University Press Of New England imprint: 82 books
American Faces
A Cultural History of Portraiture and Identity
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Portraits. We know what they are, but why do we make them? Americans have been celebrating themselves in portraits since the arrival of the first itinerant portrait painters to the colonies. They created images to commemorate loved ones, glorify the famous, establish our national myths, and honor...
by John Fry
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2017
This is the definitive history of the sport that has exhilarated and infatuated about 30 million Americans and Canadians over the course of the last fifty years. Consummate insider John Fry chronicles the rise of a ski culture and every aspect of the sport’s development, including the emergence...
Confederate Bushwhacker
Mark Twain in the Shadow of the Civil War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2013
Confederate Bushwhacker is a microbiography set in the most important and pivotal year in the life of its subject. In 1885, Mark Twain was at the peak of his career as an author and a businessman, as his own publishing firm brought out not only the U.S. edition of Adventures of Huckleberry Finn but...
by Joseph M. Bagley
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
History is right under our feet; we just need to dig a little to find it. Though not the most popular construction project, Boston’s Big Dig has contributed more to our understanding and appreciation of the city’s archaeological history than any other recent event. Joseph M. Bagley, city archaeologist...
Critical Hours
Search and Rescue in the White Mountains
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2018
A misread map, a sudden storm, a forgotten headlamp—and suddenly a leisurely hike turns into a treacherous endeavor. In the past decade, inexpensive but sophisticated navigation devices and mobile phones have led to alarming levels of overconfidence on the trail. Adding to this worrisome trend,...
Working with Your Woodland
A Landowner’s Guide
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2012
Packed with information and illustrations, Working with Your Woodland has given woodland owners all the basics necessary for making key decisions since it was first published in 1983. The revised edition reflects the fundamental changes in the way private woodlands are viewed. Today they must be seen...
A Documentary History of Communism in Russia
From Lenin to Gorbachev
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2001
An extensive revision of the valued but unobtainable 1960 edition. Nearly 300 key documents are now readily available in translation.
No Place But Here
A Teacher’s Vocation in a Rural Community
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2015
Weaving anecdotal narrative with trenchant reflections on his profession, Garret Keizer offers one teacher's answer to the hue and cry over the crisis in education. An English teacher in rural Vermont, he writes of the opposing realities he faces every day: the promise and energy of the young and...
by Bruce R. Sievers
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2010
Among the greatest challenges facing humanity in the twenty-first century is that of sustaining a healthy civil society, which depends upon managing the tension between individual and collective interests. Bruce R. Sievers explores this issue by investigating ways to balance the public and private...
The Myth of Progress
Toward a Sustainable Future
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
In this compelling and cogently argued book, Tom Wessels demonstrates how our current path toward progress, based on continual economic expansion and inefficient use of resources, runs absolutely contrary to three foundational scientific laws that govern all complex natural systems. It is a myth,...
by Emile Guillaumin
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
In order to “show the gents of Moulins, of Paris and elsewhere, just what a sharecropper’s life is like,” Emile Guillaumin, under the guise of fiction, wrote this story of “Tiennon,” a French peasant born fifty years before him in 1823. A peasant himself, Guillaumin was unique in that, after...
Twain at Sea
The Maritime Writings of Samuel Langhorne Clemens
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2018
Samuel Clemens (1835–1910) repeatedly traversed the ocean during his globetrotting life. A keen observer, the man who recast himself as Mark Twain was fascinated by seafaring. This book compiles selections ranging from his first voyage in 1866—San Francisco to Hawaii—to his circumnavigation...
The Story of Vermont
A Natural and Cultural History, Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2015
In this second edition of their classic text, Klyza and Trombulak use the lens of interconnectedness to examine the geological, ecological, and cultural forces that came together to produce contemporary Vermont. They assess the changing landscape and its inhabitants from its pre-human evolution up...
by Roxana Robinson
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2013
Roxana Robinson's great gift for the telling detail and strong sense of the emotional shoals lurking just beneath even the calmest surface have inspired comparisons to literary greats like John Cheever, Henry James, and Edith Wharton. In her first novel, we meet Laura, a 29-year-old wife, mother,...