Penn State University Press: 456 books
From Apartheid to Democracy
Deliberating Truth and Reconciliation in South Africa
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2014
South Africa’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) hearings can be considered one of the most significant rhetorical events of the late twentieth century. The TRC called language into action, tasking it with promoting understanding among a divided people and facilitating the construction of...
From Tenements to the Taylor Homes
In Search of an Urban Housing Policy in Twentieth-Century America
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2000
Authored by prominent scholars, the twelve essays in this volume use the historical perspective to explore American urban housing policy as it unfolded from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries. Focusing on the enduring quest of policy makers to restore urban community, the essays examine...
In a Rebellious Spirit
The Argument of Facts, the Liberty Riot, and the Coming of the American Revolution
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
A fresh view of the legal arguments leading to the American Revolution, this book argues that rebellious acts called "lawless" mob action by British authorities were sanctioned by "whig law" in the eyes of the colonists. Professor Reid also holds that leading historians have been...
Net Loss
Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2002
How has the Internet been changing our lives, and how did these changes come about? Nathan Newman seeks the answers to these questions by studying the emergence of the Internet economy in Silicon Valley and the transformation of power relations it has brought about in our new information age. Net...
The Fight Over Food
Producers, Consumers, and Activists Challenge the Global Food System
Language: English
Release Date: January 9, 2008
“One problem with the food system is that price is the bottom line rather than having the bottom line be land stewardship, an appreciation for the environmental and social value of small-scale family farms, or for organically grown produce.” —Interview with farmer in Skagit County, Washington
For...
The Miners of Windber
The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s-1930s
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1996
In 1897 the Berwind-White Coal Mining Company founded Windber as a company town for its miners in the bituminous coal country of Pennsylvania. The Miners of Windber chronicles the coming of unionization to Windber, from the 1890s, when thousands of new immigrants flooded Pennsylvania in search of...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
In an era increasingly marked by polarized and unproductive political debates, this volume makes the case for a renewed emphasis on teaching speech and debate, both in and outside of the classroom.
Speech and debate education leads students to better understand their First Amendment rights...
Speaking to Body and Soul
Instructions for the Moravian Choir Helpers, 1785–1786
Language: English
Release Date: April 10, 2017
Dating back to 1785, the Moravian “Instructions for the Choir Helpers” contain detailed advice for the spiritual counselors of the men, women, and children in Moravian congregations on how to address concerns about one’s body and soul. In this volume, Katherine Faull presents an annotated, translated...
by Philip Boobbyer
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2013
The Spiritual Vision of Frank Buchman is an in-depth look at the life, spirituality, and ideology of one of the most original figures in twentieth-century religion. Frank Buchman (1878–1961), the Pennsylvania-born initiator of the movement known as the Oxford Group and Moral Re-Armament, was a Lutheran...
Books and Religious Devotion
The Redemptive Reading of an Irishman in Nineteenth-Century New England
Language: English
Release Date: October 1, 2014
In Books and Religious Devotion, Allan Westphall presents a study of the book-collecting habits and annotation practices of Thomas Connary, an Irish immigrant farmer who lived in New Hampshire in the latter half of the nineteenth century. Connary led a pious life that revolved around the use, annotation,...
Nationalism and the International Labor Movement
The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 1998
The resurgence of nationalism accompanying the decline of Communism has been taken to indicate the failure of socialist theory to grasp the nature of this phenomenon. Against both those who argue that the radical tradition has ignored and underestimated nationalism and those who accuse it of economic...
Terms of Response
Language and the Audience in Seventeenth- and Eighteenth-Century Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 1991
This book takes a new look at the place occupied by medieval Spanish epic within European folk and literary tradition. Thomas Montgomery traces the origins of key parts of most known medieval Spanish epics to an ancient myth. He shows how the myth of the initiation of the young warrior, shown by Georges...
A Civil Tongue
Justice, Dialogue, and the Politics of Pluralism
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 1995
This book is about a widely shared desire: the desire among citizens for a vibrant and effective social discourse of legitimation. It therefore begins with the conviction that what political philosophy can provide citizens is not further theories of the good life but instead directions for talking...
This Far by Faith
Tradition and Change in the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2012
The history of the Diocese of Pennsylvania is in many ways a history of the Episcopal Church at large. It remains one of the largest and most influential dioceses in the national church. Its story has paralleled and illustrated the challenges and accomplishments of the wider denomination—and of...