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Contested Commonwealths: Essays in American History

Product Description: United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976. Some deal with colonial and revolutionary crowds and communities in Massachusetts—the impressment riot of 1747, the popular uprisings of the 1760s and 1770s, and Shays' Rebellion...read more

By William A. Pencak

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9781611460834 | Lehigh Univ Pr, September 9, 2011, cover price $90.00 | About this edition: United States historian William Pencak here collects thirteen of his essays, written beginning in 1976.

Historical Dictionary of Colonial America

By William Pencak

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9780810855878 | Scarecrow Pr, July 15, 2011, cover price $88.00

Pennsylvania's Revolution

Product Description: Pennsylvaniaâs Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the stateâs Revolutionary past. It breaks from a narrowly focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 Constitution to evaluate Pennsylvaniaâs internal conflicts during the Revolutionary period...read more

By William Pencak (editor)

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9780271035796 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, January 31, 2010, cover price $93.95 | About this edition: Pennsylvaniaâs Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the stateâs Revolutionary past.

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9780271035802 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, October 21, 2010, cover price $51.95 | About this edition: Pennsylvaniaâs Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the stateâs Revolutionary past.

9780155044074, titled "The Opera" | Facsimile edition (Harcourt College Pub, June 1, 1997), cover price $69.95 | also contains The Opera

Encyclopedia of the Veteran in America

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By William Pencak

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9780313340093 | Greenwood Pub Group, October 30, 2009, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Book by Pencak, William A.

9780313340109 | Greenwood Pub Group, October 30, 2009, cover price $55.01 | About this edition: Book by Pencak, William A.

9780313340086 | Abc-Clio Inc, October 15, 2009, cover price $191.00 | About this edition: A comprehensive encyclopedia that describes the experiences of American veterans from the Revolutionary War to the present.

Historic Pennsylvania an Illustrated History

By William Pencak

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9781893619883 | Historical Pub Network, September 30, 2008, cover price $49.95

Images in Law

Product Description: What does 'the law' look like? While numerous attempts have been made to examine law and legal action in terms of its language, little has yet been written that considers how visual images of the law influence its interpretation and execution in ways not discernible from written texts...read more

By William Pencak (editor) and Anne Wagner (editor)

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9780754647201 | Ashgate Pub Co, November 11, 2006, cover price $149.95 | About this edition: What does 'the law' look like?

Jews And Gentiles in Early America, 1654-1800

By William Pencak

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9780472114542 | Univ of Michigan Pr, September 28, 2005, cover price $34.95

The Films of Derek Jarman

By William Pencak

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9780786414307 | McFarland & Co Inc Pub, October 1, 2002, cover price $39.95

From Absurdity to Zen: The Wit and Wisdom of Roberta Kevelson

Product Description: From Absurdity to Zen is the first published introduction to the thought of Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998), late Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University and a leading semiotician and scholar of Charles S...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Cindy Palecek (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780820449173 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, February 1, 2002, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: From Absurdity to Zen is the first published introduction to the thought of Roberta Kevelson (1931-1998), late Distinguished Professor of Philosophy at The Pennsylvania State University and a leading semiotician and scholar of Charles S.

Riot and Revelry in Early America

Product Description: Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship. Despite considerable attention from "new left" historians during the 1970s and early 1980s, and more recently from cultural and "public sphere" historians in the mid-1990s, the idea of America as a colony and nation deeply infused with a culture of public performance has not been widely demonstrated the way it has been in Britain, France, and Italy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Matthew Dennis (editor), Simon Newman (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780271022192 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, December 1, 2001, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: Riot and revelry have been mainstays of English and European history writing for more than a generation, but they have had a more checkered influence on American scholarship.

9780070413894, titled "Educating Exceptional Children 99/00" | 11th edition (McGraw-Hill College, April 1, 1999), cover price $18.85 | also contains Educating Exceptional Children 99/00, Riot and Revelry in Early America

Riot and Revelry in Early America

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By Matthew Dennis (editor), Simon P. Newman (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780271021416 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, March 1, 2002, cover price $90.95

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Pennsylvania's Civil War: Making and Remaking

Product Description: For many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg. The North in general has received for less attention than the Confederacy in the historiography of the Civil War - a weakness in the literature that this book will help to address...read more

By William Blair (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780271020792 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, April 1, 2001, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: For many people, Pennsylvania's contribution to the Civil War goes little beyond the battle of Gettysburg.

9780065011548, titled "The Economics of Natural Resource Use" | 2nd edition (Addison-Wesley, August 1, 1997), cover price $75.25 | also contains The Economics of Natural Resource Use | About this edition: This text is a comprehensive examination of the economics of using natural reosurces in the modern economy.

