Medici Gardens–Now Available
05/05/2008
Medici Gardens: From Making to Design Raffaella Fabiani Giannetto 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 54 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4072-6 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume in… READ MORE
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Periodization and Sovereignty–Now Available
05/02/2008
Periodization and Sovereignty: How Ideas of Feudalism and Secularization Govern the Politics of Time Kathleen Davis 208 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4083-2 | $42.50 |… READ MORE
Negro League Baseball–Now in Paperback
05/01/2008
Negro League Baseball: The Rise and Ruin of a Black Institution Neil Lanctot 512 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 31 illus. Cloth 2004 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3807-5 |… READ MORE
In the Mood for Horace
04/30/2008
As another National Poetry Month comes to an end, here’s a sampling from A.M. Juster’s forthcoming translation of The Satires of Horace. From I:VI When I am in the mood,… READ MORE
Richard Helgerson
04/29/2008
Staff at the University of Pennsylvania Press were saddened by the news of the death of Richard Helgerson, Professor in the English Department at the University of California, Santa Barbara,… READ MORE
Marriage and Violence–Now Available
04/21/2008
Marriage and Violence: The Early Modern Legacy Frances E. Dolan 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 1 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4075-7 | $47.50 | £31.00 Marriage is… READ MORE
Robin Chapman Stacey wins ACIS Prize
The American Conference for Irish Studies presented Robin Chapman Stacey with the James S. Donnelly, Sr. Prize for Books on History and Social Sciences for his Dark Speech: The Performance… READ MORE
History Wire on Visions of Progress
04/18/2008
Steve Goddard selected Doug Rossinow’s Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America for today’s History Wire Book Alert, calling the history "an effective way to introduce today’s progressives to… READ MORE
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City–Now Available
04/16/2008
Mapping Decline: St. Louis and the Fate of the American City Colin Gordon 304 pages | 7 x 10 | 78 color illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4070-2 | $55.00… READ MORE
Thomas M. Nichols on History News Network
Welcome to the new age of preventive war, in which states and their leaders will no longer be content to wait for signs of imminent attack in order to strike… READ MORE