Kent Press imprint: 601 books
In Those Days
A Diplomat Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In Those Days is the candid, often funny, autobiography of a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. The story takes James Spain form an Irish Catholic childhood in gangster-era Chicago through military service as Douglas MacArthur’s...
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...
Blue-Blooded Cavalryman
Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
An intimate look into the daily life of a cavalry officer serving with the Army of the Potomac
In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Traveling from...
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...
Renaissance Fantasies
The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio’s Decameron, Etienne Pasquier’s Monophile,...
Informal Ambassadors
American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary...
Neptune's Militia
The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The virtues of the citizen-soldier are prominent in the history of the American Revolution, but less attention has been given to the citizen-sailor. However, there were state navies during the war, the seaward equivalent of the state militias, and the state of South Carolina put to sea the most important...
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...