הוצאת University of Massachusetts Press
הספרים של הוצאת University of Massachusetts Press
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American hunters occupy a remarkably complex place in this country s cultural and political landscape. On the one hand, they are cast as perpetrators of an anachronistic and unnecessary assault on innocent wildlife. On the other hand, they are lauded as exemplars of no-nonsense American rugged indiv...
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Foreign Devils on the Silk Road: The Search for the Lost Cities and Treasures of Chinese Central Asia
מאת Peter Hopkirk
The Silk Road, the great trans-Asian highway linking Imperial Rome to China, reached the height of its importance during the T'ang Dynasty. Along it travelled precious cargoes as well as new ideas, art and knowledge. Its oasis towns blossomed into thriving centres of trade. However, as the Chinese l...
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Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England (Public History in Historical Perspective)
מאת Briann G. Greenfield
In this era of Antiques Roadshow and eBay, it is hard to imagine a time when Americans did not treasure the home furnishings of elite early American families. But as this book demonstrates, antiquing particularly the practice of valuing old things for their aesthetic qualities is a relatively recent...
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In a survey conducted by Washingtonian magazine, Barney Frank was rated the smartest, funniest, and most eloquent member of Congress. A mainstay in the House of Representatives since 1981, he has come to be known for his talent as a legislator, his zeal for verbal combat, his imposing intellect, and...
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Founded in 1807, the successor to a literary club called the Anthology Society, the Boston Athenaeum occupies an important place in the early history of American intellectual life. At first a repository for books, to which works of art were later added, the Athenaeum attracted over time a following ...
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These finely honed non-denominational homilies are written in Du Bois' finest lyrical prose. The values espoused in these prescriptions for daily living are universal in their appeal across race, nationality and creed and stand as ethical guides to the well-lived life. As we hear the prayers, ...
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Out of the Attic: Inventing Antiques in Twentieth-Century New England (Public History in Historical Perspective)
מאת Briann G. Greenfield
In this era of Antiques Roadshow and eBay, it is hard to imagine a time when Americans did not treasure the home furnishings of elite early American families. But as this book demonstrates, antiquing particularly the practice of valuing old things for their aesthetic qualities is a relatively recent...
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One winter morning, poet Dawn Potter sat down at her desk in Harmony, Maine, and began copying out the opening lines of John Milton's Paradise Lost. Her intent was to spend half an hour with a poem she had never liked, her goal to transcribe a page or two. Maybe she would begin to appreciate the poe...
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Although it does not attempt to revive the image of Frost as a benign, white-haired sage, this book presents him in a strikingly different light than did Lawrance Thompson's three-volume biography. William H. Pritchard sees Frost whole, demonstrating the complex interaction between the poet's life a...
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New edition of Gordimer criticism by Clingman (English, U. Mass.) with his new (13 pp.) prologue. Annotation copyright Book News, Inc. Portland, Or....
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The Birth of American Tourism: New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1830
מאת Richard H. Gassan
This title shows how tourism first emerged as a cultural activity in early nineteenth-century America. Today, the idea of traveling within the United States for leisure purposes is so commonplace it is hard to imagine a time when tourism was not a staple of our cultural life. Yet, as Richard H. Gass...
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In 1659, a group of Puritan dissenters made their way north from Hartford and Wethersfield, Connecticut, to a crook in the Connecticut River that cut through some of the most fertile land in New England. Three hundred and fifty years later, a group of distinguished scholars mark the founding of that...
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The first comprehensive history of criminal law in early New England....
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Beyond Vietnam: The Politics of Protest in Massachusetts, 1974-1990 (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
מאת Robert Surbrug
Narratives of the 1960s typically describe an ascending arc of political activism that peaked in 1968, then began a precipitous descent as the revolutionary dreams of the New Left failed to come to fruition. The May 1970 killings at Kent State often stand as an epitaph to a decade of protest, after ...
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In this freewheeling debut collection, Daniel A. Hoyt takes us from the swamps of Florida to the streets of Dresden, to the skies above America, to the tourist hotels of Acapulco, to the southwest corner of Nebraska. Along the way, we encounter a remarkable group of characters all struggling to find...
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During the 1630s, more than 14,000 people sailed from Britain bound for New England, constituting what has come to be known as the Great Migration. This book offers an extensive study of these emigrants, revealing their personal experiences and ancestral histories....
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This volume presents a survey of the rich heritage of the city of Massachusetts, showing how it has long exerted an influence disproportionate to its size. The authors argue that the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history....
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In the United States, where much of the daily discourse appears to be reduced to matters of dollars and cents, the poet is an interloper who traffics where he doesn t belong. L. S. Klatt is vividly aware of this phenomenon. For him, words are musical and versatile, more about play than utility, and ...
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A study of the architectural history of Boston and its suburbs. For this edition, Douglass Shand-Tucci has written three new chapters, carrying the story of Boston's built environment forward from 1950 to the present, and including a discussion of Frank Lloyd Wright's Boston work....
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No season in the history of baseball matched 1924 for escalating excitement and emotional investment by fans. It began with observers expecting yet another World Series between the Yankees and the Giants. It ended months later when the perennially hapless Washington Nationals (Senators), making thei...
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This is a study of the role Maine played in the fight for independence in America. The book covers the Stamp Act crisis, the onset of revolution, military activity, British occupation and efforts towards statehood. It deals with the social, political, cultural and military aspects of the War....
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The global spread of Buddhism is giving rise to new forms of religious complexity, both in the West and in Asia. This collection of essays examines the religious and cultural conversations that are occurring in this process from a diverse range of disciplinary, methodological, and literary perspecti...
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The monument by Augustus Saint-Gaudens to Robert Gould Shaw and the 54th Massachusetts Regiment, located on Boston Common, stands at a symbolic crossroads of American history. A reminder of the nation's ongoing struggle over race, it captures the Civil War's higher purpose the end of slavery and mem...
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Author of the National Book Award winning novel Middle Passage, Charles Johnson belongs to a generation of writers who collectively raised African American literature to a new position of prominence during the late twentieth century. In this book, Linda Furgerson Selzer takes an interdisciplinary ap...
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The Myth of the Addicted Army: Vietnam and the Modern War on Drugs (Culture, Politics, and the Cold War)
מאת Jeremy Kuzmarov
The image of the drug-addicted American soldier disheveled, glassy-eyed, his uniform adorned with slogans of antiwar dissent has long been associated with the Vietnam War. More specifically, it has persisted as an explanation for the U.S. defeat, the symbol of a demoralized army incapable of carryin...
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