University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Divine Art, Infernal Machine
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Language: English
Release Date: January 21, 2011
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it...
Groundwork
Charles Hamilton Houston and the Struggle for Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2011
"A classic. . . . [It] will make an extraordinary contribution to the improvement of race relations and the understanding of race and the American legal process."—Judge A. Leon Higginbotham, Jr., from the Foreword
Charles Hamilton Houston (1895-1950) left an indelible mark on American...
by Sigal R. Ben-Porath
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 14, 2017
From the University of California, Berkeley, to Middlebury College, institutions of higher learning increasingly find themselves on the front lines of cultural and political battles over free speech. Repeatedly, students, faculty, administrators, and politically polarizing invited guests square off...
Biotech
The Countercultural Origins of an Industry
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The seemingly unlimited reach of powerful biotechnologies and the attendant growth of the multibillion-dollar industry have raised difficult questions about the scientific discoveries, political assumptions, and cultural patterns that gave rise to for-profit biological research. Given such extraordinary...
by Philip Rawson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
"It is rare to find a book on art that presents complex aesthetic principles in clear readable form. Ceramics, by Philip Rawson, is such a book. I discovered it ten years ago, and today my well-worn copy has scarcely a page on which some statement is not underlined and starred."—Wayne Higby, from the Foreword
by Michael Kirby
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Michael Kirby presents a penetrating look a theater theory and analysis. His approach is analytically comprehensive and flexible, and nonevaluative. Case studies demonstrate this unique approach and record performances that otherwise would be lost.
First City
Philadelphia and the Forging of Historical Memory
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2013
With its rich foundation stories, Philadelphia may be the most important city in America's collective memory. By the middle of the eighteenth century William Penn's "greene countrie town" was, after London, the largest city in the British Empire. The two most important documents in the history of...
by April Vahle Hamel, Jennifer S. Furlong
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2012
For more than fifteen years The Graduate School Funding Handbook has been an invaluable resource for students applying to graduate school in the United States or abroad, at the master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels. Illuminating the competitive world of graduate education funding in the arts,...
Deadly Encounters
Two Victorian Sensations
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
In July 1861 London newspapers excitedly reported two violent crimes, both the stuff of sensational fiction. One involved a retired army major, his beautiful mistress and her illegitimate child, blackmail and murder. In the other, a French nobleman was accused of trying to kill his son in order to...
by Vera Schwarcz
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
The Singing Crane Garden in northwest Beijing has a history dense with classical artistic vision, educational experimentation, political struggle, and tragic suffering. Built by the Manchu prince Mianyu in the mid-nineteenth century, the garden was intended to serve as a refuge from the clutter of...
My Storm
Managing the Recovery of New Orleans in the Wake of Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Edward J. Blakely has been called upon to help rebuild after some of the worst disasters in recent American history, from the San Francisco Bay Area's 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake to the September 11 attacks in New York. Yet none of these jobs compared to the challenges he faced in his appointment...
The Anatomy Murders
Being the True and Spectacular History of Edinburgh's Notorious Burke and Hare and of the Man of Science Who Abetted Them in the Commission of Their Most Heinous Crimes
Language: English
Release Date: July 7, 2011
Up the close and down the stair,
Up and down with Burke and Hare.
Burke's the butcher, Hare's the thief,
Knox the man who buys the beef.
—anonymous children's song
On Halloween night 1828, in the West Port district of Edinburgh, Scotland, a woman sometimes known as Madgy Docherty was last...
Censorship and Cultural Sensibility
The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In this study of the reciprocities binding religion, politics, law, and literature, Debora Shuger offers a profoundly new history of early modern English censorship, one that bears centrally on issues still current: the rhetoric of ideological extremism, the use of defamation to ruin political opponents,...
by Steven P. Miller
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: August 23, 2011
While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth century....