This Week’s New Books
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
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This Week’s New Books: Animal Encounters, Intimate Enemies, and Next Year in Marienbad
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
Paul’s Pick: a Free Article on the Cost of Higher Education from Dissent
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.
This Week’s New Books: Between North and South, The Sovereign Citizen, and Capricious Fancy
11/16/2012
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
Around the World with Penn Press
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
This Week’s New Books: The City After Abandonment, This Noble House, Pornographic Archaeology, and The Language of Human Rights in West Germany
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
Early Modern Monday: Where In the World is Tecamachalco?
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.
This Month’s Podcast: David R. Swartz and the Evangelical Left
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
This Week’s New Books: The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis, The Decadent Republic of Letters, Shakespeare’s Stationers, and Conversion and Narrative
10/26/2012
The Memory of the Temple and the Making of the Rabbis Naftali S. Cohn 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth | ISBN 978-0-8122-4457-1 | $69.95 |… READ MORE
School Reform Then and Now: Legacies of the Civil Rights Era
10/25/2012
Revisiting the 1960s shows us that the civil rights era left a dual legacy in school reform, half of which echoes loudly today and half of which is too often ignored. The part that still echoes is an ethos of accountability: sixties-era activists and educators helped to pioneer the idea that urban schools should be held accountable for student achievement. The part that is being ignored is a recognition that achievement is also powerfully shaped by what goes on outside of schools—especially the effects of poverty. Unfortunately, neglect of the latter lesson is seriously undermining the potentially useful impact of the former one.
