University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
by Jane K. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
A century before psychoanalytic discourse codified a scientific language to describe the landscape of the mind, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe explored the paradoxes of an interior self separate from a conscious self. Though long acknowledged by the developers of depth psychology and by its historians,...
Behind the Killing Fields
A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
In recent history, atrocities have often been committed in the name of lofty ideals. One of the most disturbing examples took place in Cambodia's Killing Fields, where tens of thousands of victims were executed and hastily disposed of by Khmer Rouge cadres. Nearly thirty years after these bloody purges,...
Fighting for the Farm
Rural America Transformed
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
In North America industrial agriculture has now virtually displaced diversified family farming. The prevailing system depends heavily on labor supplied by migrants and immigrants, and its reliance on monoculture raises environmental concerns. In this book Jane Adams and contributors—anthropologists...
Homeless
Poverty and Place in Urban America
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers...
Jeremiah's Scribes
Creating Sermon Literature in Puritan New England
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2013
New England Puritan sermon culture was primarily an oral phenomenon, and yet its literary production has been understood mainly through a print legacy. In Jeremiah's Scribes, Meredith Marie Neuman turns to the notes taken by Puritan auditors in the meetinghouse in order to fill out our sense of the...
Public Capitalism
The Political Authority of Corporate Executives
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2012
In modern capitalist societies, the executives of large, profit-seeking corporations have the power to shape the collective life of the communities, local and global, in which they operate. Corporate executives issue directives to employees, who are normally prepared to comply with them, and impose...
Haunted Visions
Spiritualism and American Art
Language: English
Release Date: May 10, 2011
Spiritualism emerged in western New York in 1848 and soon achieved a wide following due to its claim that the living could commune with the dead. In Haunted Visions: Spiritualism and American Art, Charles Colbert focuses on the ways Spiritualism imbued the making and viewing of art with religious...
Sound Business
Newspapers, Radio, and the Politics of New Media
Language: English
Release Date: May 3, 2011
American newspapers have faced competition from new media for over ninety years. Today digital media challenge the printed word. In the 1920s, broadcast radio was the threatening upstart. At the time, newspaper publishers of all sizes turned threat into opportunity by establishing their own stations....
Blazing the Neoliberal Trail
Urban Political Development in the United States and the United Kingdom
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2015
In Blazing the Neoliberal Trail, Timothy Weaver asks how and why urban policy and politics have become dominated, over the past three decades, by promarket thinking. He argues that politicians such as Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher targeted urban areas as part of their far broader effort to remake...
The Employee
A Political History
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2013
In the present age of temp work, telecommuting, and outsourcing, millions of workers in the United States find themselves excluded from the category of "employee"—a crucial distinction that would otherwise permit unionization and collective bargaining. Tracing the history of the term since...
Strange Bedfellows
Marriage in the Age of Women's Liberation
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2018
In the inaugural issue of Ms. Magazine, the feminist activist Judy Syfers proclaimed that she "would like a wife," offering a wry critique of the state of marriage in modern America. After all, she observed, a wife could provide Syfers with free childcare and housecleaning services as well...
From Civil Rights to Human Rights
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
Martin Luther King, Jr., is widely celebrated as an American civil rights hero. Yet King's nonviolent opposition to racism, militarism, and economic injustice had deeper roots and more radical implications than is commonly appreciated, Thomas F. Jackson argues in this searching reinterpretation of...
by Joshua D. Farrington
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2016
Reflecting on his fifty-year effort to steer the Grand Old Party toward black voters, Memphis power broker George W. Lee declared, "Somebody had to stay in the Republican Party and fight." As Joshua Farrington recounts in his comprehensive history, Lee was one of many black Republican leaders...
The Philanthropic Revolution
An Alternative History of American Charity
Language: English
Release Date: May 22, 2015
When we talk about voluntary giving today, we usually prefer the word philanthropy to charity. Why has this terminological shift taken place? What is its philosophical significance? How did philanthropy come to acquire so much prestige—and charity come to seem so old-fashioned? Was this change contested?...