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  • - A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940
     
    318,95 kr.

    A picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented.

  • - Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements
    af William J. Murtagh
    463,95 kr.

    Compares more than 20 Bethlehem landmarks with other Moravian communities for a glimpse into a part of America's past.

  • - Philadelphia, 1840-1950
    af Walter Licht
    363,95 kr.

    "An engagingly written, thorough examination of the ... day-to-day working of the labor market."-Journal of Economic History

  • - The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy
    af Nathaniel Burt
    1.023,95 kr.

    E. B. White once said, only places that are a bit decadent are pleasant to live in. Charm, especially Philadelphia charm, wouldn't be the same without the tinge of decadence found in the lives of Philadelphia's upper class.

  • - People and Places of the Delaware River
    af Bruce Stutz
    413,95 kr.

    The Delaware River flows out of New York''s Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, and finally past one of the world''s most industrialized riverfronts. Yet it remains one of the country''s last undammed rivers, with a natural life as rich and varied as its human history.In Natural Lives, Modern Times, Bruce Stutz has written a thoroughly modern natural history, blending keen observations of the nature of the Delaware''s enduring complex of river, glacial streams, marshlands, and forest with glimpses of history and folklore and with luminous portraits of those whose lives are sustained by the river. The Delaware was the waterway of the nation''s first mercantile, philosophical, scientific, cultural, and industrial heartland, hosting immigrants from Europe, Africa, and the Mediterranean, all looking for new lives along the ancient river.In this always entertaining and often haunting intertwining of human and natural history, Bruce Stutz discovers those who regret what has been lost and those passionate about preserving what remains. Most of all, however, he lets us see what''s at stake in a wonderfully diverse world. Not since Mark Twain has anyone taken such a freewheeling river journey.

  • - A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War
    af J. Matthew Gallman
    363,95 kr.

    A pioneering study of a Northern city during the Civil War that challenges the long-held belief that the War was a "second American Revolution."

  • af Thomas P. Slaughter
    358,95 kr.

    In this dual biography Thomas P. Slaughter investigates the natural world of early America as seen through the eyes of John and William Bartram, the father and son botanical explorers who sought purpose and meaning in the wilderness of eighteenth-century North America.

  • af Conrad Richter
    263,95 kr.

    This engaging work of historical fiction will be enjoyed by adults and younger readers alike.

  • - Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
     
    313,95 kr.

    Franklin's most entertaining speculative letters on a variety of subjects: the first balloon ascensions, electrocution, daylight saving, bifocal glasses, magic squares, his famous Kite and Stove, and so on.

  • af Daniel Hoffman
    263,95 kr.

    A modern long poem, focusing on William Penn, Quaker origins of American ideals, and subsequent history, Native American and European American.