Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

This text explores the creative processes in four classic works: "Death in Venice", "Treasure Island", "The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam" and "War and Peace". It considers how each of these works was compelled by an urgent life problem - conscious or unconscious - of its author.

This work provides a history of the political contests that took place over the Federal Constitution in Pennsylvania. It suggests that political divisions were based less on class, sectional and occupational differences than on partisan attachments rooted in religious and ethnic conflicts.

This text presents a comprehensive study of the strategic value of the navy based on an in-depth analysis of the historical relationships among land, sea, air and space power.

This text is an intellectual biography of Marx that combines historical, textual and psychological analyses to provide major new insights into the philosopher's writings and development.