Liberty of the Imagination–Now Available
06/21/2012
Liberty of the Imagination: Aesthetic Theory, Literary Form, and Politics in the Early United States Edward Cahill 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
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Bodies and Books–Now Available
06/20/2012
Bodies and Books: Reading and the Fantasy of Communion in Nineteenth-Century America Gillian Silverman 256 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4415-1 | $55.00… READ MORE
Between Christian and Jew– Now Available
06/20/2012
Between Christian and Jew: Conversion and Inquisition in the Crown of Aragon, 1250-1391 Paola Tartakoff 264 pages | 6 x 9 | 3 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4421-2 |… READ MORE
The Right and Labor in America–Now Available
06/20/2012
The Right and Labor in America: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination Edited by Nelson Lichtenstein and Elizabeth Tandy Shermer 432 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4414-4 |… READ MORE
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
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
