Penn Press Logtag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-3426202012-01-25T16:35:03-05:00TypePadBachmann Is Back: A Guest Blog Post by Kirsten Marie Delegardtag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0168e612128f970c2012-01-25T16:35:03-05:002012-01-25T16:35:03-05:00On Sunday, the anniversary of the Roe vs. Wade decision, U.S. Representative Michele Bachmann made her first public appearance since pulling out of the presidential race on January 4. At a protest against abortion at the Minnesota State Capitol, the conservative congresswoman was in her element as she rallied the faithful.
Bachmann's last-place finish in the Iowa caucuses and subsequent withdrawal from the presidential running had undoubtedly disappointed that audience.
Outside of those circles, many observers viewed Bachmann's candidacy as a manifestation of our collective political dysfunction. Yet any relief at her poor showing needs to be tempered by caution.PennPressA New Nation of Goods--Now in Paperbacktag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0162ffe94a34970d2012-01-25T08:50:00-05:002012-01-24T13:18:51-05:00A New Nation of Goods: The Material Culture of Early America David Jaffee 424 pages | 7 x 10 | 10 color, 107 b/w illus. Paper 2011 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2200-5 | $27.50 | £18.00 A volume in the Early American...PennPressColonizer or Colonized--Now Availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0162ffe90467970d2012-01-24T13:10:46-05:002012-01-24T13:10:46-05:00Colonizer or Colonized: The Hidden Stories of Early Modern French Culture Sara E. Melzer 344 pages | 6 x 9 | 9 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4363-5 | $75.00 | £49.00 This innovative analysis of sixteen- and seventeenth-century France...PennPressLord's Rights and Peasants Stories--Now Availabletag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0168e5ded934970c2012-01-24T13:09:21-05:002012-01-24T13:09:21-05:00Lords' Rights and Peasant Stories: Writing and the Formation of Tradition in the Later Middle Ages Simon Teuscher. Translated by Philip Grace 320 pages | 6 x 9 | 5 illus. Cloth 2012 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4368-0 | $69.95 | £45.50...PennPress"We are all bound together in a single garment of destiny."tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef01676079d967970b2012-01-16T08:16:04-05:002012-01-16T08:16:04-05:00"There is no separate black path to power and fulfillment that does not intersect white paths, and there is no separate white path to power and fulfillment, short of social disaster, that does not share that power with black aspirations...PennPressPaul's Pick of the Month, a Free Article from the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studiestag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef016760779b59970b2012-01-15T07:14:00-05:002012-01-13T11:50:34-05:00Every month, Paul Chase in the Penn Press Journals department invites our blog readers to download a complimentary article from one of our many scholarly journals. Paul's Pick for January, Defining Early Modern Pornography: The Case of Venus and Adonis...PennPressBecoming the People of the Talmud to Receive 2011 National Jewish Book Award for Scholarshiptag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0168e55031d3970c2012-01-10T16:46:36-05:002012-01-19T14:28:22-05:00The Jewish Book Council has chosen Talya Fishman's Becoming the People of the Talmud: Oral Torah as Written Tradition in Medieval Jewish Cultures to receive a 2011 National Jewish Book Award in the scholarship category. The council will present its...PennPress