Muslims in Global Politics–Now in Paperback
06/04/2012
Muslims in Global Politics: Identities, Interests, and Human Rights Mahmood Monshipouri 344 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4181-5 | $65.00 | £42.50 Paper 2012 | ISBN… READ MORE
Category: Political Science
Public Culture–Now in Paperback
06/01/2012
Public Culture: Diversity, Democracy, and Community in the United States Edited by Marguerite S. Shaffer 392 pages | 6 x 9 | 34 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4081-8 |… READ MORE
Ways of Writing–Now in Paperback
Ways of Writing: The Practice and Politics of Text-Making in Seventeenth-Century New England David D. Hall 248 pages | 6 x 9 | 6 illus. Cloth 2008 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4102-0… READ MORE
The Revolution Is Now Begun – Now in Paperback
05/29/2012
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
Priscilla Yamin Asks: What Role Should Marriage Play in Defining the Rights of Citizens?
North Carolina's recent constitutional amendment banning gay marriage and the White House's response to that measure continue to reverberate through personal and public conversations across the nation. In this post,… READ MORE
5 Penn Press Books Chosen for Terrorism and Counterterrorism Bookshelf
05/18/2012
Five University of Pennsylvania Press books made Perspectives on Terrorism's list of top books on terrorism and counterterrorism. Mia Bloom's Bombshell: Women and Terrorism, Allison Pargeter's The New Frontiers of… READ MORE
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency–Now Available
05/02/2012
How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency Saladin M. Ambar 184 pages | 6 x 9 | 2 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4396-3 | $55.00 | £36.00 A volume… READ MORE
Nelson Lichtenstein Wins Sol Stetin Award for Labor History
05/01/2012
This May Day evening, the Sidney Hillman Foundation will present historian Nelson Lichtenstein with the 2012 Sol Stetin Award for Labor History at a ceremony in New York City. Lichtenstein… READ MORE
This Month’s Podcast: Saladin M. Ambar on Governors, Presidents, and Governors as Presidents
In the May Penn Press podcast, Lehigh University political scientist Saladin M. Ambar, author of How Governors Built the Modern American Presidency, discusses the role that governorship played in shaping… READ MORE
An Earth Day Excerpt from Making Seafood Sustainable
04/18/2012
In many parts of the United States, seafood consisted of canned salmon and canned tuna fish. Processing seafood by freezing was in its infancy. Fresh fish was sold in grocery stores and restaurants mainly in coastal cities such as Seattle, San Francisco, Boston, and New York. Today, technological advances, such as jet airplanes and new freezing techniques, have made it possible for processors and distributors to offer people throughout the United States and in other nations a wide variety of seafood. Fresh, wild salmon from Alaska nestle next to frozen, farm-raised tilapia from China in grocers’ counters across America.
My book explains how this transformation occurred. To do so, I explore the interactions among fishers, executives of seafood-processing firms, governmental officials, scientists, and environmentalists in formulating policies that created the food chains connecting boats to consumers.
