New Books Week: Politics and Human Rights
04/17/2014
Thursday on New Books Week brings us titles in Politics and Human Rights. Chains of Justice: The Global Rise of State Institutions for Human Rights Sonia Cardenas "Chains of… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Hot Off Penn Press: Empire of the Vines, plus Moral Minority Now in Paperback
01/09/2014
Here are some of the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. Purchase it now at www.pennpress.org or look for it at your favorite bookseller. Empire of Vines: Wine Culture… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: The Making and Unmaking of a Saint, Sex Work Politics, and Becoming the People of the Talmud
01/03/2014
This list of new Penn Press warehouse arrivals presents some interesting juxtapositions. Purchase these titles now at www.pennpress.org or look for them at your favorite bookseller. The Making and Unmaking… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Astounding Wonder, Heavenly Ambitions, Rival Queens, and Beyond the Architect’s Eye
12/27/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. A batch of aclaimed books is now available in paperback. Purchase these titles now at www.pennpress.org or look for them… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick: Religious Liberty in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights
12/13/2013
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's pick for December,… READ MORE
Democracy Without Justice in Spain Author in New York Times Room for Debate
12/12/2013
Today the New York Times Room for Debate forum tackled the issue of democracies with monarchs. Omar G. Encarnación, author of the forthcoming Democracy Without Justice in Spain: The Politics… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: To March for Others, Caught on Camera, Before Orientalism, and Revitalizing American Cities
11/22/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. To March for Others:… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Political Creativity, Rethinking the American City, Louisiana, and The Heart and Stomach of a King
11/15/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Political Creativity: Reconfiguring Institutional… READ MORE
Hot Off Penn Press: Cutting Along the Color Line and Hasanlu V, Plus 3 New Paperback Releases
11/08/2013
Here are the latest arrivals in the Penn Press warehouse. These books are available for purchase now at www.pennpress.org. Look for them at your favorite bookseller. Cutting Along the Color… READ MORE
A View from Third Base?–Historian Karen Ferguson on Cory Booker and the Legacy of Racial Liberalism
11/01/2013
Booker’s concurrent troubles in leading Newark and success as a political celebrity demonstrate how the rise of elite black figures in America is not the culmination of the fight for racial equality, as the story is often told, but is rather the consummation of an elite white strategy begun in the late 1960s to bring exceptional African Americans into the highest echelons of American culture and society with few benefits for those left behind.
