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Book Synopsis Building America's First University by : George E. Thomas
Download or read book Building America's First University written by George E. Thomas and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2000-05-11 with total page 414 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "More than a guide, this is a thorough and engaging study of a great American institution."--Choice
Book Synopsis History of Pennsylvania by : Philip S. Klein
Download or read book History of Pennsylvania written by Philip S. Klein and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-11-01 with total page 651 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis University of Pennsylvania by : George E. Thomas
Download or read book University of Pennsylvania written by George E. Thomas and published by Princeton Architectural Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Benjamin Franklin, founder of America's first university, the University of Pennsylvania, hoped that its students would learn "everything that is useful and everything that is ornamental." The same might be said of the architecture of its campus, both useful and ornamental. The newest title in our highly acclaimed Campus Guide Series takes readers on an insider's tour of this historic school, unique in the Ivy League for its single urban campus. The guide presents architectural walks of a campus that is distinguished by landmark buildings. Thomas traces the university's rich history from its founding in 1749 to the present wave of construction on the modern campus. Hand-colored maps and detailed descriptions of the buildings guide to readers on their tour.
Download or read book Pennsylvania written by Randall M. Miller and published by Guida Editori. This book was released on 2002 with total page 722 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Keystone State, so nicknamed because it was geographically situated in the middle of the thirteen original colonies and played a crucial role in the founding of the United States, has remained at the heart of American history. Created partly as a safe haven for people from all walks of life, Pennsylvania is today the home of diverse cultures, religions, ethnic groups, social classes, and occupations. Many ideas, institutions, and interests that were formed or tested in Pennsylvania spread across America and beyond, and continue to inform American culture, society, and politics. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth is the first comprehensive history of the Keystone State in almost three decades. In it distinguished scholars view Pennsylvania's history critically and honestly, setting the Commonwealth's story in the larger context of national social, cultural, economic, and political development. Part I offers a narrative history and Part II offers a series of "Ways to Pennsylvania's Past" -- nine concise guides designed to enable readers to discover Pennsylvania's heritage for themselves. Pennsylvania: A History of the Commonwealth is the result of a unique collaboration between The Pennsylvania State University Press and The Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC), the official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. The result is a remarkable account of how Pennsylvanians have lived, worked, and played through the centuries.
Book Synopsis Critical Disaster Studies by : Jacob A.C. Remes
Download or read book Critical Disaster Studies written by Jacob A.C. Remes and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2021-08-20 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book announces the new, interdisciplinary field of critical disaster studies. Unlike most existing approaches to disaster, critical disaster studies begins with the idea that disasters are not objective facts, but rather are interpretive fictions—and they shape the way people see the world. By questioning the concept of disaster itself, critical disaster studies reveals the stakes of defining people or places as vulnerable, resilient, or at risk. As social constructs, disaster, vulnerability, resilience, and risk shape and are shaped by contests over power. Managers and technocrats often herald the goals of disaster response and recovery as objective, quantifiable, or self-evident. In reality, the goals are subjective, and usually contested. Critical disaster studies attends to the ways powerful people often use claims of technocratic expertise to maintain power. Moreover, rather than existing as isolated events, disasters take place over time. People commonly imagine disasters to be unexpected and sudden, making structural conditions appear contingent, widespread conditions appear local, and chronic conditions appear acute. By placing disasters in broader contexts, critical disaster studies peels away that veneer. With chapters by scholars of five continents and seven disciplines, Critical Disaster Studies asks how disasters come to be known as disasters, how disasters are used as tools of governance and politics, and how people imagine and anticipate disasters. The volume will be of interest to scholars of disaster in any discipline and especially to those teaching the growing number of courses on disaster studies.
