running statewide), and when office-holders...
by Kent Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge as a professional anthropologist, Kent Maynard takes readers on a sensory journey through the cultures and landscapes of a fascinating and foreign world.
Border Wars
The Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
North and South fight for control of a vital region
Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respectively. During the antebellum period, Kentuckians and Tennesseans enjoyed a common culture, pursued...
War by Revolution
Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Professor McKale’s book is a careful and comprehensive study based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, some of which have only recently been declassified. The author describes in some detail how British and German policies in the Middle East involved the native tribes in the First...
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The biography of a colorful and controversial 20th-century politician
This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the...
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right
Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of slavery from their pulpits, legislators debated it in the halls of government, professors discussed...
The Ohio Politics Almanac
Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I think there is only one thing in the world I can’t understand, and that is Ohio politics.” If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn’t have been for lack...
Sounding the Shallows
A Confederate Compendium for the Maryland Campaign of 1862
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2013
A companion volume to Taken at the Flood, this book identifies areas of research and in-depth source materials for studies of the Maryland campaign.
Gentleman George Hunt Pendleton
Party Politics and Ideological Identity in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The first modern biography of this notable politician
“Mach’s detailed and thoughtful examination of Ohio lawyer-politician-diplomat George Hunt Pendleton is an impressive piece of scholarship and will surely be the standard for decades to come.”
—H. Roger Grant, Department of History,...
Cautious Rebel
A Biography of Susan Clay Smitzky
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1997
“Willa Cather wrote that ‘the history of every country begins in the heart of a man or a woman.’ This is the story of the heart—and of the mind—and the conflicts within. It is the country’s story. It is our story.” —James C. Klotter, Director and State Historian, Kentucky Historical...