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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.

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Inventing the Addict

Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature

By Susan Zieger

University of Massachusetts Press

Drugs, Race, and Sexuality in Nineteenth-Century British and American Literature

A Cultural Edition

The Life and Photography of F. Holland Day

White-to-Black Passing in American Culture

New York, the Hudson Valley, and American Culture, 1790-1835

Masson v. New Yorker and the First Amendment

Almanacs and Health Advice in Early America

From Famine Ireland to Immigrant America

Jazz, Basketball, and Black Culture in 1930s America

A Documentary and Critical Anthology

Destruction and Preservation

Henry Ford's Village Industries

The Superweapon and the American Imagination

The Cultural Life of Jews in Small-Town New England

Sympathy and the Indian Question in Antebellum Literature

The Long, Dirty, Contentious, Incredibly Expensive but Eventually Triumphant History of Boston Harbor-A Unique Environmental Success Story