University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Force and Freedom
Black Abolitionists and the Politics of Violence
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2019
From its origins in the 1750s, the white-led American abolitionist movement adhered to principles of "moral suasion" and nonviolent resistance as both religious tenet and political strategy. But by the 1850s, the population of enslaved Americans had increased exponentially, and such legislative...
The Next Economic Disaster
Why It's Coming and How to Avoid It
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2014
Current debates about economic crises typically focus on the role that public debt and debt-fueled public spending play in economic growth. This illuminating and provocative work shows that it is the rapid expansion of private rather than public debt that constrains growth and sparks economic calamities...
Bring Out Your Dead
The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2014
In 1793 a disastrous plague of yellow fever paralyzed Philadelphia, killing thousands of residents and bringing the nation's capital city to a standstill. In this psychological portrait of a city in terror, J. H. Powell presents a penetrating study of human nature revealing itself. Bring Out Your...
by Emily Toth
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Ms. Mentor, that uniquely brilliant and irascible intellectual, is your all-knowing guide through the jungle that is academia today. In the last decade Ms. Mentor's mailbox has been filled to overflowing with thousands of plaintive epistles, rants, and gossipy screeds. A mere fraction has appeared...
Fall River Outrage
Life, Murder, and Justice in Early Industrial New England
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Fall River Outrage recounts one of the most sensational and widely reported murder cases in early nineteenth-century America. When, in 1832, a pregnant mill worker was found hanged, the investigation implicated a prominent Methodist minister. Fearing adverse publicity, both the industrialists of Fall...
by Robert E. Wright
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2013
From bank bailouts and corporate scandals to the financial panic of 2008 and its lingering effects, corporate governance in America has been wracked by crises. Amid a weakening system of checks and balances in which corporate executives have little incentive to protect shareholder interests, U.S....
by Richard Schechner
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
In performances by Euro-Americans, Afro-Americans, Native Americans, and Asians, Richard Schechner has examined carefully the details of performative behavior and has developed models of the performance process useful not only to persons in the arts but to anthropologists, play theorists, and others...
Lucretia Mott's Heresy
Abolition and Women's Rights in Nineteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sexual...
Women at War
The Story of Fifty Military Nurses Who Served in Vietnam
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Norman tells the dramatic story of fifty women—members of the Army, Navy, and Air Force Nurse Corps—who went to war, working in military hospitals, aboard ships, and with air evacuation squadrons during the Vietnam War. Here, in a moving narrative, the women talk about why they went to war, the...
Rival Queens
Actresses, Performance, and the Eighteenth-Century British Theater
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
In eighteenth-century England, actresses were frequently dismissed as mere prostitutes trading on their sexual power rather than their talents. Yet they were, Felicity Nussbaum argues, central to the success of a newly commercial theater. Urban, recently moneyed, and thoroughly engaged with their...
The Performance of Self
Ritual, Clothing, and Identity During the Hundred Years War
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
Medieval courtiers defined themselves in ceremonies and rituals. Tournaments, Maying, interludes, charivaris, and masking invited the English and French nobility to assert their identities in gesture and costume as well as in speech. These events presumed that performance makes a self, in contrast...
American Georgics
Economy and Environment in American Literature, 1580-1864
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In classical terms the georgic celebrates the working landscape, cultivated to become fruitful and prosperous, in contrast to the idealized or fanciful landscapes of the pastoral. Arguing that economic considerations must become central to any understanding of the human community's engagement with...
Our Living Manhood
Literature, Black Power, and Masculine Ideology
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2015
When Eldridge Cleaver wrote in 1965 that black men "shall have our manhood or the earth will be leveled by our attempt to gain it," he voiced a central strain of Black Power movement rhetoric. In print, as well as on stage and screen, Black Power advocates equated masculinity with their...
by Jan-Werner Müller
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chávez—populists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing and left-wing populism? Does populism...