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Industrialization and the Waters of New England
- Copyright year: 1994
Heart of the Ngoni
Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu
- Copyright year: 1994
The Heart Is an Instrument
Portraits in Journalism
- Copyright year: 1994
God's Plot
Puritan Spirituality in Thomas Shepard's Cambridge
- Copyright year: 1994
The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams
- Copyright year: 1994
Poems from Captured Documents
A Bilingual Edition
- Copyright year: 1994
Baby, Let Me Follow You Down
The Illustrated Story of the Cambridge Folk Years
- Copyright year: 1994
Planning the City upon a Hill
Boston since 1630
- Copyright year: 1994
Claude McKay
A Black Poet's Struggle for Identity
- Copyright year: 1994
The Ecological City
Preserving and Restoring Urban Biodiversity
- Copyright year: 1994
Song of the Sky
Versions of Native American Song-Poems
- Copyright year: 1993
Ousmane Sembene
Dialogues with Critics and Writers
- Copyright year: 1993
Camp Grounds
Style and Homosexuality
- Copyright year: 1993
Boston Marriages
Romantic but Asexual Relationships among Contemporary Lesbians
- Copyright year: 1993
Intellectuals in Exile
Refugee Scholars and the New School for Social Research
- Copyright year: 1993
Alma Mater
Design and Experience in the Women's Colleges from Their Nineteenth-Century Beginnings to the 1930s
- Copyright year: 1993
Field Guide to Coastal Wetland Plants of the Southeastern United States
- Copyright year: 1993
Unbroken Thread
An Anthology of Plays by Asian American Women
- Copyright year: 1993
New England's Prospect
- Copyright year: 1993
Mill and Mansion
A Study of Architecture and Society in Lowell, Massachusetts, 1820-1865
- Copyright year: 1993
Working-Class Women in the Academy
Laborers in the Knowledge Factory
- Copyright year: 1993
The Culture of Inequality
- Copyright year: 1993
Black Legacy
America's Hidden Heritage
- Copyright year: 1993
Founding Farms
Portraits of Five Massachusetts Family Farms
- Copyright year: 1993
The "Counterfeit" Man
The True Story of the Boorn-Colvin Murder Case
- Copyright year: 1993
Frost
A Literary Life Reconsidered
- Copyright year: 1993
Literary Publishing in America, 1790-1850
- Copyright year: 1993
Women and Discourse in the Fiction of Marguerite Duras
Love, Legends, Language
- Copyright year: 1993
The Novels of Nadine Gordimer
History from the Inside
- Copyright year: 1992
Late Fire, Late Snow
New and Uncollected Poems
- Copyright year: 1992
Destiny and Race
Selected Writings, 1840-1898
- Copyright year: 1992
Reading "The Waste Land"
Modernism and the Limits of Interpretation
- Copyright year: 1992
Clambake
A History and Celebration of an American Tradition
- Copyright year: 1992
On Our Own Ground
The Complete Writings of William Apess, a Pequot
- Copyright year: 1992
Witchcraft in England, 1558-1618
- Copyright year: 1991
Showing Our Colors
Afro-German Women Speak Out
- Copyright year: 1991
Political Discourse in Exile
Karl Marx and the Jewish Question
- Copyright year: 1991
Propaganda and Aesthetics
The Literary Politics of Afro-American Magazines in the Twentieth Century
- Copyright year: 1991
Quabbin
The Accidental Wilderness
- Copyright year: 1990
Caribbean Women Writers
Essays from the First International Conference
- Copyright year: 1990
A Rumor of Revolt
The "Great Negro Plot" in Colonial New York
- Copyright year: 1990
The Last Generation
Work and Life in the Textile Mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, 1910-1960
- Copyright year: 1990
Rogues, Vagabonds, and Sturdy Beggars
A New Gallery of Tudor and Early Stuart Rogue Literature Exposing the Lives, Times, and Cozening Tricks of the Elizabethan Underworld
- Copyright year: 1990
Children and Play in the Holocaust
Games among the Shadows
- Copyright year: 1990