Massachusetts History

Massachusetts: A Concise History By Richard D. Brown University of Massachusetts Press Paperback (361 pages) List Price: $27.95 Lowest New Price: $22.00 Lowest Used Price: $9.96 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: This volume presents a survey of the rich heritage of the city of Massachusetts, showing how it has long exerted an influence disproportionate to its size. The authors argue that the experiences of the people of Massachusetts have been emblematic of larger themes in American history.

A History Of Rehoboth, Massachusetts: Its History For 275 Years, 1643-1918 By Leonard Bliss Kessinger Publishing, LLC Hardcover (512 pages) List Price: $55.95 Lowest New Price: $38.68 Lowest Used Price: $39.42 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: In Which Is Incorporated The Vital Parts Of The Original History Of The Town, Published In 1836. This scarce antiquarian book is included in our special Legacy Reprint Series. In the interest of creating a more extensive selection of rare historical book reprints, we have chosen to reproduce this title even though it may possibly have occasional imperfections such as missing and blurred pages, missing text, poor pictures, markings, dark backgrounds and other reproduction issues beyond our control. Because this work is culturally important, we have made it available as a part of our commitment to protecting, preserving and promoting the world's literature.

Princeton, Massachusetts: A History of its Villages By Joyce Bailey Anderson & Alexandra Fiandaca The History Press Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $19.99 Lowest New Price: $14.42 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Nestled at the foot of Wachusett Mountain, Princeton has come a long way since the days when cows outnumbered its citizens. Today, within its small circumference, the town boasts four nationally registered historical districts. With an array of styles from Colonial to Greek Revival, Richardsonian to Romanesque, its distinguished architectural landscape serves as a lasting reminder of the town's many transitions. Anderson, Dubman and Fiandaca document Princeton's growth from eighteenth-century agrarian community to turn-of-the-century summer resort.

Out of Work: The First Century of Unemployment in Massachusetts (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Modern History) By Alexander Keyssar Cambridge University Press Released: 2008-08-21 Paperback (488 pages) List Price: $60.00 Lowest New Price: $33.50 Lowest Used Price: $4.99 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: Out of Work, the first book to chronicle the history of unemployment in the United States traces the evolution of the problem of joblessness from the early decades of the nineteenth century to the Great Depression of the 1930s. Challenging the widely held notion that the United States was a labour-scarce society in which jobs were plentiful, it argues that unemployment played a major role in American history long before the crash of the stock market in 1929. Focusing on the state of Massachusetts, Professor Kevssar analyses the economic and social changes that gave birth to the modern concept of unemployment. Drawing on previously untapped sources - including richly detailed statistics and vivid verbatim testimony - he demonstrates that joblessness was a pervasive feature of working-class life from the 1870s to the 1920s. The book describes the ingenious, yet personally costly, strategies that unemployed workers devised to cope with the joblessness in the absence of formal governmental assistance. It also explores the many dimensions of working-class life that were profoundly affected by recurrent lay-offs and the chronic uncertainty of work. Finally, it demonstrates that the fundamental contours of the Massachusetts experience were repeated, sooner or later, throughout the United States.

University of Massachusetts, Amherst (MA) (Campus History) By Steven R. Sullivan Arcadia Publishing Released: 2004-08-18 Paperback (128 pages) List Price: $19.99 Lowest New Price: $13.52 Lowest Used Price: $14.48 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The University of Massachusetts Amherst, situated one hundred miles west of Boston, began as a modest land-grant institution with four buildings and has since grown to a sprawling campus with three hundred fifty buildings and twenty-four thousand students. Founded in 1863 to serve students in the fields of agriculture and science, the university has survived in the shadow of some of the most prestigious institutions of higher education in America. Irreplaceable images from the Special Collections and Archives department of the W. E. B. Du Bois Library include the many famous people in business, entertainment, professional sports, journalism, science, and politics who proudly refer to themselves as alumni of the place known as UMass Amherst.

Massachusetts Quilts: Our Common Wealth UPNE Hardcover (360 pages) List Price: $60.00 Lowest New Price: $37.80 Lowest Used Price: $35.91 Usually ships in 24 hours (As of 03:22 Pacific 4 Jul 2009 More Info) Click Here Product Description: The Massachusetts Quilt Documentation Project (MassQuilts) is a volunteer organization that holds "documentation days" across the state to identify, date, and photograph pre-1950 quilts in private and museum collections. Formally organized in 1994, to date 6,000 quilts have been documented (the original goal was 3,000). These quilts provide a window through which to view the history of the state, telling stories of international trade and domestic manufacture, economic booms and busts, national politics, and neighborly discourse. The project focuses on quilts that have a history of original use in Massachusetts. Massachusetts Quilts will present the group's findings. Essays by experts will lend context to catalogue-like entries on notable quilts. The quilts themselves will star, in over 200 illustrations, most of them rich in color.