1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

Ways of Writing

Hall, David D.

Writers abounded in seventeenth-century New England. From the moment of colonization and constantly thereafter, hundreds of people set pen to paper in the course of their lives, some to write letters that others recopied, some to compose sermons as part of their life work as ministers, dozens to att...

Protestant Empire

Pestana, Carla Gardina

The imperial expansion of Europe across the globe was one of the most significant events to shape the modern world. Among the many effects of this cataclysmic movement of people and institutions was the intermixture of cultures in the colonies that Europeans created. <i>Protestant Empire</i...

Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South

Miller, Steven P.

While spreading the gospel around the world through his signature crusades, internationally renowned evangelist Billy Graham maintained a visible and controversial presence in his native South, a region that underwent substantial political and economic change in the latter half of the twentieth cent...

"The Bagnios of Algiers" and "The Great Sultana"

Cervantes, Miguel de

Best known today as the author of <i>Don Quixote</i>--one of the most beloved and widely read novels in the Western tradition--Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1547-1616) was a poet and a playwright as well. After some early successes on the Madrid stage in the 1580s, his theatrical career...

Not All Wives

Wulf, Karin

Marital status was a fundamental legal and cultural feature of women's identity in the eighteenth century. Free women who were not married could own property and make wills, contracts, and court appearances, rights that the law of coverture prevented their married sisters from enjoying. Karin Wulf e...

Animals for Show and Pleasure in Ancient Rome

Jennison, George

Deadly combat between gladiators is perhaps the best-known example of public entertainment offered in the Roman world. Wild and domesticated animals were also a part of these extravagant shows, and the elaborate presentation--or sometimes butchery--of creatures to gild an official's magnificence was...

Reparations to Africa

Howard-Hassmann, Rhoda E.

What is the just measure of Western obligations to Africa? As Africans and their supporters mark the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United States and Great Britain, the question becomes increasingly salient. Calls for reparations for the evils of slavery, as well as for...

Black Conservative Intellectuals in Modern America

Ondaatje, Michael L.

In the last three decades, a brand of black conservatism espoused by a controversial group of African American intellectuals has become a fixture in the nation's political landscape, its proponents having shaped policy debates over some of the most pressing matters that confront contemporary Ame...

Liang and Lin

Fairbank, Wilma

Wilma Fairbank documents, from both a historical and a uniquely personal perspective, the professional and personal achievements of Lin Whei-yin and Liang Sicheng. Liang and Lin were born in early twentieth-century China, a time when the influences of modernism were slowly bearing down on the tradit...

Public Housing That Worked

Bloom, Nicholas Dagen

Public Housing That Worked New York in the Twentieth Century Nicholas Dagen Bloom "Highly recommended."--Choice "While high-rise public housing in the United States is widely regarded as a disaster, the experiment in New York City has thrived for more than seventy years. Nicholas Bloom's well-writ...

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker

Drinker, Elizabeth Sandwith

The Diary of Elizabeth Drinker The Life Cycle of an Eighteenth-Century Woman Abridged Edition Edited by Elaine Forman Crane "[Drinker's] diary, which spans the years 1758 to 1807, is the most substantial woman's diary that survives from eighteenth-century America; and it ranks with the diaries of S...

New World Orders : Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas

Smolenski, John/Humphrey, Thomas J.