University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by Tilar J. Mazzeo
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend and literary competitor Samuel Taylor Coleridge. DeQuincey's charges and the controversy they ignited have shaped readers' responses to the work...
The Venetian Qur'an
A Renaissance Companion to Islam
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2018
An anonymous book appeared in Venice in 1547 titled L'Alcorano di Macometto, and, according to the title page, it contained "the doctrine, life, customs, and laws [of Mohammed] . . . newly translated from Arabic into the Italian language." Were this true, L'Alcorano di Macometto would have...
Flora's Empire
British Gardens in India
Language: English
Release Date: January 31, 2012
Like their penchant for clubs, cricket, and hunting, the planting of English gardens by the British in India reflected an understandable need on the part of expatriates to replicate home as much as possible in an alien environment. In Flora's Empire, Eugenia W. Herbert argues that more than simple...
by Abdullahi Ahmed An-Na'im
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Constitutionalism is steadily becoming the prevalent form of governance in Africa. But how does constitutionalism deal with the lingering effects of colonialism? And how does constitutional law deal with Islamic principles in the region? African Constitutionalism and the Role of Islam seeks to answer...
Genocide
The Act as Idea
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
The term "genocide"—"group killing"—which first appeared in Raphael Lemkin's 1944 book, Axis Rule in Occupied Europe, had by 1948 established itself in international law through the United Nations Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide. Since then...
Counter Jihad
America's Military Experience in Afghanistan, Iraq, and Syria
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Counter Jihad is a sweeping account of America's military campaigns in the Islamic world. Revising our understanding of what was once known as the War on Terror, it provides a retrospective on the extraordinary series of conflicts that saw the United States deploy more than two and a half million...
The Risk of War
Everyday Sociality in the Republic of Macedonia
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
The Risk of War focuses on practices and performances of everyday life across ethnonational borders during the six-month armed conflict in 2001 between Macedonian government forces and the Albanian National Liberation Army (NLA)—a conflict initiated by the NLA with the proclaimed purpose of securing...
Eve of Destruction
The Coming Age of Preventive War
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In an age of new threats to international security, the old rules of war are rapidly being discarded. The great powers are moving toward norms less restrictive of intervention, preemption, and preventive war. This evolution is taking place not only in the United States but also in many of the world's...
Human Rights in Iran
The Abuse of Cultural Relativism
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Are the principles set forth in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights truly universal? Or, as some have argued, are they derived exclusively from Western philosophic traditions and therefore irrelevant to many non-Western cultures?...
Her Life Historical
Exemplarity and Female Saints' Lives in Late Medieval England
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Her Life Historical offers a major reconsideration of one of the most popular narrative forms in late medieval England—the lives of female saints—and one of the period's primary modes of interpretation—exemplarity. With lucidity and insight, Catherine Sanok shows that saints' legends served...
by C. Pierce Salguero
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
The transmission of Buddhism from India to China was one of the most significant cross-cultural exchanges in the premodern world. This cultural encounter involved more than the spread of religious and philosophical knowledge. It influenced many spheres of Chinese life, including the often overlooked...
Founding Acts
Constitutional Origins in a Democratic Age
Language: English
Release Date: April 26, 2016
All democratic constitutions feature "the people" as their author and ultimate source of legitimacy. They claim to embody the political form that citizens are in some sense supposed to have given themselves. But in what sense, exactly? When does a constitution really or genuinely speak for...
The Origins of Freemasonry
Facts and Fictions
Language: English
Release Date: October 18, 2016
Can the ancestry of freemasonry really be traced back to the Knights Templar? Is the image of the eye in a triangle on the back of the dollar bill one of its cryptic signs? Is there a conspiracy that stretches through centuries and generations to align this shadow organization and its secret rituals...
Maimonides and the Merchants
Jewish Law and Society in the Medieval Islamic World
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
The advent of Islam in the seventh century brought profound economic changes to the Jews living in the Middle East, and Talmudic law, compiled in and for an agrarian society, was ill equipped to address an increasingly mercantile world. In response, and over the course of the seventh through eleventh...