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The Penn Press spring 2008 catalog announces Against the Wall, a wide-ranging series of essays, edited by Elijah Anderson, that look at the plight and prospects of young black urban men; Mapping Decline, by Colin Gordon, an illustrated history of urban decay in St. Louis; and Almost a Dynasty, by William Kashatus, about the world champion 1980 Philadelphia Phillies. Among many other notable new titles for the season are these: new editions of The Business of Sports Agents and The Academic Job Search Handbook; Gender and Christianity in Medieval Europe; and Place and Memory in the Singing Crane Garden.
Complete Catalog: American History, American Studies

Titles from the Penn Press catalog, grouped by subject.

Abbott, Greater Portland: Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest (2001)

Adams, Fighting for the Farm: Rural America Transformed (2002)

Amory/Hall, Bibliography and the Book Trades: Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England (2004)

Anderson, This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture (2006)

Appelbaum/Sweet, Envisioning an English Empire: Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World (2005)

Beeman, The Evolution of the Southern Backcountry: A Case Study of Lunenburg County, Virginia, 1746-1832 (1984)

Beeman, The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America (2004)

Bellin, The Demon of the Continent: Indians and the Shaping of American Literature (2000)

Bellin, Medicine Bundle: Indian Sacred Performance and American Literature, 1824-1932 (Nov 2007)

Berger, Witchcraft and Magic: Contemporary North America (2005)

Bernstein, Football: The Ivy League Origins of an American Obsession (2001)

Blake, The Arts of Democracy: Art, Public Culture, and the State (Oct 2007)

Blum, W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet (2007)

Branson, These Fiery Frenchified Dames: Women and Political Culture in Early National Philadelphia (2001)

Broder, Tramps, Unfit Mothers, and Neglected Children: Negotiating the Family in Nineteenth-Century Philadelphia (2002)

Brown, The Education of Jane Addams (2003)

Browner, Profound Science and Elegant Literature: Imagining Doctors in Nineteenth-Century America (2004)

Campbell, In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage (Sep 2007)

Cheyfitz, The Poetics of Imperialism: Translation and Colonization from The Tempest to Tarzan, x/e (1997)

Cogdell, Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s (2004)

Cohen/Rosenzweig, Digital History: A Guide to Gathering, Preserving, and Presenting the Past on the Web (2005)

Conn/Page, Building the Nation: Americans Write About Their Architecture, Their Cities, and Their Landscape (2003)

Conn, Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past (2006)

Contosta, A Philadelphia Family: The Houstons and Woodwards of Chestnut Hill (1988)

Copeland-Carson, Creating Africa in America: Translocal Identity in an Emerging World City (2004)

Cotter/Roberts, The Buried Past: An Archaeological History of Philadelphia (1992)

Countryman, Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia (2005)

Cuklanz, Rape on Prime Time: Television, Masculinity, and Sexual Violence (1999)

Cumbler, From Abolition to Rights for All: The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century (Oct 2007)

Currell, The March of Spare Time: The Problem and Promise of Leisure in the Great Depression (2005)

Daunton/Halpern, Empire and Others: British Encounters with Indigenous Peoples, 1600-1850 (1999)

Davie, Women in the Presence: Constructing Community and Seeking Spirituality in Mainline Protestantism (1995)

Davis/Haller, The Peoples of Philadelphia: A History of Ethnic Groups and Lower-Class Life, 1790-1940 (1998)

Davis, The Cowpens-Guilford Courthouse Campaign (2002)

Dittenhoefer, How We Elected Lincoln: Personal Recollections (2005)

Doerksen, American Babel: Rogue Radio Broadcasters of the Jazz Age (2005)

Dorst, Looking West (1999)

Dorst, The Written Suburb: An American Site, An Ethnographic Dilemma (1989)

Dorwart, Fort Mifflin of Philadelphia: An Illustrated History (1998)

Dorwart, The Philadelphia Navy Yard: From the Birth of the U.S. Navy to the Nuclear Age (2000)

Dreiser/Coltrane, Twelve Men (1998)

Du Bois, The Philadelphia Negro: A Social Study (1995)

Du Bois, The Negro (2001)

DuVal, The Native Ground: Indians and Colonists in the Heart of the Continent (2006)

Eastman/Riggio, Dearest Wilding: A Memoir, with Love Letters from Theodore Dreiser (1995)

Emerson, Mark Twain, A Literary Life (1999)

