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The Ingenious Dr. Franklin
Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812210675
Pub Date: October 1974
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Franklin's most entertaining speculative letters on a variety of subjects: the first balloon ascensions, electrocution, daylight saving, bifocal glasses, magic squares, his famous Kite and Stove, and so on.
Brotherly Love
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812217360
Pub Date: March 2000
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
A modern long poem, focusing on William Penn, Quaker origins of American ideals, and subsequent history, Native American and European American.
Getting Work
Philadelphia, 184-195
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812217193
Pub Date: February 2000
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
"An engagingly written, thorough examination of the . . . day-to-day working of the labor market."—Journal of Economic History
The Peoples of Philadelphia
A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812216707
Pub Date: October 1998
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
A picture of Philadelphia radically different from the conventional portrait of a staid old city, corrupt and contented. The men and women of Philadelphia who emerge in these pages are anything but staid, and certainly not contented.
Natural Lives, Modern Times
People and Places of the Delaware River
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812216585
Pub Date: July 1998
Format: Paperback
400 Pages
The Perennial Philadelphians
The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780812216936
Pub Date: October 1999
Format: Paperback
640 Pages
E. B. White once said, only places that are a bit decadent are pleasant to live in. Charm, especially Philadelphia charm, wouldn't be the same without the tinge of decadence found in the lives of Philadelphia's upper class.
The Natures of John and William Bartram
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812219340
Pub Date: November 2005
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
In this dual biography Thomas P. Slaughter investigates the natural world of early America as seen through the eyes of John and William Bartram, the father and son botanical explorers who sought purpose and meaning in the wilderness of eighteenth-century North America.
Mastering Wartime
A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812217445
Pub Date: September 2000
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
A pioneering study of a Northern city during the Civil War that challenges the long-held belief that the War was a "second American Revolution."
The Free Man
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812216790
Pub Date: January 1998
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
This engaging work of historical fiction will be enjoyed by adults and younger readers alike.
Moravian Architecture and Town Planning
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780812216370
Pub Date: January 1997
Format: Paperback
168 Pages
The Ingenious Dr. Franklin
Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9780812210675
Pub Date: October 1974
Format: Paperback
256 Pages
Brotherly Love
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812217360
Pub Date: March 2000
Format: Paperback
192 Pages
Getting Work
Philadelphia, 184-195
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812217193
Pub Date: February 2000
Format: Paperback
336 Pages
The Peoples of Philadelphia
A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812216707
Pub Date: October 1998
Format: Paperback
312 Pages
Natural Lives, Modern Times
People and Places of the Delaware River
Price: $39.95
ISBN: 9780812216585
Pub Date: July 1998
Format: Paperback
400 Pages
The Perennial Philadelphians
The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy
Price: $99.95
ISBN: 9780812216936
Pub Date: October 1999
Format: Paperback
640 Pages
The Natures of John and William Bartram
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812219340
Pub Date: November 2005
Format: Paperback
328 Pages
Mastering Wartime
A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9780812217445
Pub Date: September 2000
Format: Paperback
368 Pages
The Free Man
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9780812216790
Pub Date: January 1998
Format: Paperback
184 Pages
Moravian Architecture and Town Planning
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements
Price: $44.95
ISBN: 9780812216370
Pub Date: January 1997
Format: Paperback
168 Pages