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What is de facto about the de facto state? In Sovereignty Suspended, this question guides Rebecca Bryant and Mete Hatay through a journey into de facto state-building, or the process of constructing...

Terrence Malick is one of American cinema's most celebrated filmmakers. His films--from Badlands (1973) and Days of Heaven (1978) to The Thin Red Line (1998), The Tree of Life (2011), and, most...

The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern EnglandAuthor: Holly Crawford PickettPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Driver's Story : Labor and Power in the World of Atlantic SlaveryAuthor: Randy M. BrownePublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: May 07, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Emergence of Arabic Poetry : From Regional Identities to Islamic CanonizationAuthor: Nathaniel A. MillerPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Aug 13, 2024Number of Pages:...

The End of Peacekeeping : Gender, Race, and the Martial Politics of InterventionAuthor: Marsha Giselle HenryPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Mar 12, 2024Number of Pages:...

The Inquisition's Inquisitor : Henry Charles Lea of PhiladelphiaAuthor: Richard L. KaganPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Oct 15, 2024Number of Pages: NA pagesLanguage:...

The Maternalists is a study of the hitherto unexplored significance of utopian visions of the state as a maternal entity in mid-twentieth century Britain. Demonstrating the affinities between...

Islamist political parties and groups are on the rise throughout the Muslim world and in Muslim communities in the West. Owing largely to the threat of terrorism, political Islam is often portrayed...

How, Barbara Newman asks, did the myth of the separable heart take such a firm hold in the Middle Ages, from lovers exchanging hearts with one another to mystics exchanging hearts with Jesus? What...

José Ortega y Gasset (1883-1955) was a Spanish philosopher and essayist best known for The Revolt of the Masses, first translated into English in 1932. In it, Ortega critiques a populist deformation...

How do we learn what failure looks like? During the years anthropologist Magnus Course spent living with Indigenous Mapuche people in southern Chile, he came to understand failure--both his own and...

Who governs political parties? Recent insurgent campaigns, such as those of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders, have thrust this critical question to the center of political debate for casual observers...

Trump, White Evangelical Christians, and American Politics : Change and ContinuityAuthor: Paul Djupe, Anand SokheyPublisher: University of Pennsylvania PressPublication Date: Mar 05, 2024Number of...

In twenty-first-century American cities, policy makers increasingly celebrate university-sponsored innovation districts as engines of inclusive growth. But the story is not so simple. In University...

The 2013 collapse of Rana Plaza, an eight-story garment factory in Savar, Bangladesh, killed over a thousand workers and injured hundreds more. This disaster exposed the brutal labor conditions of...

Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of color The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept...

It is well known that Socrates was executed by the city of Athens for not believing in the gods and for corrupting the youth. Despite this, it is not widely known what he really thought, or taught...