Books published by Pennsylvania State University Press

An analysis of how the presidential system operates in post-authoritarian Chile. Peter Siavelis explores factors such as socioeconomics and the characteristics of political parties, and proposes institutional reforms that could mitigate the harm he expects the present system to produce.

This text studies the behaviour of Brazilian industrialists both within the economy and within politics. Drawing on interviews with industrialists and business association representatives, as well as other sources, it examines the factors which had an impact on their reference for reform.

A survey of America's big city mayors from the beginning of the modern office in 1820 to the 1990s. Holli explains the results of the survey, gives biographical sketches of the 10 best mayors, as well as some attention to the worst, and explores mayoral success and failure.

This is a study of the relationship between theologian Karl Barth and his theological assistant, Charlotte von Kirschbaum. The author seeks to describe the collaboration in a multidimensional way and to understand their relationship contextually.

This text assesses the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) on Mexico and its implications for the broadening of hemispheric economic co-operation. It provides alternative explanations for the anti-NAFTA mood that prevails among important sectors and constituencies in the USA.

This text presents a study of the Argentine experience of regime and the intricate interaction between military rulers and trade unionists. It follows the life of regimes from founding, through consolidation to demise. There are several comparisons with other countries.

This work traces the development of women's consciousness in the lands of the South Slavs from the start of the 20th century to 1995. Topics covered include the structures of traditional society, gender relations in the inter-war period, anti-fascist organizations and the socialist experience.

Nietzsche has the reputation of being a virulent misogynist, so why are feminists interested in his philosophy? The essays in this volume provide answers to this question from a variety of feminist perspectives.

Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the text and its contents, discussion of the historical context, translation of representative sections of the text, and comparison with other necromantic texts of the late Middle Ages. The result is the most vivid and readable introduction to medieval magic now available. Like many medieval texts for the use of magicians, this handbook is a miscellany rather than a systematic treatise. It is exceptional, however, in the scope and variety of its contents-prayers and conjurations, rituals of sympathetic magic, procedures involving astral magic, a catalogue of spirits, lengthy ceremonies for consecrating a book of magic, and other materials. With more detail on particular experiments than the famous thirteenth-century Picatrix and more variety than the Thesaurus Necromantiae ascribed to Roger Bacon, the manual is one of the most interesting and important manuscripts of medieval magic that has yet come to light.

This is a historical chronicle of Hungary's war-time experiences. Interviews with soldiers, Jewish survivors of the camps, Hungarian pilots, POWs in Russian labour camps, and others are featured. The larger themes of the tragedy of war and the consequences of individual actions are explored.

During the 1970s and 1980s, the author was one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats, specializing in disarmament negotiations. In this volume, he describes the situation in Moscow and the Kremlin during the October 1973 Arab-Israeli war which brought the world to the brink of confrontation.

Examining the architecture of the church of Saint-Maclou in Rouen, this work offers a series of essays that explore its sociopolitical, artisanal and cultural contexts. The author studies the design theory of its architect and shows how people were affected by, or contributed to, the construction.

The essays in this volume explore whether Kierkegaard's writings are misogynistic, ambivalent or essentialist in their views of woman and the feminine or whether they are liberatory and empowering. His style - labyrinthine and multilayered - has been seen to adumbrate "ecriture feminine".

An examination of the grassroots movement that campaigned against incinerators to deal with the large amount of waste in American society. The authors' research is based on interviews and newspaper files, and a final chapter discusses the three successful projects and the five defeated ones.

More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. This text examines how the site of Washington's 1778 winter encampment evolved into the tourist mecca it is today and what, exactly, it is supposed to represent.

This text deals with episodes and issues relating to the spread and practice of photography, from its beginnings to World War I. It covers the reception accorded to the new art by professionals, amateurs and the public, and the response of intellectuals and painters.

Argues that G. W. F. Hegel and Friedrich Nietzsche share a concept of individuality that combines autonomy and community, but that they develop this concept in opposite directions, leaving an irreconcilable tension between political means of individual fulfilllment.

Examines the stained-glass windows in the Gothic cathedral of Reims within the context of the evolution of the French monarchy and medieval art.

Examines the work of eighteenth-century sculptor Ignaz Gunther within the context of Bavarian Rococo art and Counter-Reformation religious visual culture.

Examines the relationship between photography and medicine in American culture. Focuses on the American Civil War and postbellum Philadelphia to explore how medical models and metaphors helped establish the professional legitimacy of commercial photography while promoting belief in the rehabilitative powers of studio portraiture.

Examines the relationship between art and morality discussed in the writings of American pragmatist John Dewey. Argues that there is a clear connection between the experience of art and the project of moral cultivation.

Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the "social construction of citizenship." He sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories cannot.

An interdisciplinary study examining the newspaper industry in Argentina during the regime of Juan Domingo Peron. Traces how Peron managed to integrate almost the entire Argentine press into a state-dominated media empire.