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Publisher : DIANE Publishing Inc.
ISBN 13 : 9781422373163
Total Pages : 104 pages
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Download or read book The Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia for the Year 2004 written by and published by DIANE Publishing Inc.. This book was released on with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422359280
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Library Company of Philadelphia: 2003 Annual Report written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jay Robert Stiefel
Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422362761
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book ‘A Clock for the Rooms’: The Horological Legacy of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Jay Robert Stiefel and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on 2006 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kevin J. Hayes
Publisher : University of Iowa Press
ISBN 13 : 1587299836
Total Pages : 241 pages
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Download or read book Franklin in His Own Time written by Kevin J. Hayes and published by University of Iowa Press. This book was released on 2011-05-08 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his time Benjamin Franklin (1706–1790) was the most famous American in the world. Even those personally unacquainted with the man knew him as the author of Poor Richard’s Almanack, as a pioneer in the study of electricity and a major figure in the American Enlightenment, as the creator of such life-changing innovations as the lightning rod and America’s first circulating library, and as a leader of the American Revolution. His friends also knew him as a brilliant conversationalist, a great wit, an intellectual filled with curiosity, and most of all a master anecdotist whose vast store of knowledge complemented his conversational skills. In Franklin in His Own Time, by reprinting the original documents in which those anecdotes occur, Kevin Hayes and Isabelle Bour restore those oft-told stories to their cultural contexts to create a comprehensive narrative of his life and work. The thirty-five recollections gathered in Franklin in His Own Time form an animated, collaborative biography designed to provide a multitude of perspectives on the “First American.” Opening with an account by botanist Peter Kalm showing that Franklin was doing all he could to encourage the development of science in North America, it includes on-the-spot impressions from Daniel Fisher’s diary, the earliest surviving interview with Franklin, recollections from James Madison and Abigail Adams, Manasseh Cutler’s detailed description of the library at Franklin Court, and extracts from Alexander Hamilton’s unvarnished Minutes of the Tuesday Club. Franklin’s political missions to Great Britain and France, where he took full advantage of rich social and intellectual opportunities, are a source of many reminiscences, some published here in new translations. Genuine memories from such old friends as Thomas Jefferson and John Adams, as opposed to memories influenced by the Autobiography, clarify Franklin’s reputation. Robert Carr may have been the last remaining person who knew Franklin personally, and thus his recollections are particularly significant. Each entry is introduced by a headnote that places the selection in its historical and cultural contexts; explanatory notes provide information about people and places; and the editors’ comprehensive introduction and chronology detail Franklin’s eventful life. Dozens of lively primary sources published incrementally over more than a hundred years illustrate the complexity of the man, his mind, and his mannerisms in a way that no single biographer could.
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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422373149
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book Library Company of Philadelphia: 2002 Annual Report written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422366622
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422373132
Total Pages : 112 pages
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Download or read book Library Company of Philadelphia: 2001 Annual Report written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Karen A. Weyler
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
ISBN 13 : 0820343234
Total Pages : 329 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (23 download)
Download or read book Empowering Words written by Karen A. Weyler and published by University of Georgia Press. This book was released on 2013-05-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Standing outside elite or even middling circles, outsiders who were marginalized by limitations on their freedom and their need to labor for a living had a unique grasp on the profoundly social nature of print and its power to influence public opinion. In Empowering Words, Karen A. Weyler explores how outsiders used ephemeral formats such as broadsides, pamphlets, and newspapers to publish poetry, captivity narratives, formal addresses, and other genres with wide appeal in early America. To gain access to print, outsiders collaborated with amanuenses and editors, inserted their stories into popular genres and cheap media, tapped into existing social and religious networks, and sought sponsors and patrons. They wrote individually, collaboratively, and even corporately, but writing for them was almost always an act of connection. Disparate levels of literacy did not necessarily entail subordination on the part of the lessliterate collaborator. Even the minimally literate and the illiterate understood the potential for print to be life changing, and outsiders shrewdly employed strategies to assert themselves within collaborative dynamics. Empowering Words covers an array of outsiders including artisans; the minimally literate; the poor, indentured, or enslaved; and racial minorities. By focusing not only on New England, the traditional stronghold of early American literacy, but also on southern towns such as Williamsburg and Charleston, Weyler limns a more expansive map of early American authorship.
