Brotherly Love

Daniel Hoffman

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• Brotherly Love is a long poem that evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has become of it as the intractable conflicts of ou... Lees meer

The Natures of John and William Bartram

Thomas P Slaughter

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• John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical man, a scientist... Lees meer

The Free Man

Conrad Richter

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• The revolutionary patriot known as Henry Free had come to America as the boy Henner Dellicker--his new life as different as his name and the childhood... Lees meer

The Perennial Philadelphians

Nathaniel Burt

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• The Perennial Philadelphians tells the story of the city's inherited aristocracy--of Wanamakers and Drexels, of Biddles and Cadwaladers. Drawing on hi... Lees meer

Mastering Wartime

J Matthew Gallman

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• Mastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war posed num... Lees meer

Getting Work

Walter Licht

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• How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by... Lees meer

Ingenious Dr. Franklin

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• An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place ... Lees meer

The Peoples of Philadelphia

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• Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks,... Lees meer

Moravian Architecture and Town Planning

William J Murtagh

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• The industrial city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in colonial times by Moravians from southeastern Germany. These religious utopi... Lees meer

Natural Lives, Modern Times

Bruce Stutz

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• 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 ravin... Lees meer