UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

The Press has a substantial backlist of titles in the field of American studies, broadly defined—books dealing with various aspects of the American experience. To date, many of these books have only been available in hardbound editions. Now, in partnership with Lightning Source, Inc., we are making more than 50 titles available in paperback editions using the latest print-on-demand technology. Retailers and libraries can order these new editions through Ingram Book Company and other suppliers. Individuals can order through local bookstores, online retailers, or directly from the Press (1-800-537-5487 or www.umass.edu/umpress).

Here is a list of the books in this program, arranged alphabetically by author, with the original year of publication noted in parentheses. These new paperback editions will be available in September 2009.

Cotton and Capital
Boston Businessmen and Antislavery Reform, 1854–1868
Richard H. Abbott
ISBN 978-1-55849-745-0
$29.95 paper, 304 pp. (1991)

Romantic Cyborgs
Authorship and Technology in the American Renaissance
Klaus Benesch
ISBN 978-1-55849-746-7
$28.95 paper, 256 pp. (2002)

The Greatest Menace
Organized Crime in Cold War America
Lee Bernstein
ISBN 978-1-55849-747-4
$29.95 paper, 252 pp. (2002)

When This Cruel War Is Over
The Civil War Letters of Charles Harvey Brewster
Edited by David W. Blight
ISBN 978-1-55849-748-1
$34.95 paper, 376 pp. (1992)

Revolutionary Lives
Anna Strunsky and William English Walling
James Boylan
ISBN 978-1-55849-749-8
$32.95 paper, 360 pp., 25 illus. (1998)

Rousing the Nation
Radical Culture in Depression America
Laura Browder
ISBN 978-1-55849-750-4
$26.95 paper, 240 pp., 10 illus. (1998)

The Mask of Fiction
Essays on W. D. Howells
John W. Crowley
ISBN 978-1-55849-751-1
$28.95 paper, 284 pp., 2 illus. (1989)

Lillie Devereux Blake
Retracing a Life Erased
Grace Farrell
ISBN 978-1-55849-752-8
$28.95 paper, 264 pp., 12 illus. (2002)

Harold Bloom
The Rhetoric of Romantic Vision
David Fite
ISBN 978-1-55849-753-5
$26.95 paper, 244 pp. (1985)

Precious Fire
Maud Russell and the Chinese Revolution
Karen Garner
ISBN 978-1-55849-754-2
$32.95 paper, 336 pp., 30 illus. (2003)

Princes, Peasants, and Other Polish Selves
Ethnicity in American Literature
Thomas S. Gladsky
ISBN 978-1-55849-755-9
$32.95 paper, 328 pp. (1992)

Black Students in the Ivory Tower
African American Student Activism at the University of Pennsylvania, 1967–1990
Wayne C. Glasker
ISBN 978-1-55849-756-6
$28.95 paper, 260 pp. (2002)

Annie Adams Fields
Woman of Letters
Rita K. Gollin
ISBN 978-1-55849-757-3
$34.95 paper, 400 pp., 12 illus. (2002)

Lost Time
On Remembering and Forgetting in Modern Culture
David Gross
ISBN 978-1-55849-758-0
$26.95 paper, 216 pp. (2000)

The Past in Ruins
Tradition and the Critique of Modernity
David Gross
ISBN 978-1-55849-759-7
$24.95 paper, 188 pp. (1992)

The Fugitive’s Gibraltar
Escaping Slaves and Abolitionism in New Bedford, Massachusetts
Kathryn Grover
ISBN 978-1-55849-760-3
$34.95 paper, 368 pp., 65 illus. (2001)

An Independent Woman
The Autobiography of Edith Guerrier
Edith Guerrier
Edited by Molly Matson
Foreword by Polly Welts Kaufman
ISBN 978-1-55849-761-0
$24.95 paper, 196 pp. (1992)

Illuminating Letters
Typography and Literary Interpretation
Edited by Paul C. Gutjahr and Megan L. Benton
ISBN 978-1-55849-762-7
$26.95 paper, 212 pp., 70 illus. (2000)

Strained Sisterhood
Gender and Class in the Boston Female Anti-Slavery Society
Debra Gold Hansen
ISBN 978-1-55849-763-4
$26.95 paper, 244 pp. (1993)

Getting at the Author
Reimagining Books and Reading in the Age of American Realism
Barbara Hochman
ISBN 978-1-55849-764-1
$24.95 paper, 200 pp. (2001)

Language and Political Meaning in Revolutionary America
John Howe
ISBN 978-1-55849-765-8
$29.95 paper, 296 pp., 15 illus. (2004)

Traditions and Reminiscences of Concord, Massachusetts, 1779–1878
Edward Jarvis
Edited by Sarah Chapin
Introduction by Robert A. Gross
ISBN 978-1-55849-766-5
$29.95 paper, 304 pp. (1993)

“Sing Out, Warning! Sing Out, Love!”
The Writings of Lee Hays
Edited with an introduction by Robert S. Koppelman
Foreword by Pete Seeger
ISBN 978-1-55849-767-2
$28.95 paper, 272 pp., 14 illus. (2004)

The Colored Cartoon
Black Presentation in American Animated Short Films, 1907–1954
Christopher P. Lehman
ISBN 978-1-55849-779-5
$22.95 paper, 152 pp. (2007)

Religion, Society, and Utopia in Nineteenth-Century America
Ira L. Mandelker
ISBN 978-1-55849-768-9
$24.95 paper, 192 pp. (1984)

American Worlds since Emerson
David Marr
ISBN 978-1-55849-769-6
$28.95 paper, 248 pp. (1988)

