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Revolutionary Backlash–Now Available

09/21/2007

Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic Rosemarie Zagarri 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4027-6 | $39.95 | £26.00… READ MORE

Resolution of Appreciation for Martin Meyerson

09/20/2007

The Penn Press Board of Trustees unanimously approved the following resolution of appreciation for the work of Martin Meyerson, University of Pennsylvania President Emeritus, who died earlier this year at… READ MORE

In Darkest Alaska–Now Available

09/20/2007

In Darkest Alaska: Travel and Empire Along the Inside Passage Robert Campbell 360 pages | 6 x 9 | 39 illus. Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4021-4 | $45.00 | £29.50… READ MORE

Performing Patriotism–Now Available

09/18/2007

Performing Patriotism: National Identity in the Colonial and Revolutionary American Theater Jason Shaffer 264 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4024-5 | $45.00 | £29.50 A volume… READ MORE

This Is Our Music is a Choice Essential

09/17/2007

This Is Our Music: Free Jazz, the Sixties, and American Culture by Iain Anderson earned an "Essential" summing up in the September volume of Choice magazine. "Anderson provides an excellent… READ MORE

Praise for Jackson in The Texas Observer

09/13/2007

The Texas Observer columnist Todd Moye praises Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights: Martin Luther King, Jr., and the Struggle for Economic Justice in a recent review…. READ MORE

Goodbye, Alex

09/12/2007

In Parrot Culture: Our 2500-Year-Long Fascination with the World’s Most Talkative Bird, Bruce Thomas Boehrer quotes a short but telling conversation about nuts. Alex: Wanna nut.Irene: Want another one? How… READ MORE

An Editor Looks Back at the APSA Meeting

09/11/2007

Penn Press editor Bill Finan recalls a few highlights from the recent annual meeting of the American Political Science Association. For aspiring authors who see publishing as a black box,… READ MORE

History Matters–Now in Paperback

08/30/2007

History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 5 1/2 x 8 1/2 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3946-1 | $49.95 | £32.50 Paper 2007… READ MORE