Engs/Miller, The Birth of the Grand Old Party: The Republicans' First Generation (2002)

Erkkila, Mixed Bloods and Other Crosses: Rethinking American Literature from the Revolution to the Culture Wars (2004)

Farrell-Beck/Gau, Uplift: The Bra in America (2001)

Faulkner, Women's Radical Reconstruction: The Freedmen's Aid Movement (2003)

Fauset, Black Gods of the Metropolis: Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North (1970)

Fernandez-Armesto, Before Columbus: Exploration and Colonization from the Mediterranean to the Atlantic, 1229-1492 (1987)

Finger, Doctor Franklin's Medicine (2006)

Flowers, The Fantasy Factory: An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry (1998)

Fogleman, Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration, Settlement, and Political Culture in Colonial America, 1717-1775 (1996)

Fogleman, Jesus Is Female: Moravians and Radical Religion in Early America (2007)

Ford, Metropolitan San Diego: How Geography and Lifestyle Shape a New Urban Environment (2004)

Fortune/Warner, Franklin and His Friends: Portraying the Man of Science in Eighteenth-Century America (1999)

Foster, Captain Watson's Travels in America: The Sketchbooks and Diary of Joshua Rowley Watson, 1772-1818 (1997)

Franklin/Conn, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin: Penn Reading Project Edition (2005)

Franz, Tinkering: Consumers Reinvent the Early Automobile (2005)

Frisken, Victoria Woodhull's Sexual Revolution: Political Theater and the Popular Press in Nineteenth-Century America (2004)

Gallman, Mastering Wartime: A Social History of Philadelphia During the Civil War (2000)

Gertzman, Bookleggers and Smuthounds: The Trade in Erotica, 1920-1940 (1999)

Giles, Transatlantic Insurrections: British Culture and the Formation of American Literature, 1730-1860 (2001)

Gilje, Liberty on the Waterfront: American Maritime Culture in the Age of Revolution (2003)

Gillette, Camden After the Fall: Decline and Renewal in a Post-Industrial City (2005)

Gillette, Between Justice and Beauty: Race, Planning, and the Failure of Urban Policy in Washington, D.C. (2006)

Gober, Metropolitan Phoenix: Place Making and Community Building in the Desert (2005)

Goodman, The Ingenious Dr. Franklin: Selected Scientific Letters of Benjamin Franklin (1956)

Goosman, Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues (2005)

Greiff, Independence: The Creation of a National Park (1987)

Hall, Peace and Freedom: The Civil Rights and Antiwar Movements in the 1960s (2004)

Handlin, The Uprooted: The Epic Story of the Great Migrations That Made the American People, 2/e (2002)

Hannigan, The New World Power: American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917 (2002)

Hardwick, Mall Maker: Victor Gruen, Architect of an American Dream (2003)

Hatfield, Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century (2003)

Heilbrun, When Men Were the Only Models We Had: My Teachers Fadiman, Barzun, Trilling (2001)

Hepp, IV, The Middle-Class City: Transforming Space and Time in Philadelphia, 1876-1926 (2003)

Herndon, Unwelcome Americans: Living on the Margin in Early New England (2001)

Hessinger, Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn: Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850 (2005)

Hinson, Fire in My Bones: Transcendence and the Holy Spirit in African American Gospel (2000)

Hoffman, Brotherly Love (2000)

Hood, The Weaver's Craft: Cloth, Commerce, and Industry in Early Pennsylvania (2003)

Howard, Brides, Inc.: American Weddings and the Business of Tradition (2006)

Illick, American Childhoods (2002)

Inness, Disco Divas: Women and Popular Culture in the 1970s (2003)

Isenberg/Burstein, Mortal Remains: Death in Early America (2002)

Jackson, From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice (2006)

Jamieson/Waldman, Electing the President, 2000: The Insiders' View (2001)

Jamieson, Electing the President, 2004: The Insiders' View (2005)

Jefferson/Ford, The Autobiography of Thomas Jefferson, 1743-1790 (2005)

Juster, Doomsayers: Anglo-American Prophecy in the Age of Revolution (2003)

Kafer, Charles Brockden Brown's Revolution and the Birth of American Gothic (2004)

Kasserman, Fall River Outrage: Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England (1986)

Katz/Sugrue, W. E. B. Du Bois, Race, and the City: "The Philadelphia Negro" and Its Legacy (1998)

