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At the start of the nineteenth century, the Jesuits seemed fated for oblivion. Dissolved as a religious order in 1773 by one pope, they were restored in 1814 by another, but with only six hundred aged members. Yet a century later, the Jesuits numbered seventeen thousand men and were at the vanguard of the Catholic Church's expansion around the world. In the United States especially, foreign-born Jesuits built universities and schools, aided Catholic immigrants, and served as missionaries. This book traces this nineteenth-century resurgence, showing how Jesuits nurtured a Catholic modernity through a disciplined counterculture of parishes, schools, and associations. Drawing on archival materials from three continents, American Jesuits and the World tracks Jesuits who left Europe for America and Jesuits who left the United States for missionary ventures across the Pacific. Each chapter tells the story of a revealing or controversial event, including the tarring and feathering of an exiled Swiss Jesuit in Maine, the efforts of French Jesuits in Louisiana to obtain Vatican approval of a miraculous healing, and the educational efforts of American Jesuits in Manila. These stories place the Jesuits at the center of the worldwide clash between Catholics and liberal nationalists, and reveal how the Jesuits not only revived their own order but made modern Catholicism more global. The result is a major contribution to modern global history and an invaluable examination of the meaning of religious liberty in a pluralistic age.

271.5 <73> --- #GBIB: jesuitica --- 271.5 <73> Jezuïeten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Jezuïeten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA

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Amerika door de ogen van een student Op het grasveld rond het faculteitsgebouw zitten studenten met laptops op hun schoot naast enthousiast gebarende professoren. Andere studenten lezen de krant of spelen frisbee. In onze 'klas' onder een grote boom zijn nu geen muren meer. Af en toe vliegt een frisbee door onze 'collegezaal'. Op humoristische wijze, maar met zin voor kritiek, beschrijft Betto Van Waarden het Amerikaanse hoger onderwijs en zijn progressieve studentencultuur. Vanuit de universiteitscampus biedt hij een unieke blik op de bredere Amerikaanse samenleving en cultuur en legt hij met een knipoog vele paradoxen bloot. Telkens weer doorbreken zijn observaties de hardnekkige stereotypen over zijn tijdelijke thuisland Amerika.

378.4 <73> --- 378.18 <73> --- Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- College environment --- College campuses --- College students --- Social conditions --- 378.18 <73> Studenten: statuut. Maatschappelijke problemen van studenten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- 378.4 <73> Universiteiten--Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA --- Bee Collection --- Studentenleven --- Hoger onderwijs --- Verenigde Staten --- USA --- United States --- Conduct of life --- Social life and customs --- Study and teaching

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The American Revolution is often portrayed as a high-minded, orderly event whose capstone, the Constitution, provided the ideal framework for a democratic, prosperous nation. Alan Taylor, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize, gives us a different creation story in this magisterial history of the nation's founding. Rising out of the continental rivalries of European empires and their native allies, Taylor's Revolution builds like a ground fire overspreading Britain's mainland colonies, fueled by local conditions, destructive, hard to quell. Conflict ignited on the frontier, where settlers clamored to push west into Indian lands against British restrictions, and in the seaboard cities, where commercial elites mobilized riots and boycotts to resist British tax policies. When war erupted, Patriot crowds harassed Loyalists and nonpartisans into compliance with their cause. Brutal guerrilla violence flared all along the frontier from New York to the Carolinas, fed by internal divisions as well as the clash with Britain. Taylor skillfully draws France, Spain, and native powers into a comprehensive narrative of the war that delivers the major battles, generals, and common soldiers with insight and power. With discord smoldering in the fragile new nation through the 1780s, nationalist leaders such as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton sought to restrain unruly state democracies and consolidate power in a Federal Constitution. Assuming the mantle of "We the People," the advocates of national power ratified the new frame of government. But their opponents prevailed in the presidency of Thomas Jefferson, whose vision of a western "empire of liberty" aligned with the long-standing, expansive ambitions of frontier settlers. White settlement and black slavery spread west, setting the stage for a civil war that nearly destroyed the union created by the founders.

#KVHA: American Studies --- #KVHA: Cultuurgeschiedenis: Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA: Revoluties: Verenigde Staten --- American Revolution (1775-1783) --- United States --- Great Britain --- History --- Colonies --- Revolution, 1775-1783 --- 1783-1815 --- Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775

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Winner of the 2017 Outstanding Book Award from the Popular Communication Division of the International Communication Association (ICA) Nearly as soon as television began to enter American homes in the late 1940s, social activists recognized that it was a powerful tool for shaping the nation's views. By targeting broadcast regulations and laws, both liberal and conservative activist groups have sought to influence what America sees on the small screen. Public Interests describes the impressive battles that these media activists fought and charts how they tried to change the face of American television. Allison Perlman looks behind the scenes to track the strategies employed by several key groups of media reformers, from civil rights organizations like the NAACP to conservative groups like the Parents Television Council. While some of these campaigns were designed to improve the representation of certain marginalized groups in television programming, as Perlman reveals, they all strove for more systemic reforms, from early efforts to create educational channels to more recent attempts to preserve a space for Spanish-language broadcasting. Public Interests fills in a key piece of the history of American social reform movements, revealing pressure groups' deep investments in influencing both television programming and broadcasting policy. Vividly illustrating the resilience, flexibility, and diversity of media activist campaigns from the 1950s onward, the book offers valuable lessons that can be applied to current battles over the airwaves.

Social movements --- Television and politics --- Television broadcasting --- Social aspects --- #KVHA:Journalistiek --- #KVHA:Openbare omroep; Verenigde Staten --- #KVHA:Media activisme

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A catalogue of the C16th imprints in the University of Pennsylvania libraries, running to approximately 10,000 items.

Early printed books --- Bibliography --- University of Pennsylvania. Libraries --- 094.2 <73 PHILADELPHIA> --- -Bibliography --- Books --- Oude drukken: bibliotheekcatalogi----Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--PHILADELPHIA --- -Oude drukken: bibliotheekcatalogi----Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--PHILADELPHIA --- 094.2 <73 PHILADELPHIA> Oude drukken: bibliotheekcatalogi----Verenigde Staten van Amerika. VSA. USA--PHILADELPHIA --- University of Pennsylvania. --- Pennsylvania. --- REFERENCE / Bibliographies & Indexes. --- Early printed books - Pennsylvania - 16th century - Bibliography