Kent Press: 598 books
Rust Belt Resistance
How a Small Community Took on Big Oil and Won
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2012
Since the 1970s, urban communities across the country have had to face the wrenching process of economic restructuring. As the media announce the latest plant closings and politicians slam each other for outsourcing jobs, events are too often framed with a kind of economic determinism that denies...
Helping Others Helping Ourselves
Power, Giving, and Community Identity in Cleveland, Ohio, 1880-1930
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 1997
“This study dramatically opens the door to view philanthropy in terms of who gives, the nature of those gifts, and the motivation of the givers. It becomes clear that no group could claim a monopoly on giving and that the poor, working class and middle classes had their own agendas for giving that...
Literature in Translation
Teaching Issues and Reading Practices
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
New pedagogy for studying literature in translation
In the last several decades, literary works from around the world have made their way onto the reading lists of American university and college courses in an increasingly wide variety of disciplines. This is a cause for rejoicing. Through...
Charming the Bones
A Portrait of Margaret Matthew Colbert
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 2014
Born in 1911 to an unconventional, free-spirited artist mother and an eminent paleontologist father, Margaret Matthew chose a career as an artist specializing in restorations of extinct animals. She began her career at the American Museum of Natural History in New York City drawing fossil bones, and...
Ungraspable Phantom
Essays on Moby-Dick
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A collection of essays presented at the sesquicentenary Moby-Dick conference
The twenty-one essays collected in “Ungraspable Phantom” are from an international conference held in 2001 celebrating the 150th anniversary of the publication of Moby-Dick. The essays reflect not only a range...
Cannibal Old Me
Spoken Sources in Melville's Early Works
Language: English
Release Date: July 21, 2011
An examination of Melville’s “borrowing”
“Mary Bercaw Edwards has researched the sources very thoroughly, going well beyond the previously published source studies. The result is a sound historical account of the ‘talk’ Melville encountered in the 1840s, and in emphasizing the oral...
by Virginia Benson, Richard Klein
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
A broad-based approach to preservation
After completing an extensive survey of preservation programs throughout the United States, authors Virginia O. Benson and Richard Klein saw the need for this comprehensive approach to historic preservation, examining where it has been and where it is...
My Gettysburg
Meditations on History and Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2016
The Gettysburg Campaign and its culminating battle have generated more than their share of analysis and published works. In My Gettysburg, Civil War scholar and twenty-six-year Gettysburg resident Mark Snell goes beyond the campaign itself to explore the “culture” of the battlefield. In this fascinating...
by Frederic C. Howe
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1988
Frederic C. Howe lived in interesting times. By education (at Johns Hopkins in the early 1890s) and instinct he was a progressive, in the best sense of that term. From the Cleveland of Tom Johnson to the Washington of FDR he “unlearned” his early predjudices and given values, yet “under the...
The Adventuress
Murder, Blackmail, and Confidence Games in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
The engaging tale of a nineteenth-century black widow
Intrigue, deception, bribery, poison, murder—all play a central role in the story of Minnie Walkup, a young woman from New Orleans who began her life of crime when she was only sixteen years old.
Born in 1869 to Elizabeth and James...
An Adventure in Education
The College of Wooster from Howard Lowry to the Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Wooster: From the Middle West to the world
The College of Wooster was a proud but modest college for much of its life, exemplified by the titles of the first two volumes of its history, Wooster of the Middle West. In 1944, a Wooster alumnus named Howard Lowry became president and created the...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 27, 2016
Writing in 1935 in his brilliant and brooding Black Reconstruction, W. E. B. Du Bois lamented America’s post–Civil War era as a missed opportunity to reconstruct the war-torn nation in deed as well as in word. “If the Reconstruction of the Southern states, from slavery to free labor, and from...
Ohio and Its People
Bicentennial Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2003
The Bicentennial Edition of Ohio and Its People is a revised and updated volume of this bestselling work and includes a new final chapter examining Ohio through the end of the twentieth century. Author George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas,...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2015
Teaching Hemingway in his time
Teaching Hemingway and Modernism presents concrete, intertextual models for using Hemingway’s work effectively in various classroom settings, so students can understand the pertinent works, definitions, and types of avant-gardism that inflected his art. The...