The Kent State University Press: 559 books
Pattern of Circles
An Ambassador's Story
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 1996
Pattern of Circles is a success story, for its author and his country. John E. Dolibois was born December 4, 1918, in Luxembourg. His mother died weeks later, and he was raised by an older sister until she left for Akron, Ohio, with her American husband. In 1931 John came to Akron with his father...
Wild Ohio
The Best of Our Natural Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A photographic documentation of the most outstanding natural habitats in Ohio
“We hope this book never becomes an epitaph for what once was. Ohio is incredibly rich in biodiversity, possibly more so than any other midwestern state. . . . We encourage you to visit these places and view the...
by Toyin Falola
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A critical study of a progressive period in Nigerian history
Created as a result of British colonialism, Nigeria emerged as a nation-state during the mid–twentieth century. The British colonial administration, in a state of economic crisis and with huge debts to the United States, was uninterested...
Classic 'Burgh
The 50 Greatest Collegiate Games in Pittsburgh Sports History
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2019
The great tradition of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania told through 50 memorable games
When sports fans think of collegiate sports in western Pennsylvania, most think of football at the University of Pittsburgh, but there is much more.
In the 1940s and 1950s, Duquesne University...
by Richard Peterson
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2013
A post–World War II memoir of a childhood in working-class Pittsburgh
“Alongside August Wilson and John Edgar Wideman, Richard Peterson is among the most evocative chroniclers of Pittsburgh, their colorful hometown. I loved Growing Up With Clemente for both its unnostalgic lyricism and...
by Daniel L. Rice, Gary Meszaros
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2014
Ohio’s original heavily forested landscape included glacial lakes, large rivers, and streams that teemed with an abundant variety of fish, most of which remain resident today. Native Fishes of Ohio documents the more than 130 species originally found in the state and describes how their aquatic...
To Plead Our Own Cause
African Americans in Massachusetts and the Making of the Antislavery Movement
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2014
The antislavery movement entered an important new phase when William Lloyd Garrison began publishing the Liberator in 1831—a phase marked by massive petition campaigns, the extraordinary mobilization of female activists, and the creation of organizations such as the American Anti-Slavery Society....
The Frontier Republic
Ideology and Politics in The Ohio Country, 1780-1825
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2011
Conflict invariably characterizes the period following any revolution, and post-revolutionary America was no exception. After the unity inspired by opposition to a common enemy dissipates, revolutionary movements generally splinter into different groups that compete with each other for the right to...
Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900
A Biographical Dictionary
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 1996
This comprehensive guide to the early art and artists of Ohio is a compendium of hard-to-find information. The result of more than twelve years of research in community archives, newspapers, business directories, census returns, genealogical records, and manuscripts, Artists in Ohio, 1787-1900 is...
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda
Lord Northcliffe and the Great War, 1914-1919
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2013
Politicians, the Press, and Propaganda represents the most recent and most extensive research on Alfred Harmsworth (Lord Northcliffe), one of the “press lords” who influenced British politics and policy during the First World War. Thompson’s is the only study to deal with Northcliffe and the...
The Pursuit of Public Power
Political Culture in Ohio, 1787-1861
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2011
Many of the political institutions that would dominate 19th-century America (and the Midwest in particular) originated and first evolved in Ohio. The Pursuit of Public Power explores the origins and nature of political culture here from the American Revolution until the Civil War. Twelve essays examine...
Sherman's Other War
The General and the Civil War Press, Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2013
Marszalek traces the roots of Sherman’s hostility toward the press and details his attempts to muzzle reporters during the Civil War, culminating in Sherman’s exclusion of all reporters from his famous March to the Sea.
Despite the passage of over a century, the question of press rights...
by Susan Neale
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2013
“'Everywhere we have been since beginning/Is Mapped in the memory somewhere,’ writes Susan Neale at the outset of this ambitiously conceived and enormously satisfying collection of poems. Here is a poet who wants nothing less than to know the past. Her fields of study are the history of light...
Ohio Hill Country
A Rewoven Landscape
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2014
The southeastern third of Ohio is quite different from the flat or gently rolling portions of the state, differing in landscape, geologic history, ecology, and human history. It is the deeply dissected hill country that was formed over many millions of years by sediments eroded from four ancient mountain...