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Jones, Sarah Leigh. ""A grand and ceaseless thoroughfare" the social and cultural experience of shopping on Chestnut Street, Philadelphia, 1820-1860 /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 195 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654490041&sid=6&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Korobkin, Rob. "The dynamics of neighborhood change in Brewerytown, Philadelphia." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1419.

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Scattergood, Abigail. "[Germantown, Pennsylvania." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2007. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/1056.

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Kingsley, Chris. "City of narrowing shoulders and big ideas technology and politics in Philadelphia /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://thesis.haverford.edu/142/01/2005KingsleyC.pdf.

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Alobeyo, Bagudekia K. "A strategy for church planting among African immigrants in Philadelphia." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Morgan, Caitlin Bradley. "Expanding Food Agency: Exploring the Theory and Its Scale in Philadelphia, PA." ScholarWorks @ UVM, 2016. http://scholarworks.uvm.edu/graddis/661.

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Our contemporary American food system has created complex environments for decisions and actions around food, and those decisions have implications for culture, health, natural resources, social relations, and the economy. And yet, as scholars, we do not understand the particulars of how people actually cook for themselves and their families. This study explores how race and socioeconomic class interact with individual experience of "food agency," or personal capacity to plan and prepare meals within one's food environment. It is one stage in a multiphase project developing a comprehensive theory of food agency, applicable in any context; a scale for measuring that agency; and a cooking pedagogy for increasing it. This research was based on an explanatory sequential mixed methods design: a qualitative follow-up to quantitative research (see Creswell & Plano Clark, 2011). It is an in-depth qualitative investigation with low-income participants of color, a population that had previously not been included in the development of food agency theory. The study's population was a mix of Drexel University students and community residents of Mantua, in Philadelphia, PA, and was recruited from Drexel's Healthy Cooking Techniques summer course. Data collection included semi-structured interviews and survey administration, and also utilized food agency scale survey responses. Analysis and results are divided into two papers, one narrative, and one a comparison between quantitative components of the food agency scale and corresponding qualitative data. Narrative analysis reinforces the notion that food agency is incredibly complex and self-referential. People with high self-efficacy around food may feel like they have a high level of agency, even if they can identify ways that societal structures impede them. Mixed-methods analysis reveals aspects of food agency that are not reflected by the scale: specifically, strategies for procuring food; environmental and financial impediments to that procurement; and aspiration for greater self-sufficiency and healthfulness in preparing food. Participants are intentional and skillful in resisting economic and environmental obstacles to feeding themselves. They want to be supported in building skills for that daily endeavor. The food agency scale does not gauge many of the strategies with which they resist obstacles, and therefore might be better cast as a cooking action scale, rather than a measure of comprehensive food agency.

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Bethune, Kate. "British politeness and elite culture in revolutionary and early national Philadelphia, c.1775-1800." Thesis, University of Cambridge, 2010. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.609079.

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Holst, Nancy A. "Pattern books and the suburbanization of Germantown, Pennsylvania, in the mid-nineteenth century." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 517 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1654488971&sid=7&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Hewitson, Ian Alastair. "The justification controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary the years 1974-1982 /." Available from the University of Aberdeen Library and Historic Collections Digital Resources, 2009. http://digitool.abdn.ac.uk:80/webclient/DeliveryManager?application=DIGITOOL-3&owner=resourcediscovery&custom_att_2=simple_viewer&pid=59444.

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Brandt, Karin Leah. "Making Immigrant integration work : a case study of refugee resettlement in Philadelphia, PA." Thesis, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/59716.

