07/12/2012
Penn Press public policy and international relations editor Bill Finan comments on the scope of peer review in light of current events in the Middle East. Questioning the Limits of… READ MORE
07/02/2012
“It’s not simply kids having fun at a roller skating rink. It’s that when you associate certain kinds of spaces with cleanliness, safety, and fun that exclude people of color, then that association has powerful cultural and political effects long after desegregation actually happens,” says Wolcott.
06/05/2012
Divided Cities: Belfast, Beirut, Jerusalem, Mostar, and Nicosia Jon Calame and Esther Charlesworth. Foreword by Lebbeus Woods 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 44 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN… READ MORE
05/29/2012
Beyond the Good Death: The Anthropology of Modern Dying James W. Green 272 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4042-9 | $29.95 | £19.50 Paper… READ MORE
The Revolution Is Now Begun: The Radical Committees of Philadelphia, 1765-1776 Richard Alan Ryerson 328 pages | 7 x 10 Paper 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2213-5 | $29.95 | £19.50 Ryerson… READ MORE
05/21/2012
John Woolman's Path to the Peaceable Kingdom: A Quaker in the British Empire Geoffrey Plank 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 15 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4405-2 |… READ MORE
03/08/2012
Lucretia Coffin Mott’s record of leadership in the women’s movement and in transatlantic abolitionism make her an ideal figure to remember on International Women’s day, even though Mott has long… READ MORE
03/05/2012
Truth and Democracy Edited by Jeremy Elkins and Andrew Norris 352 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4379-6 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Democracy,… READ MORE
02/22/2012
Overcoming an initial reluctance to “talk ‘lawyer-like’ about law” in his early career as abolitionist orator, author, and editor, the celebrated autodidact drew on “well known rules of legal interpretation” to offer influential commentary on the U.S. Constitution and Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857). This legal literacy, combined with a longstanding commitment to gender and racial equality, might have led Douglass to question the wisdom of current efforts to make personhood coterminous with humanness.
02/09/2012
Rainforest Warriors: Human Rights on Trial Richard Price 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 41 illus. Cloth 2010 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4300-0 | $55.00 | £36.00 Paper 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
