University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
No Use
Nuclear Weapons and U.S. National Security
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
For more than forty years, the United States has maintained a public commitment to nuclear disarmament, and every president from Ronald Reagan to Barack Obama has gradually reduced the size of America's nuclear forces. Yet even now, over two decades after the end of the Cold War, the United States...
Food Chains
From Farmyard to Shopping Cart
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In recent years, the integrity of food production and distribution has become an issue of wide social concern. The media frequently report on cases of food contamination as well as on the risks of hormones and cloning. Journalists, documentary filmmakers, and activists have had their say, but until...
Used Books
Marking Readers in Renaissance England
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
In a recent sale catalog, one bookseller apologized for the condition of a sixteenth-century volume as "rather soiled by use." When the book was displayed the next year, the exhibition catalogue described it as "well and piously used [with] marginal notations in an Elizabethan hand...
by William H. Whyte
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
The remaining corner of an old farm, unclaimed by developers. The brook squeezed between housing plans. Abandoned railroad lines. The stand of woods along an expanded highway. These are the outposts of what was once a larger pattern of forests and farms, the "last landscape." According to...
Destructive Creation
American Business and the Winning of World War II
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2016
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt called "the arsenal...
Precarious Lives
Waiting and Hope in Iran
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2017
In Precarious Lives, Shahram Khosravi attempts to reconcile the paradoxes of Iranians' everyday life in the first decade of the twenty-first century. On the one hand, multiple circumstances of precarity give rise to a sense of hopelessness, shared visions of a futureless tomorrow, widespread home(land)lessness,...
Takedown
Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2013
On September 11, 2001, as Central Intelligence Agency analyst Philip Mudd rushed out of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building next to the White House, he could not anticipate how far the terror unleashed that day would change the world of intelligence and his life as a CIA officer. For the previous...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2014
The great poetic tradition of pre-Christian Scandinavia is known to us almost exclusively though the Poetic Edda. The poems originated in Iceland, Norway, and Greenland between the ninth and thirteenth centuries, when they were compiled in a unique manuscript known as the Codex Regius.
The...
by Sanping Chen
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
In contrast to the economic and cultural dominance by the south and the east coast over the past several centuries, influence in China in the early Middle Ages was centered in the north and featured a significantly multicultural society. Many events that were profoundly formative for the future of...
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War
The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
At the end of the eighteenth century, a massive slave revolt rocked French Saint Domingue, the most profitable European colony in the Americas. Under the leadership of the charismatic former slave François Dominique Toussaint Louverture, a disciplined and determined republican army, consisting almost...
Trade, Land, Power
The Struggle for Eastern North America
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2013
In this sweeping collection of essays, one of America's leading colonial historians reinterprets the struggle between Native peoples and Europeans in terms of how each understood the material basis of power.
Throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries in eastern North America, Natives...
The Modern Moves West
California Artists and Democratic Culture in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
In 1921 Sam Rodia, an Italian laborer and tile setter, started work on an elaborate assemblage in the backyard of his home in Watts, California. The result was an iconic structure now known as the Watts Towers. Rodia created a work that was original, even though the resources available to support...
The Captive's Position
Female Narrative, Male Identity, and Royal Authority in Colonial New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Why do narratives of Indian captivity emerge in New England between 1682 and 1707 and why are these texts, so centrally concerned with women's experience, supported and even written by a powerful group of Puritan ministers? In The Captive's Position, Teresa Toulouse argues for a new interpretation...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2016
"Perhaps it is no coincidence that the nineteenth century—the century when, it has been said, sexuality as such (and various taxonomized sexual identities) were invented—is the period when American short stories were invented, and when they were the queerest."—Christopher Looby, from...