What is folk culture? What distinguishes true folk creations from the cultural hybrids of commerce and popular innovation? To clarify this muddled situation and to...
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, America's oldest museum and school of fine arts, was founded in Philadelphia in 1805. Today the Academy boasts...
A text that quantifies and provides new or improved actuarial notation for long recognized pension cost concepts and procedures and, in certain areas, develops new...
Seventeenthcentury Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around smallscale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change,...
Seventeenthcentury Indians from the Delaware and lower Hudson valleys organized their lives around smallscale groupings of kin and communities. Living through epidemics, warfare, economic change,...
A compelling study of views about population and demographic mobility in the British long eighteenth centuryIn John Milton's Paradise Lost of 1667, Adam and Eve...
Russian American Artist Peter Blume Was One Of The Earliest Practitioners Of Surrealist Painting In The United States, And His Elaborately Detailed And Dreamlike Compositions...
Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures...
Philosophy of Existence was first presented to the public as a series of lectures invited by The German Academy of Frankfurt. In preparing these lectures...
In a series of articles published in Tait's Magazine in 1834, Thomas DeQuincey catalogued four potential instances of plagiarism in the work of his friend...
In 1484, humanist philosopher and theologian Marsilio Ficino published the first complete Latin translation of Plato's extant works. Students of Plato now had access to...
In The South Transept Of Westminster Abbey In London, The Bodies Of More Than Seventy Men And Women, Primarily Writers, Poets, And Playwrights, Are Interred,...
The world seems to have reached agreement on a set of ideals regarding state human rights behavior and the appropriate institutions to promote and protect...
In 1982, California voters passed Proposition 8, promoted by supporters as the Victims' Bill of Rights, on the initiative ballot. In Politics and Plea Bargaining,...
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Inflation is an economic phenomenon that has profound implications for lawyers and jurists, because the great bulk of our laws and legal doctrines have been...
In the popular imagination, the Middle Ages are often associated with lawlessness. As historians have long recognized, however, medieval culture was characterized by an enormous...
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...
The survival of Germanic law codes affords us invaluable insight into prefeudal society. The inviolability of custom and the spontaneity of punishment so characteristic of...
In The Postseptember 11 World, Al Qaeda Is No Longer The Central Organizing Force That Aids Or Authorizes Terrorist Attacks Or Recruits Terrorists. It Is...
Taking Edgar Allan Poe's 1841 'The Murders in the Rue Morgue' as an inaugural frame, Andrea Goulet traces shifting representations of violence, space, and nation...
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...
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...
Hawaiian legends figure greatly in the image of tropical paradise that has come to represent Hawai'i in popular imagination. But what are we buying into...
In this comprehensive volume, leading experts on health policy consider a broad range of Medicarerelated issues. They assess the effects of Medicare policy over the...
Anthony Benezet (171384), universally recognized by the leaders of the eighteenthcentury antislavery movement as its founder, was born to a Huguenot family in SaintQuentin, France....