Author: Bruce Kuklick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069102104X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
To Every Thing a Season
Author: Bruce Kuklick
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069102104X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 069102104X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Shibe Park was demolished in 1976, and today its site is surrounded by the devastation of North Philadelphia. Kuklick, however, vividly evokes the feelings people had about the home of the Philadelphia Athletics and later the Phillies.
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 554
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
The Philadelphia Mummers
Author: Patricia Masters
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A vivid history of the nation's oldest folk parade.
Publisher: Temple University Press
ISBN: 1592136117
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
A vivid history of the nation's oldest folk parade.
Philadelphia Then and Now
Author: Kenneth Finkel
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486257907
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rare photographs of City Hall, Logan Square, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, other landmarks juxtaposed with contemporary views. Introduction. Captions.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 9780486257907
Category : Photography
Languages : en
Pages : 132
Book Description
Rare photographs of City Hall, Logan Square, Independence Hall, Betsy Ross House, other landmarks juxtaposed with contemporary views. Introduction. Captions.
Discipline and Punish
Author: Michel Foucault
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
Publisher: Vintage
ISBN: 0307819299
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 354
Book Description
A brilliant work from the most influential philosopher since Sartre. In this indispensable work, a brilliant thinker suggests that such vaunted reforms as the abolition of torture and the emergence of the modern penitentiary have merely shifted the focus of punishment from the prisoner's body to his soul.
The World Book Encyclopedia
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 904
Book Description
An encyclopedia designed especially to meet the needs of elementary, junior high, and senior high school students.
On Being a Photographer
Author: David Hurn
Publisher:
ISBN: 9781888803068
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book on how to think and act like a photographer, culled from practical experience and from the lives of many fine photographers past and present.
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ISBN: 9781888803068
Category : Photographers
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
This is a book on how to think and act like a photographer, culled from practical experience and from the lives of many fine photographers past and present.
In the Drift
Author: Michael Swanwick
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486809412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"A tough, keen-edged blade of a story … powerful and moving!" ― Roger Zelazny "This episodic tale of life, war, and survival in post-meltdown Pennsylvania builds a potent new myth from the grim reality of radioactive waste. Swanwick's clean, strong prose makes the story compulsively readable." ― George R. R. Martin "A vivid, fast-paced and evocative story by one of science fiction's best new writers. A generation-spanning saga of the fight for power and survival in a chillingly possible alternate future America … one which could still yet come to pass, tomorrow or today." ― Gardner Dozois In this dystopic world, radiation from the 1979 Three Mile Island accident has contaminated all of central Pennsylvania. A century after the disaster, the fallout zone ― known as the Drift ― harbors two-headed monsters, mutated vampires, and other outcasts. In the Drift chronicles the struggles of those on both sides of the divide as they fight to survive and transcend their shattered world.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486809412
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
"A tough, keen-edged blade of a story … powerful and moving!" ― Roger Zelazny "This episodic tale of life, war, and survival in post-meltdown Pennsylvania builds a potent new myth from the grim reality of radioactive waste. Swanwick's clean, strong prose makes the story compulsively readable." ― George R. R. Martin "A vivid, fast-paced and evocative story by one of science fiction's best new writers. A generation-spanning saga of the fight for power and survival in a chillingly possible alternate future America … one which could still yet come to pass, tomorrow or today." ― Gardner Dozois In this dystopic world, radiation from the 1979 Three Mile Island accident has contaminated all of central Pennsylvania. A century after the disaster, the fallout zone ― known as the Drift ― harbors two-headed monsters, mutated vampires, and other outcasts. In the Drift chronicles the struggles of those on both sides of the divide as they fight to survive and transcend their shattered world.
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
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Category : American periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1050
Book Description
Haunted City
Author: Christian DuComb
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123017
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race. Mummers have long worn blackface makeup during winter holiday celebrations in Europe and North America; in Philadelphia, mummers’ blackface persisted from the colonial period well into the twentieth century. The first annual Mummers Parade, a publicly sanctioned procession from the working-class neighborhoods of South Philadelphia to the city center, occurred in 1901. Despite a ban on blackface in the Mummers Parade after civil rights protests in 1963–64, other forms of racial and ethnic impersonation in the parade have continued to flourish unchecked. Haunted City combines detailed historical research with the author’s own experiences performing in the Mummers Parade to create a lively and richly illustrated narrative. Through its interdisciplinary approach, Haunted City addresses not only theater history and performance studies but also folklore, American studies, critical race theory, and art history. It also offers a fresh take on the historiography of the antebellum minstrel show.
Publisher: University of Michigan Press
ISBN: 0472123017
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 201
Book Description
Haunted City explores the history of racial impersonation in Philadelphia from the late eighteenth century through the present day. The book focuses on select historical moments, such as the advent of the minstrel show and the ban on blackface makeup in the Philadelphia Mummers Parade, when local performances of racial impersonation inflected regional, national, transnational, and global formations of race. Mummers have long worn blackface makeup during winter holiday celebrations in Europe and North America; in Philadelphia, mummers’ blackface persisted from the colonial period well into the twentieth century. The first annual Mummers Parade, a publicly sanctioned procession from the working-class neighborhoods of South Philadelphia to the city center, occurred in 1901. Despite a ban on blackface in the Mummers Parade after civil rights protests in 1963–64, other forms of racial and ethnic impersonation in the parade have continued to flourish unchecked. Haunted City combines detailed historical research with the author’s own experiences performing in the Mummers Parade to create a lively and richly illustrated narrative. Through its interdisciplinary approach, Haunted City addresses not only theater history and performance studies but also folklore, American studies, critical race theory, and art history. It also offers a fresh take on the historiography of the antebellum minstrel show.