Penn State University Press: 456 books
Sustaining Civil Society
Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2011
“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition...
The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival, 1881–1921
Ideology and Innovation
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 1994
The Gaelic Revival has long fascinated scholars of political history, nationalism, literature, and theater history, yet studies of the period have neglected a significant dimension of Ireland's evolution into nationhood: the cultural crusades mounted by those who believed in the centrality of the...
Crafting Peace
Power-Sharing Institutions and the Negotiated Settlement of Civil Wars
Language: English
Release Date: July 16, 2007
The recent efforts to reach a settlement of the enduring and tragic conflict in Darfur demonstrate how important it is to understand what factors contribute most to the success of such efforts. In this book, Caroline Hartzell and Matthew Hoddie review data from all negotiated civil war settlements...
Collective Dreams
Political Imagination and Community
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2005
How do we go about imagining different and better worlds for ourselves? Collective Dreams looks at ideals of community, frequently embraced as the basis for reform across the political spectrum, as the predominant form of political imagination in America today. Examining how these ideals circulate...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2018
In this volume, leading scholars of photography and media examine photography’s vital role in the evolution of media and communication in the nineteenth century.
In the first half of the nineteenth century, the introduction of telegraphy, the development of a cheaper and more reliable postal...
Posters for Peace
Visual Rhetoric and Civic Action
Language: English
Release Date: May 4, 2015
By the spring of 1970, Americans were frustrated by continuing war in Vietnam and turmoil in the inner cities. Students on American college campuses opposed the war in growing numbers and joined with other citizens in ever-larger public demonstrations against the war. Some politicians—including...
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century
Updated and Revised Edition
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2013
A History of Argentina in the Twentieth Century, originally published in Buenos Aires in 1994, attained instant status as a classic. Written as an introductory text for university students and the general public, it is a profound reflection on the “Argentine dilemma” and the challenges that the...
Nothing but Love in God’s Water
Volume 2: Black Sacred Music from Sit-Ins to Resurrection City
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2016
Volume 1 of Nothing but Love in God’s Water traced the music of protest spirituals from the Civil War to the American labor movement of the 1930s and 1940s, and on through the Montgomery bus boycott. This second volume continues the journey, chronicling the role this music played in energizing and...
September Swoon
Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2004
Everything seemed to be going the Phillies’ way. Up by 6 1/2 games with just 12 left to play in the 1964 season, they appeared to have clinched their first pennant in more than a decade. Outfielder Johnny Callison narrowly missed being the National League MVP. Third baseman Richie Allen was Rookie...
Restoring Democracy to America
How to Free Markets and Politics from the Corporate Culture of Business and Government
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2011
If the current economic malaise accomplishes nothing else, it should help awaken us all to the realization that our country has been on a path of self-destructive behavior for several decades—a reversal of the progressive path that had made major gains in economic and political equality for a large...
How Books Came to America
The Rise of the American Book Trade
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
Anyone who pays attention to the popular press knows that the new media will soon make books obsolete. But predicting the imminent demise of the book is nothing new. At the beginning of the twentieth century, for example, some critics predicted that the electro-mechanical phonograph would soon make...
by Patrick J. Murphy
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2017
Montague Rhodes James authored some of the most highly regarded ghost stories of all time—classics such as “Oh, Whistle, and I’ll Come to You, My Lad” that have been adapted many times over for radio and television and have never gone out of print. But while James is best known as a fiction...
Our Indigenous Ancestors
A Cultural History of Museums, Science, and Identity in Argentina, 1877–1943
Language: English
Release Date: August 21, 2015
Our Indigenous Ancestors complicates the history of the erasure of native cultures and the perceived domination of white, European heritage in Argentina through a study of anthropology museums in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Carolyne Larson demonstrates how scientists, collectors,...
Supernatural Entertainments
Victorian Spiritualism and the Rise of Modern Media Culture
Language: English
Release Date: February 24, 2016
In Supernatural Entertainments, Simone Natale vividly depicts spiritualism’s rise as a religious and cultural phenomenon and explores its strong connection to the growth of the media entertainment industry in the nineteenth century. He frames the spiritualist movement as part of a new commodity...