University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Barbarian Tides
The Migration Age and the Later Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The Migration Age is still envisioned as an onrush of expansionary "Germans" pouring unwanted into the Roman Empire and subjecting it to pressures so great that its western parts collapsed under the weight. Further developing the themes set forth in his classic Barbarians and Romans, Walter...
The Roman Inquisition
Trying Galileo
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
Few legal events loom as large in early modern history as the trial of Galileo. Frequently cast as a heroic scientist martyred to religion or as a scapegoat of papal politics, Galileo undoubtedly stood at a watershed moment in the political maneuvering of a powerful church. But to fully understand...
The Capture of Constantinople
The "Hystoria Constantinopolitana" of Gunther of Pairis
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
The armies of the Fourth Crusade that left Western Europe at the beginning of the thirteenth century never reached the Holy Land to fight the Infidel; they stopped instead at Byzantium and sacked that capital of eastern Christendom. Much of what we know today of those events comes from contemporary...
Imperial Entanglements
Iroquois Change and Persistence on the Frontiers of Empire
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2012
Imperial Entanglements chronicles the history of the Haudenosaunee Iroquois in the eighteenth century, a dramatic period during which they became further entangled in a burgeoning market economy, participated in imperial warfare, and encountered a waxing British Empire. Rescuing the Seven Years' War...
Unmarriages
Women, Men, and Sexual Unions in the Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2012
The Middle Ages are often viewed as a repository of tradition, yet what we think of as traditional marriage was far from the only available alternative to the single state in medieval Europe. Many people lived together in long-term, quasimarital heterosexual relationships, unable to marry if one was...
The Making and Unmaking of a Saint
Hagiography and Memory in the Cult of Gerald of Aurillac
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
A crusader, a hermit, a bishop, a plague victim, and even a repentant murderer by turns: the stories attached to Saint Gerald of Aurillac offer a strange and fragmented legacy. His two earliest biographies, written in the early tenth and early eleventh centuries, depicted the saint as a warrior who...
The Last Crusade in the West
Castile and the Conquest of Granada
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2014
By the middle of the fourteenth century, Christian control of the Iberian Peninsula extended to the borders of the emirate of Granada, whose Muslim rulers acknowledged Castilian suzerainty. No longer threatened by Moroccan incursions, the kings of Castile were diverted from completing the Reconquest...
Negro League Baseball
The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball...
by Kenneth L. Shropshire, Timothy Davis, N. Jeremi Duru
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2016
Successful sports agents are comfortable with high finance and intense competition for the right to represent talented players, and the most respected agents are those who can deal with the pressures of high-stakes negotiations in an honest fashion. But whereas rules and penalties govern the playing...
eFieldnotes
The Makings of Anthropology in the Digital World
Language: English
Release Date: August 12, 2015
In this volume, sixteen distinguished scholars address the impact of digital technologies on how anthropologists do fieldwork and on what they study. With nearly three billion Internet users and more than four and a half billion mobile phone owners today, and with an ever-growing array of electronic...
From Main Street to Mall
The Rise and Fall of the American Department Store
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2015
The geography of American retail has changed dramatically since the first luxurious department stores sprang up in nineteenth-century cities. Introducing light, color, and music to dry-goods emporia, these "palaces of consumption" transformed mere trade into occasions for pleasure and spectacle....
The Typological Imaginary
Circumcision, Technology, History
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2013
In this book Kathleen Biddick investigates the fate of the enduring timelines fabricated by early Christians to distinguish themselves from their Jewish neighbors. Ranging widely across the history of text, technology, and book art, she relates three interwoven stories: the Christians' translation...
Corporate Governance Failures
The Role of Institutional Investors in the Global Financial Crisis
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Corporate governance, the internal policies and leadership that guide the actions of corporations, played a major part in the recent global financial crisis. While much blame has been targeted at compensation arrangements that rewarded extreme risk-taking but did not punish failure, the performance...
Engineering the Financial Crisis
Systemic Risk and the Failure of Regulation
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2011
The financial crisis has been blamed on reckless bankers, irrational exuberance, government support of mortgages for the poor, financial deregulation, and expansionary monetary policy. Specialists in banking, however, tell a story with less emotional resonance but a better correspondence to the evidence:...