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In the decades following the Civil War--as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape--many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle-and upper-class devotees were rushing to join Audubon...

In the decades following the Civil War--as industrialization, urbanization, and economic expansion increasingly reshaped the landscape--many Americans began seeking adventure and aesthetic gratification through avian pursuits. By the turn of the century, hundreds of thousands of middle-and upper-class devotees were rushing to join Audubon...

"On a morning early in April the little steamer conveying us across from Stamboul touched the wharf at Haider Pasha. Amid the rabble of Greeks, Armenians, Turks, and Italians we trundled our bicycles across the gang-plank, which for us was the threshold of Asia,...

This title was first published in 1978: Communism aims at putting working people in charge of their lives. A multiplicity of Councils, rather than a big state bureaucracy is needed to empower working people and to focus control over society. Mattick develops a theory...

Breaking the Barriers: 31 Keys to Experience Inner Peace is a topical devotional resource that aims to provide the reader with spiritual keys to help them overcome common barriers that prevent them from experiencing inner peace. These keys are intended to help the reader...

Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its world­power outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional...

At the height of the McCarthyite hysteria of the 1950s, John Paton Davies, Jr., was summoned to the State Department one morning and fired. His offense? The career diplomat had counseled the U.S. government during World War II that the Communist forces in China...

"Emancipation is an important and impressive work; one cannot read it without being inspired by the legal acumen, creativity, and resiliency these pioneer lawyers displayed. . . . It should be read by everyone interested in understanding the road African-Americans have traveled and the...

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

The convergence of the politics of representation and Black fan cultures Boldly going where few fandom scholars have gone before, Fandom for Us, by Us breaks from our focus on white fandom to center Black fandoms. Alfred L. Martin, Jr., engages these fandoms through...

Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans Organized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino American life since US colonialism began in the Philippines in 1898. For Filipino diasporas in the United States, sports are important cultural sites...

Examines the significance of sports in the lives of diasporic Filipino Americans Organized sports have occupied a central place in Filipino American life since US colonialism began in the Philippines in 1898. For Filipino diasporas in the United States, sports are important cultural sites...

Stephen Girard, the second richest American of his time after John Jacob Astor, was the last of the great merchant bankers and the first of the great investment bankers. This is a study not only of an influential man and the bank he operated...

Originally published in 1996, French Quarter Nights & Other Stories collected erotic fiction from that era's hottest gay stroke magazines. Periodicals likeBlueboy and Mandate were not only stuffed with sexy photos of naked men, but were dripping with steamy tales, the best of which...

This provocative volume illuminates a dimension of John Wesley's theology that has received insufficient attention: his deep and abiding commitment to the poor. By focusing on the radical nature of Wesley's "evangelical economics," Theodore W. Jennings, Jr., provides an important corrective to the view...

For over 100 years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on James brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar...

For over 100 years the International Critical Commentary has had a special place amongst works on the Bible. This new volume on James brings together all the relevant aids to exegesis - linguistic, textual, archaeological, historical, literary and theological - to enable the scholar...

A comprehensive overview on the French artist who has transformed cities worldwide with his epic portraits of their inhabitantsOver the past two decades, French artist JR has massively expanded the impact of public art through his ambitious projects that give visibility and agency to...

Moumental installations at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio, from French photocollagist, JRThe photocollages of French artist JR (born 1983) have populated streets and skylines all over the world. But he decided to outdo himself at the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio by creating...

This book showcases the most important work by celebrated street artist and activist JR--the award-winning global street-art project he has been working on for the last six years, involving a quarter of a million people. Artist and activist JR exhibits freely in the streets...

French "photograffeur" JR's tribute to cultural institutions during COVID-19Throughout the pandemic, cultural institutions have been forced to shut their doors to the public. Palazzo Strozzi in Florence has commissioned street artist JR (born 1983) to address this unfortunate reality. He has done so by...

In 1962 the University Museum of the University of Pennsylvania observed its seventy-fifth anniversary. During those seventy-five years the sciences of anthropology, archaeology, and ethnology-the studies of man, his antiquity, and his cultures-grew into major areas of study and research. Paralleling this growth of...

