Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War–Now in Paperback
08/25/2011
Toussaint Louverture and the American Civil War: The Promise and Peril of a Second Haitian Revolution Matthew J. Clavin 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2009… READ MORE
Category: European & World History
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages Author Named Cabot Fellow
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
Devil in the Holy Water–Now in Paperback
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–Now Available
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
Name that Zoot Contest: The Fourth and Final Week!
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
The Empire Reformed–Now Available
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–Now Available
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
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Three
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
Penned in Prison: The Bohemians and the Bastille
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
Bartolomeo Taegio’s La Villa–Now Available in English
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
