1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

Lucretia Mott's Heresy

Faulkner, Carol

Lucretia Coffin Mott was one of the most famous and controversial women in nineteenth-century America. Now overshadowed by abolitionists like William Lloyd Garrison and feminists such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Mott was viewed in her time as a dominant figure in the dual struggles for racial and sex...

Pigeon Trouble

Song, Hoon

<i>Pigeon Trouble</i> chronicles a foreign-born, birdphobic anthropologist's venture into the occult craft of pigeon shooting in the depths of Pennsylvania's anthracite coal country. Though initially drawn by a widely publicized antipigeon shoot protest by animal rights activists...

Through the History of the Cold War

In September 1952, John Lukacs, then a young and unknown historian, wrote George Kennan (1904-2005), the U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union, asking one of the nation's best-known diplomats what he thought of Lukacs's own views on Kennan's widely debated idea of containing rather than mi...

Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights

Burke, Roland

Decolonization and the Evolution of International Human Rights Roland Burke "An important contribution to the historicization and globalization of the human rights debates over the last six decades. . . . Burke belongs to a new generation of historians who are more critical not only of the success...

Forgotten Genocides

Unlike the Holocaust, Rwanda, Cambodia, or Armenia, scant attention has been paid to the human tragedies analyzed in this book. From German Southwest Africa (now Namibia), Burundi, and eastern Congo to Tasmania, Tibet, and Kurdistan, from the mass killings of the Roms by the Nazis to the exterminati...

Civil Rights Advocacy on Behalf of the Poor

Paden, Catherine M.

Representation of the poor has never been the top priority for civil rights organizations, which exist to eradicate racially prejudiced and discriminatory practices and policy. Scholars have argued that the activities and ideologies of civil rights groups have functioned with a distinct middle-class...

Along an African Border

Silva, Sónia

The divination baskets of south Central Africa are woven for a specific purpose. The baskets, known as <i>lipele</i>, contain sixty or so small articles, from seeds, claws, and minuscule horns to wooden carvings. Each article has its own name and symbolic meaning, and collectively they a...

Peoples of the River Valleys

Schutt, Amy C.

Peoples of the River Valleys The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians Amy C. Schutt Seventeenth-century Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around small-scale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change, and physical disposses...

Negro League Baseball

Lanctot, Neil

The story of black professional baseball provides a remarkable perspective on several major themes in modern African American history: the initial black response to segregation, the subsequent struggle to establish successful separate enterprises, and the later movement toward integration. Baseball...

Chechnya

Hughes, James

Chechnya From Nationalism to Jihad James Hughes "James Hughes has produced the most comprehensive, thoroughly documented, and up-to-date study of the Chechen conflict available. This sophisticated and subtle analysis places Chechnya in the context of broader debates about nationalism and ethnic pol...

Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights

An interdisciplinary collection, <i>Gender and Culture at the Limit of Rights</i> examines the potential and limitations of the "women's rights as human rights" framework as a strategy for seeking gender justice. Drawing on detailed case studies from the United States, Afri...

Early Carolingian Warfare

Bachrach, Bernard S.

Early Carolingian Warfare Prelude to Empire Bernard S. Bachrach Winner of the 2001 Goodzeit Book Award of the New York Military Affairs Symposium "The evidence supporting Bachrach's conclusions is every bit as overwhelming as Carolingian forces were."--American Historical Review "An excellent and...