History: earliest times to present day
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History: earliest times to present day
Paperback. Covering more than two centuries of social, economic, and political change, and offering a challenging, innovative approach to urban as well national history, First City tells the Philadelphia story through the wealth of material culture its citizens have chosen to preserve. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 392 pages, 134 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 254 x 178 x 20. Weight in Grams: 682.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219425
- ISBN
- 9780812219425
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Condition: New
€ 46.52
€ 46.52
Paperback. Conn examines the shifting meaning of the region's history, the utopian impulse behind its founding, the role of the region in creating the American middle class, the regional watershed, and the way art and cultural institutions have given shape to a resident identity. Series: Metropolitan Portraits. Num Pages: 288 pages, 30 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; HBJK; HBLW; HBTB; JFSG. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 229 x 140 x 18. Weight in Grams: 435.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2006
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219432
- ISBN
- 9780812219432
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Condition: New
€ 37.59
€ 37.59
Paperback. Reveals how ideas about gender and family life were central to the ways people in colonial New England, and their neighbors in New France and Indian Country, described their experiences in cross-cultural warfare. This book argues that English, French, and Indian people had broadly similar ideas about gender and authority. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 272 pages, 17 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 406.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 272
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219616
- ISBN
- 9780812219616
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Condition: New
€ 37.59
€ 37.59
Paperback. Carol Faulkner offers a vivid social history of the way the women's radical reform movement shaped government policy toward former slaves in the Civil War and Reconstruction era. Num Pages: 208 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 12. Weight in Grams: 316.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 208
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219708
- ISBN
- 9780812219708
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Condition: New
€ 36.87
€ 36.87
Paperback. "Sweet offers scholars a capacious history of race in the North and a primer for thinking about the relationship between 'cultures' and identities.. Bodies Politic is deeply researched and richly detailed."-William and Mary Quarterly Num Pages: 504 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 785.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 504
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812219784
- ISBN
- 9780812219784
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Condition: New
€ 48.31
€ 48.31
Paperback. This history of New York culture and commerce in the first two thirds of the eighteenth century tells how the volatile forces of imperial politics and commerce created a fluid society in which establishing one's own status or verifying another's was a challenge. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 216 pages, 6 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 363.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 216
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812220575
- ISBN
- 9780812220575
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Condition: New
€ 31.98
€ 31.98
Paperback. Covert Operations brings the categories and cultural meanings of secrecy in the Middle Ages out into the open. Isolating five broad areas-confession, women's gossip, medieval science and medicine, marriage and the law, and sodomitic discourse-Lochrie examines various types of secrecy and the literary texts in which they are played out. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 304 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 3H; DSBB; HBLC1; HBTB. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 304
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221749
- ISBN
- 9780812221749
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Condition: New
€ 37.27
€ 37.27
Paperback. In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 376 pages, 20 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 376
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221817
- ISBN
- 9780812221817
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Condition: New
€ 44.63
€ 44.63
Paperback. Bodies of Belief argues that the paradoxical evolution of the Baptist religion, specifically in Pennsylvania and Virginia, was simultaneously egalitarian and hierarchical, democratic and conservative. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 431.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221824
- ISBN
- 9780812221824
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Condition: New
€ 37.78
€ 37.78
Paperback. Using contemporary sources Frisken takes a fresh look at the heyday of this controversial women's rights activist, discovering Woodhull's previously unrecognized importance in the turbulent climate of Radical Reconstruction and making her a useful lens through which to view the shifting sexual mores of the nineteenth century. Num Pages: 240 pages, 39 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 20. Weight in Grams: 340.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2011
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812221886
- ISBN
- 9780812221886
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Condition: New
€ 37.45
€ 37.45
Paperback. Friends and Strangers offers a provocative new look at the transfer of English culture to North America. Setting Pennsylvania in the context of the broader Atlantic phenomenon of creolization, Smolenski's account of the Quaker colony's origins reveals the vital role this process played in creating early American society. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 416 pages, 15 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBEP; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 28. Weight in Grams: 658.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222036
- ISBN
- 9780812222036
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Condition: New
€ 49.95
€ 49.95
Paperback. An unflinching analysis of how Robert Mugabe, a man once known as an anticolonial freedom fighter, became one of Africa's most hated autocrats, and why so many inside and outside Zimbabwe were long blind to his bloody misdeeds. Num Pages: 336 pages. BIC Classification: 1HFMW; 3JJP; HBJH; HBLW3. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 230 x 153 x 18. Weight in Grams: 462.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 336
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222890
- ISBN
- 9780812222890
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Condition: New
€ 43.19
€ 43.19
Paperback. Appraising Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte's many identities-celebrity, aristocrat, independent woman, mother-Charlene M. Boyer Lewis is able to show how Madame Bonaparte, as she was known, exercised extraordinary social power at the center of the changing transatlantic world. Num Pages: 288 pages, 14 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JH; BGH; HBJK; HBLL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 635.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 288
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812222920
- ISBN
- 9780812222920
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Condition: New
€ 37.59
€ 37.59
The First Prejudice. Religious Tolerance and Intolerance in Early Amer...