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Publisher : The Library Company of Phil
ISBN 13 : 9781422373125
Total Pages : 108 pages
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Download or read book Library Company of Philadelphia: 2000 Annual Report written by and published by The Library Company of Phil. This book was released on with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Louis J. Parascandola
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271098252
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)
Download or read book A Black Philadelphia Reader written by Louis J. Parascandola and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2024-06-11 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The relationship between the City of Brotherly Love and its Black residents has been complicated from the city’s founding through the present day. A Black Philadelphia Reader traces this complex history in the words of Black writers who were native to, lived in, or had significant connections to the city. Featuring the works of famous authors—including W. E. B. Du Bois, Harriet Jacobs, Sonia Sanchez and John Edgar Wideman—alongside lesser-known voices, this reader is an immersive and enriching composite portrait of the Black experience in Philadelphia. Through fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, readers witness episodes of racial prejudice and gender inequality in areas like public health, housing, education, policing, criminal justice, and public transportation. And yet amid these myriad challenges, the writers convey an enduring faith, a love of family and community, and a hope that Philadelphia will fulfill its promises to its Black citizens. Thoughtfully introduced and accompanied by notes that contextualize the works and aid readers’ comprehension, this book will appeal to a wide audience of Philadelphians and other readers interested in American, African American, and urban studies.
Author : Samuel Otter
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019974193X
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book Philadelphia Stories written by Samuel Otter and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-02 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Philadelphia Stories, Samuel Otter finds literary value, historical significance, and political urgency in a sequence of texts written in and about Philadelphia between the Constitution and the Civil War. Historians such as Gary B. Nash and Julie Winch have chronicled the distinctive social and political space of early national Philadelphia. Yet while individual writers such as Charles Brockden Brown, Edgar Allan Poe, and George Lippard have been linked to Philadelphia, no sustained attempt has been made to understand these figures, and many others, as writing in a tradition tied to the city's history. The site of William Penn's "Holy Experiment" in religious toleration and representative government and of national Declaration and Constitution, near the border between slavery and freedom, Philadelphia was home to one of the largest and most influential "free" African American communities in the United States. The city was seen by residents and observers as the laboratory for a social experiment with international consequences. Philadelphia would be the stage on which racial character would be tested and a possible future for the United States after slavery would be played out. It would be the arena in which various residents would or would not demonstrate their capacities to participate in the nation's civic and political life. Otter argues that the Philadelphia "experiment" (the term used in the nineteenth-century) produced a largely unacknowledged literary tradition of peculiar forms and intensities, in which verbal performance and social behavior assumed the weight of race and nation.
Author : Library Company of Philadelphia
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 100 pages
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Download or read book The Annual Report of the Library Company of Philadelphia written by Library Company of Philadelphia and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Americana, 1532-1700; preliminary short title list": 1934/35, p. 24-39.
