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Chronicles the rise of an emerging musical and cultural moment rooted in today's global, networked communications infrastructure. Based on interviews with prominent DJs, attorneys, and music industry executives, this book argues that battles over sampling, file sharing, and the marketability of new styles such as "mash-ups" and "techno" presage social change on a far broader scale.

Recounts the history of an experimental regional library service in the early 1950s. Using interviews and library records, it reveals the choices of ordinary individual readers, showing how local cultures of reading interacted with formal institutions to implement an official literacy policy.

Written with keen intelligence and biting humour, Carbine is a book about the ridiculousness of contemporary life-a book about what cannot be said.

Compares fiction and non-fiction - their relative respectability in the eyes of reading experts and in the opinions of readers themselves. This title traces the roots of popularization from the Middle Ages onwards, examining changes in literacy, education, and university politics.

From Aristophanes' Lysistrata to the notorious Mata Hari and the legendary Tokyo Rose, stories of female betrayal during wartime have recurred throughout human history. The myth of Hanoi Jane, Jerry Lembcke argues, is simply the latest variation on this enduring theme.

Identifies the features of college towns, explains why they have developed as they have in the United States, and examines the various characteristics that make them unusual. This title explores the aspects of college towns - their distinctive residential and commercial districts, and their unconventional political cultures.

This memoir centres on family life in a Massachusetts town from the 1920s to the 1960s. The author was born and raised in Norwood, and the narrative traces his personal growth, shaped by family, school, baseball, radio drama and art.

Reveals the personal experiences and ancestral histories of colonial Anglo-Americans.

Delving into the origins and development of the Library of Congress, this volume ranges from the first attempt to establish a national legislative library in 1783 to the advent of the Civil War. Carl Ostrowski shows how the Library was influenced by - and in turn affected - major intellectual, social, historical, and political trends.

Examines the life of Jonathan Fisher (1768-1847), a native of Braintree, Massachusetts, and graduate of Harvard College who moved in his late twenties to Blue Hill, Maine, where he embarked on a multifaceted career as a pioneer minister, farmer, entrepreneur, and artist.

In 1961, as President John F Kennedy proclaimed the beginning of a 'Decade of Development', the United States embarked on its first coherent 'Africa' policy. This title presents an historical analysis of early US policy toward postcolonial Africa.

Tells how presidents and other prominent figures have shaped public memory of the turbulent 1960s. This book shows how four presidents - Ronald Reagan, George H W Bush, Bill Clinton, and George W Bush - each sought to advance his political agenda by consciously shaping public understanding of the meaning of 'the Sixties'.

During his tenure as director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, J Edgar Hoover made no secret of his high regard for the Catholic faith. The Church reciprocated Hoover's admiration, establishing the basis for a working alliance between two powerful and influential American institutions. This title explores the history of that relationship.

Presents a portrait of the contemporary American workplace. Based on interviews with workers in four different industries, this book takes us behind the statistics of the economic collapse and into the lives of Americans who are struggling to make ends meet and support their families.

What was it like for the individuals who suffered and died from those illnesses, for the health practitioners and institutions that attended to them, and for the families who buried and mourned them? This title addresses these questions by examining the history of mortality in several small communities in western Massachusetts.

Examines the songs and dances involved in public ceremonies of the Wabanaki Confederacy, a coalition of five Algonquian First Nations that figured importantly in the political history of New England and the Maritimes from the seventeenth century on.

Founded in 1807, the successor to a literary club called the Anthology Society, the Boston Athenaeum occupies an important place in the early history of American Intellectual life. This work examines the genesis and early development of one of the nation's most vibrant cultural institutions.