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Since its inception, the Press has sold more than 2,000,000 books and today it has over 1,000 titles in print. We publish innovative scholarship that explores the history, politics, literature, culture, and environment of the United States, as well as works with a transnational perspective. In addition, the Press also produces books for a general readership and in 2017 it launched a new trade imprint focused on New England, called Bright Leaf.
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