University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
Homo Cinematicus
Science, Motion Pictures, and the Making of Modern Germany
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2017
In the early decades of the twentieth century, two intertwined changes began to shape the direction of German society. The baptism of the German film industry took place amid post-World War I conditions of political and social breakdown, and the cultural vacuum left by collapsing institutions was...
"The Farce of the Fart" and Other Ribaldries
Twelve Medieval French Plays in Modern English
Language: English
Release Date: May 31, 2011
Was there more to medieval and Renaissance comedy than Chaucer and Shakespeare? Bien sûr. For a real taste of saucy early European humor, one must cross the Channel to France. There, in the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, the sophisticated met the scatological in popular performances presented...
by Rene Lemarchand
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2011
Endowed with natural resources, majestic bodies of fresh water, and a relatively mild climate, the Great Lakes region of Central Africa has also been the site of some of the world's bloodiest atrocities. In Rwanda, Burundi, and the Congo-Kinshasa, decades of colonial subjugation—most infamously...
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn
Visions of Youth in Middle-Class America, 1780-1850
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2013
Seduced, Abandoned, and Reborn exposes the fears expressed by elders about young people in the early American republic. Those authors, educators, and moral reformers who aspired to guide youth into respectable stations perceived new dangers in the decades following independence. Battling a range of...
From Eden to Eternity
Creations of Paradise in the Later Middle Ages
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Did Adam and Eve need to eat in Eden in order to live? If so, did human beings urinate and defecate in paradise? And since people had no need for clothing, transportation, or food, what purpose did animals serve? Would carnivorous animals have preyed on other creatures? These were but a few of the...
Colonial Complexions
Race and Bodies in Eighteenth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2018
In Colonial Complexions, historian Sharon Block examines how Anglo-Americans built racial ideologies out of descriptions of physical appearance. By analyzing more than 4,000 advertisements for fugitive servants and slaves in colonial newspapers alongside scores of transatlantic sources, she reveals...
Roots of the Arab Spring
Contested Authority and Political Change in the Middle East
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2013
In December 2010, the self-immolation of a Tunisian vegetable vendor set off a wave of protests that have been termed the "Arab Spring." These protests upended the governments of Tunisia, Egypt, Libya, and Yemen while unsettling numerous other regimes throughout the Middle East and North...
Pivotal Tuesdays
Four Elections That Shaped the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2015
Serious and silly, unifying and polarizing, presidential elections have become events that Americans love and hate. Today's elections cost billions of dollars and consume the nation's attention for months, filling television airwaves and online media with endless advertising and political punditry,...
The New World Power
American Foreign Policy, 1898-1917
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2013
From the era of the Spanish American war onward, the United States found itself increasingly involved in the affairs of countries beyond North America. The New World Power offers an interpretive framework for understanding U.S. foreign policy during the first two decades of America's emergence as...
by Christine Chism
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2013
Alliterative Revivals is the first full-length study of the sophisticated historical consciousness of late medieval alliterative romance. Drawing from historicism, feminism, performance studies, and postcolonial theory, Christine Chism argues that these poems animate British history by reviving and...
The Al Qaeda Factor
Plots Against the West
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2011
The horrific and devastating events of September 11, 2001 changed the world's perception of Al Qaeda. What had been considered a small band of revolutionary terrorists capable only of attacking Western targets in the Middle East and Africa suddenly demonstrated an ability to strike globally with enormous...
by Jeremy M. Schott
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In Christianity, Empire, and the Making of Religion in Late Antiquity, Jeremy M. Schott examines the ways in which conflicts between Christian and pagan intellectuals over religious, ethnic, and cultural identity contributed to the transformation of Roman imperial rhetoric and ideology in the early...
Jesus, Mary, and Joseph
Family Trouble in the Infancy Gospels
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
When Jesus was five he killed a boy, or so reports the Infancy Gospel of Thomas. A little boy had run into Jesus by accident, bumping him on the shoulder, and Jesus took offense: "Jesus was angry and said to him, 'You shall go no further on your way,' and instantly the boy fell down and died."...
Christian Society and the Crusades, 1198-1229
Sources in Translation, including "The Capture of Damietta" by Oliver of Paderborn
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2011
During the thirteenth century, the widespread conviction that the Christian lands in Syria and Palestine were of utmost importance to Christendom, and that their loss was a sure sign of God's displeasure with Christian society, pervaded nearly all levels of thought. Yet this same society faced other...