Kent State University Press: 593 books
Above and Beyond
Tim Mack, the Pole Vault, and the Quest for Olympic Gold
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2008
“Above and Beyond is a treat. Livingston’s knowledge and love of the sport shines through.”—David Maraniss, author of Rome 1960: The Olympics That Changed the World
Two Olympic medalists were recognized at Quicken Loans Arena in Cleveland, Ohio, days before Christmas 2004. One was the...
Safe For Decolonization
The Eisenhower Administration, Britain, and Singapore
Language: English
Release Date: May 25, 2011
How America left its indelible footprint on the culture and politics of Singapore
In the first decade after World War II, Singapore underwent radical political and socioeconomic changes with the progressive retreat of Great Britain from its Southeast Asian colonial empire. The United States,...
Leading Them to the Promised Land
Woodrow Wilson, Covenant Theology, and the Mexican Revolution, 1913-1915
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2010
How Wilson’s religious heritage shaped his response to the Mexican Revolution
“In Wilson’s view, America had a part to play as a divine instrument. To deny the United States an active role in the world was an attempt to deny God’s will.” —from the Introduction
The First Amendment...
The Birth of Development
How the World Bank, Food And Agriculture Organization, And World Health Organization Have Changed the World, 1945-1965
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2012
A comprehensive examination of economic globalization
Focused on the creation and evolution of post-1945 internationalist ideology, The Birth of Development highlights efforts to diffuse the destructive role of the nation-state in world affairs by constructing truly international organizations...
The Bright Streets of Surfside
The Memoir of a Friendship with Isaac Bashevis Singer
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
The Bright Streets of Surfside chronicles 10 years in the life of Isaac Bashevis Singer, as witnessed and shared by a fellow writer close to him at the time. In 1978, with a mixture of hero worship and academic responsibility as director of creative writing at the University of Miami, Lester Goran...
In Those Days
A Diplomat Remembers
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2011
In Those Days is the candid, often funny, autobiography of a twentieth-century American diplomat who spent most of his life in high-level diplomacy in Asia and Africa. The story takes James Spain form an Irish Catholic childhood in gangster-era Chicago through military service as Douglas MacArthur’s...
Blue-Blooded Cavalryman
Captain William Brooke Rawle in the Army of the Potomac, May 1863–August 1865
Language: English
Release Date: April 14, 2019
An intimate look into the daily life of a cavalry officer serving with the Army of the Potomac
In May 1863, eighteen-year-old William Brooke Rawle graduated from the University of Pennsylvania and traded a genteel, cultured life of privilege for service as a cavalry officer. Traveling from...
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...
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...
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...
Buried in the Sands of the Ogaden
The United States, the Horn of Africa, and the Demise of Detente
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
How the Cold War came to Africa—and everybody lost
When the Strategic Arms Limitation Talks (SALT) between the Soviet Union and United States faltered during the administration of Jimmy Carter, National Security Advisor Zbigniew Brzezinski claimed that “SALT lies buried in the sands of...
Seeing Drugs
Modernization, Counterinsurgency, and U.S. Narcotics Control in the Third World, 1969-1976
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2011
A timely historical analysis of a persistent global problem
Since its declaration in the early 1970s, the American drug war has spanned the globe in a quest to stop the flow of illegal drugs into the United States.
Faced with rising heroin use in the United States and the fear of drug-addicted...
by Mark A. Lause
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2010
Cultural politics and American bohemians in pre–Civil War New York
Amid the social and political tensions plaguing the United States in the years leading up to the Civil War, the North experienced a boom of cultural activity. Young transient writers, artists, and musicians settled in northern...
Antietam
Essays on the 1863 Maryland Campaign
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2011
The relative importance of Civil War campaigns is a matter for debate among historians and buffs alike. Gettysburg, Vicksburg, and Atlanta have their advocates. Gettysburg certainly maintains its hold on the popular imagination. More recently has come the suggestion that no single campaign or battle...