University Of Pennsylvania Press imprint: 776 books
A Nation Dedicated to Religious Liberty
The Constitutional Heritage of the Religion Clauses
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2015
Here is a concise overview of the historical development and judicial interpretation of the First Amendment religion clauses. It begins with a survey of the history of American religious liberty, goes on to present the views of the Founding Fathers, and then considers the core value of religious liberty...
The Metropolitan Airport
JFK International and Modern New York
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2015
John F. Kennedy International Airport is one of New York City's most successful and influential redevelopment projects. Built and defined by outsize personalities—Mayor Fiorello La Guardia, famed urban planner Robert Moses, and Port Authority Executive Director Austin Tobin among them—JFK was...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2017
In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in...
Who Speaks for Nature?
On the Politics of Science
Language: English
Release Date: October 26, 2017
When natural scientists speak up in public about the material phenomena they have observed, measured, and analyzed in the lab or the field, they embody a distinctive version of political authority. Where does science derive its remarkably resilient, though often contested, capacity to give voice to...
The Writing on the Wall
How Asian Orthography Curbs Creativity
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2013
Students in Japan, China, and Korea are among the world's top performers on standardized math and science tests. The nations of East Asia are also leading manufacturers of consumer goods that incorporate scientific breakthroughs in telecommunications, optics, and transportation. Yet there is a startling...
Looting and Rape in Wartime
Law and Change in International Relations
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2013
Women were historically treated in wartime as property. Yet in the Hague Conventions of 1899 and 1907, prohibitions against pillaging property did not extend to the female body. There is a gap of nearly a hundred years between those early prohibitions of pillage and the prohibition of rape finally...
Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom
The School of Nisibis and the Development of Scholastic Culture in Late Antique Mesopotamia
Language: English
Release Date: November 14, 2013
The School of Nisibis was the main intellectual center of the Church of the East in the sixth and early seventh centuries C.E. and an institution of learning unprecedented in antiquity. Fear of God and the Beginning of Wisdom provides a history both of the School and of the scholastic culture of the...
War Is Coming
Between Past and Future Violence in Lebanon
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2017
From 1975 to 1990, Lebanon experienced a long war involving various national and international actors. The peace agreement that followed and officially propelled the country into a "postwar" era did not address many of the root causes of war, nor did it hold main actors accountable. Instead,...
Misogyny
The Male Malady
Language: English
Release Date: August 3, 2010
"Yes, women are the greatest evil Zeus has made, and men are bound to them hand and foot with impossible knots by God."—Semonides, seventh century B.C.
Men put women on a pedestal to worship them from afar—and to take better aim at them for the purpose of derision. Why is this...
The Persistence of Allegory
Drama and Neoclassicism from Shakespeare to Wagner
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2013
In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater,...
People Must Live by Work
Direct Job Creation in America, from FDR to Reagan
Language: English
Release Date: July 19, 2018
In People Must Live by Work, Steven Attewell presents the history of an idea—direct job creation—that transformed the role of government in ameliorating unemployment by hiring the unemployed en masse to prevent widespread destitution in economic crises. For ten years, between 1933 and 1943, direct...
Black Gods of the Metropolis
Negro Religious Cults of the Urban North
Language: English
Release Date: March 26, 2014
Stemming from his anthropological field work among black religious groups in Philadelphia in the early 1940s, Arthur Huff Fauset believed it was possible to determine the likely direction that mainstream black religious leadership would take in the future, a direction that later indeed manifested...
The Language of Fruit
Literature and Horticulture in the Long Eighteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: January 25, 2019
In The Language of Fruit, Liz Bellamy explores how poets, playwrights, and novelists from the Restoration to the Romantic era represented fruit and fruit trees in a period that saw significant changes in cultivation techniques, the expansion of the range of available fruit varieties, and the transformation...
"Hamlet" After Q1
An Uncanny History of the Shakespearean Text
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2014
In 1823, Sir Henry Bunbury discovered a badly bound volume of twelve Shakespeare plays in a closet of his manor house. Nearly all of the plays were first editions, but one stood out as extraordinary: a previously unknown text of Hamlet that predated all other versions. Suddenly, the world had to grapple...