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Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 2010.
Cataloged from PDF version of thesis.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 80-85).
This research seeks to understand what are the conditions under which refugees integrate successfully in urban areas. This question is of particular importance to urban areas despite the fact that refugees account for only 10 percent of total US immigration. Refugee resettlement disproportionately impacts a city's urban fabric and foreign-born profile through the establishment of immigrant enclaves and subsequent chain migration. Moreover, a refugee community's initial resettlement period has long-term effects for integration outcomes. This research examines the institutional development of the refugee resettlement process in the city of Philadelphia, PA and draws on a case study of Liberian refugee resettlement where the presence of an existing community and English language ability did not facilitate integration as would be expected. This research investigates how stakeholders can make integration work for refugee immigrants.
by Karin Leah Brandt.
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Henderson, Amy Hudson. "Furnishing the Republican Court building and decorating Philadelphia homes, 1790-1800 /." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 373 p, 2008. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1612979201&sid=2&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Brown, Jordan. "Perpetual educational inequality an historical analysis of the Germantown community in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania /." Connect to the thesis, 2002. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/659.

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Greenstein, Daniel I. "Urban politics and the urban process : two case studies of Philadelphia." Thesis, University of Oxford, 1988. http://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ed50068a-eeb2-433a-b2ab-279c7296b95f.

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Both academics and the makers of public policy have for a long time been interested in the study of urban politics, but the subject needs to be integrated with the process of urban growth and development. Too frequently, the urban polity is analyzed as an arena which passively reflects or mechanically responds to more fundamental changes in the urban social structure. In this work, case studies of political reform in Philadelphia at two periods, 1800 to 1854 and 1890 to 1915, develop a number of hypotheses about how the urban polity plays an influential role in shaping the process of urban growth and change. Both case studies begin with computer-assisted analyses of changes in the socio-economic and spatial structures of urban society. Such changes are often considered to be fundamental causes of urban political reform either because they altered political elites' interests in municipal government or because they created enormous new demands on existing municipal works and services. The studies show, however, that social structural changes cannot by themselves explain the course of urban political development in the city of Philadelphia. Concentrating primarily on the formulation and implementation of municipal public works, the studies show that in both periods, the course of political reform was often shaped by two things: the 'private' or selfish interests of political actors, and the fragmented financial, administrative and party structures of the urban polity. More important, the studies show how self-interested political activities, in a polity in which authority was highly fragmented, often had consequences which were far reaching in their impact on the structure and experience of urban life. Indeed, the first case study shows how urban politics shaped the process of social group formation in the industrializing city. The second case study shows how the structure and conduct of urban politics determined social groups' political power in the city. The conclusion then demonstrates how the case studies support a number of hypotheses about the relationship between urban politics and urban society which may be applied generally to analyses of the process of urban growth and change.

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Kanaley, Chelsea Noelle. "Turbidity and Nutrient Response to Storm Events in the Wissahickon Creek, Suburban Philadelphia, PA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2018. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/496177.

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Geology
M.S.
The Wissahickon Creek is an urban stream that runs through Montgomery and Philadelphia Counties and discharges to the Schuylkill River in Philadelphia. A majority of stream segments in the Wissahickon watershed are considered impaired by the USEPA due to sediment and nutrients. Total Maximum Daily Loads (TMDLs) were implemented in 2003 for nutrients (NO3-, PO43-, NO2-, and CBOD5) and siltation. A new TMDL for total phosphorus (TP) was proposed in 2015, despite minimal data on the effectiveness of the 2003 TMDLs. This new proposal was met with concern, suggesting more data must be collected to better understand impairment in the Wissahickon Creek. The purpose of this research was to study turbidity and nutrient responses to storm events, as storm events are known to contribute significant loads of both sediment and nutrients. Twelve sites were chosen for high frequency turbidity and water level monitoring along the Wissahickon Creek and one of its main tributaries, Sandy Run. These sites were selected around three of the major wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) to determine the relative roles of WWTPs and overland flow as sources of turbidity and nutrients during storm events. The upstream site and first downstream site at each WWTP were monitored for nutrients during storms using high frequency loggers and ISCO automatic samplers. Stream assessments were done at each site to characterize in-stream physical parameters, bank vegetation, and algae cover. High frequency turbidity data suggests that the turbidity is locally sourced, as turbidity peaks at the same time as water level, or within an hour or two, at all sites regardless of storm size. Comparisons of the turbidity response with in-stream parameters and land cover helped determine that the main factor driving the turbidity response is discharge, although bank topping and impervious cover, particularly roads, may increase turbidity responses at some sites. Similarities in nutrient, turbidity, and conductivity responses upstream and downstream of the WWTPs strongly suggest that overland flow, not WWTP effluent, is the major source of nutrients and sediment during storm events. Finally, a strong relationship between total phosphorus and high turbidity suggests that only during high discharge events is there a significant increase in TP in the Wissahickon Creek. Results from this research identify the source of turbidity and nutrients to the Wissahickon Creek during storms as primarily coming from overland flow, that the primary factor controlling the turbidity response is discharge, with some secondary influence from over-banking and the contribution of roads to land use, and a close link between TP concentrations and sediment during storms in the stream.
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Edmundson, Kate. "Experiential blues identity analyzing racial categories of difference in a Philadelphia blues club /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2003. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/607.

