03/22/2007
Inscription and Erasure: Literature and Written Culture from the Eleventh to the Eighteenth Century Roger Chartier. Arthur Goldhammer, Translator 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3995-9… READ MORE
03/21/2007
Atlantic Virginia: Intercolonial Relations in the Seventeenth Century April Lee Hatfield 320 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 9 maps Paper 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-1997-5 | $22.50 |… READ MORE
03/20/2007
In Doctor Franklin’s Medicine, Stanley Finger uncovers the instrumental role that Benjamin Franklin–scientist, inventor, publisher, and statesman–played in the development of the healing arts, giving preventive and bedside medicine, hospital… READ MORE
03/19/2007
Tropic of Venice author Margaret Doody knows Venice. So does Bonnie Hollis, winner of our Tropic of Venice contest. Over 360 people took our Tropic of Venice online quiz. 15… READ MORE
03/15/2007
Debora Shuger’s Censorship and Cultural Sensibility: The Regulation of Language in Tudor-Stuart England recently received supernatural praise. "Scrupulously researched, carefully written, argued, and developed, this is one of those books… READ MORE
In the March 14 Times Literary Supplement, Jim Endersby reviewed the Penn Press reissue of The Origin of Species: A Variorum Text while debunking myths about Charles Darwin’s work and… READ MORE
03/14/2007
The Witnesses: War Crimes and the Promise of Justice in The Hague Eric Stover 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3890-7 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper… READ MORE
03/12/2007
In a recent Chicago Tribune review of Thomas F. Jackson’s From Civil Rights to Human Rights, Eric Arnesen writes: Jackson . . . goes farther than many historians in arguing… READ MORE
03/08/2007
To mark International Women’s Day, here’s a list of our recent books on women’s rights and women’s history. Female Circumcision: Multicultural Perspectives Rogaia Mustafa Abusharaf, Editor Venomous Tongues: Speech and… READ MORE
03/07/2007
Who’s Afraid of Happy Endings?, a witty and dynamic new documentary that explores the world of romance fiction, will have its world broadcast premiere on Bravo! Canada, this Thursday, March… READ MORE
