This volume broadens the scope of Boston business history by including essays on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers and African American businessmen in the antebellum period along with writings focused on more traditional topics such as the China trade and the New England textile industry.
This volume broadens the scope of Boston business history by including essays on subjects such as 18th-century women shopkeepers and African Americ...
For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often overlooked. Whether home was originally an Irish tenant farm or the slave quarters of a Southern plantation or an Eastern European ghetto, whether its mention evoked warm memories or nightmares, immigration has required adopting a new identity consonant with new circumstances. Men who considered themselves Milanese moved to Boston's North End and became Italian Americans; women who identified themselves with County Cork turned into Irish Americans...
For hundreds of thousands of immigrants, coming to Massachusetts has meant exchanging one community for another in multiple ways that are often ove...
The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we will be the exclusive distributor of the following new titles and backlist from the society's fine selection of books. For Henry Adams at the turn of the twentieth century, as for his successors in the twenty-first, the relation of mind to a world remade by technology and geopolitical conflict largely determined the destiny of civil life.
The University of Virginia Press is proud to add the Massachusetts Historical Society to our list of distribution partners. Beginning immediately, we ...
Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their intellectual and social world, assess the movement's cultural legacy, and place Transcendentalism in the...
Comprising twenty essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New Englan...
