Authors:Sarah W. Tracy, Sarah W. Tracy, Caroline Jean Acker,
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: drug, united, states, alcohol, history, american, consciousness, altering
Number of Pages: 414
Published: 2004-05-31
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1558494251
ISBN-13: 9781558494251

Virtually every American alive has at some point consumed at least one, and very likely more, consciousness altering drug. Even those who actively eschew alcohol, tobacco, and coffee cannot easily avoid the full range of psychoactive substances pervading the culture. With many children now taking Ritalin for Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder, professional athletes relying on androstenidione to bulk up, and the chronically depressed resorting to selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors such as Prozac, the early twenty-first century appears no less rife with drugs than previous periods.Yet

Author: Pariac Finnerty
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: shakespeare, dickinson, emily
Number of Pages: 280
Published: 2008-09-30
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 155849670X
ISBN-13: 9781558496705

One of the messages that Emily Dickinson wanted to communicate to the world was her great love of William Shakespeare her letters abound with references to him and his works. This book explores the many implications of her admiration for the Bard. Páraic Finnerty clarifies the essential role that Shakespeare had in Dickinson’s life by locating her allusions to his writings within a nineteenth-century American context and by treating reading as a practice that is shaped, to a large extent, by culture. In the process, he throws new light on Shakespeare s multifaceted presence in Dic

Author: Chaim M. Rosenberg
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: massachusetts, industrial, advertising, products, sale, goods
Number of Pages: 242
Published: 2007-04-30
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558495800
ISBN-13: 9781558495807

During the nineteenth century, Massachusetts was transformed from a fishing and farming economy into a highly urbanized industrial state. This book presents an appealing portrait of the diverse manufacturing enterprises that flourished from 1865 through the 1920s and the colorful trade cards they used to market their goods. More than thirty years after the Revolutionary War, the United States remained dependent on Europe for most manufactured goods. The War of 1812 persuaded a number of Boston merchants to invest in industries at home. Using waterpower, cotton from the South, and locally built

Author: Karen Brown
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: series, short, fiction, award, awp, amp, needles, stories, pins
Number of Pages: 176
Published: 2007-11-01
List price: $24.95
ISBN-10: 1558496173
ISBN-13: 9781558496170

Winner of the Grace Paley Prize in Short Fiction.In Pins and Needles , Karen Brown explores love and loss between mother and child, husband and wife, close friends, and virtual strangers. In many of these stories, Brown shows how love emerges as infidelity incongruous and disruptive, threatening the stability of daily life. In She Fell to Her Knees, Nell inherits the neglected house in which her mother died years before, and begins an affair with the neighbor. The narrator of Apparitions, who has recently returned the blind grandson she was raising to the care of his mother, invites a confused

Author: Alan Rogers
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: massachusetts, penalty, death, murder
Number of Pages: 489
Published: 2008-03-30
List price: $34.95
ISBN-10: 1558496335
ISBN-13: 9781558496330

For more than 300 years Massachusetts executed men and women convicted of murder, but with a sharp eye on due proceeding and against the backdrop of popular ambivalence about the death penalty’s morality, cruelty, efficacy, and constitutionality. In this authoritative book, Alan Rogers offers a comprehensive account of how the efforts of reformers and abolitionists and the Supreme Judicial Court’s commitment to the rule of law ultimately converged to end the death penalty in Massachusetts. In the seventeenth century, Governor John Winthrop and the Massachusetts General Court unders

Authors:Christian Goodwillie, Christian Goodwillie, Jane F.
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: hymnal, shaker, praises, millennial
Number of Pages: 368
Published: 2008-03-30
List price: $50.00
ISBN-10: 1558496394
ISBN-13: 9781558496392

A scholarly edition of a rare Shaker songbook, with words joined to music for the first time.From the very beginning in the 1770s, singing was an important part of the worship services of the Shakers, formally known as the United Society of Believers in Christ’s Second Appearing. Yet until the early nineteenth century, nearly all Shaker songs were wordless expressed in unknown tongues or as enthusiastic vocalizations. Only when Shaker missionaries moved west into Ohio and Kentucky did they begin composing hymn texts, chiefly as a means of conveying the sect’s unconventional religio

Authors:Elisabeth M. Hamin, Elisabeth M. Hamin, Priscilla Ge
Publisher: Univ. of Massachusetts Press
Keywords: planners, policymakers, citizens, guide, enhancing, communities, preserving
Number of Pages: 255
Published: 2007-09-30
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 1558495649
ISBN-13: 9781558495647

This book starts from the premise that each community chooses its future every day, through the incremental decisions made by planning and zoning boards and other citizen volunteers, as well as professional staff. The challenge is to ensure that these decisions support the preservation of what is special about the community, while still fostering necessary and appropriate growth. In this volume, twenty-nine experts from a variety of fields describe in very practical terms the "community preserva- tion" approach to these issues. As opposed to the top-down regulatory mechanisms that are somet