China and Africa–Now Available
06/20/2012
China and Africa: A Century of EngagementDavid H. Shinn and Joshua Eisenman 544 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4419-9 | $69.95 | £45.50… READ MORE
Penn Press Log
Is Britain’s Garter Day Barmy? Shame and Honor Author Stephanie Trigg on the Order of the Garter
06/18/2012
Today is Garter Day, one of the best opportunities to see Great Britain's aristocracy in full plumage. To mark the occasion, the Daily Beast correspondent Tom Sykes invited Stephanie Trigg,… READ MORE
Demolition is Not Enough: Design After Decline Author Brent Ryan on Redevelopment in Philadelphia
06/18/2012
Barring a miraculous rebirth of neighborhood real estate markets, city officials should think twice before creating more vacant lots.
Paul’s Pick for June, a Free Article on the Original Tea Party from Early American Studies
06/15/2012
Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for June… READ MORE
Q&A with Geoffrey Plank, author of John Woolman’s Path to the Peaceable Kingdom
06/14/2012
Woolman’s ideals were informed by a literal reading of the Bible and the experience of growing up on a farm in New Jersey. He associated well-ordered, peaceful, pastoral landscapes with Eden and the Peaceable Kingdom that Isaiah foresaw as part of humanity’s future. The tensions and violence of slavery had no place in the world that Woolman hoped to see established.
English Letters and Indian Literacies–Now Available
06/12/2012
English Letters and Indian Literacies: Reading, Writing, and New England Missionary Schools, 1750-1830 Hilary E. Wyss 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4413-7… READ MORE
Pawel Maciejko wins AAJR’s Baron Prize for The Mixed Multitude
06/12/2012
Congratulations to Pawel Maciejko, winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the outstanding first book in Jewish studies published in 2011. The American Academy of Jewish Research selected Maciejko… READ MORE
Nicole Eustace and The War of 1812 in History and Memory on C-SPAN
06/08/2012
"Like Avogadro's number or the rules of subjunctive verbs, the War of 1812 is one of those things that you learned about in school and promptly forgot without major consequence,"… READ MORE
Citizens of a Christian Nation–Now in Paperback
06/06/2012
Citizens of a Christian Nation: Evangelical Missions and the Problem of Race in the Nineteenth Century Derek Chang 248 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4218-8 |… READ MORE
1812–Now Available
06/06/2012
1812: War and the Passions of Patriotism Nicole Eustace 352 pages | 6 x 9 | 19 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4431-1 | $34.95 | £23.00 A volume in… READ MORE
