Founded in 1963, the University of Massachusetts Press publishes scholarship, literature, and books for general readers that reflect the quality and diversity of intellectual life on UMass campuses, in their region, and around the world. UMass Press has sold more than 2,000,000 volumes since its inception, and currently has over 1,400 titles in print.
In recent years, the Press has focused primarily on books in the field of American studies broadly defined—books that explore the history, politics, literature, culture, and environment of the United States—as well as works with a transnational perspective. In addition to publishing works of scholarship, the Press produces books of more general interest for a wider readership and launched its regional trade imprint, Bright Leaf in 2017.
American Architects and Their Books to 1848
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Can She Bake a Cherry Pie?
American Women and the Kitchen in the Twentieth Century
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Vietnam and Other American Fantasies
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Indian Women and French Men
Rethinking Cultural Encounter in the Western Great Lakes
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Young Charles Sumner and the Legacy of the American Enlightenment, 1811-1851
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Risky Writing
Self-Disclosure and Self-Transformation in the Classroom
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Reflections in Prison
Voices From the South African Liberation Struggle
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Perspectives on American Book History
Artifacts and Commentary
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The New Deal and the Triumph of Liberalism
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Phantoms of a Blood-Stained Period
The Complete Civil War Writings of Ambrose Bierce
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Making Meaning
"Printers of the Mind" and Other Essays
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Father Mathew's Crusade
Temperance in Nineteenth-Century Ireland and Irish America
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Beyond the Battlefield
Race, Memory, and the American Civil War
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Massachusetts Politics and Public Policy
Studies in Power and Leadership
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Translation and Power
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"Venus in Boston" and Other Tales of Nineteenth-Century City Life
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Rainbow Quest
The Folk Music Revival and American Society, 1940-1970
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Growing Up Abolitionist
The Story of the Garrison Children
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St. Augustine's Bones
A Microhistory
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Despite Good Intentions
Why Development Assistance to the Third World Has Failed
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Beyond Boundaries
The Intellectual tradition of Trinidad and Tobago in the Nineteenth Century
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Elizabeth Murray
A Woman's Pursuit of Independence in Eighteenth-Century America
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Mortal Stakes
Hunters and Hunting in Contemporary America
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Staging Growth
Modernization, Development, and the Global Cold War
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Swinging the Machine
Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars
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The Mysteries of Elizabeth I
Selections from English Literary Renaissance
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Conquering the American Wilderness
The Triumph of European Warfare in the Colonial Northeast
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Crossing the River
A Memoir of the American Left, the Cold War, and Life in East Germany
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Writing Indians
Literacy, Christianity, and Native Community in Early America
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Imperial Brotherhood
Gender and the Making of Cold War Foreign Policy
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Man-Making Words
Selected Poems of Nicolas Guillen
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Passing for White
Race, Religion, and the Healy Family, 1820-1920
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The Communitarian Moment
The Radical Challenge of the Northampton Association
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Language and Tradition in Ireland
Continuities and Displacements
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Revolting Bodies?
The Struggle to Redefine Fat Identity
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Joint Enterprises
Collaborative Drama and the Institutionalization of the English Renaissance Theater
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Don't Mean Nothing
Short Stories of Vietnam
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Giving Their Word
Conversations with Contemporary Poets
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Altering American Consciousness
The History of Alcohol and Drug Use in the United States, 1800-2000
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Disciplining Gender
Rhetorics of Sex Identity in Contemporary U.S. Culture
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Primer of the Obsolete
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The Makers of Trinity Church in the City of Boston
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Philippe Aries and the Politics of French Cultural History
- Copyright year: 2004