University Of Pennsylvania Press Inc : 784 books
by Elizabeth Stoddard
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2011
"Stoddard was, next to Melville and Hawthorne, the most strikingly original voice in the mid-nineteenth-century American novel, a voice . . . that ought to gain a more sympathetic and perceptive hearing in our time than in her own."—from the Introduction
The centerpiece of this...
Poetry Wars
Verse and Politics in the American Revolution and Early Republic
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2017
During America's founding period, poets and balladeers engaged in a series of literary "wars" against political leaders, journalists, and each other, all in the name of determining the political course of the new nation. Political poems and songs appeared regularly in newspapers (and as...
Philosophical Profiles
Essays in a Pragmatic Mode
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Philosophical Profiles brings together ten important essays by Richard Berstein. Each focuses on the work of a thinker or group of thinkers at the center of contemporary developments in philosophy, including Hannah Arendt, John Dewey, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Jurgen Habermas, G.W.F. Hegel, Alasdair MacIntyre, Herbert Marcuse, and Richard Rorty.
by John Kultgen
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
John Kultgen explores the ways morality and professional ideals are connected. In assessing the moral impact of professionalism in our society, he examines both the structure and organization of occupations and the ideals and ideology associated with professions.
Differing from standard treatments...
Connecting Histories
Jews and Their Others in Early Modern Europe
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2019
Whether forced by governmental decree, driven by persecution and economic distress, or seeking financial opportunity, the Jews of early modern Europe were extraordinarily mobile, experiencing both displacement and integration into new cultural, legal, and political settings. This, in turn, led to...
Greater Portland
Urban Life and Landscape in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2015
Selected by Choice magazine as an Outstanding Academic Title
It has been called one of the nation's most livable regions, ranked among the best managed cities in America, hailed as a top spot to work, and favored as a great place to do business, enjoy the arts, pursue outdoor recreation, and...
Deborah and Her Sisters
How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2017
Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages across Germany and Austria, as well as throughout Europe, the British...
Let Us Fight as Free Men
Black Soldiers and Civil Rights
Language: English
Release Date: March 7, 2014
Today, the military is one the most racially diverse institutions in the United States. But for many decades African American soldiers battled racial discrimination and segregation within its ranks. In the years after World War II, the integration of the armed forces was a touchstone in the homefront...
by Edward Peters
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2018
"Torture has ceased to exist," Victor Hugo claimed, with some justification, in 1874. Yet more than a century later, torture is used routinely in one out of every three countries. This book is about torture in Western society from earliest times to the present.
A landmark study since...
Beyond Objectivism and Relativism
Science, Hermeneutics, and Praxis
Language: English
Release Date: September 16, 2011
Drawing freely and expertly from Continental and analytic traditions, Richard Bernstein examines a number of debates and controversies exemplified in the works of Gadamer, Habermas, Rorty, and Arendt. He argues that a "new conversation" is emerging about human rationality—a new understanding...
The Swahili
Reconstructing the History and Language of an African Society, 800-1500
Language: English
Release Date: June 10, 2017
"As an introduction to how the history of an African society can be reconstructed from largely nonliterate sources, and to the Swahili in particular, . . . a model work."—International Journal of African Historical Studies
Kinesics and Context
Essays on Body Motion Communication
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2010
Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.
by
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2011
In recent years, aggrieved groups around the world have routinely portrayed themselves as victims of human rights abuses. Physically and mentally disabled people, indigenous peoples, AIDS patients, and many others have chosen to protect and promote their interests by advancing new human rights norms...
by
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: December 21, 2015
The authors cross the boundaries between anthropology, folklore, and history to cast new light on the relation between songs and stories, reality and realism, and rhythm and rhetoric in the expressive traditions of South Asia.