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A guide to coastal wetland plants of the Northeast. With coverage both botanically and geographically, it emphasizes plant identification and includes descriptions of over 700 species and illustrations of approximately 550 species. It also covers tidal wetland types such as: beaches, rocky shores, and tidal swamps.

In 1847, in the third year of Ireland's Great Famine and the thirteenth year of their rent strike against the Crown, hundreds of tenant farmers in Ballykilcline, County Roscommon, were evicted by the Queen's agents and shipped to New York. This book tells their story, using numerous Irish and US sources and with descendants' help.

Before the Civil War, slaveholders made themselves into the powerful, deeply rooted, and organized private interest group within the United States. This title explains how a small group of radical activists, the abolitionist movement, played a pivotal role in turning American politics against this formidable system.

Explores how, in the aftermath of September 11, 2001, the younger George Bush headed for the Wild West (Osama bin Laden); how his administration brought ""victory culture"" roaring back as part of its War on Terror; and how, from its ""Mission Accomplished"" moment on, its various stories of triumph crashed and burned in that land.

Recalls the years the author spent in the Huerfano (""Orphan"") Valley when it was a petrie dish of countercultural experiments. Documenting her story with photos as well as words, this work describes her participation in the antiwar movement, and her encounters with such icons as Ken Kesey, Gary Snyder, Stewart Brand, and Baba Ram Dass.

Addresses a central question about the Cold War: why did the US go to such lengths to isolate China from all diplomatic, cultural, and economic ties to other nations? Aiming to provide the answer, this book suggests that it was because of the fear of China's emergence as a power capable of challenging the new Asian order the US sought to shape.

Based on extensive research in African American newspapers and oration texts, this book retraces a vital if, often overlooked, tradition in African American political culture and addresses important issues about black participation in the public sphere.

During the 1960s, the SNCC Freedom Singers, the Living Theatre, the Diggers, the Art Workers Coalition and the Guerrilla Art Action Group fused art and politics by staging unexpected and uninvited performances in public spaces. This text offers detailed portraits of each of these groups.

The Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of an Army nurse. In this powerful story collection - the first such work of fiction by a woman who served in Vietnam - Susan O'Neill offers a remarkable view of the war from a female perspective.

In the rural America of the past, a woman's reputation was sometimes made by her cherry pie - of her chocolate layer cake, or her biscuits. This work shows how cooking evolved during the 20th century as new challenges arose to replace the old.

This personal memoir tells the story of the Vietnam War as seen through the eyes of a nurse. The story plunges the reader into the bloodiest aspects of the war itself, then continues after the end of the war as the author attempts to regain the love of her family.

An account of the intense, shifting friendship between Henry David Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson. Harmon Smith emphasizes their personal bond, but also shows how the relationship affected their thought and writing, and was in turn influenced by their careers.

Blending autobiography and history, James Green reflects on 30 years as an activist, educator and historian. He recounts how he became immersed in political process and in recovering and preserving the history of progressive social movements, demonstrating how the two are linked.

This text looks at the 1675 war between the English colonists and the indigenous people of New England, which decimated the region's native population. The author examines the causes of the conflict, and its effects on the relationship between the two cultures.

Perhaps best-known for ""Broadside"", a magazine founded in 1962, Agnes ""Sis"" Cunningham and Gordon Friesen are radicals on the American left. This is the story of the two dedicated social activists, offering an account of their personal and political odyssey.

The essays in this volume aim to add to the understanding of the role of the 19th-century French press in producing the commodities, consumers and ideological frameworks that are the hallmarks of this shift.

A volume of essays offering approaches to a class-conscious pedagogy. The contributors represent several fields and are united by a conviction that class matters in all kinds of courses. They offer guidance, encouragement and insight for those wishing to incorporate class into their courses.

Community cookbooks were usually compiled by women and sold to raise money for charity. Contributors contend that the texts tell us much about the lives of those who wrote them. The volume is in three sections; a historical overview; essays about particular cookbooks; consideration of context.

An account of the Krakow Jewish resistance, written during World War II, this book is the story of a group of young Jewish idealists who formed a clandestine unit to commit acts of defiance against the Nazi's, and was written on scraps of paper smuggled into the author's prison cell.

These 15 essays examine the lives of important but relatively little-known Native Americans. They explore the complexities of Indian-white relations from the 17th to the early 19th century, from Maine to the Ohio Valley. Figures such as Shickellamy, Awashunkes and Molly Ockett are highlighted.

This work presents an examination of the political philosophy of Martin Heidegger. It uncovers the political content of Heidegger's thinking on such topics as the temporality of Being, the role of science in the crisis of the West and the presumed special status and destiny of the German people.

In this work, the author re-examines Mark Twain as a person, a text and a myth. He argues that some of his best works are shaped by a drive for liberation from every social, psychological and artistic limit and describes him as a reflexive, paradoxical, rule shattering comic genius.

This volume presents 15 feature articles from Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist, Madeleine Blais. She writes stories that illustrate the drama and importance of the life of each of her subjects. They include a portrait of Christine Falling, the baby killer, and a sketch of Tennessee Williams.

A biography of Marian (""Clover"") Hooper Adams, accomplished photographer, well-known in the cultural circles of Boston, and yet a suicide victim at the age of 42. It is an account of a gifted woman set against the intensely intellectual and moral life of 19th-century Boston and New England.

Boston marriage was first used to describe single women living together, with the presumption that their liaisons were non-sexual. The authors argue that in a sexually preoccupied society, we have no understanding of the intensely romantic but asexual friendships formed by some lesbians.

Arguing that the USA's national faith in individual initiative and free opportunity has become a breeding ground for guilt over prejudice against those who exhibit signs of failure, this study of inequality in America looks at such issues as racism, poverty and the fight against crime.

Winner of the 1991 Juniper Prize sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Press.

When Germany invaded Poland in 1939, Halina Nelken was a precocious 15-year-old, living a middle-class life in Krakow. This diary tells the story of Nelken's experiences in the ghetto and later in eight Nazi concentration camps, including Plaszow, Auschwitz and Ravensbruck.

This book challenges the conventional image of John Dee (1527-1609) as an isolated, eccentric philosopher. Instead, William H. Sherman presents Dee in a fresh context, revealing that he was a well-connected adviser to the academic, courtly and commercial circles of his day.