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Penn Press Log http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/ en-US Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:01:20 -0500 http://www.typepad.com/ http://www.rssboard.org/rss-specification W.E.B. Du Bois, American Prophet--Now in Paperback http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/5oNMLQmVmPw/web-du-bois-american-prophetnow-in-paperback.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/web-du-bois-american-prophetnow-in-paperback.html W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet Edward J. Blum 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2086-5 | $22.50 | £15.00 A volume in the Politics and... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14316.html"><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet</strong></font></a> <br />Edward J. Blum <br />288 pages | 6 x 9 <br />Cloth 2007 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4010-8 | $39.95 | £26.00 <br />Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2086-5 | $22.50 | £15.00 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/POC.html">Politics and Culture in Modern America</a> series <br /> <br /><em><img align="right" alt="W. E. B. Du Bois, American Prophet" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14316.jpg" /></em>"This book is a marvelous probing into the unknown and unexplored dimension of the great W. E. B. Du Bois's life and work: his self-styled religious and spiritual temperament. Edward Blum is to be congratulated for this grand contribution!"--Cornel West, Princeton University<br /><br />"Blum's work powerfully evokes both the spirit and substance of Du Bois's moral vision in ways that will greatly benefit students and scholars of American religious and intellectual history for years to come."--<em>Journal of American History</em><p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14316.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a>. African American Studies American History & Studies Biography Now in Paperback Political Science Religion PennPress Tue, 10 Nov 2009 12:01:20 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/web-du-bois-american-prophetnow-in-paperback.html The Literary Market--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/tU5KtQ-Qv34/the-literary-marketnow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/the-literary-marketnow-available.html The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime Geoffrey Turnovsky 280 pages | 6 x 9 | none Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Material Texts series This study offers... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14682.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>The Literary Market: Authorship and Modernity in the Old Regime</strong></span></a> <br />Geoffrey Turnovsky <br />280 pages | 6 x 9 | none <br />Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4195-2 | $59.95 | £39.00 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/MT.html">Material Texts</a> series <br /> <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14682.html"><img align="right" alt="The Literary Market" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14682.jpg" /></a><br />This study offers a new reading of the development of modern authorship in seventeenth- and eighteenth-century France, through a detailed reexamination of one of the central mythologies of this evolution: the author's passage from dependence on patronage to the autonomy of the market. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14682.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> American History & Studies Book History Books Business & Economics European & World History Literature & Cultural Studies New Titles PennPress Mon, 09 Nov 2009 16:26:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/the-literary-marketnow-available.html Traitors--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/M1r7WdgyEXc/traitorsnow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/traitorsnow-available.html Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly 280 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 This volume examines political, ethnic, and... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14681.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Traitors: Suspicion, Intimacy, and the Ethics of State-Building</strong></span></a> <br />Edited by Sharika Thiranagama and Tobias Kelly <br />280 pages | 6 x 9 | 8 illus. <br />Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4213-3 | $45.00 | £29.50 <br /> <br /><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14681.html"><img align="right" alt="Traitors" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14681.jpg" /></a>This volume examines political, ethnic, and personal trust and betrayals in modern times from Mozambique to the Taiwan Straits, from the former Eastern Bloc to the West Bank, revealing that treachery is a constant and essential part of the processes through which social and political order is reproduced. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14681.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> African Studies Anthropology Asian Studies Current Affairs European & World History Foreign Policy Human Rights & Law Literature & Cultural Studies Middle Eastern Studies New Titles Political Science PennPress Mon, 09 Nov 2009 15:21:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/traitorsnow-available.html Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/wcaDDvvDW4U/sound-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproductionnow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/sound-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproductionnow-available.html Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser 336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Hagley Perspectives on Business... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14680.html"><img align="right" alt="Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14680.jpg" /><font face="Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong> Sound in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction</strong></font></a> <br />Edited by David Suisman and Susan Strasser <br />336 pages | 6 x 9 | 13 illus. <br />Cloth  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4199-0 | $49.95 | £32.50 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/HPB.html">Hagley Perspectives on Business and Culture</a> series <br /> <br />Scholars investigate sound as part of the social construction of historical experience and as an element of the sensory relationship people have to the world, showing how hearing and listening can inform people's feelings, ideas, decisions, and actions. