Books published by University of Pennsylvania Press

Using case studies from ornithology, botany, antiquities, theology, and geology, A Democracy of Facts tells the fascinating story of naturalists coming of age and creating a profession in the early American republic.

Rescuing the Seven Years' War era from the shadows of the American Revolution and moving away from the political focus that dominates Iroquois studies, this work offers something substantially new by exploring Iroquois experience in largely economic and cultural terms.

Chanticleer, located in Wayne, Pennsylvania, is a garden landscape of constant renewal. In Chanticleer: A Pleasure Garden, Adrian Higgins and photographer Rob Cardillo chronicle the plantings and scenery over the course of two growing cycles, paying tribute to the horticulturists and artisans responsible for the garden's profound beauty.

Printing the Middle Ages focuses on the life of medieval texts after the Middle Ages, tracing the impact of the books that transmitted medieval literature to the English-speaking world, showing how these books imitated and refashioned the medieval past for later audiences.