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Chronicon Ephratense: A History of the Community of Seventh Day Baptists at Ephrata, Lancaster County, Penn'a (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A history, originally published in 1786 and translated in 1889, of the Seventh Day Baptist... Læs mere
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Black Forest Souvenirs: Collected in Northern Pennsylvania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of folklore from north-central Pennsylvania, collected by Henry W. Shoemaker and originally published in 1914. Includes photographs by William T. Clarke.
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The House of the Black Ring: A Romance of the Seven Mountains (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A reprint of a 1904 novel by Pennsylvania State College (now University) professor of English Fred Lewis Pattee, set in the 1890s in central Pennsylvania. Includes a preface by poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf and endnotes by Joshua R. Brown.
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This Far by Faith: Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture.
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Juniata Memories: Legends Collected in Central Pennsylvania (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reprint of a 1916 collection of Pennsylvania folklore. Includes twenty-six legends set in Central Pennsylvania and the Juniata Valley.
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Old Roads Out of Philadelphia (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Reprint of a 1917 work exploring the history of ten roads originating in Philadelphia: the King's Highway to Wilmington, Baltimore Pike, Westchester Turnpike, Lancaster... Læs mere
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Globalization and Beyond: New Examinations of Global Power and Its Alternatives (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Explores the origins and the reciprocal influences of globalization and the recent economic crisis, and suggests what new ideological foundations and geographic regions will be ascendant.
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An Account of the Manners of the German Inhabitants of Pennsylvania, Written 1789 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A description, originally published in 1789, of Pennsylvania German culture. Reprint of 1875 edition, with notes, preface, and appendixes by Pennsylvania historian Daniel Rupp.
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North Pennsylvania Minstrelsy: As Sung in the Backwood Settlements, Hunting Cabins and Lumber Camps in Northern Pennsylvania, 1840–1910 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century folk songs and ballads, compiled with the assistance of John C. French and John H. Chatham from Union, Snyder, Centre, Lycoming, Clinton, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Forest, Cameron, Elk, and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania.
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Melancholy Politics: Loss, Mourning, and Memory in Late Modern France (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A study of the cultural politics of loss and mourning in France from 1978 to the present. Focuses on national identity, secularism, Jacobin republicanism, and political-cultural exceptionalism.
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Governing Disorder: UN Peace Operations, International Security, and Democratization in the Post–Cold War Era (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines post-Cold War discourses about the use of power to promote international security. Uses case studies of United Nations interventions in Haiti and Croatia to highlight the dynamics at play in encounters between local societies and international peacekeepers.
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Demanding the Land: Urban Popular Movements in Peru and Ecuador, 1990–2005 (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Examines the widespread Latin American phenomenon of illegal land seizures and squatter settlement development. Explains, based on case studies in Peru and Ecuador, how invasion organizations mobilize, why they succeed or fail, and why they endure or disappear.
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