Kent State University Press: 593 books
On Lincoln
Civil War History Readers, Volume 3
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2014
For sixty years the journal Civil War History has presented the best original scholarship in the study of America’s greatest struggle. The Kent State University Press is pleased to present this third volume in its multivolume series, reintroducing the most influential of more than 500 articles published...
by Jeanne Bryner
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 1996
Jeanne Bryner is a registered nurse. Her poems and stories have appeared in several magazines and journals, including Annals of Internal Medicine, American Journal of Nursing, International Journal of Arts Medicine, The Sun, and in the anthology Intensive Care. She is the author of the Wick Poetry Chapbook Breathless (The Kent State University Press, 1995).
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Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2015
A collection of scholarly essays on democratic peace theory
Historical patterns suggest that democratic governments, which often fight wars against authoritarian regimes, maintain peaceful relationships with other governments that uphold political freedoms and empower their civil societies—a...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2013
How the Civilian Conservation Corps transformed our understanding of nature
In the spring of 1933, the United States was in the midst of the worst economic calamity it had ever experienced. Newly inaugurated president Franklin D. Roosevelt asked Congress to approve funding allowing legions...
John J. Gilligan
The Politics of Principle
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2013
The life and public service of Ohio’s transformative governor
This first full-length biography of John Joyce Gilligan argues that Ohio’s sixty-second governor was the most significant Democrat in the state’s postwar years. But it is more than the story of a governor. Through painstaking...
Recording the Classics
Maestros, Music, and Technology
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2012
“There is no doubt that this book will appeal to specialists, including conductors, recording enthusiasts, musicologists, and performers. It provides unique information about conductors’ views regarding the artistic, procedural and commercial aspects of recording. Of greatest importance is the...
by Denise Seachrist
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2013
Biography of an important figure in 20th-century musical history
Egyptian-born composer Halim El-Dabh has studied with the giants of 20th-centruy musical composition and conducting. Although The Musical World of Halim El-Dabh focuses on his career from his arrival in the U.S. in 1950 to his...
Whatever's Fair
The Political Autobiography of Ohio House Speaker Vern Riffe
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2014
The autobiography of a legendary Ohio politician and legislator
“The politics that Vern describes—when candidates depended on shaking hands, speaking at every conceivable dinner, passing out literature at the county fair (or fairs, if you were running statewide), and when office-holders...
Border Wars
The Civil War in Tennessee and Kentucky
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2015
North and South fight for control of a vital region
Kentucky and Tennessee share a unique and similar history, having joined the Union as the fifteenth and sixteenth states in 1792 and 1796, respectively. During the antebellum period, Kentuckians and Tennesseans enjoyed a common culture, pursued...
Politician Extraordinaire
The Tempestuous Life and Times of Martin L. Davey
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The biography of a colorful and controversial 20th-century politician
This carefully researched and engagingly written political biography marks the first full treatment of Ohio native and politician Martin L. Davey. An important figure on the local, state, and national political scene in the...
by Kent Maynard
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Drawing upon his experiences and knowledge as a professional anthropologist, Kent Maynard takes readers on a sensory journey through the cultures and landscapes of a fascinating and foreign world.
Her Voice Will Be on the Side of Right
Gender and Power in Women's Antebellum Antislavery Fiction
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2017
Decades before the Civil War, the free American public was gripped by increasingly acrimonious debates about the nation's "peculiar institution" of slavery. Ministers considered the morality of slavery from their pulpits, legislators debated it in the halls of government, professors discussed...
The Ohio Politics Almanac
Third Edition, Revised and Updated
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2015
Roughly a century ago, President Theodore Roosevelt said, “I think there is only one thing in the world I can’t understand, and that is Ohio politics.” If The Ohio Politics Almanac had existed then, Roosevelt still might not have understood Ohio politics, but it wouldn’t have been for lack...
War by Revolution
Germany and Great Britain in the Middle East in the Era of World War I
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
“Professor McKale’s book is a careful and comprehensive study based on a wide range of primary and secondary sources, some of which have only recently been declassified. The author describes in some detail how British and German policies in the Middle East involved the native tribes in the First...