The Kent State University Press: 559 books
The Plants of Middle-earth
Botany and Sub-Creation
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A new path for exploring the culture and values of Tolkien’s Middle-earth
“Rather than inventing an alien world into which human and familiar characters are introduced, as in science fiction, Tolkien created a natural environment that is also home to ‘supernatural’ beings and elements,...
by Frederick B. Artz
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
This is an introduction to the principle writers of the Enlightenment in Eighteenth Century France. French thinkers of this century made a long series of devastating attacks on old ideas, usages, and institutions that had been handed down from the past. And, at the same time, these thinkers proposed...
A New Book of the Grotesques
Contemporary Approaches to Sherwood Anderson's Early Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2000
The first extensive treatment of Sherwood Anderson's work from a postmodern perspective
Sherwood Anderson, remembered chiefly as a writer of short stories about life in the Midwest at the turn of the century, was acknowledged as an innovator of the short story form and a major influence on...
by Allan Peskin
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Winfield Scott (1786-1866) was arguably the premier soldier of his era. More than any other, he was responsible for the professionalization of the U.S. Army during his long career (1807-61). He served as general in the War of 1812, commander of the U.S. forces it the final campaign of the war with...
The Lincoln Assassination Riddle
Revisiting the Crime of the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 13, 2016
Most Americans are aware that their sixteenth president was mortally wounded by a man named Booth at a Washington theater in April 1865. These are facts that nobody can dispute. However, a closer look at this history-changing catastrophe raises questions that have still not been fully answered. The...
Broken Glass
Caleb Cushing and the Shattering of the Union
Language: English
Release Date: November 22, 2001
One of the most colorful, controversial, and misunderstood public figures of the 19th century
“The most hated man in New England,”as critics dubbed him on the eve of the Civil War, Caleb Cushing, brash and controversial, was perhaps the last of 19th-century America’s renaissance figures....
Trilateralism and Beyond
Great Power Politics and the Korean Security Dilemma During and After the Cold War
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2011
A new study that sheds light on the history of a critical Cold War flashpoint
The fall of the Berlin Wall more than two decades ago brought an end to the Cold War for most of the world. But the legacy of that era remains unresolved on the divided Korean peninsula, which still presents a clear...
Democracy and the American Civil War
Race and African Americans in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016
In 1865, after four tumultuous years of fighting, Americans welcomed the opportunity to return to a life of normalcy. President Abraham Lincoln issued his emancipation decree in January 1863 and had set the stage for what he hoped would be a smooth transition from war to peace with the announcement...
Steel Valley Klan
The Ku Klux Klan in Ohio's Mahoning Valley
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Jenkins argues that the Klan drew from all social strata in Youngstown, Ohio, in the 1920s, contrary to previous theories that predominately lower middle-class WASPs joined the Klan because of economic competition with immigrants. Threatened by immigrant movement into their neighborhoods, these...
Recollections of a Civil War Medical Cadet
Burt Green Wilder
Language: English
Release Date: July 25, 2017
In July 1862, Burt Green Wilder left Boston to join Dr. Francis Brown, a surgeon working at Judiciary Square Hospital, one of the new army pavilion hospitals in Washington, D.C. Wilder had just finished his degree in comparative anatomy at Harvard, and the chance to assist Brown rather than serve...
Repealing National Prohibition
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 1996
In this new edition of the most comprehensive study of the political reaction against the Eighteenth Amendment, a response that led to its reversal fourteen years later by the Twenty-first Amendment, David E. Kyvig examines the operation of the national liquor ban, discusses central issues of U.S....
The Heroic Earth
Geopolitical Thought in Weimar Germany, 1918-1933
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In The Heroic Earth, David T. Murphy argues that geopolitical ideas were most dynamic and significant in Germany not during the Nazi era (1933-45) but in the democratic culture of the Weimar republic (1919-33). By helping to condition the German population to geopolitical ideas, which emphasized revision...
Meade's Army
The Private Notebooks of Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Lt. Col. Theodore Lyman served as Gen. George Gordon Meade's aide-de-camp from September 1863 until the end of the Civil War. Lyman was a Harvard-trained natural scientist who was exceptionally disciplined in recording the events, the players, and his surroundings during his wartime duty. His private...
by Kevin Oberlin
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2008
“Kevin Oberlin’s deft sonnets, like the Texas chanteuse they describe, are lively and picaresque, ‘nervy’ and ‘coy,’ and they unreel their story with dazzling speed.”—Michael Collier
“In sonnets so marvelously subtle and fluid that we don’t even wake up to the fact that...