University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by Edward Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.
A landmark study since...
Ethnography After Antiquity
Foreign Lands and Peoples in Byzantine Literature
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2013
Although Greek and Roman authors wrote ethnographic texts describing foreign cultures, ethnography seems to disappear from Byzantine literature after the seventh century C.E.—a perplexing exception for a culture so strongly self-identified with the Roman empire. Yet the Byzantines, geographically...
The Fantasy Factory
An Insider's View of the Phone Sex Industry
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
The Fantasy Factory explores the world of women on the other end of the phone sex lines advertised in magazines like Playboy and Hustler. The author's interviews with these women, as well as her own first-hand experiences as an operator, reveal the complex ways operators and callers negotiate the...
The Arabic Role in Medieval Literary History
A Forgotten Heritage
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Arabic culture was a central and shaping phenomenon in medieval Europe, yet its influence on medieval literature has been ignored or marginalized for the last two centuries. In this ground-breaking book, now returned to print with a new afterword by the author, María Rosa Menocal argues that major...
Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen
The Social History of Psychiatry in the Victorian Era
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
The Victorian Age saw the transformation of the madhouse into the asylum into the mental hospital; of the mad-doctor into the alienist into the psychiatrist; and of the madman (and madwoman) into the mental patient. In Andrew Scull's edited collection Madhouses, Mad-Doctors, and Madmen, contributors'...
Republican Character
From Nixon to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: November 15, 2017
"Politics makes for strange bedfellows," the old saying goes. Americans, however, often forget the obvious lesson underlying this adage: politics is about winning elections and governing once in office. Voters of all stripes seem put off by the rough-and-tumble horse-trading and deal-making...
Top Down
The Ford Foundation, Black Power, and the Reinvention of Racial Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
At first glance, the Ford Foundation and the black power movement would make an unlikely partnership. After the Second World War, the renowned Foundation was the largest philanthropic organization in the United States and was dedicated to projects of liberal reform. Black power ideology, which promoted...
Human Rights in American Foreign Policy
From the 1960s to the Soviet Collapse
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
International human rights issues perpetually highlight the tension between political interest and idealism. Over the last fifty years, the United States has labored to find an appropriate response to each new human rights crisis, balancing national and global interests as well as political and humanitarian...
Queer Clout
Chicago and the Rise of Gay Politics
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
In postwar America, the path to political power for gays and lesbians led through city hall. By the late 1980s, politicians and elected officials, who had originally sought political advantage from raiding gay bars and carting their patrons off to jail, were pursuing gays and lesbians aggressively...
The Swahili
Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies
by Steven Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Adam Usk, a Welsh lawyer in England and Rome during the first years of the fifteenth century, lived a peculiar life. He was, by turns, a professor, a royal advisor, a traitor, a schismatic, and a spy. He cultivated and then sabotaged figures of great influence, switching allegiances between kings,...
by Theodore Dreiser
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Theodore Dreiser's Russian Diary is an extended record of the American writer's travels throughout the Soviet Union in 1927-28. Dreiser was initially invited to Moscow for a week-long observance of the tenth anniversary of the October Revolution. He asked, and was granted, permission to make an extended...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Political theorists Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris observe that American political culture is deeply ambivalent about truth. On the one hand, voices on both the left and right make confident appeals to the truth of claims about the status of the market in public life and the role of scientific evidence...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms...