Category: European & World History

New World Orders–Now in Paperback

New World Orders: Violence, Sanction, and Authority in the Colonial Americas Edited by John Smolenski and Thomas J. Humphrey 376 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2005… READ MORE

Visions of Progress–Now Available

Visions of Progress: The Left-Liberal Tradition in America Doug Rossinow 312 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4049-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 A volume in the Politics… READ MORE

John Wood Sweet, HNN Top Young Historian

History News Network recently added another Penn Press author, John Wood Sweet, to its list of Top Young Historians. In his HNN profile anecdote, he writes, "Attempting to expand my… READ MORE

Reading Women–Now Available

Reading Women: Literacy, Authorship, and Culture in the Atlantic World, 1500-1800 Edited by Heidi Brayman Hackel and Catherine E. Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 11 illus. Cloth… READ MORE

Fallible Authors–Now Available

Fallible Authors: Chaucer’s Pardoner and Wife of Bath Alastair Minnis 528 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4030-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in… READ MORE