08/23/2013
From Human Trafficking to Human Rights: Reframing Contemporary Slavery Alison Brysk and Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick, Editors "All eleven authors deserve overwhelming positive reviews . . . for bringing human rights back… READ MORE
08/19/2013
Penn Press Consulting Editor Damon Linker has sobering words for progressive Catholics. According to "Pope Francis Versus the Vatican: the Battle to Remake the Church," Linker's article for the New… READ MORE
07/26/2013
Violence in Roman Egypt: A Study in Legal Interpretation Ari Z. Bryen 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4508-0 | $75.00 | £49.00… READ MORE
07/02/2013
To anyone who has followed American labor law in the last fifteen years or so, the recent decision of the Supreme Court in Vance v. Ball State University is full of irony. Indeed, the Court’s new, narrow definition of “supervisor” does not simply limit the liability of companies in discrimination cases. It also stands in stark contrast to the much broader definition that conservatives have pushed in the context of the National Labor Relations Act, where the designation “supervisor” can be used to bar workers from unionizing.
06/28/2013
Of Bondage: Debt, Property, and Personhood in Early Modern England Amanda Bailey 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4516-5 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
06/25/2013
This week, Philip Mudd, author of Takedown: Inside the Hunt for Al Qaeda, hit the airwaves again to discuss current national security and intelligence events. As former CIA deputy director… READ MORE
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
04/22/2013
As the Boston Marathon bombing investigation continues, journalists and a concerned public are turning to historians, political scientists, security researchers, and other scholars for a deeper understanding of the suspects'… READ MORE
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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