University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by Klaus P. Fischer
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2011
In February 1942, barely two months after he had declared war on the United States, Adolf Hitler praised America's great industrial achievements and admitted that Germany would need some time to catch up. The Americans, he said, had shown the way in developing the most efficient methods of production—especially...
by Emily Toth
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2012
In question-and-answer form, Ms. Mentor advises academic women about issues they daren't discuss openly, such as: How does one really clamber onto the tenure track when the job market is so nasty, brutish, and small? Is there such a thing as the perfectly marketable dissertation topic? How does a...
Human Rights
A Political and Cultural Critique
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2013
In 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, and with it a profusion of norms, processes, and institutions to define, promote, and protect human rights. Today virtually every cause seeks to cloak itself in the righteous language of rights. But even so, this universal...
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Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: September 29, 2015
A collection of 20 essays, by a distinguished panel of specialists in British and American history, that explores the complex political, economic, intellectual, religious, and social environment in which William Penn lived and worked.
American Justice 2014
Nine Clashing Visions on the Supreme Court
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2014
In this provocative and insightful book, constitutional scholar and journalist Garrett Epps reviews the key decisions of the 2013-2014 Supreme Court term through the words of the nation's nine most powerful legal authorities. Epps succinctly outlines one opinion or dissent from each of the justices...
Before the Normans
Southern Italy in the Ninth and Tenth Centuries
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2011
Histories of medieval Europe have typically ignored southern Italy, looking south only in the Norman period. Yet Southern Italy in the ninth and tenth centuries was a complex and vibrant world that deserves to be better understood. In Before the Normans, Barbara M. Kreutz writes the first modern study...
The Roman Inquisition
A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
While the Spanish Inquisition has laid the greatest claim to both scholarly attention and the popular imagination, the Roman Inquisition, established in 1542 and a key instrument of papal authority, was more powerful, important, and long-lived. Founded by Paul III and originally aimed to eradicate...
Border Lines
The Partition of Judaeo-Christianity
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The historical separation between Judaism and Christianity is often figured as a clearly defined break of a single entity into two separate religions. Following this model, there would have been one religion known as Judaism before the birth of Christ, which then took on a hybrid identity. Even before...
Medieval Robots
Mechanism, Magic, Nature, and Art
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
A thousand years before Isaac Asimov set down his Three Laws of Robotics, real and imagined automata appeared in European courts, liturgies, and literary texts. Medieval robots took such forms as talking statues, mechanical animals, and silent metal guardians; some served to entertain or instruct...
Getting Out
Historical Perspectives on Leaving Iraq
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2011
Eventually every conqueror, every imperial power, every occupying army gets out. Why do they decide to leave? And how do political and military leaders manage withdrawal? Do they take with them those who might be at risk if left behind? What are the immediate consequences of departure? For Michael...
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Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2012
Early medieval women exercised public roles, rights, and responsibilities. Women contributed through their labor to the welfare of the community. Women played an important part in public affairs. They practiced birth control through abortion and infanticide. Women committed crimes and were indicted....
Driving Detroit
The Quest for Respect in the Motor City
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2012
For most of the twentieth century, Detroit was a symbol of American industrial might, a place of entrepreneurial and technical ingenuity where the latest consumer inventions were made available to everyone through the genius of mass production. Today, Detroit is better known for its dwindling population,...
Sex Work Politics
From Protest to Service Provision
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
In San Francisco, the St. James Infirmary (SJI) and the California Prostitutes Education Project (CAL-PEP) provide free, nonjudgmental medical care, counseling, and other health and social services by and for sex workers—a radical political commitment at odds with government policies that criminalize...
Slavery's Borderland
Freedom and Bondage Along the Ohio River
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In 1787, the Northwest Ordinance made the Ohio River the dividing line between slavery and freedom in the West, yet in 1861, when the Civil War tore the nation apart, the region failed to split at this seam. In Slavery's Borderland, historian Matthew Salafia shows how the river was both a physical...