The Law Vs. the People: Twelfth Round Table on Law and Semiotics

Product Description: Does the law act for or against Â«the peopleÂ»? Who are Â«the peopleÂ»? This collection of essays by philosophers, historians, legal scholars, and others examines these questions in historical perspective; in law and literature; in contemporary, advanced, and developing societies; and with respect to gender and economics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Roberta Kevelson (editor), J. Ralph Lindgren (editor), William Pencak (editor) and Charles N. Yood (editor)

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9780820440538 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, July 1, 2000, cover price $86.95 | About this edition: Does the law act for or against Â«the peopleÂ»?

Beyond Philadelphia: The American Revolution in the Pennsylvania Hinterland

By John B. Frantz (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780271017662 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $79.95

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9780271017679 | Pennsylvania State Univ Pr, September 1, 1998, cover price $41.95

9780060401658, titled "Western World" | Harpercollins College Div, June 1, 1968, cover price $41.20 | also contains Western World

New Approaches to Semiotics and the Human Sciences: Essays in Honor of Roberta Kevelson

Product Description: This collection, an exploration of new approaches to semiotics and the human sciences, includes essays by John Brigham, Denis Brion, Marcel Danesi, John Deely, Rolando Gaete, Robert Ginsberg, Bernard S. Jackson, Roberta Kevelson, Robin Paul Malloy, William Pencak, Paul Ryan, W...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Roberta Kevelson (editor), J. Ralph Lindgren (editor), Ralph J. Lindgren (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780820438146 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1998, cover price $76.95 | About this edition: This collection, an exploration of new approaches to semiotics and the human sciences, includes essays by John Brigham, Denis Brion, Marcel Danesi, John Deely, Rolando Gaete, Robert Ginsberg, Bernard S.

Worldmaking

Product Description: We are not born into a world. We create one from an infinity of possible worlds. The critic of institutions makes us aware of this. The seventeen essays in this volume comprise investigations into religious, philosophical, racial, gendered, literary, legal, federalist, class-based, historical, and scientific worldmaking...read more

By William Pencak (editor)

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9780820428048 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, March 1, 1996, cover price $74.95 | About this edition: We are not born into a world.

The Conflict of Law and Justice in the Icelandic Sagas

Product Description: The world's longest lasting republic between ancient Rome and modern Switzerland, medieval Iceland (c. 870-1262) centered its national literature, the great family sagas, around the problem of can a republic survive and do justice to its inhabitants...read more

By William Pencak

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9789051838350 | Rodopi Bv Editions, June 1, 1995, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: The world's longest lasting republic between ancient Rome and modern Switzerland, medieval Iceland (c.

The White House: The First Two Hundred Years

A collection of eleven essays discussing the multidimensional role the White House has played in the history of the United States

By Frank Freidel and William Pencak (editor)

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9781555531706 | Northeastern Univ Pr, January 1, 1994, cover price $30.00 | About this edition: A collection of eleven essays discussing the multidimensional role the White House has played in the history of the United States

History, Signing in: Essays in History and Semiotics

By William Pencak

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9780820418384 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, April 1, 1993, cover price $88.95

New York in the Age of the Constitution 1775-1800

Product Description: The seven essays in this collection, originally presented at a New-York Historical Society Conference, examine ways in which the epic political events associated with the founding of the United States affected the lives of New Yorkers.

By Paul A. Gilje (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780838634554 | Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Pr, November 1, 1992, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: The seven essays in this collection, originally presented at a New-York Historical Society Conference, examine ways in which the epic political events associated with the founding of the United States affected the lives of New Yorkers.

Immigration to New York

Product Description: More immigrants have entered the United States through New York City, and remained in either the city or the state, than anywhere else in the nation. The essays in this collection discuss the immigrant experience in New York during the three peak periods of foreign entry.

By Selma Cantor Berrol, Randall M. Miller (editor) and William Pencak (editor)

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9780944190098 | Balch Inst for Ethnic Studies, April 1, 1991, cover price $38.50 | About this edition: More immigrants have entered the United States through New York City, and remained in either the city or the state, than anywhere else in the nation.

The Law in America, 1607-1861

By Wythe W. Holt (editor) and William Pencak

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9780916141035 | New York Historical Society, September 1, 1989, cover price $9.95

For God & Country: The American Legion, 1919-1941

A history of the years between the two world wars discusses the founding of the American Legion in 1919 and its contributions to patriotism, veterans and communities throughout the nation

By William Pencak

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9781555530501 | Northeastern Univ Pr, July 1, 1989, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A history of the years between the two world wars discusses the founding of the American Legion in 1919 and its contributions to patriotism, veterans and communities throughout the nation

New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780-1870

Product Description: Product Name: New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780-1870

By William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright

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9780916141028 | New York Historical Society, October 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Product Name: New York and the Rise of American Capitalism: Economic Development and the Social and Political History of an American State, 1780-1870

Authority and Resistance in Early New York

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By William Pencak and Conrad Edick Wright (editor)

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9780916141011 | New York Historical Society, April 1, 1988, cover price $19.95 | About this edition: Book by Pencak, William

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