In this book Jan Albers examines the history--natural, environmental, social, and ultimately human--of one of America's most cherished landscapes: Vermont.Albers shows how Vermont has come to stand fo
After years of failed relationships, Faith Kase, a twenty-something vet tech from mountainous Vermont, literally runs into the one thing she has always desired: true love. Cole Richards, an infatuatio
Samuel de Champlain established the first French colony in Quebec. He also mapped unknown territories, such as the coast of Canada and Lake Champlain in current day Vermont. Readers will follow along
Coppola (education, Rice U.) reports findings from an ethnographic, yearlong study conducted during the 1997-1998 school year, which explored how one large public school in Vermont successfully promot
Some of the Angels in this book are of the canine variety, and a good-sized handful are human. The rest are teen-aged jokers, forgetful poets, interior designers, Vermont farmers, and a couple of vici
For a country smaller than Vermont, with roughly the same population as Honduras, modern Israel receives a remarkable amount of attention. For supporters, it is a unique bastion of democracy in the Mi
Jerry Jones has gone out on a limb. At the age of 51, he took out a 30-year mortgage to buy a vacant store located in Killington, Vermont, without his wife's approval. Feeling betrayed, Monica, his wi
Nelson (political science, University of Vermont) and Stewart (political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology) have compiled an eye-opening summary of what congressional committees do and th
Forrest (political science, U. of Vermont) points out the disjuncture between the central state and rural civil society in Guinea-Bissau, particularly the continuing ability of rural civil society to
Philippe Aries (1914-1984) played the most influential role, according to Hutton (emeritus, history, U. of Vermont) in bringing about a transformation in French historical writing, by rehabilitating t
For decades, historians have debated how and to what extent the Holocaust penetrated the German national consciousness between 1933 and 1945. How much did "ordinary" Germans know about the subjugation
This volume explores connections between public opinion and national governance issues in Asia. Presented by Inoguchi (political science, Chuo U., Japan) and Carlson (political science, U. of Vermont,
Five of the essays in this collection of seven essays are based on lectures delivered at the Miller Symposium on Jewish Life in Nazi Germany, held at the University of Vermont. The contributors are le
Stanton (Tufts U. and Vermont College of Union Institute and U.) theorizes public history as a form of cultural performance through examining the efforts of Lowell, Massachusetts to reinvent itself as
Daniel Harmon Brush came to southern Illinois from Vermont with his parents in the 1820s and found a frontier region radically different from his native New England. In this memoir, Brush, the eventua
For visual learners of all kinds, scientists, artists, teachers, administrators, and others, Strauss, a former chemistry professor who teaches drawing at the U. of Vermont, examines how artists, scien
While we often tend to think of the Third Reich as a zone of lawlessness, the Nazi dictatorship and its policies of persecution rested on a legal foundation set in place and maintained by judges, lawy
Joe Gunther, a Brattleboro, Vermont, cop, is the head of the new Vermont Bureau of Investigation (VBI), a joint task force charged with statewide responsibility for major crimes. In The Marble Mask, t
Nash and Bradley (U. of Vermont) offer a guide to writing scholarly personal narrative (a genre of research created by Nash and taught by both authors) that explains a step-by-step approach to creatin
