In 1897 the promising young sociologist William Edward Burghardt Du Bois (1868–1963) was given a temporary post as Assistant in Sociology at the University of Pennsylvania in order to conduct a...
Poetry, Genre, and Practice in Later Medieval England
Ingrid Nelson
Price: $24.95
ISBN: 9781512824803
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
224 Pages
What shall we make of medieval English lyrics? They have no fixed line or meter, no consistent point of view, and their content may seem misaligned with the other texts in manuscripts in which they...
Challenging the traditional conception of medieval Europe as insular and even xenophobic, Shirin A. Khanmohamadi's In Light of Another's Word looks to early ethnographic writers who were surprisingly...
Carol Loeb Shloss creates a compelling portrait of a complex relationship of a daughter and her literary-giant father: Ezra Pound and Mary de Rachewiltz, Pound’s child by his long-time mistress,...
Black Politics and Print Culture in the Early United States
Derrick R. Spires
Price: $29.95
ISBN: 9781512824469
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
352 Pages
In the years between the American Revolution and the U.S. Civil War, as legal and cultural understandings of citizenship became more racially restrictive, black writers articulated an expansive,...
Ritual Objects and Silent Subjects in Late Antiquity
Georgia Frank
Price: $59.95
ISBN: 9781512823950
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Hardcover
208 Pages
What can we know about the everyday experiences of Christians during the fourth, fifth, and sixth centuries? How did non-elite men and women, enslaved, freed, and free persons, who did not renounce...
U.S. Power, Humanitarianism, and the World's Dispossessed
Stephen R. Porter
Price: $27.50
ISBN: 9781512824759
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
296 Pages
Stephen Porter's Benevolent Empire examines political-refugee aid initiatives and related humanitarian endeavors led by American people and institutions from World War I through the Cold War,...
Before 1882, the U.S. federal government had never formally deported anyone, but that year an act of Congress made Chinese workers the first group of immigrants eligible for deportation. Over the...
Jewish Blues presents a broad cultural, social, and intellectual history of the color blue in Jewish life between the sixteenth and twenty-first centuries. Bridging diverse domains such as...
Edited by Lynn Marsden-Atlass and André Dombrowski
Price: $34.95
ISBN: 9781734733846
Pub Date: February 2023
Format: Paperback
130 Pages
In 2016, a landscape painting of the source of the Lison river in France was discovered at the University of Pennsylvania and was immediately suspected of being the work of Gustave Courbet. A lengthy...
