09/20/2006
“The curing shed of the New England tobacco fields is the area’s most characteristic architectural form, and it is fast vanishing from the agricultural landscape,” writes James F. O’Gorman in the September 17th Hartford Courant.
“Hung out to Dry,” his commentary on the historic value of Connecticut’s curing sheds and strategies to preserve these structures, is available at courant.com.
09/18/2006
Human Rights in the World Community: Issues and Action Richard Pierre Claude and Burns H. Weston, Editors Third Edition 568 pages | 7 x 10 Paper 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1948-1… READ MORE
09/15/2006
History Matters: Patriarchy and the Challenge of Feminism Judith M. Bennett 224 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3946-6 | $49.95 | £32.50 Not for sale in… READ MORE
09/13/2006
Creating East and West: Renaissance Humanists and the Ottoman Turks Nancy Bisaha 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3806-0 | $59.95 | £39.00 Paper 2006 |… READ MORE
The Pinochet Effect: Transnational Justice in the Age of Human Rights Naomi Roht-Arriaza 272 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2005 | ISBN 0-8122-3845-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2006… READ MORE
09/12/2006
Last weekend’s 29th Annual Nanticoke Indian Powwow provided an ideal venue for the return of Delaware’s Forgotten Folk by C.A. Weslager. Copies of the book were sold at the powwow… READ MORE
Joachim du Bellay: "The Regrets," with "The Antiquities of Rome," Three Latin Elegies, and "The Defense and Enrichment of the French Language." A Bilingual Edition Richard Helgerson, Editor and Translator… READ MORE
A Kingdom of Priests: Ancestry and Merit in Ancient Judaism Martha Himmelfarb 280 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3950-4 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in… READ MORE
09/08/2006
Troubled Experiment: Crime and Justice in Pennsylvania, 1682-1800 Jack D. Marietta and G. S. Rowe 368 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Sep 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-3955-5 | $59.95 |… READ MORE
09/06/2006
In the September 2006 issue of The Atlantic Monthly, national correpsondent James Fallows cites Penn Press author Ian S. Lustick in his call to declare an end to the War… READ MORE
