Announcing our Fall 2014 catalog
06/04/2014
Penn Press is pleased to announce the release of our Fall 2014 catalog. This season’s offerings include a beautifully illustrated volume exploring the rich history of the Brandywine Valley, home… READ MORE
Category: 17th-Century History and Culture
Hot Off Penn Press: In Light of Another’s Word, No Use, Slavery in Medieval and Early Modern Iberia, and Ethnography in Today’s World
12/13/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. In Light of Another's… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Political Creativity, Rethinking the American City, Louisiana, and The Heart and Stomach of a King
11/15/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Dangerously Sleepy, Seasons of Misery, In My Mother’s House, and Why Don’t American Cities Burn?
10/31/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Dangerously Sleepy: Overworked Americans… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: Early Modern Digital Scholarship as Handwork and Brainwork
10/16/2013
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's pick for October… READ MORE
New Books in American Studies Interviews New World of Labor Author Simon P. Newman
10/11/2013
Simon P. Newman, author of A New World of Labor: The Development of Plantation Slavery in the British Atlantic, spoke with New Books in American Studies podcast host Dan Kilbride… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Now in Paperback–Collecting Across Cultures, On The Move for Love, and Paying the Toll
08/16/2013
Collecting Across Cultures: Material Exchanges in the Early Modern Atlantic World Edited by Daniela Bleichmar and Peter C. Mancall 392 pages | 7 x 10 | 12 color, 65 b/w… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial and Animal Bodies, Renaissance Culture
08/09/2013
Guilt, Responsibility, and Denial: The Past at Stake in Post-Milošević Serbia Eric Gordy 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4535-6 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume… READ MORE
This Week’s New Books: The Black Urban Atlantic, Gender and War, Representation, and More
07/19/2013
The Black Urban Atlantic in the Age of the Slave Trade Edited by Jorge Cañizares-Esguerra, Matt D. Childs, and James Sidbury 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus…. READ MORE
This Week’s New Books–St. Peter, Education, Slavery, Labor, and Textiles in Literature
06/07/2013
The Invention of Peter: Apostolic Discourse and Papal Authority in Late Antiquity George E. Demacopoulos 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4517-2 | $69.95 | £45.50… READ MORE
