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  • A Harmony of the Spirits

    Translation and the Language of Community in Early Pennsylvania

    Series series Published by the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture and the University of North Carolina Press
    In early Pennsylvania, translation served as a utopian tool creating harmony across linguistic, religious, and ethnic differences. Patrick Erben challenges the long-standing historical myth — first promulgated by Benjamin Franklin — that language diversity posed a threat to communal coherence. He deftly traces the pansophist and Neoplatonist philosophies of European reformers that informed the ... Leer más

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  • The Worlds of William Penn

    William Penn was an instrumental and controversial figure in the early modern transatlantic world, known both as a leader in the movement for religious toleration in England and as a founder of two American colonies, Pennsylvania and New Jersey. As such, his career was marked by controversy and contention in both England and America. This volume looks at William Penn with fresh eyes, bringing ... Leer más

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  • Julia Platin Band 18

    Erben des Schicksals

    Series Libro 18 - Julia Platin
    DIESER KUSS IST EIN VERSPRECHEN von KAREN TOLLER WHITTENBURGEs ist wie im Märchen: Monty erbt ein Schloss in Frankreich! Doch kaum angekommen, gerät sie in Lebensgefahr. Ihr Gärtner Sebastian rettet sie – und gewinnt dabei ihr Herz. Noch ahnt Monty nicht, dass er nicht nur ihre Liebe will, sondern auch das Anwesen!TAUSEND ROSEN AM MITTELMEER von PENNY ROBERTDie junge Floristin Sophie erbt einen ... Leer más

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  • The Francis Daniel Pastorius Reader

    Writings by an Early American Polymath

    Series series Max Kade Research Institute
    Francis Daniel Pastorius was one of the first German settlers to Pennsylvania and a touchstone figure of German-American cultural heritage. This monumental anthology presents a selection of his many writings in one volume.Pastorius sailed to North America as a Pietist but found a unique home among the Quakers in Pennsylvania. Within this early modern religious context, he was a lawyer, educator, ... Leer más

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  • New York Burning

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  • The Manor

    Three Centuries at a Slave Plantation on Long Island

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    Mac Griswold's The Manor is the biography of a uniquely American place that has endured through wars great and small, through fortunes won and lost, through histories bright and sinister—and of the family that has lived there since its founding as a Colonial New England slave plantation three and a half centuries ago.In 1984, the landscape historian Mac Griswold was rowing along a Long Island ... Leer más

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  • The Birth of America

    From Before Columbus to the Revolution

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    Ben Franklin, George Whitefield, and the Surprising Friendship That Invented America

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  • The Bowery

    The Strange History of New York's Oldest Street

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