1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

In Light of Another's Word

Khanmohamadi, Shirin A.

Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's <i>In Light of Another's Word</i> looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly aware of their own otherness, especially when faced with the far-flung pe...

The People's Network

MacDougall, Robert

The Bell System dominated telecommunications in the United States and Canada for most of the twentieth century, but its monopoly was not inevitable. In the decades around 1900, ordinary citizens--farmers, doctors, small-town entrepreneurs--established tens of thousands of independent telephone syste...

Bound to Read

Knight, Jeffrey Todd

Concealed in rows of carefully restored volumes in rare book libraries is a history of the patterns of book collecting and compilation that shaped the literature of the English Renaissance. In this early period of print, before the introduction of commercial binding, most published literary texts di...

Locked In, Locked Out

Dinzey-Flores, Zaire Zenit

In November 1993, the largest public housing project in the Puerto Rican city of Ponce--the second largest public housing authority in the U.S. federal system--became a gated community. Once the exclusive privilege of the city's affluent residents, gates now not only locked "undesirables&qu...

Regulatory Breakdown

Coglianese, Cary

<i>Regulatory Breakdown: The Crisis of Confidence in U.S. Regulation</i> brings fresh insight and analytic rigor to what has become one of the most contested domains of American domestic politics. Critics from the left blame lax regulation for the housing meltdown and financial crisis--n...

Making New York Dominican

Krohn-Hansen, Christian

Making New York Dominican Small Business, Politics, and Everyday Life Christian Krohn-Hansen Large-scale emigration from the Dominican Republic began in the early 1960s, with most Dominicans settling in New York City. Since then the growth of the city's Dominican population has been staggering, now...

Homeless

Howard, Ella

The homeless have the legal right to exist in modern American cities, yet antihomeless ordinances deny them access to many public spaces. How did previous generations of urban dwellers deal with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents? Ella Howard answers th...

Empires of Love

Nocentelli, Carmen

Through literary and historical documents from the early sixteenth to late seventeenth centuries--epic poetry, private correspondence, secular dramas, and colonial legislation--Carmen Nocentelli charts the Western fascination with the eros of "India," as the vast coastal stretch from the G...

Inventing the Egghead

Lecklider, Aaron

Throughout the twentieth century, pop songs, magazine articles, plays, posters, and novels in the United States represented intelligence alternately as empowering or threatening. In <i>Inventing the Egghead</i>, cultural historian Aaron Lecklider offers a sharp, entertaining narrative of...

Everyday Occupations

In the twenty-first century, political conflict and militarization have come to constitute a global social condition rather than a political exception. Military occupation increasingly informs the politics of both democracies and dictatorships, capitalist and formerly socialist regimes, raising ques...

Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States

Murphy, Teresa Anne

Women's history emerged as a genre in the waning years of the eighteenth century, a period during which concepts of nationhood and a sense of belonging expanded throughout European nations and the young American republic. Early women's histories had criticized the economic practices, intelle...

Takedown

Mudd, Philip

Takedown Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda Philip Mudd "A riveting, behind-the-scenes account of the world of counterterrorism. Mudd has been at the heart of the chase for the world's most dangerous people and makes us feel we are there with him."--Tina Brown, editor-in-chief of The Daily Beast/Newsweek...