University Press Of New England: 148 books
The Citizen Poets of Boston
A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2016
Welcome to Boston in the early years of the republic. Prepare to journey by stagecoach with a young man moving to the “bustling city”; stop by a tavern for food, drink, and conversation; eavesdrop on clerks and customers in a dry-goods shop; get stuck in what might have been Boston’s first traffic...
Final Confession
The Unsolved Crimes of Phil Cresta
Language: English
Release Date: February 12, 2013
Phil Cresta was no run-of-the-mill thief. Mastermind of the legendary Brink's armored truck robbery and a string of countless other high-stakes heists, he stole more than ten million dollars in escapades that often were breathtakingly daring and at times marvelously inventive. The robberies baffled...
Guy Wolff
Master Potter in the Garden
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2013
If you mention Guy Wolff to a serious gardener, that gardener will almost certainly admit to either owning a Guy Wolff flowerpot or coveting one. Wolff’s pots—some small and perfect for a sunny windowsill, others massive and just right for a favorite outdoor spot—are widely considered to be...
Defending the Master Race
Conservation, Eugenics, and the Legacy of Madison Grant
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Scholars have labeled Madison Grant everything from the “nation’s most influential racist” to the “greatest conservationist that ever lived.” His life illuminates early twentieth-century America as it was heading toward the American Century, and his legacy is still very much with us today,...
Good Naked
Reflections on How to Write More, Write Better, and Be Happier
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2017
In Good Naked, acclaimed author Joni B. Cole shows readers how to make the writing process not only more productive, but less maddening, more inviting, and even joyful, at least a good part of the time. She explains how sharing early drafts is “good naked”—you’re exposing your creative process...
City of the Soul
Rome and the Romantics
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
City of the Soul critically examines how an international cast of visitors fashioned Rome’s image, visual and literary, in the century between 1770 and 1870—from the era of the Grand Tour to the onset of mass tourism. The Eternal City emerges not only as an intensely physical place but also as...
Crab Wars
A Tale of Horseshoe Crabs, Bioterrorism, and Human Health
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2014
Surviving almost unmolested for 300 million years, the horseshoe crab is now the object of an intense legal and ethical struggle involving marine biologists, environmentalists, US government officials, biotechnologists, and international corporations. The source of this friction is the discovery 25...
by Terry Ann Knopf
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2017
There are some two hundred TV markets in the country, but only one—Boston, Massachusetts—hosted a Golden Age of local programming. In this lively insider account, Terry Ann Knopf chronicles the development of Boston television, from its origins in the 1970s through its decline in the early 1990s....
by Thomas Durant Visser
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2012
The porch, whether simple or grand, evokes feelings of welcome, comfort, and nostalgia in all of us, yet there has been little published on the history of this omnipresent architectural feature. This book examines how porches in their many forms have evolved in the United States and Canada through...
Granite, Fire, and Fog
The Natural and Cultural History of Acadia
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Acadia National Park, on Maine’s Mount Desert Island, is among the most popular national parks in the United States. From the road, visitors can experience magnificent vistas of summit and sea, but on a more intimate scale, equally compelling views abound along Acadia’s hiking trails. Tom Wessels,...
Fanny & Joshua
The Enigmatic Lives of Frances Caroline Adams and Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Joshua Chamberlain has fascinated historians and readers ever since his service in the Civil War caused his commanding officers to sit up and take notice when the young professor was on the field. What makes a man a gifted soldier and natural leader? In this compelling book, Diane Monroe Smith argues...
Trespassing
An Inquiry into the Private Ownership of Land
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Trespassing, “a thoughtful, beautifully written addition to environmental and regional literature” (Kirkus Reviews), is a historical survey of the evolution of private ownership of land, concentrating on the various land uses of a 500-acre tract of land over a 350-year period. What began as wild...
Walking Towards Walden
A Pilgrimage in Search of Place
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
Walking Towards Walden is an exploration of the sense of place, what it means, how it developed, and why it matters. Based on an eighteenth-century literary device in which a group of friends undertake a walking tour and discuss a certain subject, this wide-ranging story emerges from the author’s...
The Wildest Place on Earth
Italian Gardens and the Invention of Wilderness
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
This is the ironic story of how Italian Renaissance and Baroque gardens encouraged the preservation of the American wilderness and ultimately fostered the creation of the world’s first national park system. Told via Mitchell’s sometimes disastrous and humorous travels—from the gardens of southern...