Modernism, Philosemitism, and Jews in a Postwar City
Frances Tanzer
Price: $30.00
ISBN: 9781512831368
Pub Date: May 2027
Format: Paperback
264 Pages
Vanishing Vienna reveals the foundational role philosemitism played in the effort to reimagine urban cultures after the Holocaust. Frances Tanzer uncovers a seldom discussed aspect of the postwar era—a society that continues to consume, redefine, and bestow symbolic meaning on the victims in their relative absence.
Terrence Malick and the Examined Life is the most comprehensive account to date of the intellectual and artistic development of one of Hollywood’s most celebrated filmmakers. Utilizing newly available archival sources, Martin Woessner shows how a philosophy student searching for meaning became the most talked-about director of his generation.
In Cast Down: Abjection in America, 1700-1850, Mark J. Miller argues that transatlantic Protestant discourses of abjection engaged with, and furthered the development of, concepts of race and sexuality in the creation of public subjects and public spheres.
In The Sonic South, Rebeccah Bechtold traces how white listeners both heard and imagined the plantation South and its Black communities and examines the legacy of these ways of hearing in the popular plantation literature of the 1830s to 1860s, written by both pro- and antislavery authors.
Britain's Occupation of Philadelphia During the American Revolution
Aaron Sullivan
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512829693
Pub Date: March 2026
Format: Paperback
304 Pages
Focusing on the British occupation of Philadelphia from 1777 to 1778, The Disaffected highlights the perspectives of those wearied by and withdrawn from the War for Independence and reveals the consequences of a Revolutionary ideology that assumed the nation's people to be a united and homogenous front.
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.
Charlene Mires’s chronicle of the lost history of Independence Hall argues that the building’s significance cannot be fully appreciated without assessing its full political, cultural, and social history. Reissued with a new preface that discusses the importance of the 250th anniversary of the nation’s founding to public perception of the site.
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 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, 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.
