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Women and Work in the Age of Revolution
Marla R. Miller
"This is a wonderful book. It exemplifies prodigious research and unusually creative reading and linking of primary documents. "—Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-545-6
336 pp., 31 illus. 8 color plates, 2006
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Edited by Steven Mintz and John Stauffer
Leading scholars explore the moral dimension of American history.
"The overall theme of this book is really important at this moment in history"—David Blight
Paper, 978-1-55849-570-8
424 pp., Jan. 2007
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Isaac Newton Youngs, 1793–1865
Glendyne R. Wergland
Winner of the Outstanding Publication Award from the Communal Studies Association
"One of the finest pieces of scholarship ever done on the Shakers."—Stephen J. Paterwic
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-522-7
348 pp., 24 illus., 2006
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Boston, 1825–1845
Thomas H. O'Connor
"O'Connor is the most prolific of the city's historians, the author of books both distinguished and popular. But Athens may stand as his most probing and provocative."—Boston Globe
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-518-0
240 pp., 17 illus., 2006
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Henry Ford's Village Industries
Howard P. Segal
"A solid history of Ford's fascinating village industries [and] a sophisticated analysis of the history of decentralization in American industry."—History: Reviews of New Books
Cloth, ISBN 978-1-55849-481-7
280 pp., 25 illus., 2005
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The Story of the Garrison Children
Harriet Hyman Alonso
"Alonso has made a signal contribution to the historiography of reform movements by presenting an intimate portrait of the private world of the most prominent reform family in the nineteenth-century United States."—The History Teacher
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-381-0
432 pp., 17 illus., 2002
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A Concise History
Richard D. Brown and Jack Tager
"The only general history of the state currently in print, this is an invaluable book."—Yankee
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-249-3
400 pp., 42 illus., 2000
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Products and Advertising in the Massachusetts Industrial Age
Chaim M. Rosenberg
A beautifully illustrated survey of Massachusetts businesses in the Gilded Age. "The inventors that Dr. Rosenberg so ably chronicles enhanced the needs and processes of ordinary life."—Sam Bass Warner, Jr. (from the Foreword)
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-580-7
248 pp., 90 color and 35 black-and-white illus., March 2007
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Cathy Stanton
"One of the best case studies in the world of public history I have yet read, and a very important story to tell."—Edward T. Linenthal
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-547-0
320 pp., 15 illus., 2006
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Gerald W. McFarland
"An excellent book, one that provides a full and fascinating account of this New York City neighborhood during the Progressive era."—American Historical Review
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-502-9
288 pp., 40 illus., 2005
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Edited by Sarah W. Tracy and Caroline Jean Acker
"There are no shrill polemics here and no pretentious proposals for tougher laws or less stringent policies. What the reader will find are interesting snapshots of an erratic historical trajectory that shows how the social context matters more than biochemistry. . . . Each essay is enjoyable as well as informative, clear, well organized, and self-contained, with end notes and an ample bibliography."—New England Journal of Medicine
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-425-1
424 pp., 2004
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Roberta Price
Winner of the Zia Award from the New Mexico Press Women
"A wonderful memoir of learning, doing, sharing, and loving. . . . The sunshine of this book is in the telling: humorous, resonant, occasionally pained, but always life-embracing."—ForeWord
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-573-9
376 pp., 13 color and 47 black-and-white illus., 2006
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Edited by Francis G. Couvares
SECOND EDITION, WITH A NEW PREFACE
"Offers an excellent overview of the issues involved in film censorship and American culture and should be very useful as supplementary reading for American history and culture courses. "—American Studies
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-575-3
352 pp., 13 illus., 2006
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James Peck
"This stunning review and interpretation of the National Security culture that has dominated policymaking since World War II is a remarkable achievement."—Noam Chomsky
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-537-1
352 pp., 2006
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Jonathan Nashel
"A specter is haunting Iraq, the specter of Edward Lansdale. . . . In truth, as Nashel convincingly demonstrates, the folksy, harmonica-playing Lansdale may have been able to befriend Filipinos and Vietnamese, but he remained blind to the profound cultural differences that separated them from Americans."—New York Times Book Review
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-464-0
304 pp., 20 illus., 2005
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Daniel Horowitz
Winner of the Eugene M. Kayden Award for the best book in humanities published by an American university press
A Choice Outstanding Academic Book
"How—and why—have Americans struggled to make sense of consumption, morality, democracy, and capitalism? Horowitz elegantly and insightfully explores America's preeminent 20th-century answers."—Choice
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-504-3
352 pp., 17 illus., 2005
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Allen Guttmann
Winner of the Annual Book Award of the north American Society for Sport History
"Of all the leading historians of sport in the world, I know of only one or two who might have come close to accomplishing what Guttmann has produced herein—and none who would have done so in such a readable manner."—Roberta J. Park
Paper, ISBN 978-1-55849-470-1
464 pp., 45 illus., 2004
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