Kent Press: 598 books
The Great Tower of Elfland
The Mythopoeic Worldview of J. R. R. Tolkien, C. S. Lewis, G. K. Chesterton, and George MacDonald
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2017
Beginning in the mid-1950s, scholars proposed that the Inklings were a unified group centered on fantasy, imagination, and Christianity.
Scholars and a few Inklings themselves supported the premise until 1978, when Humphrey Carpenter wrote the first major biography of the group, disputing a...
Renaissance Fantasies
The Gendering of Aesthetics in Early Modern Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
Renaissance Fantasies is the first full-length study to explore why a number of early modern writers put their masculine literary authority at risk by writing from the perspective of femininity and effeminacy. Prendergast argues that fictions like Boccaccio’s Decameron, Etienne Pasquier’s Monophile,...
Informal Ambassadors
American Women, Transatlantic Marriages, and Anglo-American Relations, 1865-1945
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2014
From 1865 to 1945, a number of prominent marriages united American heiresses and members of the British aristocracy. In Informal Ambassadors, author Dana Cooper examines the lives and marriages of the American-born, British-wed Lady Jennie Jerome Churchill, Mary Endicott Chamberlain, Vicereine Mary...
Neptune's Militia
The Frigate South Carolina During the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2013
The virtues of the citizen-soldier are prominent in the history of the American Revolution, but less attention has been given to the citizen-sailor. However, there were state navies during the war, the seaward equivalent of the state militias, and the state of South Carolina put to sea the most important...
Russia in War and Revolution
General William V. Judson's Accounts from Petrograd, 1917-1918
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
General William V. Judson was Military Attache and Chief of the American Military Mission in Russia at the time of the Bolshevik Revolution. His letters, memoranda, and reports constitute one of the most informed eye-witness accounts of war and revolutionary conditions under the Provisional and Bolshevik...
Pen of Fire
John Moncure Daniel
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 1998
During his short and stormy life, John Moncure Daniel served as U.S. diplomat, journalist, Confederate officer, and conscience of the Confederacy. Strongly pro-slavery, fiercely loyal to the Confederacy, and an outspoken opponent of Jefferson Davis, Daniel made many enemies and fought as many as nine...
Crossing the Deadlines
Civil War Prisons Reconsidered
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
The "deadlines" were boundaries prisoners had to stay within or risk being shot. Just as a prisoner would take the daring challenge in "crossing the deadline" to attempt escape, Crossing the Deadlines crosses those boundaries of old scholarship by taking on bold initiatives with...
Silk and Bamboo Music in Shanghai
The Jiangnan Sizhu Instrumental Ensemble Tradition
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
"Of all the world's major musical cultures, that of China may well be the least thoroughly understood and most often misunderstood by Western scholars and music lovers, "writes J. Lawrence Witzleben. Witzleben adds to the understanding of this musical culture with the first book-length study...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2014
In this second volume of the Interpreting American History series, experts on the 1930s address the changing historical interpretations of a critical period in American history. Following a decade of prosperity, the Great Depression brought unemployment, economic ruin, poverty, and a sense of hopelessness...
Safirka
An American Envoy
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 1996
Peter S. Bridges’s service as an American ambassador to Somalia capped his three decades as a career officer in the American Foreign Service. Safirka, a frank description of his experiences in Somalia and elsewhere, offers pointed assessments of American foreign policy and policymakers. Bridges...
Colombia and the United States
The Making of an Inter-American Alliance, 1939-1960
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
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A valuable addition to the New Studies in U.S. Foreign Relations Series
World War II and the Cold War transformed U.S.-Colombian security...
by Robert Simons, Gary DeWine, Larry Ledebur
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2016
Each year in the United States, hundreds of religious buildings and schools become vacant or underutilized as congregations and populations merge, move, or diminish. These structures are often well located, attractive, eligible for tax credits, and available for redevelopment. In this practical and...
Burning the Flag
The Great 1989 - 1990 American Flag Desecration Controversy
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 1996
“In 1989, the Supreme Court ruled that dissidents had a constitutional right under the First Amendment to burn the flag. During the Bush Administration, Congress passed the Flag Protection Act (FPA), and so doing reflected the broad spectrum of opinion that saw the flag as a sacred symbol of American...
Cautious Visionary
Cordell Hull and Trade Reform, 1933-1937
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Cordell Hull's persistence and legislative experience were determining factors at every stage in the development of the Trade Agreements Act of 1934. Rarely has such important legislation owed itself to a single man.
The Trade Agreements Act resolved the long-running debate between high and...