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From Gift to Commodity
In this rich interdisciplinary study, Hildegard Hoeller argues that nineteenth-century American culture was driven by and deeply occupied with the tension between gift and market …
The Archeology of New Hampshire
Several states already boast volumes showcasing their archeological history, but not New Hampshire--until now. David R. Starbuck's volume fills that void. Going beyond standard …
Transatlantic Conversations
This unique interdisciplinary essay collection offers a fresh perspective on the active involvement of American women authors in the nineteenth-century transatlantic world. …
Meat, Modernity, and the Rise of the Slaughterhouse
Over the course of the nineteenth century, factory slaughterhouses replaced the hand-slaughter of livestock by individual butchers, who often performed this task in back rooms, …
Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion
Edith Wharton and the Making of Fashion places the iconic New York figure and her writing in the context of fashion history and shows how dress lies at the very center of her …
Two Vermonts
Two Vermonts establishes a little-known fact about Vermont: that the state's fascination with tourism as a savior for a suffering economy is more than a century old, and that this …
The Cultured Canvas
Written from aesthetic, sociopolitical, cultural, and literary perspectives, The Cultured Canvas explores myriad ways in which American visual culture can be evaluated through …
Black Bangor
Blacks have lived and worked in Maine as early as the seventeenth century, but historically have constituted less than one percent of Maine's population. Probably for this reason, …
Captains of Charity
In this thematically rich book, Mary Kathleen Eyring examines authors whose writings were connected with their charitable endeavors, which addressed the worst by-products of the …
The Politics of Love
What would love be if heterosexual couples were no longer assigned gender and sexual norms? Maxime Foerster answers this question by examining the "heterosexual trouble" between …
Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion
Grounded in the ubiquitous, ever-changing matter of fashion, Cultures of Femininity in Modern Fashion places women at the heart of modern culture. Rich and cohesive, this …
Food, Farms, and Community
Throughout the United States, people are increasingly concerned about where their food comes from, how it is produced, and how its production affects individuals and their …