Book Series
Studies in American Popular History and Culture
New & Published Titles:
Labor and Laborers of the Loom
Mechanization and Handloom Weavers, 1780-1840
Labor and Laborers of the Loom: Mechanization and Handloom Weavers 1780-1840 develops several themes important to understanding the social, cultural and economic implications of industrialization.…
read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97902-3 (Routledge)
Feminist Revolution in Literacy
Women's Bookstores in the United States
This book examines the history of women's bookstores in the US from the 1970s to the 1990s. "Women's bookstores" (synonymously called "feminist bookstores") refers… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97596-4 (Routledge)
The Quiet Revolutionaries
How the Grey Nuns Changed the Social Welfare Paradigm of Lewiston, Maine
The book recognizes the achievements by a nineteenth-century community of women religious, the Grey Nuns of Lewiston, Maine. The founding of their hospital was significant… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97834-7 (Routledge)
Cleaning Up
The Transformation of Domestic Service in Twentieth Century New York
Over the course of the 20th century, American domestic service changed from an occupation with a hierarchical, top-down structure to one in which relationships were… read more2006 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97809-5 (Routledge)
Agents of Wrath, Sowers of Discord
Authority and Dissent in Puritan Massachusetts, 1630-1655
This book explores the authorities of Puritan Massachusetts balanced concern for the stability of the colony and the integrity of its Puritan mission with the… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97731-9 (Routledge)
The Farm Press, Reform and Rural Change, 1895-1920
This project contributes to our understanding of rural Midwesterners and farm newspapers at the turn of the century. While cultural historians have mainly focused on… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97286-4 (Routledge)
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Mistresses of the Transient Hearth
American Army Officers' Wives and Material Culture, 1840-1880
read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97360-1 (Routledge)
Validating Bachelorhood
Audience, Patriarchy and Charles Brockden Brown's Editorship of the Monthly Magazine and American Review
This book explores images of single and married men in C.B. Brown's Monthly Magazine and concludes that Brown used his periodical as a vehicle for… read more2005 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97178-2 (Routledge)
Narrative, Political Unconscious and Racial Violence in Wilmington, North Carolina
This work examines the counter-narratives of social actors that may be used as resources to promote and create social change, particularly racial change. A policy… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-94958-3 (Routledge)
Children and the Criminal Law in Connecticut, 1635-1855
Changing Perceptions of Childhood
This book analyzes changing opinions about the attitudes concerning the nature of children and the legal capacities of children using criminal court records, legislative petitions… read more2004 | Hardback: 978-0-415-97180-5 (Routledge)
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Forthcoming Titles:
Frances Ellen Watkins Harper: African American Reform Rhetoric and the Rise of a Modern Nation State
By Michael Stancliff
To be published April 15th 2010