Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards.

A visitor's guide to central Pennsylvania, discussing local history, folklore, and geography. Originally published in 1917.

A listing of burials in various Moravian cemeteries in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1906.

What does God say about the "correct" social teaching of the Catholic Church? This work presents the history of American Catholic economic debates taking place during the generation preceding Vatican II. This was a time of immense social change, and especially in the light of the social and economic upheavals in Russia and Europe.

In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century.

The last half of the 20th century was a time of great social and economic change for Pennsylvanians. It was also a tumultuous time in state politics. Vincent Carocci offers a colorful and honest look at the ups and downs of state politics, Pennsylvania-style.

Hailing from the Keystone State's western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most heavily engaged units, suffering the most battle deaths which earned it the name of "Bloody Eleventh". This is the divisions story from before the war up through 1864.

This is the story of how one American Civil War site has garnered national attention and taught Americans lessons about the future of historic preservation. It covers the earliest moves to create the Manassas Battlefield Park up to the struggle to prevent the Disney site nearby.

Examines the history and development of Moravian theology, from its origins in the Hussite movement to the work of Comenius. Explores the theology of the Unity of the Brethren within the context of the Protestant Reformation.

Investigates the efforts of feminists in Chile to win policy reforms on a broad range of gender equity issues, from labor and marriage laws to educational opportunities to health and reproductive rights.

Provides a definition and defense of individual privacy rights. Applies the proposed theory to issues including privacy versus free speech; drug testing; and national security and public accountability.

Focuses on the phenomenon of self-deception, and proposes a radical revision of our commonplace understanding of it as a token of irrationality. Argues that self-deception can illuminate the rationalistic functions of character.

Analyzes populist movements in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, and Venezuela from a gender perspective. Considers the role of masculinity and femininity in populist leadership, the impact of populism on democracy and feminism, and women's critical roles as followers of these leaders.

Analyzes the practice and meanings of democratic decision making through an extended case study of school board meetings in one western U.S. community. Argues that for communication conduct in local governance bodies, reasonable hostility is a more promising ideal than civility.

Analyzes the crisis indigenous political groups faced in Mexico at the turn of the twenty-first century. Focuses on an indigenous peoples movement in the state of Guerrero that gained unprecedented national and international prominence in the 1990s and yet was defunct by 2002.

A listing of burials in the Old Moravian Cemetery of Bethlehem, Pennsylania. Originally published in 1912 by the Pennsylvania German Society.

Analyzes the impact of the opposition candidacies in the Mexican presidential elections of 1940, 1946, and 1952 on the internal discipline and electoral dominance of the ruling Partido de la Revolucion Mexican (PRM) and its successor, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI).

Analyzes how activists, legal strategies, and judicial receptivity to human rights claims are constructing new accountability outcomes for human rights violations in Chile and El Salvador.

Over the years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. This book showcases the work of leading scholars who represent a spectrum of historiographical and methodological viewpoints. Its contributors include Lorena Walsh, Terry Bouton, Daniel Dupre, and David Hancock.

An analysis of the Constitutional Convention of 1787 and the role of the First Congress in the founding of the American political system. This work is derived largely from a reading of Farrand's "Records" and the "Annals of Congress".

Examines the widespread Latin American phenomenon of illegal land seizures and squatter settlement development. Explains, based on case studies in Peru and Ecuador, how invasion organizations mobilize, why they succeed or fail, and why they endure or disappear.

An analysis of social and economic policies in the United States, with emphasis on the 1960s War on Poverty.

Explores the phenomenon of xenoglossia, the sudden, miraculous ability to speak, understand, read, or write a foreign language, as it appears in the later medieval hagiographic record and in English literature. Includes discussion of the late medieval English writers Geoffrey Chaucer and Margery Kempe.

The renovation of Rio, or "civilization" campaign, as the government called it, made life worse for the majority of the city's residents. Their resistance to the changes is the focus of this study, tracing the rebellion that continued for more than 20 years after the renovation ended in 1909.