Hot Off Penn Press: September’s New Books
09/30/2014
With the turn toward fall, the Press's presses have been printing overtime, with better than a baker's dozen of titles being released this month. The topics range widely, from the… READ MORE
Category: New Titles
Author Q&A: Miriam Jacobson, Barbarous Antiquity
09/25/2014
Today's Q&A is with Miriam Jacobson, author of Barbarous Antiquity: Reorienting the Past in the Poetry of Early Modern England. In the late sixteenth century, English merchants and diplomats ventured… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Ann Marie Plane, Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England
09/23/2014
Today we have Ann Marie Plane, author of Dreams and the Invisible World in Colonial New England: Indians, Colonists, and the Seventeenth Century. From angels to demonic specters, astonishing visions… READ MORE
The Neverendum Story: Scotland could vote in another referendum soon
09/19/2014
This is a guest post from Dr. Matt Qvortrup, author of Referendums and Ethnic Conflict, in response to yesterday's historic independence vote in Scotland. The Scots chose to stay a… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Leilah Danielson, American Gandhi
09/18/2014
Our author Q&A train chugs on with Leilah Danielson, whose new book is called American Gandhi: A. J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the Twentieth Century. When Abraham… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Martin Jacobs, Reorienting the East
09/16/2014
Next in our series of Fall 2014 Author Q&As is Martin Jacobs, whose book, Reorienting the East: Jewish Travelers to the Medieval Muslim World, explores the Islamic world as it… READ MORE
Economic inequality, philanthropy, and the New (and old) Gilded Age
09/11/2014
Today we have a guest post from Francesca Sawaya, author of The Difficult Art of Giving: Patronage, Philanthropy, and the American Literary Market. Called "A fresh, original, and important revisionist… READ MORE
Author Q&A: William Paul Simmons, Binational Human Rights
09/09/2014
We continue our series of Fall 2014 Author Q&As with William Paul Simmons, one of the editors, with Carol Mueller, of Binational Human Rights: The U.S.–Mexico Experience. The book brings… READ MORE
Cases and controversies: Rebecca Cook outlines Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective
09/03/2014
Today we have a guest post from Rebecca J. Cook, co-editor of Abortion Law in Transnational Perspective: Cases and Controversies. Read her Author Q&A here. In this post, Cook outlines… READ MORE
Author Q&A: Megan Threlkeld, Pan American Women
08/28/2014
The next author in our series of Fall 2014 Q&As is Megan Threlkeld. Her new book is Pan American Women: U.S. Internationalists and Revolutionary Mexico. In the years following World… READ MORE
