Penn Press Log tag:typepad.com,2003:weblog-342620 2009-11-06T11:08:00-05:00 TypePad Everyday Nationalism--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a6a58a17970c 2009-11-06T11:08:00-05:00 2009-11-04T15:38:44-05:00 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... PennPress
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
Everyday Nationalism
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.

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 Affective Meditation--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a6501773970b 2009-11-06T08:04:00-05:00 2009-11-04T15:37:36-05:00 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... PennPress
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
Affective Meditation and the Invention of Medieval Compassion
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.

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 The Blacks of Premodern China--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a64fd1f6970b 2009-11-05T14:09:00-05:00 2009-11-04T15:30:04-05:00 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... PennPress
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
The Blacks of Premodern China 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.

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 The Devil in the Holy Water--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a64fcca9970b 2009-11-05T10:04:00-05:00 2009-11-04T15:15:19-05:00 The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon Robert Darnton 552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus. Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9 | $34.95 | £23.00 A volume... PennPress
The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Robert Darnton
552 pages | 6 1/8 x 9 1/4 | 47 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4183-9 | $34.95 | £23.00
A volume in the Material Texts series
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The Devil in the Holy Water, or the Art of Slander from Louis XIV to Napoleon
Robert Darnton explores the scandalous literature of libel and the colorful lives of libelers in eighteenth-century France. By doing so he shows how an ideological current eroded authority under the Old Regime and became absorbed in a new, more radical, political culture under Robespierre.

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 Economic Rights in Canada and the United States--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a6501430970b 2009-11-04T17:00:00-05:00 2009-11-04T15:35:49-05:00 Economic Rights in Canada and the United States Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr. 288 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3925-6 | $47.50 | £31.00 Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2093-3 |... PennPress
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States
Edited by Rhoda E. Howard-Hassmann and Claude E. Welch, Jr.
288 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2006 | ISBN 978-0-8122-3925-6 | $47.50 | £31.00
Paper Nov 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2093-3 | $24.95 | £16.50
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series
Economic Rights in Canada and the United States
This volume explains how economic rights are realized—or violated—in Canada and the United States. Contributors analyze the philosophy, law, and politics of these rights and discuss specific issues such as poverty, health care, and the rights of people with disabilities.

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 Bringing Human Rights Home (Abridged)--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a65020e3970b 2009-11-04T16:37:57-05:00 2009-11-04T16:37:57-05:00 Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States Edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis Abridged Edition 408 pages | 6 x 9 Paper 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2079-7 | $34.95 | £23.00... PennPress
Bringing Human Rights Home Bringing Human Rights Home: A History of Human Rights in the United States
Edited by Cynthia Soohoo, Catherine Albisa, and Martha F. Davis
Abridged Edition
408 pages | 6 x 9
Paper  2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-2079-7 | $34.95 | £23.00
A volume in the Pennsylvania Studies in Human Rights series

Throughout its history, America's policies have alternatively embraced human rights, regarded them with ambivalence, or rejected them out of hand. The essays in this volume put these shifting political winds into a larger historical perspective, from the country's very beginnings to the present day.

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 Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma--Now Available tag:typepad.com,2003:post-6a00d8341d68da53ef0120a6a5480a970c 2009-11-04T15:34:46-05:00 2009-11-04T15:34:46-05:00 Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E. Jason David BeDuhn 408 pages | 6 x 9 Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4210-2 | $69.95 | £45.50 A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series Jason David BeDuhn... PennPress
Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1: Conversion and Apostasy, 373-388 C.E.
Jason David BeDuhn
408 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4210-2 | $69.95 | £45.50
A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series

Augustine's Manichaean Dilemma, 1Jason David BeDuhn reconstructs Augustine's decade-long adherence to Manichaeism, apostasy from it, and subsequent conversion to Nicene Christianity.

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