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A Home Away from Home examines the significance of Caribbean American mutual aid societies and benevolent associations to the immigrant experience, particularly their implications for the formation...

Rebecca Lemon illuminates a previously-buried conception of addiction, as a form of devotion at once laudable, difficult, and extraordinary, that has been concealed by the persistent modern link of...

In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Union?and its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise...

AMERICAN CONTACT : Objects of Intercultural Encounters and the BoundariesAuthor: NAPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Aug 06, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Belonging : An Intimate History of Slavery and Family in Early New EnglandAuthor: NAPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

When do domestic courts protect the human rights enshrined in international law? This book explains how the highest courts in three young democracies-Colombia, Mexico, and South Africa-used...

Angel, a Black tenth-grader at a New York City public school, self-identifies as a nerd and likes to learn. But she's troubled that her history classes leave out events like the genocide and...

In Equality and the City, Enrique Pe?losa Londo? draws on his experience as mayor of Bogot? Colombia, as well as his many years of international work as a lecturer and consultant, to share his...

For Oren Yiftachel, the notion of ethnocracy suggests a political regime that facilitates expansion and control by a dominant ethnicity in contested lands. It is neither democratic nor authoritarian,...

Donald Trump shocked the nation in 2016 by winning the presidency through an ultraconservative, anti-immigrant platform, but, despite the electoral surprise, Trump's far-right views were not an...

In Free Speech on Campus, political philosopher Sigal Ben-Porath offers a useful framework for thinking about free-speech controversies surrounding trigger warnings, safe spaces, and speech that...

Freedom's Currency : Slavery, Capitalism, and Self-Purchase in the United StatesAuthor: Julia Wallace BernierPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number of Pages:...

Histories of the Future : On Shakespeare and Thinking AheadAuthor: Carla MazzioPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Oct 22, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

In Plain Sight : Muslims of the Latin Kingdom of JerusalemAuthor: Ann E. ZimoPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

International Conflict Feminism : Theory, Practice, ChallengesAuthor: Vasuki NesiahPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Oct 08, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

International scholars offer ethnographic analyses of the relations between transnationalism, law, and culture The recent surge of right-wing populism in Europe and the United States is widely...

As the 2000 decision by the Supreme Court to effectively deliver the presidency to George W. Bush recedes in time, its real meaning comes into focus. If the initial critique of the Court was that it...

León and Galicia Under Queen Sancha and King Fernando IAuthor: Bernard F. Reilly, Simon R. DoubledayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Jul 23, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Intro -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Prologue. The Best Job in Politics -- Part One -- 1. Where'd You Go to High School? -- 2. How Chemistry 101...

An examination of the Farm Security Administration's migrant camp system and the people it served Today's concern for the quality of the produce on our plates has done little to guarantee U.S...

Never Broken: Visualizing Lenape Histories considers the power of art to construct and dismantle inaccurate Indigenous histories. The publication features contemporary art by Ahchipaptunhe (Delaware...

Occupied Words : What the Holocaust Did to YiddishAuthor: Hannah Pollin-GalayPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 03, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Why have Israelis and Palestinians failed to achieve a two-state solution to the conflict that has cost so much and lasted so long? In Paradigm Lost, Ian S. Lustick brings fifty years as an analyst...

Poisoned Relations : Healing, Power, and Contested Knowledge in the Atlantic WorldAuthor: Chelsea BerryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 17, 2024Number of Pages: NA...

Prehistories of the War on Terror : A Critical GenealogyAuthor: A J Yumi Lee, Karen R MillerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 24, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

Expert analysis of American governance challenges and recommendations for reform Two big ideas serve as the catalyst for the essays collected in this book. The first is the state of governance in the...

In Religion in the Public Square, James M. Patterson considers religious leaders who popularized theology through media campaigns designed to persuade the public. Ven. Fulton J. Sheen, Dr. Martin...

Rhetoric, Poetics, and Literary Historiography : The Formation of a Discipline at the Turn of the Nineteenth CenturyAuthor: Stefan H. UhligPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date:...

Sacred Places Tell Tales is the previously untold history of Egyptian Jewry and the ways in which Cairo's synagogues historically functioned as active institutions in the social lives of these Jews...

She Changed the Nation : Barbara Jordan's Life and Legacy in Black PoliticsAuthor: Mary Ellen CurtinPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Sep 10, 2024Number of Pages: NA...