American Foreign Policy and the Utopian Imagination
Susan M. Matarese
ISBN 978-1-55849-770-2
$24.95 paper, 184 pp., 11 illus. (2001)

Imagining Niagara
The Meaning and Making of Niagara Falls
Patrick McGreevy
ISBN 978-1-55849-771-9
$26.95 paper, 208 pp. (1994)

Law and Liberty in Early New England
Criminal Justice and Due Process, 1620–1692
Edgar J. McManus
ISBN 978-1-55849-772-6
$29.95 paper, 296 pp. (1993)

A Vice for Voices
Reading Emily Dickinson’s Correspondence
Marietta Messmer
ISBN 978-1-55849-773-3
$29.95 paper, 296 pp. (2001)

Wilbur’s Poetry
Music in Scattering Time
Bruce Michelson
ISBN 978-1-55849-774-0
$28.95 paper, 268 pp. (1991)

Individualism and Its Discontents
Appropriations of Emerson, 1880–1950
Charles E. Mitchell
ISBN 978-1-55849-775-7
$26.95 paper, 232 pp. (1997)

Emily Dickinson
Monarch of Perception
Domhnall Mitchell
ISBN 978-1-55849-776-4
$34.95 paper, 368 pp. (1999)

Hawthorne’s Fuller Mystery
Thomas R. Mitchell
ISBN 978-1-55849-777-1
$32.95 paper, 332 pp. (1998)

Remarkable Modernisms
Contemporary American Authors on Modern Art
Daniel Morris
ISBN 978-1-55849-778-8
$26.95 paper, 208 pp., 12 illus. (2002)

Books, Maps, and Politics
A History of the Library of Congress, 1783–1861
Carl Ostrowski
ISBN 978-1-55849-780-1
$28.95 paper, 272 pp. (2004)

Walking Blues
Making Americans from Emerson to Elvis
Tim Parrish
ISBN 978-1-55849-781-8
$29.95 paper, 300 pp. (2001)

Reading on the Middle Border
The Culture of Print in Late-Nineteenth-Century Osage, Iowa, 1860–1900
Christine Pawley
ISBN 978-1-55849-782-5
$28.95 paper, 280 pp., 14 illus. (2005)

Bridging Three Worlds
Hungarian-Jewish Americans, 1848–1914
Robert Perlman
ISBN 978-1-55849-783-2
$32.95 paper, 316 pp. (1991)

Race Passing and American Individualism
Kathleen Pfeiffer
ISBN 978-1-55849-784-9
$24.95 paper, 176 pp. (2003)

Shelf Life
Essays and Reviews
William H. Pritchard
ISBN 978-1-55849-786-3
$32.95 paper, 320 pp. (2003)

Talking Back to Emily Dickinson, and Other Essays
William H. Pritchard
ISBN 978-1-55849-787-0
$32.95 paper, 320 pp. (1998)

Suffering Soldiers
Revolutionary War Veterans, Moral Sentiment, and Political Culture in the Early Republic
John P. Resch
ISBN 978-1-55849-788-7
$32.95 paper, 336 pp., 25 illus. (2000)

Utopian Audiences
How Readers Locate Nowhere
Kenneth M. Roemer
ISBN 978-1-55849-789-4
$32.95 paper, 312 pp., 14 illus. (2003)

Legacy of Rage
Jewish Masculinity, Violence, and Culture
Warren Rosenberg
ISBN 978-1-55849-790-0
$32.95 paper, 328 pp. (2001)

“The World’s Best Books”
Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library
Jay Satterfield
ISBN 978-1-55849-791-7
$28.95 paper, 256 pp. 13 illus., (2002)

Ethnicity on Parade
Inventing the Norwegian American through Celebration
April R. Schultz
ISBN 978-1-55849-792-4
$24.95 paper, 172 pp. (1995)

A History of the “Atlantic Monthly,” 1857–1909
Yankee Humanism at High Tide and Ebb
Ellery Sedgwick
ISBN 978-1-55849-793-1
$32.95 paper, 352 pp. (1994)

Charles Benson
Mariner of Color in the Age of Sail
Michael Sokolow
ISBN 978-1-55849-794-8
$28.95 paper, 248 pp., 15 illus. (2003)

Committed to Memory
Cultural Meditations of the Holocaust
Oren Baruch Stier
ISBN 978-1-55849-795-5
$29.95 paper, 296 pp., 16 illus. (2003)

Mobility and Migration
East Anglian Founders of New England, 1629–1640
Roger Thompson
ISBN 978-1-55849-796-2
$32.95 paper, 324 pp. (1994)

In the Master’s Eye
Representations of Women, Blacks, and Poor Whites in Antebellum Southern Literature
Susan J. Tracy
ISBN 978-1-55849-797-9
$32.95 paper, 320 pp. (1995)

Welfare Politics in Boston, 1910–1940
Susan Traverso
ISBN 978-1-55849-798-6
$24.95 paper, 184 pp. (2003)

The Devotion of These Women
Rhode Island in the Antislavery Network
Deborah Bingham Van Broekhoven
ISBN 978-1-55849-799-3
$29.95 paper, 304 pp., 21 illus., 3 maps (2002)

Obedient Sons
The Discourse of Youth and Generations in American Culture, 1630–1860
Glenn Wallach
ISBN 978-1-55849-800-6
$29.95 paper, 288 pp. (1997)

One Nation, One Blood
Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820–1870
Karen Woods Weierman
ISBN 978-1-55849-801-3
$26.95 paper, 224 pp. (2005)

Hungry Heart
The Literary Emergence of Julia Ward Howe
Gary Williams
ISBN 978-1-55849-802-0
$29.95 paper, 296 pp., 12 illus. (1999)

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