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Making the Chicago Waterfront
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In the nineteenth century, politicians transformed a disease-infested bog on the southwestern shore of Lake Michigan into an intensively managed waterscape supporting the life and economy of Chicago, now America's third-most populous city. In Liquid Capital, Joshua A. T. Salzmann …
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American Business and the Winning of World War II
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
During World War II, the United States helped vanquish the Axis powers by converting its enormous economic capacities into military might. Producing nearly two-thirds of all the munitions used by Allied forces, American industry became what President Franklin D. Roosevelt …
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Confronting God in Rabbinic Judaism
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Judaism is often described as a religion that tolerates, even celebrates arguments with God. Unlike Christianity and Islam, it is said, Judaism endorses a tradition of protest as first expressed in the biblical stories of Abraham, Job, and Jeremiah. In …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Donald Trump, Silvio Berlusconi, Marine Le Pen, Hugo Chavezpopulists are on the rise across the globe. But what exactly is populism? Should everyone who criticizes Wall Street or Washington be called a populist? What precisely is the difference between right-wing …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In this provocative book, renowned public intellectual Ivan Krastev reflects on the future of the European Unionand its potential lack of a future. With far-right nationalist parties on the rise across the continent and the United Kingdom planning for Brexit, …
View book details for Building Militaries in Fragile States
Challenges for the United States
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Combining rigorous academic scholarship with the experience of a senior Pentagon policymaker, Mara E. Karlin explores the key national security issue of our time: how to effectively build partner militaries. Given the complex and complicated global security environment, declining U.S. …
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How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and a Host of Celebrated Actresses Put Judaism on the World Stage
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
Before Fiddler on the Roof, before The Jazz Singer, there was Deborah, a tear-jerking melodrama about a Jewish woman forsaken by her non-Jewish lover. Within a few years of its 1849 debut in Hamburg, the play was seen on stages …
View book details for The Penn Commentary on Piers Plowman, Volume 2
C Passus 5-9; B Passus 5-7; A Passus 5-8
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The first full commentary on Piers Plowman since the late nineteenth century, the Penn Commentary places the allegorical dream-vision of Piers Plowman within the literary, historical, social, and intellectual contexts of late medieval England, and within the long history of …
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The Transformation of Queenship in the Post-Roman World
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In this book, Massimiliano Vitiello situates the life and career of the Ostrogothic queen Amalasuintha (c. 494/5-535), daughter of Theoderic the Great, in the context of the transitional time, after the fall of Rome, during which new dynastic regimes were …
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International Relations and the Performing Arts in Early Modern France
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
The seventeenth-century French diplomat Francois de Callieres once wrote that "an ambassador resembles in some way an actor exposed on the stage to the eyes of the public in order to play great roles." The comparison of the diplomat to …
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
When the Thai state violently suppressed a massive prodemocracy protest in "Black May," 1992, it initiated an unprecedented period in Thailand. The military, shamed and chagrined, withdrew from political life, and the democracy movement had more latitude than ever before …
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The Shifting Supreme Court
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
After a restrained 2017 term in which the Supreme Court muddled through most of its work with just eight justices, the court roared back to life with a momentous term in 2018. With Donald Trump's first appointment to the bench, …
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Latin America and the U.S. Slave Debate
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In the thirty-five years before the Civil War, it became increasingly difficult for Americans outside the world of politics to have frank and open discussions about the institution of slavery, as divisive sectionalism and heated ideological rhetoric circumscribed public debate. …
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Print Culture and the Making of Dutch Brazil
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
In 1624 the Dutch West India Company established the colony of Brazil. Only thirty years later, the Dutch Republic handed over the colony to Portugal, never to return to the South Atlantic. Because Dutch Brazil was the first sustained Protestant …
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Civil War Prisons in American Memory
LSU Press
During the Civil War, approximately 56,000 Union and Confederate soldiers died in enemy military prison camps. Even in the midst of the war's shocking violence, the intensity of the prisoners' suffering and the brutal manner of their deaths provoked outrage, …
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The Nineteenth-Century South in Comparative Perspective
LSU Press
One reason that the South attracts so much interest is that its history inevitably involves big questionscontinuity versus change, slavery and freedom, the meaning of race, the formation of national identity, the struggle between local and centralized authority. Because these …
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An American Soldier in Occupied Germany, 1945--1946
LSU Press
In his highly acclaimed Not in Vain, Leon C. Standifer recounted his experiences as a small-town Mississippi boy who at age nineteen found himself fighting as a combat infantryman in World War II France and Germany. Binding Up the Wounds …
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Civil Rights and the National Black Political Convention of 1972
LSU Press
For three days in 1972 in Gary, Indiana, eight thousand American civil rights activists and Black Power leaders gathered at the National Black Political Convention, hoping to end a years-long feud that divided black America into two distinct camps: integrationists …
LSU Press
Though African Americans have served as foreign reporters for almost two centuries, their work remains virtually unstudied. In this seminal volume, Jinx Coleman Broussard traces the history of black participation in international newsgathering. Beginning in the mid-1800s with Frederick Douglass …
View book details for Gateway to the Confederacy
New Perspectives on the Chickamauga and Chattanooga Campaigns, 18621863
LSU Press
A collection of ten new essays from some of our finest Civil War historians working today, Gateway to the Confederacy offers a reexamination of the campaigns fought to gain possession of Chattanooga, Tennessee. Each essay addresses how Americans have misconstrued …
LSU Press
The insightful and provocative stories in Tom Paine's collection spring from a series of seismic events that rocked the post-millennium world. News headlines from the last decade -- the fall of Baghdad, the Occupy Wall Street movement, and the BP …
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African American Slaves and Christianity, 1830-1870
LSU Press
During the Civil War, traditional history tells us, Afro-Christianity proved a strong force for slaves' perseverance and hope of deliverance. In Slavery, Civil War, and Salvation, however, Daniel Fountain raises the possibility that Afro-Christianity played a less significant role within …
LSU Press
Encompassing numerous territories across four different continents, Portugal's early modern empire depended upon a vast and complex bureaucracy, yet colonial power did not reside solely in the centralized state. In a masterful reconceptualization of the functioning of empire, Erik Lars …
View book details for The Animal Girl
Two Novellas and Three Stories
LSU Press
The five heartbreaking and radiant stories in John Fulton's The Animal Girl explore the awkwardness of situations in which grief and erotic love collide. Here are people in extremis, struggling mightily, and often failing, to keep it together. In the …
View book details for Simulation physikalischer Systeme
Computational Physics mit MATLAB
De Gruyter
Anregungen zum eigenen Simulieren, Modellieren und Programmieren. Mit Beispielprogrammen auf der Internetseite dieses Buches. Mit einer kurzen Einfuhrung zu MATLAB und der Symbolic Math-Toolbox. Fur Lehrende und Lernende der Physik und alle, die Beruhrungspunkte mit Berechnungsverfahren, Modellierungen oder Simulationen in …
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