Penn Press Log

New World Orders–Now in Paperback

11/28/2007

New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas Edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2005… READ MORE

Visions of Progress–Now Available

Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 312 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE

Expert Quotes from Penn Press Authors

11/27/2007

This month, print journalists quoted our authors on subjects ranging from faith-based initiatives to romance novels to terrorism. A recent Wall Street Journal article cited the work of Ram Cnaan,… READ MORE

Used Books–Now Available

Used Books: Marking Readers in Renaissance England William H. Sherman 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 36 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4043-6 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume… READ MORE

John Wood Sweet, HNN Top Young Historian

11/20/2007

History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE

Reading Women–Now Available

11/14/2007

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth… READ MORE

Fallible Authors–Now Available

11/13/2007

Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis 528 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4030-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in… READ MORE

Ripping away the False Curtain

More praise for Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Martin Luther King, Jr. and the Struggle for Economic Justice appears in the November volume of Sociological Inquiry. … READ MORE