The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Arthur Machen and Montgomery Evans
Letters of a Literary Friendship, 1923-1947
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Arthur Machen (1863-1947), who achieved significant fame in the 1920s, was a general man of letters with echoes of Samuel Johnson, an important influence on later fantasy writers from H. P. Lovecraft to Ray Bradbury, and a great adventurer of the spirit. Montgomery Evans II, a wealthy book collector...
Cosmographical Glasses
Geographic Discouse, Gender, and Elizabethan Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
A fresh perspective on Elizabethan fiction
In Cosmographical Glasses Constance Relihan examines the ways in which sixteenth-century English texts—traveler’s reports, ethnographic studies, and geographic guides—provide the foundation for how fictional prose of the period envisions the...
Creating People of Plenty
The United States and Japan's Economic Alternatives, 1950-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2001
“There is no doubt that the Eisenhower administration accomplished one of its paramount Cold War strategic objectives: to rebuild Japan’s economy and reinstate the nation as a stabilizing, pro-capitalist member in the new world order that had come out of the morass of the Great Depression and...
Aftermath of War
Americans and the Remaking of Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
With the fighting in World War II over in mid-August 1945, more than one-half million American troops moved to occupy Japan. Much of the country was ruined, buried under the rubble and debris of saturation bombing and the atomic blasts over Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan’s rulers were stunned by...
by E. G. (Jay) Ruoff Ed.
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The letters of Charles and Bessie Ewing provide eyewitness accounts of the social upheaval and warfare that shook turn-of-the-century China. In addition to discussing their missionary activities in the villages of North China and their struggle to master the Chinese Mandarin dialect, the Ewings describe...
NATO and the Warsaw Pact
Intrabloc Conflicts
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2008
There is no shortage of literature addressing the workings, influence, and importance of NATO and the Warsaw Pact individually or how the two blocs faced off during the decades of the Cold War. However, little has been written about the various intrabloc tensions that plagued both alliances during...
The Most Complete Political Machine Ever Known
The North's Union Leagues in the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
The martial enthusiasm that engulfed the North when the American Civil War commenced in April 1861 vanished by the following summer. Repeated military defeats, economic worries, and staggering casualties prompted many civilians to question the war's viability. Frustration exploded into anger when...
by Richard Tayson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
An intimate second book of poems
Richard Tayson’s second book of poems, The World Underneath, concerns birth, motherhood, explorations of the feminine in a world scarred by war, environmental crisis, and violence. The book’s locus is a series of poems related to a home birth, an event that...
Tenderly Lift Me
Nurses Honored, Celebrated, and Remembered
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
“I approached the study of historical and contemporary nurses with my sleeves rolled up, pencil sharpened, and camera loaded. What draws a person to those who are ill and keeps us at the bedside? Every question I asked the nurses, I asked myself. Heart first, I plunged into stories about historical...
The Country Doctor Revisited
A Twenty-First Century Reader
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An anthology that addresses the changing nature of rural medicine in the United States
“These authors courageously document the emotional and literally physical vulnerabilities they experience while delivering care in rural communities. … This book exquisitely illustrates the complexity...
Why Cows Learn Dutch
And Other Secrets of the Amish Farm
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
A fascinating look at life in a separatist society
“Laced with humor and delight, this intriguing account provides first-time glimpses into daily life on Amish farms.”— Donald Kraybill
In Why Cows Learn Dutch and Other Secrets of the Amish Farm, Randy James offers an engaging view...
Translating Slavery, Volume 2
Ourika and Its Progeny
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2012
The second volume of this revised and expanded edition of Translating Slavery
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 two...
Slings and Slingstones
The Forgotten Weapons of Oceania and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A fascinating examination of an overlooked weapon
For most of us, our knowledge of slings and slingstones begins and ends with the biblical tale of David slaying Goliath. Scholars and archaeologists have told us that slings like the one David employed were common in the Old World, used not...
Sudden Heaven
The Collected Poems of Ruth Pitter, A Critical Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Ruth Pitter (1897-1992) may not be widely known, but her credentials as a poet are extensive; in England from the mid-1930s to the mid-1970s she maintained a loyal reader- ship. In total she produced 17 volumes of new and collected verse. Her A Trophy of Arms (1936) won the Hawthornden Prize for Poetry...