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Teedyuscung (c. 1700-1763) was known as "King of the Delawares." He worked to establish a permanent Lenape (Delaware) home in eastern Pennsylvania in the Lehigh, Susquehanna, and Delaware River valleys. Teedyuscung participated in the Treaty of Easton, which resulted in the surrender of Lenape claims to all lands in Pennsylvania. Following the treaty, the Lenape were forced to live under the control of the Iroquois in the Wyoming Valley near m...

Offers a collection of essays that features author's work on revitalization movements, which has profoundly shaped our understanding of the processes of change in religious and political organizations - from the nineteenth-century code of the Seneca prophet known as Handsome Lake to the origins of world religions and political faiths.

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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve ...

Excerpt from Human Behavior in Extreme Situations: A Survey of the Literature and Suggestions for Further ResearchDesigned to make the findings of disaster research more accessible to research workers and to agencies and officials concerned with disaster problems. It includes studies which have been completed for some time but which have not: previously been published, as well as recently-completed studies. The study reported herein was suppor...

Excerpt from The Modal Personality Structure of the Tuscarora Indians: As Revealed by the Rorschach TestThe Bureau scientists and the Boas students have suggested answers to this question. Ethnologists agree that the affiliations of Iroquoian culture are southeastern, with the exception of some traits (such as shamanistic practices) which bear a northern stamp. For a time it was felt that the northern Iroquoians ha'd migrated from the south ea...

Excerpt from Tornado in Worcester: An Exploratory Study of Individual and Community Behavior in an Extreme SituationThe Committee on Disaster Studies of the National Research Council, during the spring and summer of 1953, undertook to carry on a series of exploratory field studies of disaster. Some of these studies were conducted by members of the Committee staff, some by persons retained as consultants, some by organizations under contract. T...

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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

Excerpt from Human Behavior in Extreme Situations: A Survey of the Literature and Suggestions for Further Research Designed to make the findings of disaster research more accessible to research workers and to agencies and officials concerned with disaster problems. It includes studies which have been completed for some time but which have not: previously been published, as well as recently-completed studies. The study reported herein was supp...