Indian Independence Day
08/15/2006
At midnight, August 15, 1947, by order of the Indian Independence Act passed one month earlier by the British Parliament, British India was divided into two dominions, India and Pakistan…. READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Don’t Mess with the Titles
08/09/2006
Philadelphia Inquirer critic Carlin Romano praises the book Metropolitan Philadelphia: Living with the Presence of the Past by Steven Conn. "Incisive, quirky, wry and boosterish without pulling appropriate punches, Metropolitan… READ MORE
Now in Paperback–The Poor Indians
08/04/2006
/The Poor Indians: British Missionaries, Native Americans, and Colonial Sensibility/
Laura M. Stevens
272 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3812-5 | $39.95s| £ 26.00
Paper August 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1967-8 | $24.95s | £ 16.50
Now in Paperback–The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America
07/28/2006
/The Varieties of Political Experience in Eighteenth-Century America/
Richard R. Beeman
376 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 25 illus.
Cloth 2004 | ISBN 0-8122-3770-6 | $39.95s | £ 26.00
Paper July 2006 | ISBN 0-8122-1977-5 | $24.95s | £16.50
The Organization Man at 50
Why does Whyte’s cultural critique still resonate in our downsized globalized working world? A quote from Roger K. Miller’s recent review, which appeared in “The Washington Times” and “The Philadelphia Inquirer,” may have the answer.
Seneca Falls Perspectives
07/20/2006
Here, historian Katherine J. Parkin, author of Food Is Love: Advertising and Gender Roles in Modern America, considers why a student might chose grizzlier subjects over women’s history.
Magic Articles
07/19/2006
The premier issue of Magic, Ritual, and Witchcraft is in print! These free sample articles are available as PDFs: From the EditorsMichael D. Bailey and Brian P. Copenhaver, Vol. 1,… READ MORE
“Heaven” Just Down the Street
07/18/2006
An excerpt from Steven Conn’s Metropolitan Philadelphia hits Penn Press close to home, right in the heart of what is officially known as University City. In "Heaven Is a Mixed… READ MORE
When a Cosmopolitan Was More than a Cocktail
07/17/2006
At a time when terrorism, globalization, and immigration debates have turned many Americans inward, a recent Wall Street Journal review of Margaret Jacob’s Strangers Nowhere in the World: The Rise… READ MORE
