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From Skisport to Skiing
One Hundred Years of an American Sport, 1840-1940
- Copyright year: 1996
Italian Socialism
Between Politics and History
- Copyright year: 1996
Correspondent Colorings
Melville in the Marketplace
- Copyright year: 1996
Inscribing the Daily
Critical Essays on Women's Diaries
- Copyright year: 1996
In a Closet Hidden
The Life and Work of Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
- Copyright year: 1996
Northeastern Indian Lives, 1632-1816
- Copyright year: 1996
Women of the Commonwealth
Work, Family, and Social Change in Ninteenth-Century Massachusetts
- Copyright year: 1996
The Last Selection
A Child's Journey through the Holocaust
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The Blues Detective
A Study of African American Detective Fiction
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Remembering Elizabeth Bishop
An Oral Biography
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Deep Are the Roots
Memoirs of a Black Expatriate
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The Viet Nam War/The American War
Images and Representations in Euro-American and Vietnamese Exile Narratives
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Mapping Mortality
The Persistence of Memory and Melancholy in Early Modern England
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Decadence and the Making of Modernism
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Roxana's Children
The Biography of a Nineteenth-Century Vermont Family
- Copyright year: 1995
Labyrinths
Explorations in the Critical History of Ideas
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The Best of What We Are
Reflections on the Nicaraguan Revolution
- Copyright year: 1995
The Rebel's Silhouette
Selected Poems
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The Quaker City, or The Monks of Monk Hall
A Romance of Philadelphia Life, Mystery, and Crime
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Recovered Land
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Planets in Peril
A Critical Study of C. S. Lewis's Ransom Trilogy
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After the Future
The Paradoxes of Postmodernism & Contemporary Russian Culture
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The Postal Confessions
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Mark Twain on the Loose
A Comic Writer and the American Self
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C.L.R. James
His Intellectual Legacies
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Revolution Downeast
The War for American Independence in Maine
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The Wall in My Backyard
East German Women in Transition
- Copyright year: 1995
Nature Incorporated
Industrialization and the Waters of New England
- Copyright year: 1994
Heart of the Ngoni
Heroes of the African Kingdom of Segu
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The Heart Is an Instrument
Portraits in Journalism
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God's Plot
Puritan Spirituality in Thomas Shepard's Cambridge
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The Education of Mrs. Henry Adams
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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