Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

The story of the struggles over the formualtion and implementation of US foreign policy toward Central America during the critical period of 1976 to 1992. This secon edition includes a chapter on the Nicaragua and El Salvador policy debates at the end of the Bush administration.

Interprets the Bible as a text concerned with the political reality of conceiving and nurturing a nation. Highlights the emphasis that the Bible places on women's contribution to what it takes to make a nation.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Bajazet (1672). Includes critical notes and commentary.

Attempts to forge a new language and a new way of reasoning about what it is like to be good and bad by focusing on existential phenomena that reveal what it means to be good and bad. The text puts an emphasis on understanding that "good" and "bad" can refer to ways of existing.

An introduction to the range of protest and celebration in America from the Revolution to the Civil War. Leading American historians demonstrate that early America was in fact an integral part of a broader transatlantic tradition of popular disturbance and celebration.

Analyzes the movement for Indian independence, the framing of the Indian Constitution, and contemporary contestations over women's legal and political status as crucial moments of transition in which feminist and other progressive activists in India have challenged racialized and gendered underpinnings of democracy's social contract.

A biography of Pennsylvania's folklorist and pioneer of national conservation, Henry Shoemaker (1882-1958). He espoused the Progressivist belief that nature and folk cultures held vital, spiritual powers for a modern age, especially in America, where he sought a mythology to support nationalism.

Images of and references to women are so rare in the corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of these 15 essays show it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences to find rich resources for feminist theory and practice.

Presents, and in part develops, a systematic philosophy as the universal science, or the theorization of the unrestricted universe of discourse, explicitly including being as such and as a whole. Argues that complete exploration of the theoretical domain requires such a science.

Early Quakers have been described as founders of a new form of spiritual practice, as the radical end of the Protestant Reformation, and as political revolutionaries. This early history of the Quakers argues that all of these are accurate and details the leaders of the Quakers movement until 1666.

This text argues that the written opinion that explains a judgment is much like fiction, in the sense of it being a constructed meaning. Using several Supreme Court cases the author examines rhetorical techniques and contends that judges must not abandon their "fictions" but strive to improve them.

This is a critical edition of Charlotte Perkins Gilman's "The Yellow Wall-paper", the story of the victimization of a woman whose neurasthenic condition is completely misdiagnosed and mistreated, leaving her to face insanity alone. It is accompanied by contemporary reviews and letters.

Explores how the artisan community of Baltimore responded to the industrialization of America during the 1820s and 1830s. The book examines how evangelical Methodism inspired their refusal to accept second-class citizenship.

An exploration of the history of feminist activism in Nicaragua. Looks at the role of women in conservative politics and the Somoza regime.

This volume presents for the first time a complete set of source materials germane to the study of the feast of Corpus Christi. In addition to the multiple versions of the original Latin liturgy, a set of poems in Old French, and their English translations, the book includes complete transcriptions of the music associated with the feast.

A comparative analysis of lower-class interest politics in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela. Examines the proliferation of associations in Latin America's popular-sector neighborhoods, in the context of the historic problem of popular-sector voice and political representation in the region.

This text provides a survey of the way that prominent thinkers (ranging from Plato, Aristotle and Tacitus to Tocqueville, Max Weber and Hannah Arendt) have discussed the problem of tyrannical government from ancient Greece to the mid-20th century.

These essays reinterpret Simone de Beauvoir's relationship to existentialism and the problem of her relationship to feminism.

Reprint of a 1915 work documenting historic inns and taverns along the Lancaster Turnpike in Pennsylvania. Includes descriptions of sixty-two inns, with chapters exploring the history and importance of famous inns such as the General Warren, Spread Eagle, and Paoli.

Reprint of a 1903 work exploring the Pennsylvania German folk art of slipware or redware pottery. Explores tools and processes of manufacture, techniques and variations, decoration, motives, coloring, types, and practical uses.

A collection of essays, written for this volume by leaders in the field, that study the emotional and cognitive significance of narrative and its implications for aesthetics and the philosophy of art.

Reprint of a 1916 collection of Pennsylvania folklore. Includes twenty-six legends set in Central Pennsylvania and the Juniata Valley.

Reprint of a 1917 work exploring the history of ten roads originating in Philadelphia: the King's Highway to Wilmington, Baltimore Pike, Westchester Turnpike, Lancaster Turnpike, Gulph Road, Ridge Road, Old Germantown Road, the road to Bethlehem, Old York Road, and the road between Bristol and Trenton.

Examines folk songs, patent medicine advertisements, oral history interviews, ghost stories, and jokes to show how over the course of the twentieth century the men and women of the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania crafted their gender and ethnic identities via the medical decisions they made.

Ranging from France and Russia to America in the throes of world war and revolution, this book investigates how critics and creative artists made medieval culture a part of their modern world through theatrical role playing. It focuses on two key figures of the Theophilien troupe: founder Gustave Cohen and actor Moussa Abadi.

Reconsiders the fate of the doctrine of mimesis in the eighteenth century. This book argues that mimesis, rather than disappearing, instead became a far more pervasive idea in the eighteenth century by becoming submerged within the dynamics of the emerging accounts of judgement and taste.

"Explores the democratization and decentralization of governance in Mexico and finds that informal political networks continue to mediate citizens' relationships with their elected authorities. Analyzes the linkages between informal and formal power by comparing how they worked in three Mexican cities: Tijuana, Ciudad Nezahualcoyotl, and Chilpancingo"--Provided by publisher.