University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Food on the Page
Cookbooks and American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2017
What is American food? From barbecue to Jell-O molds to burrito bowls, its history spans a vast patchwork of traditions, crazes, and quirks. A close look at these foods and the recipes behind them unearths a vivid map of American foodways: how Americans thought about food, how they described it, and...
Kitchen Culture in America
Popular Representations of Food, Gender, and Race
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2015
At supermarkets across the nation, customers waiting in line—mostly female—flip through magazines displayed at the checkout stand. What we find on those magazine racks are countless images of food and, in particular, women: moms preparing lunch for the team, college roommates baking together,...
Architects of Delusion
Europe, America, and the Iraq War
Language: English
Release Date: May 23, 2013
The commencement of war in Iraq in 2003 was met with a variety of reactions around the globe. In Architects of Delusion, Simon Serfaty presents a historical analysis of how and why the decision to wage war was endorsed by some of America's main European allies, especially Britain, and opposed by others,...
by Su-kyoung Hwang
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: July 15, 2016
In 1948, two years before Cold War tensions resulted in the invasion of South Korea by North Korea that started the Korean War, the first major political confrontation between leftists and rightists occurred on the South Korean island of Cheju, where communist activists disrupted United Nations-sanctioned...
by Michael L. Ondaatje
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary American...
Cutting Along the Color Line
Black Barbers and Barber Shops in America
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
Today, black-owned barber shops play a central role in African American public life. The intimacy of commercial grooming encourages both confidentiality and camaraderie, which make the barber shop an important gathering place for African American men to talk freely. But for many years preceding and...
Afghanistan Declassified
A Guide to America's Longest War
Language: English
Release Date: September 22, 2011
Nearly 100,000 U.S. soldiers were deployed to Afghanistan at the height of the campaign, fighting the longest war in the nation's history. But what do Americans know about the land where this conflict is taking place? Many have come to have a grasp of the people, history, and geography of Iraq, but...
California Crucible
The Forging of Modern American Liberalism
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
In the three decades following World War II, the Golden State was not only the fastest-growing state in the Union but also the site of significant political change. From the late 1940s through the mid-1970s, a generation of liberal activists transformed the political landscape of California, ending...
The Barons' Crusade
A Call to Arms and Its Consequences
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
In December 1235, Pope Gregory IX altered the mission of a crusade he had begun to preach the year before. Instead of calling for Christian magnates to go on to fight the infidel in Jerusalem, he now urged them to combat the spread of Christian heresy in Latin Greece and to defend the Latin empire...
Spectacles of Empire
Monsters, Martyrs, and the Book of Revelation
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
The book of Revelation presents a daunting picture of the destruction of the world, complete with clashing gods, a multiheaded beast, armies of heaven, and the final judgment of mankind. The bizarre conclusion to the New Testament is routinely cited as an example of the early Christian renunciation...
by James M. Powell
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
James M. Powell here offers a new interpretation of the Fifth Crusade's historical and social impact, and a richly rewarding view of life in the thirteenth century. Powell addresses such questions as the degree of popular interest in the crusades, the religious climate of the period, the social structure...
Witching Culture
Folklore and Neo-Paganism in America
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that...
Saving Shame
Martyrs, Saints, and Other Abject Subjects
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Virginia Burrus explores one of the strongest and most disturbing aspects of the Christian tradition, its excessive preoccupation with shame. While Christianity has frequently been implicated in the conversion of ancient Mediterranean cultures from shame- to guilt-based and, thus, in the emergence...
by Geoffroi de Charny
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2013
On the great influence of a valiant lord: "The companions, who see that good warriors are honored by the great lords for their prowess, become more determined to attain this level of prowess."
On the lady who sees her knight honored: "All of this makes the noble lady rejoice greatly within...