Kent State University Press: 593 books
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
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.”...
The Lousy Racket
Hemingway, Scribners, and the Business of Literature
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The business of making an American literary icon
The Lousy Racket is a thorough examination of Ernest Hemingway’s working relationship with his American publisher, Charles Scribner’s Sons, and with his editors there: Maxwell Perkins, Wallace Meyer, and Charles Scribner III. This first critical...
Why Cows Need Names
And More Secrets of Amish Farms
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
An inspiring glimpse into the struggles of a young Amish farm family
Agriculture continues to be the largest industry in the United States with over 2.2 million farms. Amazingly, well over 100,000 new small family farms have sprung up in the past few years . . . and almost no one noticed.
Why...
Reading Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea
Glossary and Commentary
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2018
The Old Man and the Sea is a deceptively simple work. An old man goes fishing. He catches a giant marlin after much struggle. Sharks attack and destroy the fish. The old man is left with the bare bones of the fish—a Monday morning “fish story.” But much lies beneath the surface. The action is...
Sacred Land
Sherwood Anderson, Midwestern, Modernisms, and the Sacramental Vision of Nature
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2013
From the 1910s through the 1930s, Midwestern writers were conspicuously prominent in American literary life. A generation of writers from the Midwest had come of age and had shared an important and motivating cultural experience: the encompassing transformation of rural and urban Midwestern life from...
The Admirable Radical
Staughton Lynd and Cold War Dissent, 1945-1970
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2010
Son of famous sociologists Helen and Robert Lynd, Staughton Lynd was one of the most visible figures of the New Left, a social movement during the 1960s that emphasized participatory democracy. His tireless campaign for social justice prompted his former Spelman College student, Alice Walker, to remember...