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
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
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.
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.
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
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
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
