Kent Press: 598 books
What is Translation?
Centrifugal Theories, Critical Interventions
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
In What is Translation? Douglas Robinson investigates the present state of translation studies and looks ahead to the exciting new directions in which he sees the field moving. Reviewing the work of such theorists as Frederick Rener, Rita Copeland, Eric Cheyfitz, Andre Lefevere, Anthony Pym, Suzanne...
Learning to Heal
Reflections on Nursing School in Poetry and Prose
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2018
What is it like to be a student nurse? What are the joys, the stresses, the transcendent moments, the fall-off-your-bed- laughing moments, and the terrors that have to be faced and stared down? And how might nurses, looking back, relate these experiences in ways that bring these memories to life again...
The Lion in the Waste Land
Fearsome Redemption in the Work of C. S. Lewis, Dorothy L. Sayers, and T. S. Eliot
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
As bombs fell on London almost nightly from the autumn of 1940 through the summer of 1941, the lives of ordinary people were altered beyond recognition. A reclusive Oxford lecturer found himself speaking, not about Renaissance literature to a roomful of students but about Christian doctrine into a...
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun
War Stories by American Veterans in the Philippines, 1898-1913
Language: English
Release Date: October 3, 2017
Memory has not been kind to the Philippine-American War and the even lesser-known Moro rebellion. Today, few Americans know the details of these conflicts.
There are almost no memorials, and the wars remain poorly understood and nearly forgotten.
Forgotten under a Tropical Sun is the...
Dissolving Tensions
Rapprochement and Resolution in British-American-Canadian Relations in the Treatyof Washington Era, 1865-1914
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2015
**How the period from 1865 to 1914 defined Anglo-American relations **
Dissolving Tensions dismisses the long-held argument that a British-American rapprochement did not occur until the mid-1890s. Instead, author Phillip E. Myers shows that the rapprochement was distinct prior to the Civil...
I've Seen The Elephant
An Autobiography
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2000
In this lively memoir, William B. Saxbe narrates his lifes journey from his youth in a small Ohio town to his military career during World War II and Korea and through his career as a public servant in Ohio, in Washington, D.C., and overseas. He regales readers with stories about hopping a freight train...
Death of an Assassin
The True Story of the German Murderer Who Died Defending Robert E. Lee
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
From the depths of German and American archives comes a story one soldier never wanted told. The first volunteer killed defending Robert E. Lee’s position in battle was really a German assassin. After fleeing to the United States to escape prosecution for murder, the assassin enlisted in a German...
by A. James Fuller
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Remembered as the "Great War Governor" who led the state of Indiana during the Civil War, Oliver P. Morton has always been a controversial figure. His supporters praised him as a statesman who helped Abraham Lincoln save the Union, while his critics blasted him as a ruthless tyrant who abused...
Six Capsules
The Gilded Age Murder of Helen Potts
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2019
The permanent solution to a wife’s chronic headache
As Ted Bundy was to the 20th century, so Carlyle Harris was to the 19th. Harris was a charismatic, handsome young medical student with an insatiable appetite for sex. His trail of debauched women ended with Helen Potts, a beautiful young...
Meade
The Price of Command, 1863-1865
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2018
George Gordon Meade has not been treated kindly by history. Victorious at Gettysburg, the biggest battle of the American Civil War, Meade was the longest-serving commander of the Army of the Potomac, leading his army through the brutal Overland Campaign and on to the surrender of Robert E. Lee and...
The Weary Boys
Colonel J. Warren Keifer and the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
“Milroy's Weary Boys” was the derisive nickname Maj. Gen. Winfield Scott Hancock gave to the survivors of the 110th Ohio Volunteer Infantry after the Second Battle of Winchester. Major General Robert Milroy's division was consolidated and assigned to the Army of the Potomac, and members of the...
by Louis P. Cassimatis
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
The diplomatic relations between Greece and the United States in the interwar period have received scant attention from historians, primarily because of the non-political and non-military role of the United States in that part of the world prior to the Second World War. The American presence in Greece...
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons
Familiar Responses to an Extraordinary Crisis during the American Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
Penitentiaries, Punishment, and Military Prisons confronts the enduring claim that Civil War military prisons represented an apocalyptic and a historical rupture in America's otherwise linear and progressive carceral history. Instead, it places the war years in the broader context of imprisonment...
by Jonathan Eller
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
Each previous The New Ray Bradbury Review, prepared and edited by the Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, examines the impact of Bradbury’s writings on American culture and his legacy as one of the master storytellers of his time. The late Ray Bradbury’s metaphorrich imagination led to a prolific...