University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Battling Miss Bolsheviki
The Origins of Female Conservatism in the United States
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
Why did the political authority of well-respected female reformers diminish after women won the vote? In Battling Miss Bolsheviki Kirsten Marie Delegard argues that they were undercut during the 1920s by women conservatives who spent the first decade of female suffrage linking these reformers to radical...
by William D. Phillips, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The enslaved population of medieval Iberia composed only a small percentage of the general populace at any given point, and slave labor was not essential to the regional economy during the period. Yet slaves were present in Iberia from the beginning of recorded history until the early modern era,...
The Shame and the Sorrow
Dutch-Amerindian Encounters in New Netherland
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
The Dutch, through the directors of the West India Company, purchased Manhattan Island in 1625. They had come to the New World as traders, not expecting to assume responsibility as the sovereign possessor of a conquered New Netherland. They did not intend to make war on the native peoples around Manhattan...
In the Crossfire
Marcus Foster and the Troubled History of American School Reform
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
As media reports declare crisis after crisis in public education, Americans find themselves hotly debating educational inequalities that seem to violate their nation's ideals. Why does success in school track so closely with race and socioeconomic status? How to end these apparent achievement gaps?...
by Charles E. Orser, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Scholars who investigate race—a label based upon real or perceived physical differences—realize that they face a formidable task. The concept has been contested and condoned, debated and denied throughout modern history. Presented with the full understanding of the complexity of the issue, Race...
From Abolition to Rights for All
The Making of a Reform Community in the Nineteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
The Civil War was not the end, as is often thought, of reformist activism among abolitionists. After emancipation was achieved, they broadened their struggle to pursue equal rights for women, state medicine, workers' rights, fair wages, immigrants' rights, care of the poor, and a right to decent housing...
Sanctifying the Name of God
Jewish Martyrs and Jewish Memories of the First Crusade
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
How are martyrs made, and how do the memories of martyrs express, nourish, and mold the ideals of the community? Sanctifying the Name of God wrestles with these questions against the background of the massacres of Jews in the Rhineland during the outbreak of the First Crusade. Marking the first extensive...
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Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Following the popular uprisings that swept across the Arab world beginning in 2010, armed forces remained pivotal actors in politics throughout the region. As demonstrators started to challenge entrenched autocratic rulers in Tunis, Cairo, Sana'a, and Manama, the militaries stormed back into the limelight...
by Brenda Shaffer
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
It is not uncommon to hear states and their leaders criticized for "mixing oil and politics." The U.S.-led Iraq War was criticized as a "war for oil." When energy exporters overtly use energy as a tool to promote their foreign policy goals, Europe and the United States regularly...
Robert McNamara's Other War
The World Bank and International Development
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2017
Robert McNamara is best known for his key role in the escalation of the Vietnam War as U.S. secretary of defense under Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon Johnson. The familiar story begins with the brilliant young executive transforming Ford Motor Company, followed by his rise to political power...
by Daniel Cottom
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 9, 2013
Education is useless because it destroys our common sense, because it isolates us from the rest of humanity, because it hardens our hearts and swells our heads. Bookish persons have long been subjects of suspicion and contempt and nowhere more so, perhaps, than in the United States during the past...
China and Africa
A Century of Engagement
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2012
The People's Republic of China once limited its involvement in African affairs to building an occasional railroad or port, supporting African liberation movements, and loudly proclaiming socialist solidarity with the downtrodden of the continent. Now Chinese diplomats and Chinese companies, both state-owned...
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Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
When countries discover that they possess large deposits of oil and natural gas, the news is usually welcome. Yet, paradoxically, if they rely on their wealth of natural resources, they often set down a path of poor economic performance and governance challenges. Only a few resource-rich countries...
Dignity Rights
Courts, Constitutions, and the Worth of the Human Person
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2012
The right to dignity is now recognized in most of the world's constitutions, and hardly a new constitution is adopted without it. Over the last sixty years, courts in Latin America, Europe, Asia, Africa, the Middle East, and North America have developed a robust jurisprudence of dignity on subjects...