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Hewitson, Ian Alastair. "The justification controversy at Westminster Theological Seminary : the years 1974-1982." Thesis, University of the Highlands and Islands, 2010. https://pure.uhi.ac.uk/portal/en/studentthesis/the-justification-controversy-at-westminster-theological-seminary(2d79c039-4ea1-4db2-a4e1-2260cccf5884).html.

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This work examines the historical details and the theological implications of a controversy that took place at Westminster Theological Seminary, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The controversy began when Associate Professor Norman Shepherd’s teaching on James 2:14-21 came under intense scrutiny. He was dismissed from his teaching post despite repeated exonerations by the seminary’s board, faculty and by his own presbytery. He taught that the formula justification by faith alone does not appear in Scripture or in the Westminster Standards and that Luther’s insertion of the particle alone in the formula justification by faith alone is exegetically indefensible. The view of Calvin, and not that of Luther, has been given confessional standing in the Westminster Confession of Faith. Calvin’s independence from Luther is essential for understanding this controversy. Part One explicates the administrative and procedural history of the controversy, and it identifies the major points of disagreement. It details the processes and approaches that were used, neglected, or abused: interpersonal communications, group discussions, committee meetings, etc. These data are evidence that the board did not have “adequate grounds” to dismiss Shepherd. Part Two examines the theology and the integrity of a document titled “The Commission on Allegations Regarding Professor Shepherd: Summary of Allegations”. This document is examined for three reasons: it represents the mature theological expression of Shepherd’s opponents; the commission’s hearing is the last forum in which Shepherd was examined by the seminary; and the judgement of the commission is a matter of record. Shepherd’s repeated exonerations by the seminary and by his presbytery affirm that his understanding of justification by faith, his exegesis of James 2, his teaching on baptism, and his understanding of the “covenant dynamic” do not represent departures from historic Reformed theology; his formulations are orthodox.

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Kenny, Patrick Edward. "To know and to serve : the history of the Pennsylvania Hospital Training School for Male Nurses of the Department for Mental and Nervous Deseases 1914-1965." Access Digital Full Text version, 1994. http://pocketknowledge.tc.columbia.edu/home.php/bybib/11625636.

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Thesis (Ed.D.)--Teachers College, Columbia University, 1994.
Includes tables. Typescript; issued also on microfilm. Sponsor: Robert V. Piemonte. Dissertation Committee: Douglas M. Sloan, Elizabeth M. Maloney. Includes bibliographical references (leaves 114-119).

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Sergeant, Kathryn Lynn. "Revisioning the Central Delaware Riverfront : the effects of regime change on waterfront planning in Philadelphia, PA." Manhattan, Kan. : Kansas State University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/4134.

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Koski, Ben. "Holding steady survival, migration, and the future prospects in the food and printing industries in Philadelphia County, Pa. /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2005. http://thesis.haverford.edu/183/01/2006KoskiB.pdf.

