Name that Zoot Contest: The Fourth and Final Week!
07/27/2011
The answer to last week’s question is “zazous.” Before and during World War II, zoot suit wearing jazz lovers in France were known as les zazous. Jusqu’ici sur terre un… READ MORE
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Smack–Now Available in Paperback
07/26/2011
Smack: Heroin and the American City Eric C. Schneider 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 14 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4116-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2011 |… READ MORE
The Empire Reformed–Now Available
07/25/2011
The Empire Reformed: English America in the Age of the Glorious Revolution Owen Stanwood 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4341-3 | $45.00… READ MORE
Women’s Health and the World’s Cities–Now Available
07/25/2011
Women's Health and the World's Cities Edited by Afaf Ibrahim Meleis, Eugenie L. Birch, and Susan M. Wachter 328 pages | 6 x 9 | 29 illus. Cloth 2011 |… READ MORE
So Bravely and So Well: l: The Life and Art of William T. Trego–Now Available
07/25/2011
So Bravely and So Well: The Life and Art of William T. Trego Joseph P. Eckhardt 208 pages | 9 x 12 1/2 | 76 color, 52 b/w illus. Cloth… READ MORE
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South–Now Available in Paperback
07/21/2011
Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South Steven P. Miller 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4151-8 | $29.95 | £19.50… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Three
07/20/2011
The answer to last week's question was Duke Ellington. Ellington was the major creative force behind the musical revue Jump for Joy, which featured zoot suits in all their splendor…. READ MORE
“Beowulf” and Other Old English Poems–Now Available
07/20/2011
"Beowulf" and Other Old English Poems Edited and translated by Craig Williamson. Foreword by Tom Shippey 288 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4345-1… READ MORE
Penned in Prison: The Bohemians and the Bastille
07/14/2011
In this Bastille Day essay, Penn Press intern Alli Hoff considers the creative power of imprisionment. Out of the represssive, sunlight-deficient, and dehumanizing walls of the eighteenth-century Bastille emerged several… READ MORE
Name that Zoot Contest: Week Two
07/13/2011
Congratulations to Pinchus Roth of New York, week one's winner. Last week's question was a killer diller, but Roth rose to the occasion. The name of the actor who graces… READ MORE