Kilgore, Astrofuturism: Science, Race, and Visions of Utopia in Space (2003)

Krupat, Red Matters: Native American Studies (2002)

Lanctot, Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution (2004)

Landay, Madcaps, Screwballs, and Con Women: The Female Trickster in American Culture (1998)

Lapsansky/Verplanck, Quaker Aesthetics: Reflections on a Quaker Ethic in American Design and Consumption, 1720-1920 (2002)

Larson/Morrison, Whither the Early Republic: A Forum on the Future of the Field (2005)

Lavender, Climax at Buena Vista: The Decisive Battle of the Mexican-American War (2003)

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 1: Journalist, 1706-1730 (2005)

Lemay, The Life of Benjamin Franklin, Volume 2: Printer and Publisher, 1730-1747 (2005)

Lemire, "Miscegenation": Making Race in America (2002)

Licht, Getting Work: Philadelphia, 1840-1950 (2000)

Lichtenstein, American Capitalism: Social Thought and Political Economy in the Twentieth Century (2006)

Little, Abraham in Arms: War and Gender in Colonial New England (2006)

Lockwood, Gardens of Colony and State: Gardens and Gardeners of the American Colonies and the Republic before 1840 (2000)

Long, Rehabilitating Bodies: Health, History, and the American Civil War (2003)

Lovell, Art in a Season of Revolution: Painters, Artisans, and Patrons in Early America (2005)

Lyons, The People of This Generation: The Rise and Fall of the New Left in Philadelphia (2003)

MacDonald, The Battle of the Huertgen Forest (2002)

Mackey-Kallis, The Hero and the Perennial Journey Home in American Film (2001)

Magliocco, Witching Culture: Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America (2004)

Marc, Demographic Vistas: Television in American Culture, r/e (1996)

Marietta, The Reformation of American Quakerism, 1748-1783 (1984)

Marietta/Rowe, Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 (2006)

Marino/Tiro, Along the Hudson and Mohawk: The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani (2006)

Marshall/Smith, Supreme Justice: Speeches and Writings (2002)

Matt, Keeping Up with the Joneses: Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930 (2002)

McConville, These Daring Disturbers of the Public Peace: The Struggle for Property and Power in Early New Jersey (2003)

McCoubrey, American Tradition in Painting, New Edition (2000)

McGill, American Literature and the Culture of Reprinting, 1834-1853 (2002)

McNeil, Groundwork: Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights (1983)

Merwick, The Shame and the Sorrow: Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland (2006)

Metzger, Reagan: American Icon (1989)

Middleton, From Privileges to Rights: Work and Politics in Colonial New York City (2006)

Miller, Invested with Meaning: The Raleigh Circle in the New World (1998)

Mires, Independence Hall in American Memory (2002)

Mollin, Radical Pacifism in Modern America: Egalitarianism and Protest (2006)

Morgan, Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery (2004)

Moss, The Color of Class: Poor Whites and the Paradox of Privilege (2003)

Muller, The Darkest Day: The Washington-Baltimore Campaign During the War of 1812 (2003)

Murray, The Progressive Housewife: Community Activism in Suburban Queens, 1945-1965 (2003)

Nash, First City: Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory (2001)

Nelson, Denver: An Archaeological History (2001)

Newman, Fries's Rebellion: The Enduring Struggle for the American Revolution (2004)

Newman, Parades and the Politics of the Street: Festive Culture in the Early American Republic (1997)

Newman, Embodied History: The Lives of the Poor in Early Philadelphia (2003)

Noel Hume, A Guide to the Artifacts of Colonial America (2001)

Nwankwo, Black Cosmopolitanism: Racial Consciousness and Transnational Identity in the Nineteenth-Century Americas (2005)

O'Gorman, Connecticut Valley Vernacular: The Vanishing Landscape and Architecture of the New England Tobacco Fields (2002)

O'Shaughnessy, An Empire Divided: The American Revolution and the British Caribbean (2000)

Oberg, The Head in Edward Nugent's Hand: Roanoke's Forgotten Indians (Oct 2007)

Onuf, The Origins of the Federal Republic: Jurisdictional Controversies in the United States, 1775-1787 (1983)

Parkin, Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America (2006)

Parks/Nelson, From Jackson to Lincoln: Democracy and Dissent (1995)

Peretti, Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan (2007)

Plank, An Unsettled Conquest: The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia (2000)

