Mass produced of tin-lead alloys and cheap to purchase, medieval badges were brooch-like objects displaying familiar images. Sumptuously illustrated, Medieval Badges considers all badges, whether they originated in religious or secular contexts, and highlights the ways in which badges could confer meaning and identity on their wearers.
In Independence Hall, Charlene Mires rediscovers and chronicles the lost history of Independence Hall. According to Mires, the significance of Independence Hall cannot be fully appreciated without assessing the full range of political, cultural, and social history that has swirled about it for nearly three centuries.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 1
Edited by Howard Gillette Jr. and Carolyn T. Adams
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826043
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, The Greater Philadelphia Region and its companion volumes Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 2
Edited by Charlene Mires and Jean R. Soderlund
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512826630
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
352 Pages
Informed by contemporary scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the Nation and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the World bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Volume 3
Edited by Andrew Heath
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9781512827385
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia and the World and its companion volumes The Greater Philadelphia Region and Greater Philadelphia and the Nation bring to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of greater Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
A New History for the Twenty-First Century, Three-Volume Set
Edited by Carolyn T. Adams, Howard Gillette Jr., Andrew Heath, Charlene Mires and Jean R. Soderlund
Price: $125.00
ISBN: 9781512829358
Pub Date: October 2025
Format: Hardcover
1 Page
Informed by current scholarship and richly illustrated with full-color photographs and maps, Greater Philadelphia: A New History for the Twenty-First Century brings to the public an up-to-date, diverse history of Philadelphia across its many dimensions.
Speaking, Stammering, Singing, Shouting traces the history of what was considered a good, normal, or healthy voice in the nineteenth century. From parrots and preachers to stammerers and singers, the book delves not only into changing medical norms and musical ideals but also into the sometimes painful and awkward daily work of having a voice.
Black Excellence offers a provocative new history of modern black liberalism by situating the seemingly conservative tendencies of black elected officials in the post–civil rights era within neoliberal American politics and an enduring black liberal tradition.
Politics, Literature, and Imagination Among the Early Modern Ottomans
Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano
Price: $79.95
ISBN: 9781512827309
Pub Date: March 2025
Format: Hardcover
240 Pages
Occasions for Poetry is a history of how Turkish poetry became the preferred mode for communicating, debating, and shaping political and social experience in the early Ottoman Empire. Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano reveals the ways in which literary language affected bureaucratic practice and became a means to advance one’s own political career.
Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic World
Chelsea Berry
Price: $49.95
ISBN: 9781512826494
Pub Date: September 2024
Format: Hardcover
272 Pages
Poisoned Relations illuminates the competing understandings of poison and power in the Atlantic world. Examining more than five hundred investigations and trials in British Virginia, French Martinique, Portuguese Bahia, and the Dutch Guianas, she brings historical linguistics to bear on the study of the African diaspora in the Americas.
