Kent Press: 598 books
by Julius A. Amin
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Peace Corps was established in 1961 during the Kennedy administration, symbolizing a new direction in foreign policy-making for the United States. Founded on large aid programs staffed by volunteers, the agency’s primary goal was to help modernize Third World countries while guarding against...
Ironclad Captain
Seth Ledyard Phelps and the U.S. Navy, 1841-1864
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2013
Seth Ledyard Phelps was of the Old Navy and the New. As a midshipman and junior officer he served under sail off West Africa, in the War with Mexico, and in the Mediterranean and Caribbean. As a senior office in the river squadrons of the Civil War he saw combat at its closest.
Phelps,...
This Infernal War
The Civil War Letters of William and Jane Standard
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2018
Among collections of letters written between American soldiers and their spouses, the Civil War correspondence of William and Jane Standard stands out for conveying the complexity of the motives and experiences of Union soldiers and their families. The Standards of Lewiston in Fulton County, Illinois,...
by Helga Sandburg
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1994
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 1994
This collection of personal and autobiographical poems is written by Helga Sandburg, daughter of the poet, Carl Sandburg. It contains a quartet of poems written after the death of her husband, as well as work inspired by the themes of motherhood, music, nature, and travel.
Reconstructing Russia
The Political Economy of American Assistance to Revolutionary Russia, 1917-1923
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1995
Reconstructing Russia focuses on the Wilson administration’s efforts to find some way to provide economic support to Russian Siberia as a counterpoint to German economic influence. The connection between the Wilson administration’s efforts to provide economic assistance in Siberia and the Marshall...
NATO before the Korean War
April 1949 - June 1950
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2013
A reexamination of the formative years of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Conventional wisdom has the Korean War putting the “O” in NATO. Prior to that time, from the signing of the North Atlantic Treaty on April 4, 1949, to the North Korean invasion of South Korea on June 25, 1950,...
Myopic Grandeur
The Ambivalence of French Foreign Policy Toward the Far East, 1919-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2012
General Charles de Gaulle once said, “France cannot be France without greatness.”
France’s effort to maintain its presence as a great world power is the subject of Myopic Grandeur, the first major study of French foreign policy initiatives in the Far East from World War I until the conclusion...
Women and the American Civil War
North-South Counterpoints
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2018
The scholarship on women's experiences in the U.S. Civil War is rich and deep, but much of it remains regionally specific or subsumed in more general treatments of Northern and Southern peoples during the war. In a series of eight paired essays, scholars examine women's comparable experiences across...
The Miracle of Richfield
The Story of the 1975–76 Cleveland Cavaliers
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2016
Three years before Brian Sipe began his magic with the Cleveland Browns, Bill Fitch and his band of Cavaliers brought a buzz to Northeast Ohio basketball that fans had never seen before. Despite a rough start to their 1975–76 season, the Cavaliers rode the shoulders of Akron native Nate Thurmond...
Sabishi
Poems from Japan
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1994
These poems are like yen the color and the size of dollars. They are American poems, they are English, but they almost seem like versions of the Japanese. The music is lovely and the form is graceful. They are a delight to read.-Gerald Stem
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Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
Ernest Hemingway’s place in American letters seems guaranteed: a winner of Nobel and Pulitzer prizes, Hemingway has long been a fixture in high school and college curricula. Just as influential as his famed economy of style and unflappable heroes, however, is his public persona. Heming- way helped...
Hemingway, Race, and Art
Bloodlines and the Color Line
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2012
A social historical reading of Hemingway through the lens of race
William Faulkner has long been considered the great racial interrogator of the early-twentieth-century South. In Hemingway, Race, and Art, author Marc Kevin Dudley suggests that Ernest Hemingway not only shared Faulkner’s racial...
Hemingway's Spain
Imagining the Spanish World
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Ernest Hemingway famously called Spain “the country that I loved more than any other except my own,” and his forty-year love affair with it provided an inspiration and setting for major works from each decade of his career: The Sun Also Rises, Death in the Afternoon, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2016
In 1925, Ernest Hemingway wrote to F. Scott Fitzgerald that “the reason you are so sore you missed the war is because the war is the best subject of all. It groups the maximum of material and speeds up the action and brings out all sorts of stuff that normally you have to wait a lifetime to get.”...