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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.

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.

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.

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.

"This masterfully edited collection of some of the essays, papers, and addresses of the leading social and political thinker of the African diaspora during the first half of the twentieth century is worth every exhilarating moment that one spends perusing it."?-Journal of American History

First published in France as Le Pagne Noir: Contes Africains in 1955. The writing of such chronicles of an African childhood was the author's way of coming to terms with the questions every sensitive colonized person educated in the Western tradition would sooner or later have to ask: Who am I? Where do I come from? Where am I going?

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.

Scholar, author, editor, teacher, reformer and civil rights leader, W.E.B. Du Bois (1888-1963) was a major figure in American life and one of the earliest proponents of equality for black Americans. This is the second volume of three and incorporates correspondence from 1934 to 1944.

This work presents the memoirs of Gordon Heath (1918-1991), an actor whose career spanned five decades on the stages of New York, London and Paris. He achieved prominence in 1945 for his role in Broadway's ""Deep are the Roots"", an exploration of American race-relations at the end of World War II.

Drawing on a range of sources, from White House documents and congressional hearings to comic books and feature films, this work shows how the United States continued to wage war on Vietnam ""by other means"" for another twenty-five years.

Nearly 1.5 million Irish women, men and children sailed to America to escape the Great Famine, triggered by successive years of potato blight. This volume commemorates these epochal events and sheds new light on both the consequences of the famine and the experience of the Irish in America.