This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
The presidential elections of 2000 and 2004 were two of the most contested and dramatic in our nation's history. During the election seasons of 2000 and 2004, the Annenberg Public Policy Center conducted the largest studies ever undertaken of the American electorate-the National Annenberg Election Survey (NAES). Capturing Campaign Dynamics, 2000 ......
One of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean Captives of Conquest is one of the first books to examine the earliest indigenous slave trade in the Spanish Caribbean. Erin Woodruff Stone shows that the indigenous population of the region did not simply collapse from disease or warfare. Rather, ......
Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coasts Cities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when "urban" and "rural" indicate tastes rather than places. Cities bring chaos, draining the lifeblood of the nation like a tick draws blood from its host, to paraphrase Thomas ......
A case study of the introduction of mass production of machinery into the grain and cattle economy of Argentina. Torcuato di Tella was an Italian immigrant; his entrepreneurial enterprise was S.I.A.M. (Sociedad Industrial Americana de Maquinarias).
Capitalism and the Senses is the first edited volume to explore how the forces of capitalism are entangled with everyday sensory experience. If the senses have a history, as Karl Marx wrote, then that history is inseparable from the development of capitalism, which has both taken advantage of the senses and influenced how sensory experience has ......
A Mediaeval Verse Treatise on Greek and Hebrew Words
This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1,100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship ......
Transformations of thought among British foreign policy makers since World War II have motivated this new study. For the first time in its history, during the postwar decade, Britain began to abandon its world-power outlook and to turn toward a European consensus, substituting regional interests for its global perspective. The author asks: How ......
Gender, Property, and Power in Medieval German Women's Epic
Jerold C. Frakes approaches the Nibelungenlied, the Klage, and the Kudrun, epic poems central to the Middle High German tradition, through a set of literary, economic, and sociological interpretations, informed by a broad range of contemporary feminist scholarship.