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Murphy, Ryan C. "Heat stress vulnerability as predicted by spatial analysis of remotely sensed imagery and socioeconomic data for Philadelphia, PA." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 61 p, 2009. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1885544271&sid=1&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Tan, Steven H. C. "The Trinity Christian Church of Greater Philadelphia a study of church consolidation in process /." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2005. http://www.tren.com.

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Young, David W. "The battles of Germantown public history and preservation in America's most historic neighborhood during the twentieth century /." Columbus, Ohio : Ohio State University, 2009. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1243710061.

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Shinefeld, Jennifer Lynn. "Length of Time Injecting and its Association with Receptive Syringe Sharing among Persons Who Inject Drugs in Philadelphia, PA." Master's thesis, Temple University Libraries, 2017. http://cdm16002.contentdm.oclc.org/cdm/ref/collection/p245801coll10/id/450411.

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Public Health
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Injection drug use has reached epidemic rates in the United States. Persons who inject drugs (PWID) are at increased risk for blood borne diseases such as HIV and HCV, due to their injection behaviors. Different factors interact and may determine injectors’ sharing behaviors. Age has been determined to be a significant predictive variable in numerous studies. This study attempted to show that length of time injecting is also a significant predictor of sharing behaviors. Using multivariate logistic regression, this study examines length of time an individual has been injecting as it relates to receptive syringe sharing. Receptive syringe sharing, using a syringe after another individual, presents the greatest risk for contracting blood borne pathogens such as HIV and hepatitis C. Utilizing National HIV Behavioral Surveillance System data from PWID in Philadelphia, PA, results indicate that neither age of the injector nor experience are significant predictors of RSS. However, history of being homeless and race, identifying as White, non-Hispanic, are both significant predictors of RSS in an adjusted multivariate model. Based on these findings, current strategies to address risk behavior may not adequately address those most at risk for RSS. This paper concludes with recommendations for increased targeted interventions among those PWID with greater housing instability. The aim of this recommendation is to decrease receptive syringe sharing and ameliorate HIV and HCV infection risk.
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Landes, Brenda Denise. "The making of the pieces." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53290.

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In the search for architecture, I have realized some ideas that are inherently important. Michael Benedikt's essay, For An Architecture of Reality, figured prominently in articulating these thoughts. I have chosen to use an interpretation of his components of "realness" to set the foundation for my thesis study. The components of realness as stated by Benedikt are: significance, materiality, presence and emptiness. I have presented each thought individually giving each component one page. However, this separation is not valid for the whole. The whole requires an intimate conversation between these components of realness that allow them to collectively make architecture. This is the focus of my search. The goal is to make a whole by allowing the pieces to be crafted in such a way that the connection is an integral and visible element. When joints are revealed as such, an idea about order emerges. Allowing materials and their connections to suggest what they are by the way they are formed and used enables subtle change to take place within a given order lending the rich qualities that allow something that is larger than the parts and larger than ourselves.
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Ingersoll, Christopher Bruce. "A dialectic construct for the urban environment." Thesis, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1987. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53132.

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This thesis examines the relationship between meaning in architecture and its role in defining urban space. The definition of meaning as it applies to this thesis is a designation for those essential qualities of the man-made environment which produce in man a cognition of place. Without meaning man has no point of reference or orientation for his world. The individual act of construction that occurs within the larger framework that we call city has a responsibility to that institution of man. The city is the manifestation of man’s aspiration for order in a mutable world. Architecture as a primary element in the urban environment makes the city comprehensible to man and through architecture man carries out his intentions in the world.
Master of Architecture

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McFarland, Gerald. "The spiritual life of seminary students a model for spiritual formation on the seminary campus /." Online full text .pdf document, available to Fuller patrons only, 2003. http://www.tren.com.

