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The poems in Rebecca Black's first volume, Cottonlandia, move through myth and landscape, beginning in the deep South's ""shimmer and tar"" and ending in the ""soot and orange dolour"" of the California desert. Black's poems describe the archaeology of the apocalypse.

No season in baseball history has matched that of 1924 for escalating excitement. In alternating chapters of narrative and analysis, Reed Browning explains how the season marked the last time a team playing old-fashioned ""inside"" baseball won the championship.

Many of the main currents of American life have flowed through Northampton, a town situated on the banks of the Connecticut River in western Massachusetts. To commemorate the 350th anniversary of the founding of Northampton, ""A Place Called Paradise"" brings together a broad range of writing on the city's rich heritage.

Robert J. Spear presents the untold story behind the importation and release of the gypsy moth in North America and the astonishing series of coincidences that brought the state of Massachusetts to a decade-long war against this tenacious insect.

Dorothy West (1907-1998) is known as a member of the Harlem Renaissance. In this book, Professors Mitchell and Davis provide a carefully researched profile of West and her circle that serves as an introduction to a collection of her out of print, little known, or unpublished writings, supplemented by many family photographs.

Edward Said once noted that ""exile is compelling to think about, but terrible to experience."" The Dispossessed, a collection of thoughtful essays and critical commentaries on the meaning of exile, reverberates with the significance of Said's terse comment.

Philippe Aries (1914-1984) was a singular figure in French intellectual life. He was both a political reactionary and a sectarian royalist who supported the Vichy. In this book, Patrick H. Hutton explores the relationship between Aries's life and thought and evaluates his contribution to modern historiography, in France and abroad.

Debates about editorial proprieties have been at the center of Emily Dickinson scholarship since the 1981 publication of ?Manuscript Books of Emily Dickinson?. This work sets out to test the hypothesis of Dickinson's textual radicalism, and its consequences for readers, students, and teachers.

People keep the past by writing histories, by telling stories, creating pictures, collecting memorabilia, preserving old homes and tracing genealogies. This study shows how the pastkeepers of Deerfield, Massachusetts, have long illustrated this human yearning to connect with past and place.

Organized in May 1863 to meet the Union Army's growing manpower needs, the Invalid Corps was a unique military unit. This volume brings together some 150 letters written by Colonel Charles F. Johnson, an officer who served with the 18th Veteran Reserve Corps after sustaining debilitating wounds during the Seven Day's Battles in June 1862.

Illuminating the emerging culture of celebrity in early 19th century America, this text tells the intertwined stories of the Arctic explorer Elisha Kent Kane and the spiritualist medium Margaret Fox and examines their unlikely relationship.

With this volume, poet Robert Bagg completes his translation of the three plays in which Sophocles dramatized the agony and destruction inflicted on Oedipus and his family, the royal house of Thebes. To the newly revised Oedipus the King, first published in 1982, Bagg adds Antigone and Oedipus at Kolonos.

The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse. In this powerful story collection - the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam - Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective.

An A to Z guide to the heritage and cultural attractions of Massachussetts, designed for both visitors and residents.

Over half of the plays of the English Renaissance were written collaboratively. This text explores the diverse motivations driving dramatic collaborations, traces the relationships between writers that developed from such energies and analyses their rhetorical effects in individual plays.

This work examines a number of sites of struggle over the cultural meaning of fatness. It is grounded in scholarship on identity politics, the social construction of beauty, and the subversion of hegemonic medical ideas about the dangers of fatness.

The story of a mixed-race family in 19th century America, Michael Healy, a white Irish immigrant planter in Georgia; his African American slave and wife Eliza, and their nine children. Legally slaves these brothers and sisters were smuggled north prior to the Civil War to be educated.

This work examines often overlooked writings of Christian Indians in early America. Wyss argues that the Native Americans who converted to Christianity forged a unique identity as they negotiated their place and power between Native American tribal culture and Protestant Anglo America.

In this debut collection, Michael Carlson offers poems that combine the concrete and the musical, while embodying a tendency toward contradiction. He writes by working with rhythms, structures, images and the sounds of words, and the volume covers many forms and personal subjects.

This collection of 11 finely wrought stories examines the human condition across geographic and thematic boundaries. They look at luck and love, sorrow and safety, marriages falling apart and bargains struck, all with a consistent, sure voice and a pattern of recurring images.

A critique of the development assistance industry written by a longtime insider, this text reviews the major trends from the 1960s to the 1990s in order to highlight the major failings within the industry.

This examination of hunting in contemporary America uses interviews, opinion surveys and demographic statistics to analyze the meanings that people attach to hunting; who hunts, how they compare socially and politically with non-hunters, and how they see themselves and are seen by others.

The famous abolitionist William Lloyd Garrison had seven children, who all went on to assume positions in the radical causes of their day, including racial justice, women's rights anti-imperialism and peace. This work looks at their lives and achievements.

Focusing on the advertising policies of five publishing houses in the 1920s and 1930s, Catherine Turner here examines the process by which "highbrow" works of fiction were packaged, promoted, and sold to a mainstream American readership.

This work explores how the contested memory of the Civil War has shaped American race relations. It demonstrates several ways to probe the history of memory, to understand how and why groups of Americans have constructed versions of the past in the service of contemporary social needs.

Based on four Nielson Lectures, this text examines a series of ""promenade poems"", lyrics that follow a poetic speaker moving through a landscape and responding to it. A range of poets are considered including Amy Clampitt, A.R. Ammons, Petrarch, Milton, Vaughan, Marvell, Wordsworth and Whitman.

In 1976, while imprisoned on Robben Island, Nelson Mandela secretly wrote the bulk of his authobiography, ""Long Walk to freedom"". The manuscript was smuggled out, along with essays by other prominent political prisoners, by fellow prisoner Mac Maharaj. These essays are published in this volume.

The final volume in a trilogy of works that examine the impact of writing and reading about traumatic subjects. Jeffrey Berman describes ways in which teachers can encourage college students to write safely on a wide range of subjects deemed too personal or dangerous for the classroom.

This volume, edited by two of McKenzie's former students, brings together a wide range of his writings on bibliography, the book trade and the ""sociology of texts"".

In the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old.