University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
A New World of Labor
The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
The small and remote island of Barbados seems an unlikely location for the epochal change in labor that overwhelmed it and much of British America in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. However, by 1650 it had become the greatest wealth-producing area in the English-speaking world, the center...
Town Born
The Political Economy of New England from Its Founding to the Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
In the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, British colonists found the New World full of resources. With land readily available but workers in short supply, settlers developed coercive forms of labor—indentured servitude and chattel slavery—in order to produce staple export crops like rice,...
The War on Welfare
Family, Poverty, and Politics in Modern America
Language: English
Release Date: February 2, 2012
Why did the War on Poverty give way to the war on welfare? Many in the United States saw the welfare reforms of 1996 as the inevitable result of twelve years of conservative retrenchment in American social policy, but there is evidence that the seeds of this change were sown long before the Reagan...
Everyday Politics
Reconnecting Citizens and Public Life
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Increasingly a spectator sport, electoral politics have become bitterly polarized by professional consultants and lobbyists and have been boiled down to the distributive mantra of "who gets what." In Everyday Politics, Harry Boyte transcends partisan politics to offer an alternative. He...
Rude Awakening
Threats to the Global Liberal Order
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In the wake of World War II, a number of institutions designed to promote a liberal global economic and geopolitical order were established—the International Monetary Fund, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (forerunner of the World Trade Organization), and the World Bank in the economic...
Faces of Moderation
The Art of Balance in an Age of Extremes
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Aristotle listed moderation as one of the moral virtues. He also defined virtue as the mean between extremes, implying that moderation plays a vital role in all forms of moral excellence. But moderation's protean character—its vague and ill-defined omnipresence in judgment and action—makes it...
City
Rediscovering the Center
Language: English
Release Date: September 10, 2012
Named by Newsweek magazine to its list of "Fifty Books for Our Time."
For sixteen years William Whyte walked the streets of New York and other major cities. With a group of young observers, camera and notebook in hand, he conducted pioneering studies of street life, pedestrian behavior,...
Beyond Rust
Metropolitan Pittsburgh and the Fate of Industrial America
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2015
Beyond Rust chronicles the rise, fall, and rebirth of metropolitan Pittsburgh, an industrial region that once formed the heart of the world's steel production and is now touted as a model for reviving other hard-hit cities of the Rust Belt. Writing in clear and engaging prose, historian and area native...
by Shahram Khosravi
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
With more than half its population under twenty years old, Iran is one of the world's most youthful nations. The Iranian state characterizes its youth population in two ways: as a homogeneous mass, "an army of twenty millions" devoted to the Revolution, and as alienated, inauthentic, Westernized...
Nightclub City
Politics and Amusement in Manhattan
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In the Roaring Twenties, New York City nightclubs and speakeasies became hot spots where traditions were flouted and modernity was forged. With powerful patrons in Tammany Hall and a growing customer base, nightclubs flourished in spite of the efforts of civic-minded reformers and federal Prohibition...
by William H. Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2013
Regarded as one of the most important sociological and business commentaries of modern times, The Organization Man developed the first thorough description of the impact of mass organization on American society. During the height of the Eisenhower administration, corporations appeared to provide a...
Keeping Up with the Joneses
Envy in American Consumer Society, 1890-1930
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
A century ago many Americans condemned envy as a destructive emotion and a sin. Today few Americans expect criticism when they express envy, and some commentators maintain that the emotion drives the economy. This shift in attitude is Susan Matt's central concern. Keeping up with the Joneses: Envy...
Empire of Vines
Wine Culture in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
The lush, sun-drenched vineyards of California evoke a romantic, agrarian image of winemaking, though in reality the industry reflects American agribusiness at its most successful. Nonetheless, as author Erica Hannickel shows, this fantasy is deeply rooted in the history of grape cultivation in America....
Freud on Madison Avenue
Motivation Research and Subliminal Advertising in America
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2011
What do consumers really want? In the mid-twentieth century, many marketing executives sought to answer this question by looking to the theories of Sigmund Freud and his followers. By the 1950s, Freudian psychology had become the adman's most powerful new tool, promising to plumb the depths of shoppers'...