The Countess von Rudolstadt–Now Available
05/22/2008
The Countess von Rudolstadt George Sand Translated by Gretchen van Slyke 472 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4073-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 The first… READ MORE
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Public Housing That Worked–Now Available
05/21/2008
Public Housing That Worked: New York in the Twentieth Century Nicholas Dagen Bloom 368 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4077-1 | $39.95 |… READ MORE
LRB Reviews Deirdre David’s Fanny Kemble
". . .few subjects can have had more incarnations than Kemble," writes Ruth Bernard Yeazell in the latest issue of London Review of Books. "and Deirdre David’s new biography is… READ MORE
Anne Boleyn and the Chop Heard ‘Round the World
05/19/2008
In the following essay, Frances E. Dolan, author of Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy reflects on popular culture’s long-standing fascination with one of England’s most dysfunctional families. IS… READ MORE
Inside and Out Weekend for Penn Press
05/13/2008
This coming weekend will be an extremely busy one for Penn Press staff. Not only to we host our annual Open House on Saturday, May 17. We’ll also be participating… READ MORE
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance–Now Available
The Jew in the Art of the Italian Renaissance Dana E. Katz 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 70 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4085-6 | $55.00 | £36.00… READ MORE
Art Work–Now Available
05/12/2008
Art Work: Women Artists and Democracy in Mid-Nineteenth-Century New York April F. Masten 312 pages | 6 x 9 | 55 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4071-9 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange–Now Available
05/09/2008
Jewish Biblical Interpretation and Cultural Exchange: Comparative Exegesis in Context Edited by Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Stern 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2008 |… READ MORE
Podcast Interview with Colin Gordon
Marshall Poe interviewed Colin Gordon, author of Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City, for the New Books in History blog. An audio file of this… READ MORE
Israel Independence Day Reading
05/07/2008
Yigal Allon, Native Son: A Biography Anita ShapiraTranslated by Evelyn Abel 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4028-3 | $49.95 | £32.50 A… READ MORE