http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/ en-US Wed, 15 May 2013 00:23:00 -0400 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/TojKH4gz7yg/pauls-pick-how-the-golem-came-to-prague.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/05/pauls-pick-how-the-golem-came-to-prague.html Paul's pick for May is "How the Golem Came to Prague" by Edan Dekel and David Gantt Gurley. The article appears in Spring 2013 issue of Jewish Quarterly Review. 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"Edmund Bacon, probably the most relentless and determined of all planners, believed that... 20th-Century History and Culture American History & Studies Business & Economics PA & Philadelphia Region Public Policy Urban Studies PennPress Fri, 10 May 2013 10:26:11 -0400 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/05/win-a-free-copy-of-ed-bacon-planning-politics-and-the-building-of-modern-philadelphia.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/PlEJmDa7ERs/new-books-trade-land-power-the-struggle-for-eastern-north-america-plus-three-paperbacks.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/05/new-books-trade-land-power-the-struggle-for-eastern-north-america-plus-three-paperbacks.html Trade, Land, Power: The Struggle for Eastern North America Daniel K. Richter 384 pages | 6 x 9 | 35 illus. 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It's no surprise that Penn Press authors like... 20th-Century History and Culture Academic Life Current Affairs European & World History Foreign Policy International Relations National Security Political Science Public Policy PennPress Mon, 22 Apr 2013 10:01:17 -0400 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/04/penn-press-authors-on-chechen-history-and-politics.html http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/pD3_Q7B25uU/this-weeks-new-books-citizenship-and-the-origins-of-womens-history-in-the-united-states.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/04/this-weeks-new-books-citizenship-and-the-origins-of-womens-history-in-the-united-states.html Citizenship and the Origins of Women's History in the United States Teresa Anne Murphy 240 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2013 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4489-2 | $42.50 | £28.00 A volume in the Democracy, Citizenship, and Constitutionalism series Citizenship and... 19th-Century History and Culture 20th-Century History and Culture American History & Studies Asian Studies European & World History Human Rights & Law International Relations Middle Eastern Studies Now in Paperback Women's Studies PennPress Fri, 19 Apr 2013 11:29:24 -0400 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2013/04/this-weeks-new-books-citizenship-and-the-origins-of-womens-history-in-the-united-states.html