Air Kornbluh
08/23/2007
Felicia Kornbluh, author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America, has been hitting the airwaves from coast to coast this summer in live radio interviews…. READ MORE
Category: Urban Studies
The PMHB Review of Conn’s Metropolitan Philadelphia
08/16/2007
In the latest volume of The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, reviewer Peter Siskind ranks Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past with Nathaniel Popkin’s Song of… READ MORE
Columnist Praises Rodin for Community Engagement
07/31/2007
"The message to all universities is clear: Your time for leadership has arrived; being a constructive, good neighbor isn’t fluff — it’s absolutely critical," writes syndicated columnist Neal Peirce in… READ MORE
The University and Urban Revival–Now Available
07/25/2007
The University and Urban Revival: Out of the Ivory Tower and Into the Streets Judith Rodin 232 pages | 6 x 9 | 17 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4022-1… READ MORE
The Battle for Welfare Rights–Now Available
05/23/2007
The Battle for Welfare Rights: Politics and Poverty in Modern America Felicia Kornbluh 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4005-4 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
Meet the Press at the Fest
04/20/2007
The University of Pennsylvania Press is pleased to be a part of the first annual Philadelphia Book Festival, April 21 and 22, 11 a.m – 7 p.m. at the Free… READ MORE
Nightclub City–Now Available
03/28/2007
Nightclub City: Politics and Amusement in Manhattan Burton W. Peretti 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3997-3 | $39.95 | £26.00 This dark… READ MORE
More Praise for Up South
02/06/2007
In a recent article on scholarly books about Black Nationalism in the 60s and 70s, Multicultural Review commended Matthew Countryman’s Up South: Civil Rights and Black Power in Philadelphia for… READ MORE
Greater New Jersey–Now in Paperback
12/14/2006
Greater New Jersey: Living in the Shadow of Gotham Dennis E. Gale 208 pages | 5 1/2 x 9 | 32 illus. Paper 2007 | ISBN 0-8122-1957-0 | $19.95 |… READ MORE
The Making of a Miami Treasure
12/12/2006
Like its palatial contemporaries Biltmore and San Simeon, Vizcaya represents an achievement of the Gilded Age, when country houses and their gardens were a conspicuous measure of personal wealth and… READ MORE