Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Blood and Ink
An International Guide to Fact-Based Crime Literature
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 1998
Albert Borowitz provides a guide to “fact-based crime literature” focusing on two principal groups of works: non-fictional accounts of crimes and criminal trials, including essays, monographs, journalism, editions of court transcripts, prison histories, and criminal and police biographies and...
Savage Eye
Melville and the Visual Arts
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Mellville’s interest in the visual arts and the translation of that interest into his writings is at the center of this new interdisciplinary study of one of America’s most celebrated writers. Melville’s lifelong engagement with the visual arts has been noted in other works, but only Savage...
Finding Utopia
Another Journey Into Lost Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2012
In Finding Utopia, Randy McNutt sets off again to explore Ohio’s forgotten nooks and byways. He begins where his last journey ended—on roads less traveled—finding more ghost towns, battlefields-turned-cornfields, and old memories that beckon him like spectral hitchhikers. On the way, he meets...
Fort Laurens, 1778-1779
The Revolutionary War in Ohio
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 1976
While the main action of the Revolution swirled along the Atlantic seaboard. Ohio was a no man’s land between the Colonists’ Fort Pitt and the British Fort Detroit. A campaign to neutralize Detroit and win the allegiance of the Indians in Ohio was instigated by General Washington in 1778,...
The Boundaries Between Us
Natives and Newcomers along the Frontiers of the Old Northwest Territory, 1750-1850
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
New essays on the settlement of the Old Northwest
Although much has been written about the Old Northwest territory, The Boundaries between Us fills a void in this historical literature by examining lesser known forms of interaction between Euro-Americans and native peoples and their struggles...
Rust Belt Resistance
How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies...
Helping Others Helping Ourselves
Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
“This study dramatically opens the door to view philanthropy in terms of who gives, the nature of those gifts, and the motivation of the givers. It becomes clear that no group could claim a monopoly on giving and that the poor, working class and middle classes had their own agendas for giving that...
Literature in Translation
Teaching Issues and Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
New pedagogy for studying literature in translation
In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through...
Charming the Bones
A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and...
Ungraspable Phantom
Essays on Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference
The twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range...
Cannibal Old Me
Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
An examination of Melville’s “borrowing”
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered in the 1840s, and in emphasizing the oral...
by Virginia Benson, Richard Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A broad-based approach to preservation
After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is...
My Gettysburg
Meditations on History and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works. In My Gettysburg, Civil War scholar and twenty-six-year Gettysburg resident Mark Snell goes beyond the campaign itself to explore the “culture” of the battlefield. In this fascinating...
by Frederic C. Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he “unlearned” his early predjudices and given values, yet “under the...