Kent Press imprint: 601 books
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...
Safe For Decolonization
The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States,...
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...
Leading Them to the Promised Land
Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution
“In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction
The First Amendment...
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...
Caves and Culture
10,000 Years of Ohio History
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A collection of the last forty years of research on Ohio’s caves and rockshelters
Caves and Culture seeks to address a number of important problems, specifically the use of rockshelters by humans through time and transcontinental continuities. It presents new and updated, unreported research...
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: June 15, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1998
Winner of the 1997 Stan and Tom Wick Poetry Prize“The Apprentice of Fever is a brilliantly corporeal first book… rooted in the day-to-day life of a man implicated in the AIDS epidemic, living on the edge, crossing, transforming and transgressing boundaries, always, always paying an extreme and active...
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...