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 Orient
Imagining the East from the Colonial Era through the Twentieth Century
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Upstaging the Cold War
American Dissent and Cultural Diplomacy, 1940-1960
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Binocular Vision
The Politics of Representation in Birdwatching Field Guides
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Not Yet a Placeless Land
Tracking an Evolving American Geography
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Global Warming and Political Intimidation
How Politicians Cracked Down on Scientists as the Earth Heated Up
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"Uncle Tom's Cabin" and the Reading Revolution
Race, Literacy, Childhood, and Fiction, 1851-1911
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Who Deserves to Die?
Constructing the Executable Subject
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Sports and American Art from Benjamin West to Andy Warhol
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What Adolescents Ought to Know
Sexual Health Texts in Early Twentieth-Century America
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Making War and Minting Christians
Masculinity, Religion, and Colonialism in Early New England
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The Law of Miracles
And Other Stories
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Literary Journalism across the Globe
Journalistic Traditions and Transnational Influences
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Northern Hospitality
Cooking by the Book in New England
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The Battle for the Mind
War and Peace in the Era of Mass Communication
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Lost Time
On Remembering and Forgetting in Late Modern Culture
- Copyright year: 2009
Sisters in the Faith
Shaker Women and Equality of the Sexes
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Reading Emily Dickinson's Letters
Critical Essays
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Town Meeting
Practicing Democracy in Rural New England
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The Portable Queen
Elizabeth I and the Politics of Ceremony
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Derelict Paradise
Homelessness and Urban Development in Cleveland, Ohio
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Individualism and Its Discontents
Appropriations of Emerson, 1880-1950
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Emily Dickinson
Monarch of Perception
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Portraits of a Few of the People I’ve Made Cry
Stories
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Frederic Crowninshield
A Renaissance Man in the Gilded Age
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"The World's Best Books"
Taste, Culture, and the Modern Library
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The Dance of the Comedians
The People, the President, and the Performance of Political Standup Comedy in America
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Images of Black Modernism
Verbal and Visual Strategies of the Harlem Renaissance
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A World among These Islands
Essays on Literature, Race, and National Identity in Antillean America
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Perfectly Average
The Pursuit of Normality in Postwar America
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Influenza and Inequality
One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918
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Harriet Hosmer
A Cultural Biography
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Measuring America
How Economic Growth Came to Define American Greatness in the Late Twentieth Century
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Forever Doo-Wop
Race, Nostalgia, and Vocal Harmony
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One Nation, One Blood
Interracial Marriage in American Fiction, Scandal, and Law, 1820-1870
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Nine Choices
Johnny Cash and American Culture
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Boston
Voices and Visions
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Knocking on Heaven’s Door
Six Minor Leaguers in Search of the Baseball Dream
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Companionship in Grief
Love and Loss in the Memoirs of C. S. Lewis, John Bayley, Donald Hall, Joan Didion, and Calvin Trillin
- Copyright year: 2010