Author: Gayle V. Fischer
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: reform, united, states, dress, century, power, nineteenth, pantaloons
Number of Pages: 262
Published: 2001-03
List price: $24.00
ISBN-10: 0873386825
ISBN-13: 9780873386821

Clothing is often an indication of an individual’s status, and gender. By the early nineteenth century clear definitions had developed regarding how American women and men were supposed to appear in public and how they were meant to lead their lives. As men’s style of dress moved from the ornate to the moderate, women’s fashions continued to be decorative and physically restrictive. This visible separation of the sexes was paralleled in other arenas - social, cultural, and religions. Some women defied this convention and cut their skirts short, abandoned their corsets, and pu

Authors:Robert A. Taft, Clarence E. Wunderlin, Clarence E. W
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: taft, robert, papers
Number of Pages: 639
Published: 2001-08
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0873386795
ISBN-13: 9780873386791

This volume documents Robert Taft’s first term in the United States Senate and marks his entrance onto the national political and policymaking stage.

Author: H. Wayne Morgan
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: america, mckinley, william
Number of Pages: 672
Published: 2004-01
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0873387651
ISBN-13: 9780873387651

When George W. Bush won the White House, he was the first incumbent Republican governor elected president since William McKinley in 1896. William McKinley was the last of the Civil War veterans to reach the White House. Known widely as the Major, in honor of his military rank, he rose through Congress to head the crucial Ways and Means Committee where, in the early 1890s, he passed a strong and popular tariff bill. That success caught the eye of Marcus Hanna, a Cleveland industrialist with a passion for politics and an ambition to help make and elect a president. Democrats complained that McKi

Author: David E. Kyvig
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: prohibition, national, repealing
Number of Pages: 304
Published: 2000
List price: $17.00
ISBN-10: 0873386728
ISBN-13: 9780873386722

A study of the political reaction against the 18th Amendment, a response that led to its reversal 14 years later by the 21st Amendment. This work uses archival evidence to examine the liquor ban and to draw attention to the bi-partisan movement led by the Association Against Prohibition Amendment.

Author: James Jeffrey Higgins
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: belt, rust, images
Number of Pages: 64
Published: 1999-06
List price: $25.00
ISBN-10: 0873386264
ISBN-13: 9780873386265

Youngstown, Ohio, was often referred to as the "Rust Belt" because of its role in steel production. This volume contains photographs capturing the decaying traces of the industrial landscape amid the magnificence and magic of nature.

Author: George W. Knepper
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: bicentennial, people, ohio
Number of Pages: 512
Published: 2003-11
List price: $30.00
ISBN-10: 0873387910
ISBN-13: 9780873387910

The bicentennial edition of this publication has been revised and updated and includes an additional chapter which examines Ohio through to the end of the 20th century. George W. Knepper presents contemporary information on the national and state political arenas, the economy and the environment.

Author: E. F. Bleiler
Publisher: Kent State University Press
Keywords: years, fiction, science
Number of Pages: 998
Published: 1991-01
List price: $75.00
ISBN-10: 0873384164
ISBN-13: 9780873384162

In this volume the author describes more than 3000 short stories, novels, and plays with science fiction elements, from earliest times to 1930. He includes imaginary voyages, utopias, Victorian boys’ books, dime novels, pulp magazine stories, British scientific romances and mainstream work with science fiction elements. Many of these publications are extremely rare, surviving in only a handful of copies, and most of them have never been described before. Each of the entries is exhaustive, with bibliography, including previous periodical publications, and a full summary of the story, with