University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
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Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2018
Human rights are increasingly described as being in crisis. But are human rights really on the verge of disappearing? Human Rights Transformation in Practice argues that it is certainly the case that human rights organizations in many parts of the world are under threat, but that the ideals of justice,...
by Antonius C. G. M. Robben
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
For decades, Argentina's population was subject to human rights violations ranging from the merely disruptive to the abominable. Violence pervaded Argentine social and cultural life in the repression of protest crowds, a ruthless counterinsurgency campaign, massive numbers of abductions, instances...
From Dictatorship to Democracy
An Insider's Account of the Iraqi Opposition to Saddam
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
Today, Hamid al-Bayati serves as Iraqi ambassador to the United Nations. But for many years he lived in exile in London, where he worked with other opponents of Saddam Hussein's regime to make a democratic and pluralistic Iraq a reality....
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Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
Disability, Human Rights, and Information Technology addresses the global issue of equal access to information and communications technology (ICT) by persons with disabilities. The right to access the same digital content at the same time and at the same cost as people without disabilities is implicit...
Along the Hudson and Mohawk
The 1790 Journey of Count Paolo Andreani
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2012
In the summer of 1790 the Italian explorer Count Paolo Andreani embarked on a journey that would take him through New York State and eastern Iroquoia. Traveling along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers, Andreani kept a meticulous record of his observations and experiences in the New World. Published complete...
Gay Voluntary Associations in New York
Public Sharing and Private Lives
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2014
Gay Voluntary Associations in New York is a sensitive and insightful ethnography of social groups that have gathered around common interests in an urban LGBT population from the time of the AIDS crisis to the present. Anthropologist Moshe Shokeid examines the social discourse of sex, love, friendship,...
Human Rights or Global Capitalism
The Limits of Privatization
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2016
The fall of communism in the late 1980s and the end of the Cold War seemed to signal a new international social order built on pluralist democracy, the rule of law, and universal human rights. But the window of opportunity for creating this more just, more equal, and more secure world slammed shut...
After the Black Death
Plague and Commemoration Among Iberian Jews
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2018
The Black Death of 1348-50 devastated Europe. With mortality estimates ranging from thirty to sixty percent of the population, it was arguably the most significant event of the fourteenth century. Nonetheless, its force varied across the continent, and so did the ways people responded to it. Surprisingly,...
by Edward J. Blum
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Pioneering historian, sociologist, editor, novelist, poet, and organizer, W. E. B. Du Bois was one of the foremost African American intellectuals of the twentieth century. While Du Bois is remembered for his monumental contributions to scholarship and civil rights activism, the spiritual aspects of...
Set the World on Fire
Black Nationalist Women and the Global Struggle for Freedom
Language: English
Release Date: January 18, 2018
In 1932, Mittie Maude Lena Gordon spoke to a crowd of black Chicagoans at the old Jack Johnson boxing ring, rallying their support for emigration to West Africa. In 1937, Celia Jane Allen traveled to Jim Crow Mississippi to organize rural black workers around black nationalist causes. In the late...
The Jet Sex
Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon
Language: English
Release Date: March 5, 2013
In the years after World War II, the airline stewardess became one of the most celebrated symbols of American womanhood. Stewardesses appeared on magazine covers, on lecture circuits, and in ad campaigns for everything from milk to cigarettes. Airlines enlisted them to pose for publicity shots, mingle...
Translating Nature
Cross-Cultural Histories of Early Modern Science
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2019
Translating Nature recasts the era of early modern science as an age not of discovery but of translation. As Iberian and Protestant empires expanded across the Americas, colonial travelers encountered, translated, and reinterpreted Amerindian traditions of knowledge—knowledge that was later translated...
When Counterinsurgency Wins
Sri Lanka's Defeat of the Tamil Tigers
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
For twenty-six years, civil war tore Sri Lanka apart. Despite numerous peace talks, cease-fires, and external military and diplomatic pressure, war raged on between the separatist Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam and the Sinhala-dominated Sri Lankan government. Then, in 2009, the Sri Lankan military...
Yigal Allon, Native Son
A Biography
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2015
Born in 1918 into the fabric of Arab-Jewish frontier life at the foot of Mt. Tabor, Yigal Allon rose to become one of the founding figures of the state of Israel and an architect of its politics. In 1945 Allon became commander of the Palmah—an elite unit of the Haganah, the semilegal army of the...