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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.
Early American Studies
Daniel K. Richter and Kathleen M. Brown, Series Editors

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

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

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

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

Fea, The Way of Improvement Leads Home: Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America (Feb 2008)

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Middleton/Smith, Class Matters: Early North America and the Atlantic World (Feb 2008)

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

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

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)

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 (2007)

Opal, Beyond the Farm: National Ambitions in Rural New England (Mar 2008)

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)

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)

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

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)

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

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

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

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

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

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

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




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