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This is a history of the murder of Joshua Spooner in Brookfield, Massachusetts, in March 1778 and the execution of his wife Bathsheba and three accomplices four months later. It also provides newspaper accounts and trial records at that time.

Tells the story of the folk music community in Cambridge, Massachusetts, from its beginnings in living rooms and Harvard Square coffeehouses in the late 1950s to the heyday of the folk music revival in the early 1960s.

Antonil's great work, recognized as fundamental for understanding the colonial Brazilian economy, now available in its first English translation

Fifty years after the release of the film version of Harper Lee s acclaimed novel To Kill a Mockingbird, this collection of original essays takes a fresh look at a classic text in legal scholarship. The contributors revisit and examine Atticus, Scout, and Jem Finch, their community, and the events that occur there through the interdisciplinary lens of law and humanities scholarship.

In the 1970s, Argentina was the leader in the "Dirty War," a violent campaign by authoritarian South American regimes to repress left-wing groups and any others who were deemed subversive. Over the course of a decade, Argentina's military rulers tortured and murdered upwards of 30,000 citizens. Even today, after thirty years of democratic rule, the horror of that time continues to roil Argentine society. Argentina has also been in the vanguard in determining how to preserve sites of torture, how to remember the "disappeared," and how to reflect on the causes of the Dirty War. Across the capital city of Buenos Aires are hundreds of grassroots memorials to the victims, documenting the scope of the state's reign of terror. Although many books have been written about this era in Argentina's history, the original Spanish-language edition of Memories of Buenos Aires was the first to identify and interpret all of these sites. It was published by the human rights organization Memoria Abierta, which used interviews with survivors to help unearth that painful history. This translation brings this important work to an English-speaking audience, offering a comprehensive guidebook to clandestine sites of horror as well as innovative sites of memory. The book divides the 48 districts of the city into 9 sectors, and then proceeds neighborhood-by-neighborhood to offer descriptions of 202 known "sites of state terrorism" and 38 additional places where people were illegally detained, tortured, and killed by the government.

Beginning in the 1830s and continuing for more than a century, blackface minstrelsystage performances that claimed to represent the culture of black Americansremained arguably the most popular entertainment in North America. A renewed scholarly interest in this contentious form of entertainment has produced studies treating a range of issues: its contradictory depictions of class, race, and gender; its role in the development of racial stereotyping; and its legacy in humor, dance, and music, and in live performance, film, and television. The style and substance of minstrelsy persist in popular music, tap and hip-hop dance, the language of the standup comic, and everyday rituals of contemporary culture. The blackface makeup all but disappeared for a time, though its influence never diminishedand recently, even the makeup has been making a comeback.

Examines the work of five Northerners - three poets and two fiction writers - who over a period of four decades tried to understand and articulate the landscape of memory in postwar America, and in particular in that part of the nation that could, with most justification, claim the victory of its beliefs and values.

Sheds light on the process of learning to read and write in colonial America. Ranging throughout the colonies from New Hampshire to Georgia, this work examines the instruction of girls and boys, Native Americans and enslaved Africans, the privileged and the poor, revealing the wrenching impact of literacy acquisition on the lives of learners.

Sheds light on the history of food, cooking, and eating. This collection of essays investigates the connections between food studies and women's studies. From women in colonial India to Armenian American feminists, these essays show how food has served as a means to assert independence and personal identity.

In this volume, 11 scholars explore the role of ethnic food in American culture, with a particular focus on women. They argue that ethnic cooking represents both a source of sustenance and a complex form of communication.

The text is arranged in a pattern that mirrors Grumet's argument that women who teach make this passage between the so-called public and private worlds daily and that is also what we teach children to do. The chapters go back and forth between the experience of domesticity and the experience of teaching, between being with one's own children and being with the children of others, between being the child of one's own mother and the teacher of another mother's child, between feeling and form, family and colleagues. The first and last chapters address the familial relations that fall under the category of reproduction, a frame designed to emphasize the relations of reproduction and their importance to educational theory. The chapters closest to this margin are those that address women's work in schools, and the juxtaposition is chosen to accentuate the dialectical relation of our public and private meanings. The middle chapters are the ones most directly concerned with curriculum, that provisional ground that Grumet is naming as our mediating space, the place where we can heal. The fundamental argument of this text is that knowledge evolves in human relationships.

Highlights the significance of women's work in the clothing trades of the early Republic. Drawing on diaries, letters, and material culture, this book explores the contours of working women's lives in rural New England, offering a view of their varied ranks and roles as producers and consumers, clients and crafts-women, employers and employees.

Explores the interrelated subjects of women's visibility/invisibility, empowerment/suppression and voice/silencing and also documents the efforts of individual women who engaged, not necessarily consciously, in the creation and recreation of a female cultural presence.

A collection of Native American songs and poems, researched and annotated by Brian Swann.

Provides an introduction to ""green ideas"" for students in the social sciences. It goes beyond traditional sociological boundaries to show how society interacts with nature, and also suggests that there are flaws in the philosophy and politics of the Green movement. The book also analyses ecological limits on, and effects of, industrialism and economic growth.

Beginning in the 1950s, the theory of modernization emerged as the dominant paradigm of sconomic, social, and political development within the America foreign policy establishment. This collection of essays attempts to shed fresh light on the global forces that shaped the Cold War and its legacies.

An exploration of the outburst of cultural exuberance that swept African America during the late 1930s. It chronicles the triumphs of black Americans and shows how they shaped American music, sports, and dance of the 1930s and beyond. It also shows how they emboldened ordinary African Americans to push for greater recognition and civil liberties.

Tracing the segmentation of the literary marketplace in nineteenth-century America, this book analyzes the implications of the subdivided literary field for readers, writers, and literature itself. It also analyzes the ways authors and publishers carved up the field of literary production into a multitude of distinct submarkets.

Patrick Hagopian shows that despite the US role in promulgating universal standards of international law and forming institutions where those standards can be enforced, the US has repeatedly refused to submit its own citizens and troops to the jurisdiction of international tribunals and failed to uphold international standards of justice in its own courts.

"Originally published by Meredith Winter Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2012."--T.p. verso.