Ethnographies of Neoliberalism–Now Available
10/28/2009
Ethnographies of Neoliberalism Edited by Carol J. Greenhouse 376 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4192-1 | $55.00 | £36.00 What happens when citizens are refashioned as… READ MORE
Category: Current Affairs
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City–Now Available
10/20/2009
Imagining Philadelphia: Edmund Bacon and the Future of the City Edited by Scott G. Knowles 184 pages | 6 x 9 | 26 illus. Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2078-0 |… READ MORE
Smart, Coherent, Disciplined and Troubling: The Washington Post review of Chertoff’s Homeland Security
10/19/2009
Edward Alden reviewed Michael Chertoff's Homeland Security: Assessing the First Five Years and Tom Ridge's The Test of our Times in yesterday's Washington Post. Both Chertoff and Ridge served as… READ MORE
Dynasty, smhynasty! Phillies Fan and Historian Bill Kashatus is Enjoying the Ride
10/15/2009
The weather forecast for the coming week is just one more thing for Philadelphians to worry about, especially those who have their fingers crossed for another World Series Championship. After… READ MORE
Do Museums Still Need Objects?–Now Available
10/14/2009
Do Museums Still Need Objects? Steven Conn 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4190-7 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Arts… READ MORE
A Just Withdrawal: Walzer and Mills on Getting Out of Iraq in The New Republic
09/25/2009
Michael Walzer and Nicolaus Mills co-wrote a piece for today’s issue of Tne New Republic entitled A Just Withdrawal. In it, they share their guidelines for an ethical withdrawal from… READ MORE
China’s Higher Education Press Visits Penn Press
A thoroughly unscientific sampling of University of Pennsylvania Press editors and staff revealed that although the Press boasts competent speakers in many languages, its collective fluency in Mandarin is somewhat… READ MORE
Chertoff on C-Span’s Washington Journal
09/18/2009
Tune in or log on to C-Span's Washington Journal to see former Department of Homeland Security head Michael Chertoff discuss the past, present, and future of national security and disaster… READ MORE
Lemire on Walden Pond as a Black Space, not just a Green Space
09/15/2009
"Although it doesn’t yet bill itself as such, Walden Pond State Reservation is an important African-American heritage site. It speaks to the segregation imposed in slavery’s wake and the survival… READ MORE
The New York Review of Books on Hidden War in the Congo
09/10/2009
In the September 24 issue of The New York Review of Books, Howard W. French examines three recent studies of violence in Central Africa: René Lemarchand's The Dynamics of Violence… READ MORE
