Kent Press imprint: 601 books
Meade
The Price of Command, 1863-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac, leading his army through the brutal Overland Campaign and on to the surrender of Robert E. Lee and...
The Weary Boys
Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“Milroy's Weary Boys” was the derisive nickname Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock gave to the survivors of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry after the Second Battle of Winchester. Major General Robert Milroy's division was consolidated and assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and members of the...
by Louis P. Cassimatis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The diplomatic relations between Greece and the United States in the interwar period have received scant attention from historians, primarily because of the non-political and non-military role of the United States in that part of the world prior to the Second World War. The American presence in Greece...
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment...
by Jonathan Eller
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and his legacy as one of the master storytellers of his time. The late Ray Bradbury’s metaphorrich imagination led to a prolific...
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden
The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Detente
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
How the Cold War came to Africa—and everybody lost
When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of...
Not All Politics Is Local
Reflections of a Former County Chairman
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1998
This engaging narrative takes us behind the scenes and past the analyses and renders the inside story of the Allen County (Ohio) Democratic Party during the late 1980s and early 1990s.
More than just portraying the internal dynamics of a political party, Not All Politics Is Local affords the...
Seeing Drugs
Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of drug-addicted...
by Jay Baruch
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Short stories about the complex maze of health care
Conventional medical narratives often fail to capture the incoherent, surreal, and logic-twisting reality of the contemporary healthcare experience, where mystery, absurdity, and even cruelty are disguised as logic, reason, and compassion....
A Lost King
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
Raymond DeCapite’s second published novel, A Lost King, has been described by Kirkus Reviews as a “small masterpiece, so unique in spirit and style.” If the mood of The Coming of Fabrizze is joyous, that of A Lost King is somber. Each of DeCapite’s novels is original in its own way, perhaps...
Arda Inhabited
Environmental Relationships in the Lord of the Rings
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2014
With the box office successes of movies based on The Lord of the Rings and The Hobbit, familiarity with J. R. R. Tolkien’s Middle-Earth is growing. Unfortunately, scholarship dealing with Middle-Earth itself is comparatively rare in Tolkien studies, and students and scholars seeking greater insight...
by Diane Gilliam Fisher, Carol Donley
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 30, 2013
Recipe for Blackberry Cake is a collection of poems about women’s lives—poems about girlhood, about mothers and daughters, about how relationships between women are distorted by violence in the home. The poems tell the stories of four generations of women, beginning in the coal camps of West Virginia...
The Coming of Fabrizze
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2010
First published in 1960, The Coming of Fabrizze has been called by the New York Herald Tribune a “comic folklore festival about an Italian American colony in Cleveland, Ohio, back in the 1920s when all the land was a little slaphappy—and no one more so than these transplanted countrymen of the...