In the July podcast Joan Johnson-Freese, author of Heavenly Ambitions: America's Quest to Dominate Space talks about U. S. military interests in outer space. Johnson-Freese is the Chair of the Department of National Security Studies at the Naval War College.
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Penn Press authors are back in action at the Religion and American History blog. Steven P. Miller and Katherine Carte Engel are the latest of our authors to contribute to the online history forum.
“Graham was indeed in Nixon’s ‘kitchen cabinet’ during the immediate post-reelection period,” concludes Steven Miller, author of Billy Graham and the Rise of the Republican South, in his new blog post for Religion In American History. In "Billy Graham, Nixon, and Jews as God's Time Piece," Miller, relays his thoughts on a taped Billy Graham-Nixon conversation recently made public by the Nixon Presidential Library and considers the close connection between Graham’s evangelist mission and its influence on Nixon’s political policy.
In "Protestant Empires, Whiggish History, and Personal Religious Histories," Katherine Carte Engel writes about Carla Gardina Pestana’s recently published book Protestant Empire: Religion and the Making of the British Atlantic World, calling it “timely” and “wonderfully readable.” “It elaborates the very real political forces at work in religious history,” making religious history more accessible for the average reader. Engel is the author of Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America.
Language and History in Ancient Greek Culture
Martin Ostwald
320 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4149-5 | $65.00 | £42.50
Renowned scholar of Ancient Greek Martin Ostwald explains, for a modern audience, the terms by which the ancient Greeks saw and lived their lives—and influenced ours.
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In My Power: Letter Writing and Communications in Early America
Konstantin Dierks
376 pages | 6 x 9 | 20 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4153-2 | $45.00 | £29.50
A volume in the Early American Studies series
In an era of bewildering geographical mobility, economic metamorphosis, and political upheaval, the proliferation of letter writing and the development of a communications infrastructure enabled middle-class Britons and Americans to rise to advantage in the British Atlantic world.
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Aliens and Sojourners: Self as Other in Early Christianity
Benjamin H. Dunning
188 pages | 6 x 9
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4156-3 | $49.95 | £32.50
A volume in the Divinations: Rereading Late Ancient Religion series
Why did early Christians claim their "otherness" as resident aliens, strangers, and sojourners so vocally? Aliens and Sojourners explores the markedly different ways that Christians used the rhetoric of their own marginality in order to variously situate Christian identity in relation to the ancient Roman world.
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Yes, we know that spring ended and summer began at 1:45 a.m. this morning, but that doesn't put an end to the Penn Press Vernal Equinox Sale. You still have until June 30th to save 70% on selected titles. Visit our Vernal Equinox Sale website and make your book loving summer solstis extra sunny.
The Incarnate Text: Imagining the Book in Reformation England
James Kearney
336 pages | 6 x 9 | 21 illus.
Cloth 2009 | ISBN 978-0-8122-4158-7 | $65.00 | £42.50
A volume in the Material Texts series
James Kearney engages with recent work in the history of the book and the history of religion to investigate the crisis of the book occasioned by the Reformation's simultaneous faith in text and distrust of material forms.
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