Sealed With Blood–Now In Paperback
03/29/2010
Sealed with Blood: War, Sacrifice, and Memory in Revolutionary America Sarah J. Purcell 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2002 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3660-6 | $49.95 |… READ MORE
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Who’s Reading Beat Cop to Top Cop, and What Does a Top Cop Read?
03/29/2010
"Believe me, people who read Timoney’s book have a treat on their hands," says Tom Wolfe in the foreword to the forthcoming Beat Cop to Top Cop: A Tale of… READ MORE
Homo Narrans–Now in Paperback
03/25/2010
Homo Narrans: The Poetics and Anthropology of Oral Literature John D. Niles 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2107-7 | $24.95 | £16.50… READ MORE
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe–Now in Paperback
03/25/2010
Law and the Illicit in Medieval Europe Edited by Ruth Mazo Karras, Joel Kaye, and E. Ann Matter 336 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2106-0 |… READ MORE
A Big Wednesday on Campus: Penn Press author Panels on Poverty and Human Rights
03/16/2010
Tomorrow two major author events will take place on the University of Pennsylvania Campus. The first deals with human rights in the United States. The second addresses America's urban poverty…. READ MORE
Popular Ideologies–Now in Paperback
03/15/2010
Popular Ideologies: Mass Culture at Mid-Century Susan Smulyan 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4020-7 | $35.00 | £23.00 Paper 2010 | ISBN… READ MORE
Matthew Dennis on a New American Indian / NY Gov’t Tobacco Controversy
03/15/2010
In an essay for History News Network, historian Matthew Dennis weighs in on the controversial mail-order tobacco business run by the Seneca Nation of Indians of western New York. “Indians… READ MORE
Virgil’s Eclogues–Now Available
03/15/2010
Virgil’s Eclogues Virgil (Publius Vergilius Maro). Translated by Len Krisak. Introduction by Gregson Davis 112 pages | 5 1/4 x 8 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4225-6 | $29.95 | £19.50… READ MORE
London Review of Books on Robert Darnton’s Latest Book
03/12/2010
A meaty review of The Devil in the Holy Water, or, The Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon appears in the latest London Review of Books. "In political… READ MORE
Group Harmony–Now in Paperback
03/12/2010
Group Harmony: The Black Urban Roots of Rhythm & Blues Stuart L. Goosman 304 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 15 illus. Paper 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2108-4 |… READ MORE
