University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Rebuilding Urban Places After Disaster
Lessons from Hurricane Katrina
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2013
Disasters—natural ones, such as hurricanes, floods, or earthquakes, and unnatural ones such as terrorist attacks—are part of the American experience in the twenty-first century. The challenges of preparing for these events, withstanding their impact, and rebuilding communities afterward require...
An Unsettled Conquest
The British Campaign Against the Peoples of Acadia
Language: English
Release Date: May 11, 2018
The former French colony of Acadia—permanently renamed Nova Scotia by the British when they began an ambitious occupation of the territory in 1710—witnessed one of the bitterest struggles in the British empire. Whereas in its other North American colonies Britain assumed it could garner the sympathies...
by Ronald Bruce St John
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Diplomatic relations between the United States and Libya have rarely followed a smooth path. Washington has repeatedly tried and failed to mediate lasting solutions, to prevent recurrent crises, and to secure its own national interests in a region of increasing importance to the United States. Libya...
Bibliography and the Book Trades
Studies in the Print Culture of Early New England
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Hugh Amory (1930-2001) was at once the most rigorous and the most methodologically sophisticated historian of the book in early America. Gathered here are his essays, articles, and lectures on the subject, two of them printed for the first time. An introduction by David D. Hall sets this work in context...
by Mohan Ambikaipaker
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2018
One evening in 1980, a group of white friends, drinking at the Duke of Edinburgh pub on East Ham High Street, made a monstrous five-pound wager. The first person to kill a "Paki" would win the bet. Ali Akhtar Baig, a young Pakistani student who lived in the east London borough of Newham,...
by Catherine M. Paden
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2011
Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class...
Undercurrents of Power
Aquatic Culture in the African Diaspora
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Long before the rise of New World slavery, West Africans were adept swimmers, divers, canoe makers, and canoeists. They lived along riverbanks, near lakes, or close to the ocean. In those waterways, they became proficient in diverse maritime skills, while incorporating water and aquatics into spiritual...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Medical systems function in specific cultural contexts. It is common to speak of the medicine of China, Japan, India, and other nation-states. Yet almost all formalized medical systems claim universal applicability and, thus, are ready to cross the cultural boundaries that contain them. There is a...
From Paris to Pompeii
French Romanticism and the Cultural Politics of Archaeology
Language: English
Release Date: September 4, 2013
In the early nineteenth century, as amateur archaeologists excavated Pompeii, Egypt, Assyria, and the first prehistoric sites, a myth arose of archaeology as a magical science capable of unearthing and reconstructing worlds thought to be irretrievably lost. This timely myth provided an urgent antidote...
Compassion's Edge
Fellow-Feeling and Its Limits in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
Compassion's Edge examines the language of fellow-feeling—pity, compassion, and charitable care—that flourished in France in the period from the Edict of Nantes in 1598, which established some degree of religious toleration, to the official breakdown of that toleration with the Revocation of the...
The Killers
A Narrative of Real Life in Philadelphia
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
PHILADELPHIA, the 1840s: a corrupt banker disowns his dissolute son, who then reappears as a hardened smuggler in the contraband slave trade. Another son, hidden from his father since birth and condemned as a former felon, falls in with a ferocious street gang led by his elder brother and his revenge-hungry...
Poetics of the Incarnation
Middle English Writing and the Leap of Love
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2013
The Gospel of John describes the Incarnation of Christ as "the Word made flesh"—an intriguing phrase that uses the logic of metaphor but is not traditionally understood as merely symbolic. Thus the conceptual puzzle of the Incarnation also draws attention to language and form: what is...
Unraveling Somalia
Race, Class, and the Legacy of Slavery
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2014
In 1991 the Somali state collapsed. Once heralded as the only true nation-state in Africa, the Somalia of the 1990s suffered brutal internecine warfare. At the same time a politically created famine caused the deaths of a half a million people and the flight of a million refugees.
During the...
The Heart of the Mission
Latino Art and Politics in San Francisco
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2017
In The Heart of the Mission, Cary Cordova combines urban, political, and art history to examine how the Mission District, a longtime bohemian enclave in San Francisco, has served as an important place for an influential and largely ignored Latino arts movement from the 1960s to the present. Well before...