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14680.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> American History & Studies Business & Economics European & World History Film Literature & Cultural Studies Music New Titles Political Science Science Television PennPress Mon, 09 Nov 2009 10:18:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/sound-in-the-age-of-mechanical-reproductionnow-available.html Everyday Nationalism--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/QokmueCpsKA/everyday-nationalismnow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/everyday-nationalismnow-available.html Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India Kalyani Devaki Menon 272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 A volume in the Ethnography of Political Violence series... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14671.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Everyday Nationalism: Women of the Hindu Right in India</strong></span></a> <br />Kalyani Devaki Menon <br />272 pages | 6 x 9 | 4 illus. <br />Cloth Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4196-9 | $49.95 | £32.50 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/EPV.html">Ethnography of Political Violence</a> series <br /> <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14671.html"><img align="right" alt="Everyday Nationalism" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14671.jpg" /></a><br />This ethnography analyzes the popularity of Hindu nationalism in contemporary India through examining the everyday acts of women activists, finding that women's ability to recruit individuals from a variety of backgrounds and the movement's willingness to accommodate a multiplicity of positions are central to understanding its expansionary power. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14671.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> Anthropology Asian Studies Current Affairs Gender Studies New Titles Political Science Women's Studies PennPress Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:08:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/everyday-nationalismnow-available.html Affective Meditation--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/jazqpkqRL28/affective-meditationnow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/affective-meditationnow-available.html Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion Sarah McNamer 304 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. Cloth Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4211-9 | $59.95 | £39.00 A volume in the Middle Ages Series This book offers a... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14670.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion</strong></span></a> <br />Sarah McNamer <br />304 pages | 6 x 9 | 10 illus. <br />Cloth Dec 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4211-9 | $59.95 | £39.00 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/MA.html">Middle Ages Series</a> <br /> <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14670.html"><img align="right" alt="Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14670.jpg" /></a><br />This book offers a new history of a major medieval genre, affective meditations on the Passion. It argues that women were instrumental in the creation of this genre, and it illuminates how these scripts for the performance of prayer served to construct compassion itself as an intimate and feminine emotion. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14670.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> European & World History Gender Studies Literature & Cultural Studies Medieval & Renaissance Studies New Titles Religious Studies PennPress Fri, 06 Nov 2009 08:04:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/affective-meditationnow-available.html The Blacks of Premodern China--Now Available http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PennPressLog/~3/x-iHuODf4Wc/the-blacks-of-premodern-chinanow-available.html http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/the-blacks-of-premodern-chinanow-available.html The Blacks of Premodern China Don J. Wyatt 208 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 A volume in the Encounters with Asia series The Blacks of Premodern China describes... <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14684.html"><span style="font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;"><strong>The Blacks of Premodern China</strong></span></a> <br />Don J. Wyatt <br />208 pages | 6 x 9 | 7 illus. <br />Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4193-8 | $65.00 | £42.50 <br />A volume in the <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/series/EWA.html">Encounters with Asia</a> series <br /> <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14684.html"><img align="right" alt="The Blacks of Premodern China" border="0" hspace="5" src="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/img/covers/150_14684.jpg" /></a><br /><em>The Blacks of Premodern China</em> describes the earliest Chinese encounters with peoples regarded as black. It focuses on the first exposure of Chinese to blacks hailing from East Africa, chiefly from today's Somalia, Kenya, and Tanzania, who arrived in China as slaves between the seventh and seventeenth centuries C.E. <p><a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/book/14684.html">Read more</a> . . .</p> Book reviewers: to request a press copy, contact <a href="mailto:ellenpt@upenn.edu">Ellen Trachtenberg</a>. <br />Educators: to request an exam copy for course use consideration, <a href="http://www.upenn.edu/pennpress/review.html">click here</a> African Studies Ancient Studies Anthropology Asian Studies European & World History New Titles PennPress Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:09:00 -0500 http://pennpress.typepad.com/pennpresslog/2009/11/the-blacks-of-premodern-chinanow-available.html