08/16/2011
Stephen A. Mitchell, author of Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages, was named a Walter Channing Cabot Fellow for 2011. The Cabot award honors faculty at Harvard University… READ MORE
08/08/2011
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Lustration and Transitional Justice: Personnel Systems in the Czech Republic, Hungary, and Poland Roman David 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth Sep 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4331-4… READ MORE
07/27/2011
The answer to last week’s question is “zazous.” Before and during World War II, zoot suit wearing jazz lovers in France were known as les zazous. Jusqu’ici sur terre un… READ MORE
07/25/2011
The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution Owen Stanwood 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4341-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
07/20/2011
The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE
07/14/2011
In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE
07/11/2011
La Villa Bartolomeo Taegio. Edited and translated by Thomas E. Beck 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 16 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4317-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 A… READ MORE
07/05/2011
Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel Oded Haklai 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4347-5 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the National and Ethnic Conflict in… READ MORE