Download or read book Becoming Penn written by John L. Puckett and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-03-26 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The second half of the twentieth century saw the University of Pennsylvania grow in size as well as in stature. On its way to becoming one of the world's most celebrated research universities, Penn exemplified the role of urban renewal in the postwar redevelopment and expansion of urban universities, and the indispensable part these institutions played in the remaking of American cities. Yet urban renewal is only one aspect of this history. Drawing from Philadelphia's extensive archives as well as the University's own historical records and publications, John L. Puckett and Mark Frazier Lloyd examine Penn's rise to eminence amid the social, moral, and economic forces that transformed major public and private institutions across the nation. Becoming Penn recounts the shared history of university politics and urban policy as the campus grappled with twentieth-century racial tensions, gender inequality, labor conflicts, and economic retrenchment. Examining key policies and initiatives of the administrations led by presidents Gaylord Harnwell, Martin Meyerson, Sheldon Hackney, and Judith Rodin, Puckett and Lloyd revisit the actors, organizations, and controversies that shaped campus life in this turbulent era. Illustrated with archival photographs of the campus and West Philadelphia neighborhood throughout the late twentieth century, Becoming Penn provides a sweeping portrait of one university's growth and impact within the broader social history of American higher education.
Book Synopsis The Camera and the Press by : Marcy J. Dinius
Download or read book The Camera and the Press written by Marcy J. Dinius and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2012-03-15 with total page 317 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Before most Americans ever saw an actual daguerreotype, they encountered this visual form through written descriptions, published and rapidly reprinted in newspapers throughout the land. In The Camera and the Press, Marcy J. Dinius examines how the first written and published responses to the daguerreotype set the terms for how we now understand the representational accuracy and objectivity associated with the photograph, as well as the democratization of portraiture that photography enabled. Dinius's archival research ranges from essays in popular nineteenth-century periodicals to daguerreotypes of Americans, Liberians, slaves, and even fictional characters. Examples of these portraits are among the dozens of illustrations featured in the book. The Camera and the Press presents new dimensions of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The House of the Seven Gables, Herman Melville's Pierre, Harriet Beecher Stowe's Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Frederick Douglass's The Heroic Slave. Dinius shows how these authors strategically incorporated aspects of daguerreian representation to advance their aesthetic, political, and social agendas. By recognizing print and visual culture as one, Dinius redefines such terms as art, objectivity, sympathy, representation, race, and nationalism and their interrelations in nineteenth-century America.
Book Synopsis History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 by : Samuel Penniman Bates
Download or read book History of Pennsylvania Volunteers, 1861-5 written by Samuel Penniman Bates and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 1354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States by : Robert Louis Clark
Download or read book A History of Public Sector Pensions in the United States written by Robert Louis Clark and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2003-05-12 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the Wharton School, offering a comprehensive assessment of the political and financial dimensions of public-sector pensions from the colonial period until the emergence of modern retirement plans in the twentieth century.
Book Synopsis The IUP Story by : Charles Cashdollar
Download or read book The IUP Story written by Charles Cashdollar and published by . This book was released on 2021-09 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years in the making, the book tells the school's story, from beginning to the present, by focusing on its people and campus life. Prominent themes throughout its more than 400 pages are the school's commitment to excellence and its resilience-through war, depression, and pandemic. Generously illustrated, this hardcover book is organized in 14 chronological chapters, with an additional chapter on Jane Leonard, who, as a teacher and administrator, was a central figure during the school's first 45 years.
Book Synopsis The Things I Learned in College by : Sean-Michael Green
Download or read book The Things I Learned in College written by Sean-Michael Green and published by Theleigh Publishing Company. This book was released on 2016-04-08 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reveals what life is like for students who are able to study in the Ivy League and explores the myths and secrets of the institutions.
Book Synopsis A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania by : Joseph Carson
Download or read book A History of the Medical Department of the University of Pennsylvania written by Joseph Carson and published by . This book was released on 1869 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Peoples of Pennsylvania by : David E. Washburn
Download or read book The Peoples of Pennsylvania written by David E. Washburn and published by Inquiry International. This book was released on 1981 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis University of Pennsylvania by : Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain
Download or read book University of Pennsylvania written by Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania by : Francis Newton Thorpe
Download or read book Benjamin Franklin and the University of Pennsylvania written by Francis Newton Thorpe and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 542 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Early History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Origin to the Year 1827 by : George Bacon Wood
Download or read book Early History of the University of Pennsylvania from Its Origin to the Year 1827 written by George Bacon Wood and published by . This book was released on 1896 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Olde Penn written by and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