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Terry, Karen. "Inside out American Jews and the Jewish America at the National Museum of American Jewish History /." Diss., Connect to the thesis, 2009. http://hdl.handle.net/10066/3721.

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Sharber, Casey D. "An analysis of the mutual awareness between public horticulture and the national FFA organization." Access to citation, abstract and download form provided by ProQuest Information and Learning Company; downloadable PDF file, 173 p, 2007. http://proquest.umi.com/pqdweb?did=1453233021&sid=4&Fmt=2&clientId=8331&RQT=309&VName=PQD.

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Webster, Daniel Joseph. "Experiencing the World of Franklin: The Making of an Immersive and Interactive Historical Exhibit." Master's thesis, University of Central Florida, 2012. http://digital.library.ucf.edu/cdm/ref/collection/ETD/id/5562.

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This thesis involves the creation of a historically-themed museum element. The element, titled “Improving Community,” is a virtual interactive game that allows players to explore certain realities of colonial American life. Within the game, players are presented with a number of civic-related issues that existed throughout the eighteenth century, and they are then given options to improve the situation. Interactivity and immersion are key features of the game, and they have been incorporated so that players may engage with the past and assume a more active role in the process of historical reconstruction. Research for the games draws mostly upon historical primary sources, including first-hand accounts, letters, diaries, periodicals, pamphlets, meeting minutes, and legal documents. In addition, the process of developing the games was informed by a number of secondary source works, and therefore this study inspects the ways in which “Improving Community” fits within the ongoing scholarly debates. Ultimately this project contributes to the field of public history by demonstrating the usefulness of games as a tool for historical exhibition. “Improving Community” is both entertaining and educational, and as a result, the game provides individuals with a unique outlet for exploring and experiencing the past.
ID: 031001287; System requirements: World Wide Web browser and PDF reader.; Mode of access: World Wide Web.; Title from PDF title page (viewed February 26, 2013).; Thesis (M.A.)--University of Central Florida, 2012.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-120).
M.A.
Masters
History
Arts and Humanities
History; Public History

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Kim, Paul D. "Mentoring preachers, an individualized approach based on the strengths of the mentee." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 2007. http://www.tren.com.

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Koch, Angela. "Kommunale Kulturorganisation in den USA : Strukturen, Handlungsmuster, Interdependenzen /." Frankfurt am Main [u.a.] : Lang, 2005. http://www.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy0803/2007464671.html.

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Hennelly, Patrick J. "A comparison of the Small and Disadvantaged Business Utilization Specialists (SADBUS') role at Navy Regional Contracting Center (NRCC) Philadelphia, PA and Navy Regional Contracting Center (NRCC) San Diego, CA Detachment Long Beach." Thesis, Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School, 1991. http://hdl.handle.net/10945/28046.

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Gendrich, Cynthia M. "Persona, performance, and comedy : patterns of success and accommodation in the lives and works of Mary Ann Vincent and Louisa Lane Drew /." free to MU campus, to others for purchase, 1997. http://wwwlib.umi.com/cr/mo/fullcit?p9842584.

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McDowell, Bruce A. "Evangelism resources for international student ministry." Theological Research Exchange Network (TREN) Access this title online, 1991. http://www.tren.com/search.cfm?p036-0120.

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Trouillet, Agnès. "Le mouvement Tea Party 2009-2017 : résultat d’une enquête en immersion, à Philadelphie et à Boston." Thesis, Sorbonne Paris Cité, 2017. http://www.theses.fr/2017USPCC249/document.

