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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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Contested and Dangerous Seas

North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion

By Colin J. Davis

University of Massachusetts Press

North Atlantic Fishermen, Their Wives, Unions, and the Politics of Exclusion

Small-Town News and Political Culture in Federalist New Hampshire

A Cultural History of the Nation's Great Maritime Museums

Emily Dickinson and Nineteenth-Century American Popular Culture

Young Poets and Questions of Agency

Seeing Beauty in Early America

Revised and Updated for a Digital Age

Fugitive Slaves, Political Crisis, and Cultural Transformation in the Coming of the Civil War

A Story of Black New England and the Fight for Racial Justice

Sexual and Social Justice in Higher Education

The Tunnel and the Struggle over Television News in Cold War America

Free Soil in Antislavery Boston

Youth Gangs, Violence, and Positive Change

Loyalist Women Writers of the American Revolution

The Use and Abuse of Libel Law during the Long Civil Rights Struggle

Natural Foods and the Consumer Counterculture since the 1960s

Law, Violence, and American Popular Radicalism in the Age of Monopoly

Foreign Captivity and Nationalism in the Early United States

An Environmental History of the Southwest Borderlands

Oysters and Aquaculture in the Progressive Era

Thoreau's Legacy in an Unsettled Land

A People's History

The Politics of Memory in a St. Louis Town House

Stories

a Fem-Noir

Lives Changed by Chance

Literary Translation in the Soviet Union, 1960-1991

The Writers' War Board in World War II

Nineteenth-Century Publishing and the Rise of Summer Reading

The Telegraph, Libel, and Press Freedom in the Progressive Era

The Vietnam War and Pham Xuan An's Dangerous Game

William Hardin Burnley and the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World

Wilderness Politics and Recreational Development in the Adirondack State Park, 1920-1980

Reading Charity in Early Modern England

Nineteenth-Century Physician and Woman’s Rights Advocate

The Meaning of Nature in the Making of an Environmental Icon

Celebrating Swedish Settlement in America

The Selected Letters of S. N. Behrman and His Editors at "The New Yorker"

Pan-African Activism and the Global Color Line

Writing, Performance, and Community in Youth Spoken Word Poetry