1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940

Cheyney, Edward Potts

History of the University of Pennsylvania, 1740-1940 Edward Potts Cheyney "The distinguished professor emeritus Edward Potts Cheyney has written a history of his alma mater that commands attention. His account is . . . based on the official documents, supported by the researches of colleagues and f...

Pennsylvania Dutch Stuff

Robacker, Earl F.

It is nearly two decades since this authoritative work first appeared in an abbreviated wartime format. It was, at the time of its first publication, the first full-length book to cover in detail the collecting of Pennsylvania "Dutch" furnishings and crafts. Now it has been redesigned and enlarged,...

Proceedings of the Conference on Consumption and Saving, Volumes 1 and 2

Friend, Irwin / Jones, Robert

These two volumes represent the papers, comments, and rejoinders presented at the Conference on Consumption and Saving held 30-31 March 1959 at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce at the University of Pennsylvania. The first volume is devoted to an analysis of consumption behavior with a prim...

The Drama of Luigi Pirandello

Vittorini, Domenico

Pirandello, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, is a little known to most English readers. Too few of his plays and stories have been translated. This hook, therefore, serves the double purpose of introducing the Italian genius through a summary of all his dramatic work and interpreting his acc...

Dead Voice: Law, Philosophy, and Fiction in the Iberian Middle Ages

Velasco, Jesús R.

Sex and International Tribunals

Mibenge, Chiseche Salome

Before the twenty-first century, there was little legal precedent for the prosecution of sexual violence as a war crime. Now, international tribunals have the potential to help make sense of political violence against both men and women; they have the power to uphold victims' claims and to convi...

Empire and Others

Much has been written about the forging of a British identity in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. The process, unconfined to the British Isles, ran across the Irish Sea and Atlantic Ocean and was played out in North America and the Caribbean. The

Biography and the Black Atlantic

LINDSAY

In <i>Biography and the Black Atlantic</i>, leading historians in the field of Atlantic studies examine the biographies and autobiographies of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century African-descended people and reflect on the opportunities and limitations these life stories present to studie...

Jean de Saintré

La Sale, Antoine De

Written in 1456 and purporting to be the biography of the actual fourteenth-century knight of its title, <i>Jean de Saintré</i> has been called the first modern novel in French and one of the first historical novels in any language. Taken in hand at the age of thirteen by an older...

The Book of God

Jager, Colin

The Book of God is a penetrating study of the argument from design as it emerged and circulated in the romantic era. This argument holds that the intricacy and complexity of the natural world points to a divine designer and that nature is to be read as God's book. A literary and philosophical st...

Against Self-Reliance

Howell, William Huntting

Individualism is arguably the most vital tenet of American national identity: American cultural heroes tend to be mavericks and nonconformists, and independence is the fulcrum of the American origin story. But in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, a number of American artists, write...

Envisioning Islam

Penn, Michael Philip

The first Christians to encounter Islam were not Latin-speakers from the western Mediterranean or Greek-speakers from Constantinople but Mesopotamian Christians who spoke the Aramaic dialect of Syriac. Under Muslim rule from the seventh century onward, Syriac Christians wrote the most extensive desc...