Kent Press: 598 books
by Kent Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge as a professional anthropologist, Kent Maynard takes readers on a sensory journey through the cultures and landscapes of a fascinating and foreign world.
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right
Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of slavery from their pulpits, legislators debated it in the halls of government, professors discussed...
Democracy and Religion
Free Exercise and Diverse Visions
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2013
Compiled from papers delivered at the third annual Kent State University Symposium on Democracy held in spring 2002, Democracy and Religion: Free Exercise and Diverse Visions explores the interrelations of politics and religion. The work is divided into four main sections: the constitutional debate...
Compromise Formations
Current Directions in Psychoanalytic Criticism
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
These essays are collected from the Fourth International Conference on Literature and Psychology held at Kent State University, 7-9 August 1987. In selecting the essays for this first collection to emerge from the varied conferences now being sponsored by the Kent State University Center for Literature...
An Artist of the American Renaissance
The Letters of Kenyon Cox, 1883-1919
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1995
Kenyon Cox was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1856 to a nationally prominent family. He studied as an adolescent at the McMicken Art School in Cincinnati and later at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts in Philadelphia. From 1877 to 1882, he was enrolled at the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris, and then...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 1998
Like its pioneering predecessor, the one-volume review published in 1952 by William F. Nolan, The New Ray Bradbury Review contains articles and reviews about Bradbury but has a much broader scope, including a thematic focus for each issue. Since Nolan composed his slim volume at the beginning of Bradbury’s...
Denmark Vesey's Revolt
The Slave Plot that Lit a Fuse to Fort Sumter
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2013
In 1822, Denmark Vesey was found guilty of plotting an insurrection—what would have been the biggest slave uprising in U.S. history. A free man of color, he was hanged along with 34 other African Americans in Charleston, South Carolina, in what historians agree was probably the largest civil execution...
Major McKinley
William Mckinley & The Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2013
“A finely written and deeply researched book. It adds a major dimension to McKinley’s life and times and will interest all students of the Civil War as well.” —H. Wayne Morgan, author of William McKinley and His America (Kent State University Press, 2003)
“The Civil War was a crucial...
Race and Recruitment
Civil War History Readers, Vol. 2
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
The second volume of the best from Civil War History
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this second volume in its multivolume...
Conflict and Command
Civil War History Readers, Volume 1
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
Fifteen groundbreaking essays from Albert Castel, Gary Gallagher, Mark Neely, Richard M. McMurry, and others
For more than sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2011
The inaugural volume in a new historiography series
Historians possess the power to shape the view of history for those who come after them. Their efforts to illuminate significant events of the past often result in new interpretations, which frequently conflict with ideas proposed by earlier...
In the Wake of the Butcher
Cleveland Torso Murders, Authoritative Edition, Revised and Expanded
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2014
In 2001 The Kent State University Press published James Jessen Badals In the Wake of the Butcher: Clevelands Torso Murders—the first book to examine the horrific series of unsolved dismemberment murders that terrorized the Kingsbury Run neighborhood from 1934 to 1938. Through his access to a wealth...
Ohio States
A Twentieth-Century Midwestern
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 1998
With gentle humor, Hammond presents readers with the charms, aggravations, quirks, and disappointments of small-town life and frustrates any expectation that the past's deepest lessons are simple. In Ohio States: A Twentieth-Century Midwestern, Jeffrey Hammond asserts the quiet mysteries of an ordinary...
Sounding the Whale
Moby-Dick as Epic Novel
Language: English
Release Date: January 26, 2011
Sounding the Whale is Christopher Sten’s comprehensive account of his own close encounter with Moby-Dick. Originally a long, self-contained chapter in The Weaver-God, He Weaves: Melville and the Poetics of the Novel, just published by Kent State University Press, this chapter-by-chapter study of...