This volume investigates African-American employment in banking and insurance in the United States. The authors describe how these once almost all-white industries are now employing large numbers of African-American and what problems remain to be solved before equal employment opportunity can be fully attained....

Scholars who investigate race--a label based upon real or perceived physical differences--realize that they face a formidable task. The concept has been contested and condoned, debated and denied throughout modern history. Presented with the full understanding of the complexity of the issue, Race and...

"Roots of Resistance"In the magical kingdom of Eldoria, where nature and enchantment intertwine, Princess Elara longs for a life beyond royal duties. Trapped in a gilded cage of expectations, she secretly rebels, venturing among the common folk and discovering the suffering caused by a...

Samuel Sloan: Architect of Philadelphia, 1815-1884 is a comprehensive study of one of America's most influential architects. Sloan created the designs that have become prototypes for many public buildings. His plan for the Hospital of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Philadelphia served as the...

Sherman Lead is the gripping story of a year flying the F-4 Phantom in combat during the Vietnam War, told through the eyes of a US Air Force fighter pilot. Operating out of Ubon Royal Thai Air Base, Thailand in 1968-69, Gail Peck and...

The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were present in Iberia from the beginning of recorded history...

The Penn School of Social Policy and Practice enjoys a reputation as Penn's social justice school, for its faculty actively strives to translate the highest ideals into workable programs that better people's lives. In this election year, as Americans debate issues like immigration, crime,...

Charles Sydnor relates the political and military experience of the SS Totenkopfdivision to the institutional development of the SS and the ideological objectives of Nazi Germany.Author: Jr.ISBN-10: 0691008531ISBN-13: 9780691008530Publisher: Princeton University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/21/1990Pages: 400Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.99lbsSize: 8.46h x 5.44w x 0.99d

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W....

An anthology of short stories of spaceships, aliens, and the outer worlds by classic Science Fiction authors, from the Golden Age to the New Wave Era. This compilation includes stories by William Bender, Jr., Ray Bradbury, G. Gordon Dewey, Charles E. Fritch, Edward W....

Ther Hawley-Smoot Tariff as the chief cause of the world depression, specific tariff barriers raised against the United States because of it, with practical suggestions for the revision of American commercial policy.Author: Jr.ISBN-10: 1512803162ISBN-13: 9781512803167Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press AnniversaryLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/29/1934Pages: 368Format: HardcoverWeight:...

This definitive book on venison cooking addresses virtually every aspect of venison processing, preparation, cooking, and preservation. The Complete Venison Cookbook features everything from basic recipes for home and camp to tips on preparing and presenting venison for the most elegant dining occasions. There...

Since its founding in 1952, the International Commission of Jurists has inspired the international human rights movement with persistent demands that governments obey the rule of law.Author: Jr.ISBN-10: 0812232542ISBN-13: 9780812232547Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/29/1994Pages: 376Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.57lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.00d

This award-winning book charts the unfolding, from the Revolutionary War to the Great Depression, of the American tradition of city building and city living, using Philadelphia as a resonant example.Author: Jr.ISBN-10: 0812212436ISBN-13: 9780812212433Publisher: University of Pennsylvania PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/1987Pages: 288Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.95lbsSize: 8.90h x...

This publication is an anthology of selected and edited essays associated with the current culture value set described as The Woke Revolution.Author: Jr.ISBN-10: 8985615092ISBN-13: 9798985615098Publisher: Dementi Milestone PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/15/2022Pages: 89Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.17lbsSize: 7.32h x 4.80w x 0.32d

This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire...

What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a 'white people' and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity? Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the...

What part did Shakespeare play in the construction of a 'white people' and how has his work been enlisted to define and bolster a white cultural and racial identity? Since the court of Queen Elizabeth I, through the early modern English theatre to the...

In 1540, Zamumo, the chief of the Altamahas in central Georgia, exchanged gifts with the Spanish conquistador Hernando de Soto. With these gifts began two centuries of exchanges that bound American Indians and the Spanish, English, and French who colonized the region. Whether they...