Now in Paperback–Peace and Freedom
08/24/2006
Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960sSimon Hall280 pages | 6 x 9Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3839-7 | $45.00s | £29.50 Paper 2006 | ISBN… READ MORE
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Now Available–Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art
08/23/2006
Thomas Hovenden: His Life and Art Anne Gregory Terhune. With the assistance of Patricia Smith Scanlan. Foreword by Elizabeth Johns 296 pages | 8 1/2 x 11 | 46 color,… 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
Now in Paperback–The Future of Kurdistan in Iraq
The Future of Kurdistan in IraqBrendan O’Leary, John McGarry, and Khaled Salih, Editors 384 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 17 maps Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3870-2 |… READ MORE
Indian Independence Day
08/15/2006
At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. 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 Poor Indians
08/04/2006
/The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility/
Laura M. Stevens
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3812-5 | $39.95s| £ 26.00
Paper August 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1967-8 | $24.95s | £ 16.50
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
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.
