12/15/2012
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 November… READ MORE
12/14/2012
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Sophie White 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 color, 17 b/w Cloth Dec 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
11/16/2012
Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism Brett Gadsden 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4443-4 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
06/02/2012
A History of the Gardens of Versailles Michel Baridon. Translated by Adrienne Mason 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 42 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4078-8 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
06/01/2012
The Camera and the Press: American Visual and Print Culture in the Age of the Daguerreotype Marcy J. Dinius 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth Apr… READ MORE
05/21/2012
The process of recording what something ‘looks like’ may be cursory or obsessive. To see, after all, is not only to glance at or even to gaze, at something, but to study and entertain ideas that occur in the presence of those things. The thoughts inform the outcome. The camera shifts an inch and the image takes on new meaning, but seeing properly is progressive and takes time.
05/01/2012
Enchantment: On Charisma and the Sublime in the Arts of the West C. Stephen Jaeger 440 pages | 6 x 9 | 52 illus. Cloth Mar 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4329-1… READ MORE
04/09/2012
Consuming Pleasures: Intellectuals and Popular Culture in the Postwar World Daniel Horowitz 528 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4395-6 | $34.95… READ MORE
03/22/2012
Penn Press is pleased to announce the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania… READ MORE
03/02/2012
This weekend, two new exhibits feature artwork connected to new and forthcoming Penn Press books. A Singular View—The Art and Words of John Paton Davies, Jr. opens Saturday, March 3… READ MORE
