The Kent State University Press: 559 books
by Jason Gray
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2014
“Jason Gray’s How to Paint the Savior Dead rethinks the complex traditional connections among women’s bodies, spirituality, and art. Gray is not afraid of hard work, hard thought, and big vision just because the subject of his fascination has been both exalted and besmirched by tradition, both...
by Lesley Jenike
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2017
“In Punctum:, Lesley Jenike’s new collection, she writes, ‘It’s our language: what can we call a thing that is and is not.’ These poems are haunted by a ‘non-child,’ a child who was not to be born, and with it, a life the speaker was not to live. Absence itself becomes a nearly tangible...
by Jack D. Welsh M.D.
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
From official records, personal letters, and postwar memoirs, Jack D. Welsh, M.D., has compiled the medical histories of 425 Confederate generals. The generals' early military experience, at West Point and in Florida, Mexico, or on the western frontier, meant that hundreds of them were exposed to...
Collaborative Form
Studies in the Relations of the Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Collaborative Form attempts to show the nature and limits of works of art that are made up of two or more artistic forms. The first task of this book is to analyze and interpret a set of such combinations. Each chapter treats one collaborative work and attempts to show that the principles of collaboration...
Charles Williams
Alchemy and Integration
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
An examination of the tumultuous inner life of this poet and writer
He was a close friend of T. S. Eliot, deeply admired by C. S. Lewis, inspirational for W. H. Auden in his journey to faith, and a literary sparring partner for J. R. R. Tolkien. Yet half a century after his death, much of Charles...
The Great Tower of Elfland
The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity.
Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise until 1978, when Humphrey Carpenter wrote the first major biography of the group, disputing a...
Russia in War and Revolution
General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His letters, memoranda, and reports constitute one of the most informed eye-witness accounts of war and revolutionary conditions under the Provisional and Bolshevik...
Pen of Fire
John Moncure Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1998
During his short and stormy life, John Moncure Daniel served as U.S. diplomat, journalist, Confederate officer, and conscience of the Confederacy. Strongly pro-slavery, fiercely loyal to the Confederacy, and an outspoken opponent of Jefferson Davis, Daniel made many enemies and fought as many as nine...
Crossing the Deadlines
Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...
Silk and Bamboo Music in Shanghai
The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
"Of all the world's major musical cultures, that of China may well be the least thoroughly understood and most often misunderstood by Western scholars and music lovers, "writes J. Lawrence Witzleben. Witzleben adds to the understanding of this musical culture with the first book-length study...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of prosperity, the Great Depression brought unemployment, economic ruin, poverty, and a sense of hopelessness...
Colombia and the United States
The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
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A valuable addition to the New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series
World War II and the Cold War transformed U.S.-Colombian security...
by Robert Simons, Gary DeWine, Larry Ledebur
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment. In this practical and...
Burning the Flag
The Great 1989 - 1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1996
“In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American...