03/08/2013
The women’s histories that were produced in the late eighteenth century promoted an ideal of domestic citizenship for women that was valued as a break from a less advanced past, and hence a sign of modernity, as well as a distinguishing characteristic of national virtue at a time when a market economy and new forms of political organization were reshaping the countries of Europe and the New World.
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02/11/2013
Victoria Vantoch, historian and author of The Jet Sex: Airline Stewardesses and the Making of an American Icon, has just launched a tumblr site devoted to the history of flight… READ MORE
02/08/2013
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America Ella Howard 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4472-4 | $45.00 | £29.50 Ebook 2013 |… READ MORE
02/01/2013
Sunbelt Capitalism: Phoenix and the Transformation of American Politics Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 416 pages | 6 x 9 | 18 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4470-0 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Homeless: Poverty and Place in Urban America examines how generations of urban dwellers have dealt with the tensions between the rights of the homeless and those of other city residents…. READ MORE
01/25/2013
Weaver says, “properly dressed, groundhog is indeed an underrated American delicacy, and smoked groundhog is an unsung luxury—I do not exaggerate.”
The Roman Inquisition: A Papal Bureaucracy and Its Laws in the Age of Galileo Thomas F. Mayer 392 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4473-1 | $79.95… READ MORE
01/18/2013
Many Penn Press publications, from the journal Humanity to our book series Politics and Culture in Modern America and Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights, address the issues that Martin Luther… READ MORE
12/21/2012
The Gardens of Suzhou Ron Henderson 224 pages | 6 x 9 | 111 illus. Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2214-2 | $29.95 | £19.50 A volume in the Penn Studies… READ MORE
