Purposes of Paradise–Now Available
07/20/2010
The Purposes of Paradise: U.S. Tourism and Empire in Cuba and Hawai'i Christine Skwiot 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4244-7 | $39.95… READ MORE
Category: European & World History
JAMA reviews The Anatomy Murders
07/15/2010
Q: What recent Penn Press history book has captured the attention of the Journal of the American Medical Association? A: Lisa Rosner's The Anatomy Murders: Being the True and Spectacular… READ MORE
Reasons to Write: TLS Reviews Three Penn Press Books on French Literature
07/08/2010
In "Reasons to write," the Times Literary Supplement examines recent books on France's literary past, including three Penn Press titles: The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime,… READ MORE
Animal Characters–Now Available
07/06/2010
Animal Characters: Nonhuman Beings in Early Modern Literature Bruce Thomas Boehrer 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Jun 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4249-2 | $49.95 | £32.50… READ MORE
Through the History of the Cold War–Now Available
07/01/2010
Through the History of the Cold War: The Correspondence of George F. Kennan and John Lukacs Edited by John Lukacs 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN… READ MORE
Behind the Killing Fields–Now Available
06/30/2010
Behind the Killing Fields: A Khmer Rouge Leader and One of His Victims Gina Chon and Sambath Thet 212 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2010 |… READ MORE
National Post Op-Ed on Darnton’s Work
06/22/2010
An op-ed piece on Robert Darnton’s research on French libel recently appeared in the National Post. Columnist Robert Fulford writes: When we chronicle the struggle for literary freedom we too… READ MORE
The Conversion of Herman the Jew–Now Available
06/17/2010
The Conversion of Herman the Jew: Autobiography, History, and Fiction in the Twelfth Century Jean-Claude Schmitt. Translated by Alex J. Novikoff 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus…. READ MORE
The TLS Reviews Noble’s Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians
06/16/2010
Times Literary Supplement reviewer Lucy Beckett calls Thomas F. X. Noble's Images, Iconoclasm, and the Carolingians, "an immensely scholarly and interesting book on the Carolingian response to the drama of… READ MORE
Accessories to Modernity–Now Available
Accessories to Modernity: Fashion and the Feminine in Nineteenth-Century France Susan Hiner 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 30 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4259-1 | $47.50 | £31.00… READ MORE
