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Ingenious Dr. Franklin
Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
E-bok, 2011
450 kr
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An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, "Practical …
Ingenious Dr. Franklin
Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin
Häftad, 1974
353 kr
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An outstanding collection of Benjamin Franklin's scientific correspondence, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin has long been unavailable yet deserves a place beside his Autobiography as essential reading for everyone interested in history, wit, and invention. Portioned into three sections, "Practical …
Moravian Architecture and Town Planning
Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and Other Eighteenth-Century American Settlements
Häftad, 1997
519 kr
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The industrial city of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was originally settled in colonial times by Moravians from southeastern Germany. These religious utopians were noted for urban planning. In this large-format, richly illustrated volume, historian William Murtagh compares more than 20 Bethlehem …
Natural Lives, Modern Times
People and Places of the Delaware River
Av Bruce Stutz
Häftad, 1998
475 kr
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The Delaware River flows out of New York's Catskill Mountains and winds its way through woodland and rural farmland, through the great Water Gap ravine, and finally past one of the world's most industrialized riverfronts. Yet it remains one of the country's last undammed rivers, with a natural life …
Peoples of Philadelphia
A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940
Av Allen F. Davis, Mark H. Haller
Häftad, 1998
402 kr
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Although much has been written about elite Philadelphians, only in recent decades have historians paid attention to the Jews and working-class blacks, the immigrant Irish, Italians, and Poles who settled in the city and gave such sections as Moyamensing, Southwark, South Philadelphia, and …
Free Man
Häftad, 1998
317 kr
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The revolutionary patriot known as Henry Free had come to America as the boy Henner Dellicker-his new life as different as his name and the childhood he left behind in Germany. He had traveled to colonial Philadelphia in a ship crowded with starving emigrants, only to discover that it was …
Perennial Philadelphians
The Anatomy of an American Aristocracy
Häftad, 1999
1119 kr
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The Perennial Philadelphians tells the story of the city's inherited aristocracy-of Wanamakers and Drexels, of Biddles and Cadwaladers. Drawing on history, genealogy, politics, economics, the fine arts, private diaries, and the impressions and anecdotes of myriad living witnesses, Nathaniel Burt …
Getting Work
Philadelphia, 184-195
Av Walter Licht
Häftad, 2000
402 kr
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How did working people find jobs in the past? How has the process changed over time for various groups of job seekers? Are outcomes influenced more by general economic circumstances, by discriminatory practices in the labor market, or by personal initiative and competence?To tackle these questions, …
Brotherly Love
Häftad, 2000
317 kr
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Brotherly Love is a long poem that evokes William Penn's luminous vision of America and shows what has become of it as the intractable conflicts of our history-struggles over the land, keeping faith with the Indians, the uses and abuses of power-threaten Penn's ideal.Daniel Hoffman began writing …
Mastering Wartime
A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War
Häftad, 2000
402 kr
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Mastering Wartime is the first comprehensive study of a Northern city during the Civil War. J. Matthew Gallman argues that, although the war posed numerous challenges to Philadelphia's citizens, the city's institutions and traditions proved to be sufficiently resilient to adjust to the crisis …
Natures of John and William Bartram
Häftad, 2005
414 kr
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John Bartram (1699-1777), the first native-born American to devote his entire life to the study of nature, was an eminently practical man, a scientist devoted to the rigorous description of living things. Among his subjects was the Venus flytrap, along with hundreds of species of plants and …
