Kent State University Press imprint: 593 books
by Karen Kovacik
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Karen Kovacik's poems are strong, distinctive and thoroughly wonderful works. Her personal poems such as ‘Watching My Father Pray’ make use of autobiographical detail in a way that is never insular or hermetic. And her Richard Nixon persona poems are stunning, brave, and original. American...
by Angelo Repousis
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
The pre–Cold War motives of American intervention in Greece
Most studies of U.S. relations with Greece focus on the Cold War period, beginning with the enunciation of the Truman Doctrine in 1947. There is little substance in the extant literature about American policy toward or interaction...
Bodies and Barriers
Dramas of Dis-Ease
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Dramatic pieces that raise issues of humanity in medicine
Bodies and Barriers offers a collection of dramatic pieces of our time that provide an aesthetic perspective from which we view today’s vital health issues. With each play exploring a different medical crisis, the collection covers...
by Kat Snider Blackbird
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 1994
“Kat Snider Blackbird gives us all these in her intense and passionate poems. She is a woman—and Woman—in love, in lust, and deeply in life. In her work, women will see themselves on all levels of being and men will at last be allowed to penetrate the mysteries of the women they love.”—Grace Butcher
David Zeisberger
A Life among the Indians
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
"Detailed research and thoughtful insights make David Zeisberger: A Life among the Indians a valuable study of Indian-Colonist relations in eighteenth-century British North America. Judicious in approach and compassionate without being polemical or sentimental, Olmstead brings to life the story...
NATO after Sixty Years
A Stable Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2011
Experts analyze NATO’s successes
NATO after Sixty Yearsaddresses the challenges of adaptation confronting the North Atlantic Treaty Organization in the early twenty-first century. Comprised of essays from a range of experts, each chapter examines an aspect of NATO’s difficult adjustment...
Forging the "Bee Line" Railroad, 1848-1889
The Rise and Fall of the Hoosier Partisans and Cleveland Clique
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2016
In the 1830s, as the Trans Appalachian economy began to stir and Europe's Industrial Revolution reached its peak, concerned Midwesterners saw opportunities and risks. Success of the Erie Canal as a link to East Coast economic markets whetted the appetites of visionaries and entrepreneurs, who saw...
Caution and Cooperation
The American Civil War in British-American Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2008
A provocative reinterpretation of Civil War–era diplomacy
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“Phillip E. Myers’s Caution and Cooperation places Anglo-American relations during the Civil War within the broader context of the whole nineteenth century, arguing convincingly...
Framing Elizabethan Fictions
Contemporary Approaches to Early Modern Narrative Prose
Language: English
Release Date: August 28, 2013
Literary historians have been giving increased attention to texts that have hitherto been largely ignored. The works of women, the disenfranchised, and “commoners” have all benefited from such critical analysis. Similarly, letters, memoirs, popular poetry, and serialized fiction have become the...
Child of the Sit-Downs
The Revolutionary Life of Genora Dollinger
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
ForeWord Magazine 2008 Silver Award Winner for Excellence in Biography!
A biography of a prominent labor reformer and early feminist
Strikes affect entire communities, and in the end they need the communities’ support to succeed. This was exemplified in the legendary 1937 sit-down...
by Lester Goran
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
Lester Goran's first book of short stories, Tales from the Irish Club, was chosen by the New York Times Book Review as a “Notable Book of the Year 1996.” This second collection also centers around a group of men and women in an Irish-American enclave in Pittsburgh, primarily during the years surrounding...
A Singing Ambivalence
American Immigrants Between Old World and New, 1830-1930
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2013
A Singing Ambivalence is a comprehensive examination of the ways in which nine immigrant groups—Irish, Germans, Scandinavians, Eastern European Jews, Italians, Poles, Hungarians, Chinese, and Mexicans—responded to their new lives in the United States through music. Each group’s songs reveal...
by Steven Florczyk
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2013
Ernest Hemingway’s initiation into war
Ernest Hemingway’s enlistment with the American Red Cross during World War I was one of the most formative experiences of his life, and it provided much of the source material for A Farewell to Arms and his writings about Italy and the Great War. As...
Bloody Dawn
The Story of the Lawrence Massacre
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
On August 21, 1863, William Quantrill led 400 Confederate irregulars to a rise on the outskirts of Lawrence, Kansas. For two years, the 3,000 inhabitants of this prosperous frontier community had managed to escape the Civil War which raged in the East. At Quantrill’s command, the horrors of that...