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Studies in American History and Culture Each of these essay anthologies presents a selection of current critical works on topics central to the study of American history. To order, please click on the images of the book covers or the "Order through amazon.com" link above to place online orders for these volumes. They are also available from University of Virginia Press (1-800-831-3406).
Emerson Bicentennial Essays | American Unitarianism, 1805-1865
Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850 Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1860-2000 John Adams and the Founding of the Republic | Massachusetts and the New Nation Puritanism | Transient and Permanent 
Emerson Bicentennial EssaysEdited by Ronald A. Bosco and Joel Myerson. 512 pages, 6 ills., notes, index (2006) Distributed by the University of Virginia Press. $60.00 cloth ISBN: 0-934909-89-X Drawn from papers presented at the conference that celebrated the 200th anniversary of his birth, Emerson Bicentennial Essays presents 17 studies of Emerson that address five general themes: "The Construction of Emerson," "Emerson's Audience," "Emerson the Reformer," "Emerson the Poet," and "Emerson and the World of Ideas." In their treatment of the aesthetic, social, religious, philosophical, and political aspects of his life and work, these scholars confirm Emerson's preeminence in American intellectual and literary history. Order from the University of Virginia Press 
American Unitarianism, 1805-1865Edited by Conrad Edick Wright (1989). Pp. xiv, 272, illus., index. Published with Northeastern University Press. Cloth $40.00 "This edited volume provides an excellent sketch of the new history of Unitarianism and a valuable stimulus to further research."—Journal of American History Although scholarship over the past few decades has resulted in an increasingly sophisticated understanding of Unitarian theology and moral thought, it has often failed to integrate the denomination's history into the religious and cultural history of the United States before the Civil War. This collection brings together two generations of scholars whose work poses new questions about the development of the Unitarian church and its role in antebellum American life. All the contributors are concerned with situating the newly created Unitarian church within the intellectual climate of its time, and their work pays particular attention to social, psychological, and economic issues.
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Entrepreneurs: The Boston Business Community, 1700-1850Edited by Conrad Edick Wright and Katheryn P. Viens (1997). Pp. xvi, 450, illus., index. Cloth $45.00 Paper $15.95 Great merchants, investors, and industrialists have long dominated the historiography of Boston business, but this collection of essays urges a broader definition of the city's business community. Without denying the economic importance of the major traders of colonial Boston or the merchants of the China trade or the men who built New England's textile industry, it also finds signs of vigorous entrepreneurial activity in places where previously historians have rarely looked-for instance, among artisans, women, and members of minority communities. Overall, a testimony to the innovative business sense that came to life in all segments of the Boston community.
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Faces of Community: Immigrant Massachusetts, 1860-2000Edited by Reed Ueda and Conrad Edick Wright Pp. 269, 7 ill., notes, index (2002) Distributed by The University of Virginia Press. $22.50 paper ISBN: 0-934909-82-2 $50.00 cloth ISBN: 0-934909-80-6 Because the Bay State became a primary destination for immigrants dislocated by industrial and urban development around the world, the essays in this volume offer important case studies, with national significance, of how newcomers and natives adjusted to each other and reshaped the boundaries and identities of American communities. This collection explores the common aspects of community creation and evolution that linked their various ethnic experiences, including, among others, Irish, French Canadian, Jewish, Italian, Swedish, Chinese, and African American.
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John Adams and the Founding of the RepublicEdited by Richard Alan Ryerson (2001). Pp. 304, index. Cloth $60.00 ISBN 0-934909-78-4 Praise from David McCullough, author of John Adams: "With interest in John Adams and his world growing steadily, this splendid collection could not be more timely or welcome. The authors are all front-ranking scholars in the field and all have much of value to say. I found the book totally absorbing from start to finish." John Adams, lawyer, congressman, diplomat, vice president, and president, had one of the most varied and productive public careers of America's Revolutionary generation. His many achievements, taken for granted or even discounted through much of the twentieth century, have in the past decade attracted the enthusiastic attention of historians, political scientists, and more gradually, the larger public. This collection of essays, the first ever published on the nation's second president, includes a full introduction to his life and career and nine explorations of Adams's rich legacy by several leading authorities on the man and his era. In assessing John Adams, the authors consider many topics that have seldom, if ever, been examined in any detail. These include Adams's choice of public role models in provincial Massachusetts; a comparison of Adams and Thomas Jefferson as young men; Adams's aggressive diplomacy in Europe; his frustrating experience as vice president; the intricacies of the election of 1796; Adams's thoughts on free speech; a detailed study of Abigail Adams as President Adams's most important advisor; the novelty of Adams's authorship of a history of his own public career; and a study of his magnum opus, The Defence of the Constitutions of the United States of America. Both as the most convenient brief introduction to John Adams's life and career and as the only collection of new scholarship on this Revolutionary leader, this volume will prove indispensable to a full understanding of Adams's importance in American history
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Massachusetts and the New NationEdited by Conrad Edick Wright (1992). Pp. xiv, 296, illus., index. Cloth $40.00 This collection of essays studies the role of a single state in the transformation of American life following the Revolutionary War. As the citizens of the state worked to establish their new Commonwealth and determine its relationship to a federal government also in its infancy, they were forced to confront challenging problems both within Massachusetts and outside it. Religious differences fractured the Standing Order, separating Unitarians and Congregationalists from each other at the same time that pressures from Episcopalians, Baptists, and others urged an end to the religious establishment. Poverty posed problems for Massachusetts at large, and particularly for Boston, at the same time that public officeholders struggled to create new governmental institutions both for the Commonwealth and for its capital. Massachusetts merchants had to develop new, independent patterns of trade in response to American withdrawal from the British Empire. Diplomats had to find a place for the Commonwealth in the world order. And federal officeholders from Massachusetts needed to address the most divisive of domestic issues, slavery. The essays in this collection reveal how Massachusetts coped with these unexpected problems of independence.
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Puritanism: Transatlantic Perspectives on a Seventeenth-Century Anglo-American FaithEdited by Francis J. Bremer (1993). Pp. xvii, 300, illus., index. Cloth $45.00 Paper $15.95 "Exemplifying the vitality and diversity of Puritan studies today, this well-edited collection of eleven essays helps close the distance between American and British scholarship in the field."—Michael McGiffert, Institute of Early American History and Culture This collection of essays delves into new source materials and thoroughly analyzes the existing literature to examine Puritan culture on both sides of the Atlantic. The volume covers a wide range of topics, including conversion among Puritans and Amerindians, sects and the evolution of Puritanism, and the meanings of religious polemic.
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Transient and Permanent: The Transcendentalist Movement and Its ContextsEdited by Charles Capper and Conrad Edick Wright (1999). Pp. xvi, 639, illus., index. Cloth $75.00 Comprising 20 essays by leading scholars, this insightful collection provides the best recent writing on the Transcendentalists, the New England religious reformers and intellectuals who challenged both spiritual and secular orthodoxies between the 1830s and the 1850s. The volume addresses Transcendentalism from many directions, illuminating the movement more clearly than ever before. The contributions consider aspects of the relationship between the Transcendentalists and their intellectual and social world, assess the movement's cultural legacy, and place Transcendentalism in the context of historical and literary scholarship, past and present.
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