Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

The 11 thinkers whose ideas are presented in this volume take a deep look at Derrida's work to consider its specific strengths and weaknesses as a model for feminist theory and practice. The problems addressed include the status of the female object, civil disobedience and AIDS.

A collection of Pennsylvania folklore recorded by Henry W. Shoemaker, originally published in 1913 by the Bright Printing Company. Includes stories from the Seven Mountains, located in Mifflin, Centre, and Juniata Counties.

Originally published in 1907. Records the birth of the oil industry in Pennsylvania from the eyewitness perspective of Alfred Smiley, a Pennsylvania native who worked on the world's first modern oil well.

A collection of essays that explore the philosophy and political theory of John Rawls from a variety of feminist perspectives.

A collection of essays exploring the work of Jewish American novelist Chaim Potok, with emphasis on his efforts to reconcile the appeal of modernity and the pull of traditional Judaism.

A collection of essays examining the Australian Citizens' Parliament, a project in deliberative democracy held in 2009. Explores its organization, the deliberation, the flow of beliefs and ideas, facilitator and organizer effects, and its impacts from a variety of theoretical, empirical, and practice perspectives.

Gerard Brault's 1984 student edition of La Chanson de Roland has become a standard text in classrooms. It contains the text and translation from his 1978 edition along with an introduction illuminating the poem's historical and literary background and significance. It also contains a new preface and improvements to both the text and bibliography.

A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman and her theories of democracy and feminism.

A collection of essays that discuss the writings of Carole Pateman and her theories of democracy and feminism.

Studies the mythic hero Kluskap of the Mi'kmaw people of eastern Canada, along with a series of eighteenth-century treaties and an annual Mi'kmaw mission to Saint Anne. Suggests that Kluskap, the treaties, and the mission are intertwined in a way that expresses a unique critique of modernity.

Explores the language of wonder in the history of the New World. Traces the preoccupation with this concept in the history of the Americas from the colonial era to the twentieth century, with the emergence of so-called magical realism.

A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.

A collection of essays that explore the transatlantic German cultures and identities of the colonial period.

Explores the main ideas of Pennsylvania-born religious leader Frank Buchman (1878-1961), his work in the movement known as the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, and his enduring legacy in the areas of peace-building and interfaith understanding.

Examines the work of three nineteenth-century utilitarian feminist philosophers: Catharine Beecher, Frances Wright, and Anna Doyle Wheeler. Focuses on methodological questions in order to recover theirphilosophy and categorize it as feminist.

An empirical study of hate speech in Hungary, examining the cultural foundations of public communication and how cultural thinking can be used to inform political action through public expression.

An English translation of the writings of French constitutional theorist Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) on the United States. Subjects include the American Revolution, federal Constitution, and the emerging political culture in the United States.

Examines how racial identity and race relations are expressed in the writings of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (1839-1908), Brazil's foremost author of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.

In early April 1536, Gonzalo Jimenez de Quesada led a military expedition from the coastal city of Santa Marta deep into the interior of what is today modern Colombia. This title reconstructs the tale of the Jimenez expedition, the early stages of the Spanish conquest of Muisca territory, and the foundation of the city of Santa Fe de Bogota.

This anthology examines the work of Hegel from diverse critical perspectives. The essays gathered together here focus on gender issues found in his philosophy, including the passages on woman and and the feminine, which feature prominently in his work.

Examines, through an analysis of seven high school newspapers, the evolution of civic and political participation among young people in the United States since 1965.

A collection of essays analyzing the seventeenth-century British political theorist Thomas Hobbes from a feminist perspective.

Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies.

A narrative history of the gains in economic and political equality in the United States starting in the 1870s. Argues that many of these gains have been reversed since the 1960s, and proposes solutions for reversing this downward spiral.

The interest in social history and private life is often seen as a 20th-century innovation. This book shows that we need to look back into the 19th century, when French intellectuals developed many of the key concepts that historians employ. It also compares French approaches to social history with those of German historians between 1930 and 1970.

Traces the history of the labor movement in Chile through the experiences of copper miners employed by the Anaconda Copper Company from 1945 to 1990. Covers the economic, political, and social history of the 45-year period when the Cold War dominated Chilean politics.

In this book, a group of prominent French historians shows why the nobility remains a vital topic for understanding France's past. The contributors to this volume incorporate the important lessons of Chaussinand-Nogaret's revisionism but also reexamine the assumptions on which that revisionism was based.

Published in 1554, "Lazarillo de Tormes" shocked art and society during the Renaissance. Giancarlo Maiorino treats this picaresque narrative as a prism for exploring "econopoetics", a term he uses to foreground the ways in which literary and economic modes of production feed off one another.