1117 títulos para "University Of Pennsylvania Press"

Beyond the Farm

Opal, J. M.

Beyond the Farm National Ambitions in Rural New England J. M. Opal "Opal's book beautifully and uniquely captures an important moment when at least a few American men looked up from their plows toward a modern distant horizon, put them down, and walked toward it."--American Historical Review "Opal...

Between Worlds

Chajes, J. H.

Between Worlds Dybbuks, Exorcists, and Early Modern Judaism J. H. Chajes "An exciting, persuasive, and well-written study and another key addition to a subject central to early modern religions."--Jewish Quarterly Review "Chajes's excellent new book . . . succeeds in demystifying the subject of Je...

Exotic Nation

Fuchs, Barbara

Exotic Nation Maurophilia and the Construction of Early Modern Spain Barbara Fuchs "Barbara Fuchs gives us a lively and illuminating look into the many ways in which Moorishness remained a vivid presence in early modern Spanish culture. Theoretically sophisticated, but rooted in the careful examina...

Citizenship, Borders, and Human Needs

From anxiety about Muslim immigrants in Western Europe to concerns about undocumented workers and cross-border security threats in the United States, disputes over immigration have proliferated and intensified in recent years. These debates are among the most contentious facing constitutional democr...

Dangerous to Know

Branson, Susan

Dangerous to Know Women, Crime, and Notoriety in the Early Republic Susan Branson "A rich, detailed account of an illustrative set of crimes and of the fine grain of the emergence of the penny press out of sentimental culture. Branson is to be commended for her scholarly rigor and sophisticated nar...

Covert Operations

Lochrie, Karma

Covert Operations The Medieval Uses of Secrecy Karma Lochrie "Lochrie takes a significant feature of medieval culture, secrecy, and translates the issues it raises to urgent contemporary concerns while still illuminating their meaning within medieval contexts. Her writing is lucid and concise while...

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...