Plank, Rebellion and Savagery: The Jacobite Rising of 1745 and the British Empire (2005)

Powell, Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (1949)

Pulsipher, Subjects unto the Same King: Indians, English, and the Contest for Authority in Colonial New England (2005)

Purcell, Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America (2002)

Recchiuti, Civic Engagement: Social Science and Progressive-Era Reform in New York City (2006)

Regis, Describing Early America: Bartram, Jefferson, Crevècoeur, and the Influence of Natural History (1999)

Remer, Printers and Men of Capital: Philadelphia Book Publishers in the New Republic (1996)

Rhodes, Electric Ladyland: Women and Rock Culture (2005)

Richards, Shays's Rebellion: The American Revolution's Final Battle (2002)

Rilling, Making Houses, Crafting Capitalism: Builders in Philadelphia, 1790-1850 (2000)

Riordan, Many Identities, One Nation: The Revolution and Its Legacy in the Mid-Atlantic (2007)

Roberts, From Trickster to Badman: The Black Folk Hero in Slavery and Freedom (1989)

Rodin/Steinberg, Public Discourse in America: Conversation and Community in the Twenty-First Century (2003)

Romer/Kenski, Capturing Campaign Dynamics, 2000 and 2004: The National Annenberg Election Survey (2006)

Rottenberg, The Man Who Made Wall Street: Anthony J. Drexel and the Rise of Modern Finance (2001)

Saab, For the Millions: American Art and Culture Between the Wars (2004)

Sabin, Red Scare in Court: New York versus the International Workers Order (1993)

Sabin, In Calmer Times: The Supreme Court and Red Monday (1999)

Sacks, Before Harlem: The Black Experience in New York City Before World War I (2006)

Salmon, History and the Texture of Modern Life: Selected Essays (2001)

Sarnecky, A History of the U.S. Army Nurse Corps (1999)

Schorman, Selling Style: Clothing and Social Change at the Turn of the Century (2003)

Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (2007)

Scott, Counterfeiting in Colonial America (2000)

Shaffer, Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater (Sep 2007)

Sheumaker, Love Entwined: The Curious History of Hairwork in America (2007)

Shokeid, A Gay Synagogue in New York (2002)

Slaughter, The Natures of John and William Bartram (2005)

Smith, Jr, Emancipation: The Making of the Black Lawyer, 1844-1944 (1993)

Smolenski/Humphrey, New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas (2005)

Smulyan, Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century (2007)

Soderlund, William Penn and the Founding of Pennsylvania: A Documentary History (1983)

St John, Libya and the United States, Two Centuries of Strife (2002)

Stevens, The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility (2004)

Stone, Autobiographical Occasions and Original Acts: Versions of American Identity From Henry Adams to Nate Shaw (1982)

Stroud, The Emperor of Nature: Charles-Lucien Bonaparte and His World (2000)

Sweet, American Georgics: Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864 (2001)

Sweet, Bodies Politic: Negotiating Race in the American North, 1730-1830 (2007)

Szwed, Crossovers: Essays on Race, Music, and American Culture (2005)

Taylor, Writing Early American History (2005)

Thomas/Brownlee, Building America's First University: An Historical and Architectural Guide to the University of Pennsylvania (2000)

Thompson, Rum Punch and Revolution: Taverngoing and Public Life in Eighteenth-Century Philadelphia (1998)

Tichi, Exposés and Excess: Muckraking in America, 1900 / 2000 (2003)

Van Buskirk, Generous Enemies: Patriots and Loyalists in Revolutionary New York (2002)

Van Horne, Traveling the Pennsylvania Railroad: Photographs of William H. Rau (2002)

Vettel, Biotech: The Countercultural Origins of an Industry (2006)

Warner, The Private City: Philadelphia in Three Periods of Its Growth, 2/e (1987)

Warner, Greater Boston: Adapting Regional Traditions to the Present (2001)

Washington, The Story of the Negro (2005)

Whyte, The Last Landscape (2002)

Wosh, Covenant House: Journey of a Faith-Based Charity (2004)

Wulf, Not All Wives: Women of Colonial Philadelphia (2005)

Yarbrough, Race and the Cherokee Nation: Sovereignty in the Nineteenth Century (Dec 2007)

Zagarri, Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic (Oct 2007)

Zeiger, In Uncle Sam's Service: Women Workers with the American Expeditionary Force, 1917-1919 (2004)




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