University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Healing Secular Life
Loss and Devotion in Modern Turkey
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
In contemporary Turkey—a democratic, secular, and predominantly Muslim nation—the religious healer is a controversial figure. Attracting widespread condemnation, religious healers are derided as exploiters of the sick and vulnerable, discredited forms of Islamic and medical authority, and superstitious...
Envisioning an English Empire
Jamestown and the Making of the North Atlantic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2012
Envisioning an English Empire brings together leading historians and literary scholars to reframe our understanding of the history of Jamestown and the literature of empire that emerged from it.
The founding of an English colony at Jamestown in 1607 was no isolated incident. It was one event...
The Ragged Road to Abolition
Slavery and Freedom in New Jersey, 1775-1865
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Contrary to popular perception, slavery persisted in the North well into the nineteenth century. This was especially the case in New Jersey, the last northern state to pass an abolition statute, in 1804. Because of the nature of the law, which freed children born to enslaved mothers only after they...
by David S. Powers
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Although Muḥammad had no natural sons who reached the age of maturity, Islamic sources report that he adopted a man named Zayd shortly before receiving his first revelation. This "son of Muḥammad" was the Prophet's heir for the next fifteen or twenty years. He was the first adult male...
Modern Coliseum
Stadiums and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2017
From the legendary Ebbets Field in the heart of Brooklyn to the amenity-packed Houston Astrodome to the "retro" Oriole Park at Camden Yards, stadiums have taken many shapes and served different purposes throughout the history of American sports culture. In the early twentieth century, a...
Aging in America
A Cultural History
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2017
Aging is a preoccupation shared by beauty bloggers, serious journalists, scientists, doctors, celebrities—arguably all of adult America, given the pervasiveness of the crusade against it in popular culture and the media. We take our youth-oriented culture as a given but, as Lawrence R. Samuel argues,...
Mother and Sons, Inc.
Martha de Cabanis in Medieval Montpellier
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2017
In the late 1320s, Martha de Cabanis was widowed with three young sons, eleven, eight, and four years of age. Her challenges would be many: to raise and train her children to carry on their father's business; to preserve that business until they were ready to take over; and to look after her own financial...
by Karen Raber
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2013
Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture examines how the shared embodied existence of early modern human and nonhuman animals challenged the establishment of species distinctions. The material conditions of the early modern world brought humans and animals into complex interspecies relationships that have...
by Roger Sanjek
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
In 1970, a sixty-five-year-old Philadelphian named Maggie Kuhn began vocally opposing the notion of mandatory retirement. Taking inspiration from the civil rights and anti-Vietnam War movements, Kuhn and her cohorts created an activist organization that quickly gained momentum as the Gray Panthers....
Porta Palazzo
The Anthropology of an Italian Market
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2012
Porta Palazzo, arguably Western Europe's largest open-air market, is a central economic, social, and cultural hub for Italians and migrants in the city of Turin. Open-air markets like Porta Palazzo have existed for centuries in Europe; although their function has changed over time—traditional markets...
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Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2014
As millions of Americans struggle to find work in the wake of the Great Recession, politicians from both parties look to regulation in search of an economic cure. Some claim that burdensome regulations undermine private sector competitiveness and job growth, while others argue that tough new regulations...
Virtuosity in Business
Invisible Law Guiding the Invisible Hand
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The recent global financial crisis raises pressing issues that are not exclusively economic. The health of the economy, Kevin T. Jackson contends, reflects the moral health of the wider culture: ethics must be considered along with economics to understand world markets, especially now that globalization...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 10, 2016
In the fall of 2008, the world watched in horror as the U.S. housing finance system shattered, triggering a global financial panic and ultimately the Great Recession. Now, nearly a decade later, the long and slow housing recovery has reached a critical moment. Though the housing finance system has...
Regulatory Breakdown
The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis—not to mention major...