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X12/14/2012
Wild Frenchmen and Frenchified Indians: Material Culture and Race in Colonial Louisiana Sophie White 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 33 color, 17 b/w Cloth Dec 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
12/08/2012
Negotiating the Landscape: Environment and Monastic Identity in the Medieval Ardennes Ellen F. Arnold 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 maps Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4463-2 | $65.00… READ MORE
11/30/2012
Varieties of Sovereignty and Citizenship Edited by Sigal R. Ben-Porath and Rogers M. Smith 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4456-4 | $79.95 | £52.00 Ebook… READ MORE
11/23/2012
Animal Encounters: Contacts and Concepts in Medieval Britain Susan Crane 296 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4458-8 | $59.95 | £39.00 Ebook | ISBN… READ MORE
11/16/2012
When our current period of slow economic growth will end is anybody’s guess, but even when it does end, colleges and universities will certainly not be rolling back their prices. These days, it is not just the economic climate in which our colleges and universities find themselves that determines what they charge and how they operate; it is their increasing corporatization.
Between North and South: Delaware, Desegregation, and the Myth of American Sectionalism Brett Gadsden 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Hardcover | ISBN 978-0-8122-4443-4 | $45.00 |… READ MORE
11/12/2012
You may not need a map to see that scholarly publishers like Penn Press contribute to the world's knowledge and understanding, but it does provide an interesting perspective. As part… READ MORE
11/09/2012
The City After Abandonment Edited by Margaret Dewar and June Manning Thomas 400 pages | 6 x 9 | 25 illus Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4446-5 | $75.00 | £49.00… READ MORE
11/05/2012
Spaniards in town came from different regions of the Peninsula, including Andalusia, the Basque country, Castile, and Extremadura. Among them, a Portuguese migrant could settle, marry a local mestiza, and have a castizo son (strictly speaking, the offspring of Spanish and mestizo parents); that son would eventually marry a mestiza and expect his share of the Indian service to which Spanish landowners were entitled. By the 1570s, the casta system developed by Spanish authorities to establish a clear racial hierarchy was only beginning to take shape. Yet life in a small community like that of Tecamachalco could breed a familiarity that often wrested importance from those racial differences.
11/02/2012
In the November Penn Press podcast, David R. Swartz, Assistant Professor at Asbury University and author of Moral Minority: The Evangelical Left in an Age of Conservatism, discusses the overlooked… READ MORE