. Ed(S): Beneke, Chris; Grenda, Christopher S...
Paperback. Leading religious historians connect changes in law and rhetoric to daily cooperation and conflict in early America. These essays examine such topics as Native American spiritual life, the biblical sources of tolerance and intolerance, contemporary philosophies of religious liberty, and the resilience of African American faiths. Editor(s): Beneke, Chris; Grenda, Christopher S. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 408 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLH; HBLL; HRAM9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 32. Weight in Grams: 662.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 408
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223149
- ISBN
- 9780812223149
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Condition: New
€ 49.08
€ 49.08
Paperback. On July 21, 1578, a small Mexican town awoke to the news of a scandal. Nailed to the door of its church was a double-faced effigy denouncing a neighbor as a Jew who should burn at the stake. Nine trials over the course of four years revealed a story of dishonor, revenge, and the Inquisition's relentless determination to defend its symbols. Series: The Early Modern Americas. Num Pages: 240 pages, 11 illus. BIC Classification: 1KLCM; 3JB; HBJK; HBLH; HRAM9; HRCC7. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 381.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 240
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223163
- ISBN
- 9780812223163
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Condition: New
€ 42.74
€ 42.74
Paperback. Historian Tracy Neal Leavelle examines religious conversions in the upper Great Lakes and Illinois country in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries among the Illinois, Ottawas, and other Algonquian-speaking peoples and the rapidly evolving and always contested colonial context in which they occurred. Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 264 pages, 5 illus. BIC Classification: 1KB; 3JD; 3JF; HBJK; HBLL; HRCC7; JFSL9. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 18. Weight in Grams: 399.
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- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2014
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 264
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812223217
- ISBN
- 9780812223217
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Condition: New
€ 37.63
€ 37.63
Hardback. "The Feast of Saint Abraham is characterized by originality, profound scholarship (especially with regard to new manuscript sources), and by clarity and felicity of style.. A fine book."-Bernard McGinn, University of Chicago Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 200 pages, 2 illus. BIC Classification: 1DD; 3H; HBJF; HBLC; HR. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 216 x 140 x 14. Weight in Grams: 420.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 200
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812235678
- ISBN
- 9780812235678
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Condition: New
€ 67.28
€ 67.28
Hardback. How entrepreneurial housebuilders fueled a rapid economy. "A well-written and easily read business book with a historical perspective, quite fit for a general readership interested in the history of American enterprise."-APT Bulletin Series: Early American Studies. Num Pages: 280 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: 1KBBE; 3JF; 3JH; HBJK; HBLL; KCZ. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 25. Weight in Grams: 720.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2000
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 280
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812235807
- ISBN
- 9780812235807
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 79.70
€ 79.70
Hardback. "The definition of treason was so contested and the process of the prosecution so fluid that the trials Cunningham explores provide important resources for those interested in the early modern period."-Katharine Eisaman Maus, University of Virginia Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1DBKE; 3H; HBJD1; HBLC. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 22. Weight in Grams: 516.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 224
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812236408
- ISBN
- 9780812236408
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Condition: New
€ 89.83
€ 89.83
Hardback. Reveals the role of the church in Florence's rise to wealth and power in the fourteenth century. Series: The Middle Ages Series. Num Pages: 392 pages, 13 illus. BIC Classification: 1DST; HBJD; HBLC; HRAX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 25. Weight in Grams: 721.
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- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 392
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780812238235
- ISBN
- 9780812238235
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 102.68
€ 102.68