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Total Pages : 666 pages
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Download or read book The Eighteenth-century Current Bibliography written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 666 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Strobe Talbott
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
ISBN 13 : 0815738242
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (157 download)
Download or read book Our Founders' Warning written by Strobe Talbott and published by Brookings Institution Press. This book was released on 2020-08-25 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The presidency of Donald Trump has wreaked havoc on American democracy, divided American society, unsettled foreign allies and partners, and heartened dictators around the world. The damage at home and abroad is likely to cast a long shadow into the future. Trump has also defiled the past, most notably America's origin and its soul. The Founders counted on their successors to protect and perfect their prodigy with its fundamental ideals, laws, and procedures. They also aspired to a code of personal morals and character. Paramount were honesty, rationality, empathy, and responsibility to the citizenry. These liberal, revolutionary criteria for public service and leadership derived from the European Enlightenment. The spirit of that movement and its American version is alien to Trump, and many of his predecessors would find him abhorrent and dangerous. Strobe Talbott tells that story from the vantage of the Age of Trump, bringing out the stark contrast between the 45th president and the first six—Washington, Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, John Quincy Adams, who were children of the Age of Reason. Amid myriad books on the Trump phenomenon in these dark days, Talbott shines a light on our history in hope that the Founders' legacy, now in peril, will be vindicated.
Author : Ezra Greenspan
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393242005
Total Pages : 532 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (932 download)
Download or read book William Wells Brown: An African American Life written by Ezra Greenspan and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2014-10-06 with total page 532 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A National Book Critics Circle Award Finalist 'Biography' A groundbreaking biography of the most pioneering and accomplished African-American writer of the nineteenth century. Born into slavery in Kentucky, raised on the Western frontier on the farm adjacent to Daniel Boone’s, “rented” out in adolescence to a succession of steamboat captains on the Mississippi and Missouri rivers, the young man known as “Sandy” reinvented himself as “William Wells” Brown after escaping to freedom. He lifted himself out of illiteracy and soon became an innovative, widely admired, and hugely popular speaker on antislavery circuits (both American and British) and went on to write the earliest African American works in a plethora of genres: travelogue, novel (the now canonized Clotel), printed play, and history. He also practiced medicine, ran for office, and campaigned for black uplift, temperance, and civil rights. Ezra Greenspan’s masterful work, elegantly written and rigorously researched, sets Brown’s life in the richly rendered context of his times, creating a fascinating portrait of an inventive writer who dared to challenge the racial orthodoxies and explore the racial complexities of nineteenth-century America.
Author : Frank J. Webb
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770483640
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (74 download)
Download or read book The Garies and Their Friends written by Frank J. Webb and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2016-04-18 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unjustly overlooked in its own time, Frank J. Webb’s novel of pre-Civil War Philadelphia weaves together action, humor, and social commentary. The Garies and Their Friends tells the story of two families struggling for different sorts of respectability: the Garies, a well-to-do interracial couple who relocate to Philadelphia from the plantation South in order to legalize their marriage, and their friends the Ellises, free black Philadelphians hoping to make the move from the working class into the bourgeoisie. Along the way the families confront racialized violence, melodramatic villainy, and sentimental reversals. Entertaining and fast-moving, the novel has a Dickensian mix of uncanny coincidence and interwoven personal experiences. The historical documents accompanying this Broadview Edition provide reviews of the novel along with extensive materials on slavery, the color line, and contemporary Philadelphia.
Author : Marlene L. Daut
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1137470674
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book Baron de Vastey and the Origins of Black Atlantic Humanism written by Marlene L. Daut and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-10-31 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Focusing on the influential life and works of the Haitian political writer and statesman, Baron de Vastey (1781-1820), in this book Marlene L. Daut examines the legacy of Vastey’s extensive writings as a form of what she calls black Atlantic humanism, a discourse devoted to attacking the enlightenment foundations of colonialism. Daut argues that Vastey, the most important secretary of Haiti’s King Henry Christophe, was a pioneer in a tradition of deconstructing colonial racism and colonial slavery that is much more closely associated with twentieth-century writers like W.E.B. Du Bois, Frantz Fanon, and Aimé Césaire. By expertly forging exciting new historical and theoretical connections among Vastey and these later twentieth-century writers, as well as eighteenth- and nineteenth-century black Atlantic authors, such as Phillis Wheatley, Olaudah Equiano, William Wells Brown, and Harriet Jacobs, Daut proves that any understanding of the genesis of Afro-diasporic thought must include Haiti’s Baron de Vastey.
