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: The Black Freedom Struggle and the United Farm Workers Lauren Araiza 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4557-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0883-2 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Politics and Culture in Modern America series Through the relationships between the African American civil rights groups of the 1960s and 1970s and the United Farm Workers, a primarily Mexican American union, To March for Others examines the complexities of forming coalitions across racial, socioeconomic, and geographic divides in pursuit of justice and equality. Read more . . . |
Caught on Camera: Film in the Courtroom from the Nuremberg Trials to the Trials of the Khmer Rouge Christian Delage. Edited and translated by Ralph Schoolcraft and Mary Byrd Kelly 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 77 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4556-1 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Critical Authors & Issues series Combining the practical knowledge of a renowned director with the perspective of a historian and media specialist, Christian Delage explores the conditions and consequences of using film for the purposes of justice and memory by examining archival footage from war crime trials from Nuremberg to the present. Read more . . . |
Before Orientalism: Asian Peoples and Cultures in European Travel Writing, 1245-1510 Kim M. Phillips 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4548-6 | $79.95 | £52.00 Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0894-8 | $79.95 | £52.00 A volume in the Middle Ages Series Drawing on medieval accounts of the earliest European journeys to China, India, Mongolia, and southeast Asia, Before Orientalism explores European attitudes toward Asian eating habits, sexual practices, femininities, and civility, reconstructing a precolonial vision of the East that was often neutral or admiring. Read more . . . |
Revitalizing American Cities Edited by Susan M. Wachter and Kimberly A. Zeuli 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 40 illus. Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4555-4 | $69.95 | £45.50 Ebook 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-0888-7 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the City in the Twenty-First Century series Revitalizing American Cities explores the historical, regional, and political factors that have allowed some small industrial cities to regain their footing in a changing economy, and considers strategies cities can use for successful rebuilding. Read more . . . |
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