An ethnography of “silver backpackers” that offers a feminist perspective on what makes a good retirement in contemporary societiesThe moniker “silver backpackers” refers to Japanese couples...
Governing Philadelphia in the Early Twenty-First Century
Stephen J. McGovern
Price: $65.00
ISBN: 9781512826784
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
456 Pages
How grassroots activism transforms contemporary urban politics in Philadelphia and beyondImmigration, gentrification, and the rise of an innovation-based economy are altering American cities. In Mobilization...
Ofer Ashkenazi, Sarah Wobick-Segev, Rebekka Grossmann and Shira Miron
Price: $60.00
ISBN: 9781512826357
Pub Date: January 2025
Format: Hardcover
368 Pages
How German Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the face of National SocialismStill Lives is a systematic study of the ways Jews used photographs to document their experiences in the...
Examines the politics of expertise in the practices of peacemaking in post–civil war LebanonBased on multi-sited ethnographic research centering on Beirut, but tracing international peace work as...
Explores the legacies of slavery in Southern cities along the Gulf and Atlantic coastsCities are fraught sites in the national imagination, turned into identity markers when “urban” and “rural”...
Theatrical Practice and Comparative Religion in Early Modern England
John Kuhn
Price: $55.00
ISBN: 9781512825091
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
232 Pages
How early modern theatrical practice helped construct the category of “pagan” as a tool of European self-definition and colonial ambitionIn Making Pagans, John Kuhn argues that drama played a powerful...
Empires of Indigenous Law in the Early American South
Bradley J. Dixon
Price: $45.00
ISBN: 9781512826425
Pub Date: December 2024
Format: Hardcover
320 Pages
A sweeping history of the Native Southerners who wrote their principles into Spanish and English lawA sweeping history of the Native Southerners who challenged European empires from the inside, Republic...
Edited by Kathleen Hall Jamieson, William Kearney and Anne-Marie Mazza
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781512827484
Pub Date: November 2024
Format: Paperback
280 Pages
Recommendations from the scientific community to ensure that the development and use of AI honors scientific normsIn late 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, an AI chatbot capable of generating conversational...
The life and times of extraordinary Philadelphia art collector Albert C. BarnesPhiladelphia art collector Albert C. Barnes (1872–1951) is renowned today for collecting many of the world’s most important...
The first collection of essays published on trailblazing nineteenth-century Black feminist, activist, journal, and educator, Mary Ann Shadd CaryMary Ann Shadd Cary (1823–1893) was a trailblazing Black...
