University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Human Rights and Labor Solidarity
Trade Unions in the Global Economy
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Faced with the economic pressures of globalization, many countries have sought to curb the fundamental right of workers to join trade unions and engage in collective action. In response, trade unions in developed countries have strategically used their own governments' commitments to human rights...
God Almighty Hisself
The Life and Legacy of Dick Allen
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
When the Philadelphia Phillies signed Dick Allen in 1960, fans of the franchise envisioned bearing witness to feats never before accomplished by a Phillies player. A half-century later, they're still trying to make sense of what they saw.
Carrying to the plate baseball's heaviest and loudest...
Turning to Political Violence
The Emergence of Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2017
What motivates those who commit violence in the name of political beliefs? Terrorism today is not solely the preserve of Islam, nor is it a new phenomenon. It emerges from social processes and conditions common to societies throughout modern history, and the story of its origins spans centuries, encompassing...
Becoming Bureaucrats
Socialization at the Front Lines of Government Service
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Bureaucrats are important symbols of the governments that employ them. Contrary to popular stereotypes, they determine much about the way policy is ultimately enacted and experienced by citizens. While we know a great deal about bureaucrats and their actions, we know little about their development....
A Legacy of Innovation
Governors and Public Policy
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2013
From La Follette to Faubus, from Rockefeller to Reagan, U.S. governors have addressed some of the most contentious policy questions of the twentieth century. In doing so, they not only responded to dramatic changes in the political landscape, they shaped that landscape. The influence of governors...
The Right and Labor in America
Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2016
The legislative attack on public sector unionism that gave rise to the uproar in Wisconsin and other union strongholds in 2011 was not just a reaction to the contemporary economic difficulties faced by the government. Rather, it was the result of a longstanding political and ideological hostility...
Laboring Women
Reproduction and Gender in New World Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2011
When black women were brought from Africa to the New World as slave laborers, their value was determined by their ability to work as well as their potential to bear children, who by law would become the enslaved property of the mother's master. In Laboring Women: Reproduction and Gender in New World...
Miami Transformed
Rebuilding America One Neighborhood, One City at a Time
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Six-year-old Manuel Diaz and his mother first arrived at Miami's airport in 1961 with little more than a dime for a phone call to their relatives in the Little Havana neighborhood. Forty years after his flight from Castro's Cuba, attorney Manny Diaz became mayor of the City of Miami. Toward the end...
Women at the Wheel
A Century of Buying, Driving, and Fixing Cars
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
Ever since the Ford Model T became a vehicle for the masses, the automobile has served as a symbol of masculinity. The freedom of the open road, the muscle car's horsepower, the technical know-how for tinkering: all of these experiences have largely been understood from the perspective of the male...
An Army of Lions
The Civil Rights Struggle Before the NAACP
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2011
In January 1890, journalist T. Thomas Fortune stood before a delegation of African American activists in Chicago and declared, "We know our rights and have the courage to defend them," as together they formed the Afro-American League, the nation's first national civil rights organization....
by Alcinda Honwana
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Young people have been at the forefront of political conflict in many parts of the world, even when it has turned violent. In some of those situations, for a variety of reasons, including coercion, poverty, or the seductive nature of violence, children become killers before they are able to grasp...
Forging Rights in a New Democracy
Ukrainian Students Between Freedom and Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
The last two decades have been marked by momentous changes in forms of governance throughout the post-Soviet region. Ukraine's political system, like those of other formerly socialist states of Eastern Europe, has often been characterized as being "in transition," moving from a Soviet system...
Topographical Stories
Studies in Landscape and Architecture
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2015
Landscape architecture and architecture are two fields that exist in close proximity to one another. Some have argued that the two are, in fact, one field. Others maintain that the disciplines are distinct. These designations are a subject of continual debate by theorists and practitioners alike.
Here,...
The Way of Improvement Leads Home
Philip Vickers Fithian and the Rural Enlightenment in Early America
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2013
The Way of Improvement Leads Home traces the short but fascinating life of Philip Vickers Fithian, one of the most prolific diarists in early America. Born to Presbyterian grain-growers in rural New Jersey, he was never quite satisfied with the agricultural life he seemed destined to inherit. Fithian...