Reading and Writing Nature

Samuel Eliot Morison's Historical World

In her study of nearly 400 Rheinlieder published during the 1840s -- including the works of Schum...

Carrie Catt

The Historical Eye

H. D.

Colorful memoirs from a wide range of Americans just after the nation's birth.

Set in the South's segregated school system in the 1920s and 1930s, this powerful novel about a m...

This pioneering anthology presents an interdisciplinary collage of women's experiences with the l...

Recapturing the drama and color of the historic sporting event, the author shows how the first wo...

Winner of the Samuel French Morse Poetry Prize

An exhaustive analysis of a wide range of social and critical theory.

The first major study of white-collar crime prosecutions by local governments.

Fuses biographical and musical analysis to provide a multi-layered portrait of one of the most in...

This work compiles for the first time in one volume significant recent articles, book reviews, do...

Overcrowded prisons and the high cost of incarceration are among the most complex issues surround...

Exoticism has flourished in western music since the 17th century. A blend of familiar and unfamil...

Vivien Stern contends that prisons, a mainstay of punishment, are an anachronistic and probably c...

The Origins of American Capitalism

Paradise Lost and the Rise of the American Republic

Explores how four American writers responded to the overwhelming fragmentation of their 19th-cent...

Boston's Wayward Children

Set in the South's segregated school system in the 1920s and 1930s, this powerful novel about a m...

The Radical Future of Liberal Feminism

The unprecedented growth of hate movements on both sides of the Atlantic is thoroughly explored i...

Writing the Female Voice

' A brilliant and scholarly demonstration of the way a single act of violence can affect the cour...

While traditional policing celebrated male officers as masculine crime fighters who were tough, a...

The first biography of the popular, long-serving congressman from South Boston

Literature and Science

A riveting first-hand account of life as an undercover drug agent.

Baseball's fall classic was born in October 1903, when the Boston Americans, the American League ...

The Conceptual Practices of Power

Before Whitey Bulger's bloody reign, before the Boston FBI was torn apart by indictments and reve...

While the number of incarcerated women is dramatically escalating, women prisoners throughout the...

Selected Letters of Charles Sumner

A pioneering, diverse collection that provides insight into the powerful motive of self-expressio...

In 1956 Grace Metalious published Peyton Place, the novel that unbuttoned the straitlaced New Eng...

Philadelphia Quaker Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker (1735-1807) wrote in her diary almost continuously...

In this well-researched and balanced account, Ronald Taylor examines the emotional and intellectu...

An in-depth examination of the New York Police Department and its striking success in fighting cr...

The Spiritual Self in Everyday Life

The Sentencing Commission and Its Guidelines

Women's Voices, Women's Lives offers a wealth of primary sources on women's experiences in coloni...

On to Victory

An anthology of 24 essays on major developments in contemporary criminological theory

Judge, Lawyer, Victim, Thief

Just Deserts for Corporate Criminals