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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...

How important black abolitionists joined famous Transcendentalists to create a political philosophy to fight slavery In Fighting for the Higher Law, Peter Wirzbicki explores how important black...

A new history of the medieval Dominican liturgy, from the perspective of women's communities In Fixing the Liturgy, Claire Taylor Jones opens a window into the daily practice of medieval liturgy,...

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:...

George R. Anthonisen: Meditations on the Human Condition is a comprehensive volume documenting the arc of Anthonisen's artistic career spanning 65 years as a figurative sculptor. Well versed in...

Hasidism, Haskalah, Zionism reveals how political and literary dialogues and conflicts between the Hebrew literature of the Hasidism, the Jewish Enlightenment, and Zionism interacted with each other...

Over the course of the long eighteenth century, a network of some fifty women writers, working in French, English, Dutch, and German, staked out a lasting position in the European literary field...

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

Links early modern English drama and empire studies, exploring how staged scenes of maritime peril created a new form of economic uncertainty Imperial Ventures links early modern English drama and...

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:...

The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd Cary Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893) was a trailblazing...

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...

An investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern media After lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary...

Explores the ever-present experiences of risk that characterized the daily existence of individuals, communities, and societies in the late Roman world Living with Risk in the Late Roman World...

How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of "pagan" as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambition In Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a...

Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post-civil war Lebanon Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as...

Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post-civil war Lebanon Based on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as...

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...

How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyond Immigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In...

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:...

During the country's dictatorship from 1973 to 1985, Uruguayans suffered under crushing repression, which included the highest rate of political incarceration in the world. In Of Light and Struggle,...

A critique of the discourse of language revival in modern Hebrew literature On Revival is a critique of one of the most important tenets of Zionist thinking: "Hebrew revival," or the idea that...