Tax and Spend–Now Available
04/04/2012
Tax and Spend: The Welfare State, Tax Politics, and the Limits of American Liberalism Molly C. Michelmore 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
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A Glorious Enterprise–Now Available
04/03/2012
A Glorious Enterprise: The Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia and the Making of American Science Robert McCracken Peck and Patricia Tyson Stroud. Photographs by Rosamond Purcell 464 pages |… READ MORE
Beyond the Resource Curse–Now Available
04/03/2012
Beyond the Resource Curse Edited by Brenda Shaffer and Taleh Ziyadov 512 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4400-7 | $69.95 | £45.50 "Beyond the Resource Curse… READ MORE
Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages–Now Available
04/03/2012
Multicultural China in the Early Middle Ages Sanping Chen 320 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth Mar 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4370-3 | $79.95 | £52.00 A volume in the Encounters… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: A Reading from The Satires of Horace
03/30/2012
In the April Penn Press podcast, our own Sara Davis reads selections from The Satires of Horace, translated by A.M. Juster. In the Satires, the Roman philosopher and dramatic critic… READ MORE
The Crusades and the Christian World of the East Wins John Nicholas Brown Prize
03/27/2012
Congratulations to Christopher MacEvitt, Associate Professor in the Department of Religion at Dartmouth College. MacEvitt's The Crusades and the Christian World of the East: Rough Tolerance received the Medieval Academy of America’s… READ MORE
Penn Press First Incorporated 122 Years Ago Today
03/26/2012
On March 26, 1890, the University of Pennsylvania Press was incorporated with the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.Within a decade, the University of Pennsylvania Press imprint began to appear on scholarly publications…. READ MORE
Announcing the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series
03/22/2012
Penn Press is pleased to announce the Inaugural Mellon Distinguished Lecture Series, sponsored by the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Pennsylvania and the University of Pennsylvania… READ MORE
Eugenic Design author Christina Cogdell Talks about the History of Sterilization on CNN
03/16/2012
A new CNN report on California's history of forced sterilizations includes an interview with Christina Cogdell, author of Eugenic Design: Streamlining America in the 1930s. According to the report, in… READ MORE
Paul’s Pick for March, a Free Article from The Eighteenth Century: Theory and Interpretation
03/15/2012
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 the… READ MORE
