Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

"Philosophy and Rhetoric" is one of Penn State Press' longest-running journals. This volume brings together the journal's most noteworthy articles, beginning with Henry Johnstone's essay underscoring the relationship between the art of rhetoric and philosophy.

"A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.

Bringing together leading scholars of the informal economy and informal politics, this book addresses how globalization has influenced local efforts to resolve political and economic needs - and how these seemingly separate issues are indeed deeply related.

"September Swoon" is important because it not only chronicles how the Phillies disintegrated, but also looks at the racial tension surrounding the Phillies star rookie, Richie Allen."

While the President and Congress as elected by popular vote are representative, can they really reflect the will and sentiment of the populace? Or do money and power dominate everyday politics to the detriment of true self-governance? Leib offers this blueprint for a fourth branch of government as a way of giving the people a voice of their own.

From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world's premier scholar of Amish life. This book contains four essays in which Hostetler is the primary subject. The second half reprints in chronological order fourteen key writings by Hostetler with commentaries and annotations by Weaver-Zercher.

The winner of the 2004 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award, NCOBPS and the2004 Michael Harrington Award "for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world."

The first English translation of Michael de Carvajal's Spanish play Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death, originally published in 1557. Translated by Carlos Jauregui and Mark Smith-Soto. An annotated bilingual edition, with an introduction that discusses the origins and ideological significance of the play.

Upon publication in 2001, "Russia's First Civil War" greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles. Now available in an abridged paperback, "A Short History of Russia's First Civil War" is suited for classroom use.

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, it also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. This study explores Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.

In this study of the politics of economic reform, Javier Corrales argues that the key struggle is between the executive and the ruling party. He puts this argument to the test by examining closely the events in Argentina and Venezuela during the 1990s.

This volume examines the ways in which artists and critics such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz, sought to forge a new identity for America during the era of growth and change dubbed the "Gilded Age" because of its leaders' taste for opulence.

First published in 1987, "Beyond the Covenant Chain" was one of the first studies to acknowledge that the Iroquois never had an empire. This book remains a valuable study of diplomatic amd military relations among Native American groups in 17th- and 18th-century North America.

Grounded in the history of political thought, and illuminated by legal studies and feminist theory, this book offers a challenging approach to thinking about liberty in the wake of decades of criticism of liberalism from feminists, communitarians and conservatives alike.

A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the best small museums in Pennsylvania, interweaving anecdotes with the author's own visits along with descriptions of their histories and collections. Travel directions and complete information on each site's visiting hours and more are included.

This is a comprehensive account of how conflicts over the powers to tax, spend and borrow have been at the centre of American politics and how these budgetary conflicts have shaped national politics by determining the size and role of the federal government.

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.

This text is a collaborative effort by policymakers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference in which high-level verterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations.

This volume aims to sift through the polemics to make sense of religious belief and practice in late antiquity. It aims to describe the mechanisms of ritual with semiotic terms, so that we can better see how they worked and how they affected the social identities of their followers.

This text explains how and why female prostitution became politicized in the context of revolutionary social reform between 1910 and 1940 in Mexico City. Katherine Bliss focuses on public debates over legalized sexual commerce and the spread of sexually transmitted diseases during these years.

A study of the literary career of Sinclair Lewis during the period of his greatest achievement, the 1920s. The book examines the making of his novels, their sources, composition, publication and subsequent critical reception.

English translations of the complete poems and prose narratives of Hartmann von Aue (c.1170-1215), one of Germany's earliest courtly writers who influenced both Gottfried von Strassburg and Wolfram von Eschenbach.

This work is a collection of essays by scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, history, and political science - on the political activism of women from both the left and the right. It challenges stereotypical views of Latin American women.

An anthology of the principal source materials for the study of the formation of Middle English as a discipline. The first section traces the development of ideas about Middle English in the work of 13 writers, and the second section represents literary criticism and commentary by 19 authors.