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Le Tea Party entre en scène en février 2009 aux États-Unis. C’est notamment la tirade d’un journaliste qui s’insurge contre les plans de sauvetage de l’économie votés par le Président Barack Obama, en direct sur la chaîne CNBC le 19 février, et invite à organiser une « Tea Party » dans le port de Chicago, qui déclenche ce phénomène sans précédent. S’ensuivent de nombreux rassemblements protestataires de masse à travers le pays, puis la création de dizaines, puis de centaines de groupes Tea Party locaux. La rapidité et l’ampleur de ce mouvement surprennent les spécialistes. D’autant que dès 2010, le Tea Party affirme des objectifs politiques et une volonté d’institutionnalisation, se révélant une menace pour l’establishment républicain. Mais en 2012, la réélection du Président Obama peut être lue comme une défaite colossale pour le mouvement, et des chroniques de mort annoncée sont publiées par la presse libérale (au sens américain). Des résultats peu spectaculaires aux élections de mi-mandat en 2014 semblent confirmer ce pronostic, surtout que le Parti républicain réussit à tenir le mouvement en respect jusqu’aux primaires pour l’investiture présidentielle en 2015. C’est alors qu’on assiste à un retournement de situation ; la radicalisation du Grand Old Party est nette, visible entre autres dans la plate-forme très conservatrice des candidats républicains. En novembre 2016, l’élection de l’outsider Donald Trump à la présidence, conjonction de nombreux facteurs électoraux, est également le résultat d’efforts organisationnels de la Droite auxquels le Tea Party a largement contribué. Pour appréhender ce mouvement, il faut comprendre qu’il combine des forces top-down et bottom-up. Certes, le Tea Party bénéficie depuis son émergence de ressources inestimables de la part de groupes de pression et de think tanks comme FreedomWorks, American Majority, Americans for Prosperity ou Heritage Foundation, ainsi que des médias conservateurs. De nature organisationnelle ou rhétorique, ces ressources sont fondamentales car elles permettent au mouvement de s’organiser et de mener ses actions militantes. Il n’en reste pas moins qu’à la base se trouvent des acteurs bénévoles, qui consacrent leur temps et leur énergie au Tea Party, et revendiquent leur caractère grassroots. Des organisations nationales comme Tea Party Patriots s’imposent pour fédérer les groupes qui leur sont affiliés, cependant certains groupes locaux cherchent à protéger leur indépendance. Autour des groupes Tea Party gravitent des organisations libertariennes et conservatrices, l’ensemble formant une nébuleuse complexe, qui fonctionne par réseaux à différents niveaux et selon diverses configurations. L’objet de cette étude de terrain est donc d’apporter un éclairage de l’intérieur du mouvement Tea Party, par l’observation en immersion de groupes locaux situés dans les régions de Philadelphie en Pennsylvanie, et de Boston dans le Massachusetts. Il s’agit d’abord de comprendre les motivations et l’idéologie des militants, principalement d’orientation conservatrice, libertarienne et populiste. Ce sont les notions de souveraineté individuelle, d’anti-fédéralisme, et de respect de la Constitution qui dictent toute lecture des Tea Partiers. Ensuite, l’analyse des modes opératoires des groupes permet de clarifier le fonctionnement de l’ensemble. Le Tea Party se démarque en tant que mouvement de droite recourant à des stratégies organisationnelles jusqu’ici plutôt réservées aux mouvements progressistes - la façon dont il applique les principes de l’organisation communautaire est l’une de ses forces indéniables, en particulier à l’ère des nouvelles technologies, et des réseaux sociaux. Son utilisation de ressources Web et d’outils concrets pour l’action militante est remarquable. Enfin, il est essentiel de saisir que le Tea Party veut s’implanter dans le tissu décisionnel local. Pour y parvenir, l’une de ses tactiques consiste à infiltrer progressivement le Parti républicain
The Tea Party enters the scene in February 2009 in the United States. On February 19, a CNBC journalist protests on-air against the economic bailout plans voted by President Barack Obama, and invites viewers to organize a « Tea Party » in the Chicago harbor. This contributes to trigger an unprecedented phenomenon, as numerous mass protest rallies soon organize throughout the country, followed by the creation of dozens, then hundreds of local Tea Party groups. Experts are astonished at the swiftness and magnitude of the movement. All the more so in 2010, when the Tea Party starts claiming political objectives and shows intent of institutionalizing, proving a threat to the Republican Establishment. However, President Obama is reelected in 2012 and this is interpreted as a devastating loss for the movement, for which obituaries are published in several liberal media. Lackluster results in the 2014 mid-term elections seem to confirm this forecast, especially since the Republican Party succeeds at keeping the movement at bay until the primaries for the presidential candidate nomination in 2015. But then there is a reversal; the Grand Old Party clearly radicalizes, as the extremely conservative Republican platform notably shows. And the election of outsider Donald Trump to the presidency in November 2016, a conjunction of numerous electoral factors, is also the result of organizational efforts on the right side of the political spectrum, to which the Tea Party largely contributed. To better apprehend this movement, it is necessary to understand that it combines top-down and bottom-up forces. From its appearance, the Tea Party has indisputably benefitted from colossal resources from interest groups and think tanks such as FreedomWorks, American Majority, Americans for Prosperity or The Heritage Foundation, but also from conservative media. Either organizational or rhetorical, these resources are primeval for the movement’s organization and activism. Nevertheless, there are voluntary activists working at the basis of the movement, who devote their time and energy to the Tea Party, and claim its grassroots nature. National organizations such as Tea Party Patriots try to establish themselves as federations for the groups affiliated to them, while some local groups seek to remain independent. Libertarian and conservative organizations gravitate around Tea Party groups, the whole forming a complex cluster that operates at different levels and following diverse configurations. Thus the object of this field study is to shed light on the Tea Party movement from the inside, thanks to the observation of local groups from an embedded position. These groups are located in the Philadelphia and Boston areas, respectively in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts. First, it is necessary to understand activists’ motivations and ideologies, which are mainly conservative, libertarian and populist; and that Tea Partiers interpret everything though the lens of individual sovereignty, anti-Federalism, and respect of the Constitution. Then, analyzing the modi operandi of the groups allows to illuminate how the whole system works. The Tea Party distinguishes itself as a right-wing movement that recurs to organizational strategies that were predominantly used by progressive movements until recently – the way the movement applies the principles of community organizing is undeniably one of its strengths, particularly considering the new media revolution, and social networks. Its use of Web resources and concrete tools to encourage activism is impressive. Lastly, it is indispensable to grasp that the Tea Party aims for local decision-making positions. To this end, one of its tactics consists in progressively infiltrating the Republican Party

