Book Re-Launched at Nanticoke Indian Powwow
09/12/2006
Last weekend’s 29th Annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow provided an ideal venue for the return of Delaware’s Forgotten Folk by C.A. Weslager. Copies of the book were sold at the powwow… READ MORE
Category: American History & Studies
Now Available–Troubled Experiement
09/08/2006
Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe 368 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Sep 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3955-5 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
Now Available–Greater New Jersey
08/25/2006
Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham Dennis E. Gale 208 pages | 5 1/2 x 9 | 32 illus. Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3954-7 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
Now in Paperback–Camden After the Fall
08/18/2006
Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City Howard Gillette, Jr. 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3897-4 | $39.95s… READ MORE
Don’t Mess with the Titles
08/09/2006
Philadelphia Inquirer critic Carlin Romano praises the book Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past by Steven Conn. "Incisive, quirky, wry and boosterish without pulling appropriate punches, Metropolitan… READ MORE
Now in Paperback–The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
07/28/2006
/The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America/
Richard R. Beeman
376 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 25 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3770-6 | $39.95s | £ 26.00
Paper July 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1977-5 | $24.95s | £16.50
The Organization Man at 50
07/28/2006
Why does Whyte’s cultural critique still resonate in our downsized globalized working world? A quote from Roger K. Miller’s recent review, which appeared in “The Washington Times” and “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” may have the answer.
Seneca Falls Perspectives
07/20/2006
Here, historian Katherine J. Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, considers why a student might chose grizzlier subjects over women’s history.
