University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Mad Tuscans and Their Families
A History of Mental Disorder in Early Modern Italy
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2014
Based on three hundred civil and criminal cases over four centuries, Elizabeth W. Mellyn reconstructs the myriad ways families, communities, and civic and medical authorities met in the dynamic arena of Tuscan law courts to forge pragmatic solutions to the problems that madness brought to their households...
Bitterroot
The Life and Death of Meriwether Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2018
In America's early national period, Meriwether Lewis was a towering figure. Selected by Thomas Jefferson to lead the expedition to explore the Louisiana Purchase, he was later rewarded by Jefferson with the governorship of the entire Louisiana Territory. Yet within three years, plagued by controversy...
by Stanley Finger
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2012
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Among his many accomplishments, Benjamin Franklin was instrumental in founding the first major civilian hospital and medical school and in the American colonies. He studied the efficacy of smallpox inoculation and investigated the...
Queer Philologies
Sex, Language, and Affect in Shakespeare's Time
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2016
For Jeffrey Masten, the history of sexuality and the history of language are intimately related. In Queer Philologies, he studies particular terms that illuminate the history of sexuality in Shakespeare's time and analyzes the methods we have used to study sex and gender in literary and cultural history....
Fictions of Conversion
Jews, Christians, and Cultures of Change in Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
The fraught history of England's Long Reformation is a convoluted if familiar story: in the space of twenty-five years, England changed religious identity three times. In 1534 England broke from the papacy with the Act of Supremacy that made Henry VIII head of the church; nineteen years later the...
Periodization and Sovereignty
How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Despite all recent challenges to stage-oriented histories, the idea of a division between a "medieval" and a "modern" period has survived, even flourished, in academia. Periodization and Sovereignty demonstrates that this survival is no innocent affair. By examining periodization...
An Infinity of Nations
How the Native New World Shaped Early North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
An Infinity of Nations explores the formation and development of a Native New World in North America. Until the middle of the nineteenth century, indigenous peoples controlled the vast majority of the continent while European colonies of the Atlantic World were largely confined to the eastern seaboard....
Matter, Magic, and Spirit
Representing Indian and African American Belief
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The spiritual and religious beliefs and practices of Native Americans and African Americans have long been sources of fascination and curiosity, owing to their marked difference from the religious traditions of white writers and researchers. Matter, Magic, and Spirit explores the ways religious and...
English Letters and Indian Literacies
Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2012
As rigid and unforgiving as the boarding schools established for the education of Native Americans could be, the intellectuals who engaged with these schools—including Mohegans Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, and Montauketts David and Jacob Fowler in the eighteenth century, and Cherokees Catharine...
The People's Network
The Political Economy of the Telephone in the Gilded Age
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2013
The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens—farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs—established tens of thousands of independent telephone systems,...
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Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2012
Globalization challenges fundamental principles governing international law, especially with respect to state sovereignty and international relations. This transformation has had a significant impact on the practice of trade law, financial regulation, and environmental law but relatively little effect...
Beyond the Good Death
The Anthropology of Modern Dying
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
In November 1998, millions of television viewers watched as Thomas Youk died. Suffering from the late stages of Lou Gehrig's disease, Youk had called upon infamous Michigan pathologist Dr. Jack Kevorkian to help end his life on his own terms. After delivering the videotape to 60 Minutes, Kevorkian...
Bombshell
Women and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: August 13, 2012
Between 1985 and 2008, female suicide bombers committed more than 230 attacks—about a quarter of all such acts. Women have become the ideal stealth weapon for terrorist groups. They are less likely to be suspected or searched and as a result have been used to strike at the heart of coalition troops...
The Catholic Calumet
Colonial Conversions in French and Indian North America
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In 1730 a delegation of Illinois Indians arrived in the French colonial capital of New Orleans. An Illinois leader presented two ceremonial pipes, or calumets, to the governor. One calumet represented the diplomatic alliance between the two men and the other symbolized their shared attachment to Catholicism....