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Rzeźnik, Thomas F. "Spiritual capital religion, wealth and social status in industrial era Philadelphia /." 2006. http://etd.nd.edu.lib-proxy.nd.edu/ETD-db/theses/available/etd-07102006-134053/.

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Pizzola, Peter M. "Union social activity and worker unity in Depression-era Philadelphia /." Diss., 2004. http://gateway.proquest.com/openurl?url_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info:ofi/fmt:kev:mtx:dissertation&res_dat=xri:pqdiss&rft_dat=xri:pqdiss:3154565.

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Harms, Martin J. "1770, 1870, 1970 craft, the machine and human transaction in the technology of three Philadelphia buildings /." 1991. http://books.google.com/books?id=jsZPAAAAMAAJ.

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Weiler, Emily A. "50 years after independence : preservation of places, spaces and memory." 2012. http://liblink.bsu.edu/uhtbin/catkey/1671231.

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This thesis will study three specific subjects in order to document changing viewpoints in American culture in relation to nationalism, patriotism, and memories from older generations. It will be studying a space- Bunker Hill, a place- Independence Hall and a person- Marquis Lafayette at approximately fifty years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence. Each subject will explore the ways the memory of the soldiers involved in the American Revolution have been preserved and remembered. It is the intent of this thesis to establish the importance of the passage of time especially when it comes to preserving historic artifacts and buildings and the way the changing associations have on how we preserve these artifacts.
The triumphal tour of Marquis Lafayette -- Independence Hall -- Bunker Hill Monument.
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