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Hardest Times
The Trauma of Long Term UnemploymentA sobering look at what happens to men—and their families—who are unemployed for six months or longerThomas J. CottleThomas J. Cottle is...
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The Dispossessed
An Anatomy of ExileEssays on humanitarian responses to forced migrationPeter I. RosePeter I. Rose is Sophia Smith Professor Emeritus of Sociology and Anthropology and senior fellow of the Kahn Liberal...
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Charles Horton Cooley
Imagining Social RealityAn intellectual biography of a preeminent American sociologist One of the founders of sociology in the United States, Charles Horton Cooley (1864Glenn JacobsGlenn Jacobs is...
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The Lowell Experiment
Public History in a Postindustrial CityExplores the role of public historians in revitalizing aging industrial citiesIn the early nineteenth century, Lowell, Massachusetts, was widely studied and...
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A Matter of Life and Death
Hunting in Contemporary VermontAn illuminating cultural analysis of hunting in rural AmericaAmerican hunters occupy a remarkably complex place in this country’s cultural and political landscape. On the...
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At the Altar of the Bottom Line
The Degradation of Work in the 21st CenturyAn intimate and disturbing portrait of the contemporary American workplaceBased on extensive interviews with workers in four different industries, this book...
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Shadows in the Valley
A Cultural History of Illness, Death, and Loss in New England, 1840-1916Explores the impact of changing medical practices on ordinary people in nineteenth-century AmericaHow does the experience of...
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Mashed Up
Music, Technology, and the Rise of Configurable CultureHow emerging technologies are reshaping the dynamic between musical regulation and resistanceFrom ancient times to the present day, writers and...
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Against the Odds
Scholars Who Challenged Racism in the Twentieth CenturyPersonal accounts by leading scholar-activists in the fight for racial equalityOver the course of the past century the struggle against racism...
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Ambiguous Empowerment
The Work Narratives of Women School SuperintendentsWe are currently updating our website and have not yet posted complete information for this title. Many of our books are in the Google preview...
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The American College Town
A vivid portrait of a distinctly American phenomenonThe college town is a unique type of urban place, shaped by the sometimes conflicting forces of youth, intellect, and idealism. The hundreds of...
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The Call of Human Nature
The Role of Scatology in Modern German LiteratureThe Call of Human Nature documents and analyzes the wide use of scatological themes and metaphors in an equally wide range of writings. The Rollfinkes'...
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Influenza and Inequality
One Town's Tragic Response to the Great Epidemic of 1918A dramatic account of the deadly spread of influenza through a Massachusetts town in 1918The influenza epidemic of 1918 was one of the worst...
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Managing Lives
Corporate Women and Social ChangeMuch has been written lately about women in the workplace, the purported differences between female and male psychology, and even the notion of a separate lower-paid,...
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Negotiating Culture
Heritage, Ownership, and Intellectual PropertyA wide-ranging collection that asks the question, Who owns culture?Rival claims of ownership or control over various aspects of culture are a regular...
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New Migrants in the Marketplace
September, 1995ISBN (cloth): 978-0-87023-963-2Price (cloth) $: June, 2013ISBN (paper): 978-1-62534-062-7Price (paper) $: 25.95Halter, Marilyn, ed. foreword by Peter L. Berger.Boston's Ethnic...
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Born into a World at War
November, 2015ISBN (cloth): 978-1-62534-196-9Price (cloth) $: 29.95Maria Tymoczko is professor of comparative literature at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. She is coeditor of Translation and...
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