Penn State University Press imprint: 456 books

Evan Pugh’s Penn State

America’s Model Agricultural College

by Roger L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2018

When Evan Pugh became the first president of Pennsylvania’s Farmers’ High School—later to be known as The Pennsylvania State University—the small campus was in disrepair and in dire need of leadership. Pugh was young, barely into his 30s, but he was energetic, educated, and visionary. During...

The Storm Gathering

The Penn Family and the American Revolution

by Lorett Treese
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 1992

Treese's book provides a popular history of Pennsylvania during the Revolutionary period from the vantage point of the heirs of William Penn. Most Pennsylvanians are familiar with the story of William Penn and the founding of Pennsylvania in 1681 as a haven for religious dissenters. But few...

Lair of the Lion

A History of Beaver Stadium

by Lee Stout, Harry H. West
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2017

Football is an unmistakable part of the culture of Penn State, though the experience of a Nittany Lions home game—from the crowds and tailgates to the spectacle of the game itself—has changed significantly over the years. This richly illustrated and researched book tells the story of the structure...
by Susan Rimby
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2013

For her time, Mira Lloyd Dock was an exceptional woman: a university-trained botanist, lecturer, women’s club leader, activist in the City Beautiful movement, and public official—the first woman to be appointed to Pennsylvania’s state government. In her twelve years on the Pennsylvania Forest...

Ayn Rand

The Russian Radical

by Chris Matthew Sciabarra
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2013

Author of The Fountainhead and Atlas Shrugged, Ayn Rand (1905–1982) is one of the most widely read philosophers of the twentieth century. Yet, despite the sale of over thirty million copies of her works, there have been few serious scholarly examinations of her thought. Ayn Rand: The Russian Radical...

Chaim Potok

Confronting Modernity Through the Lens of Tradition

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Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2013

Chaim Potok was a world-class writer and scholar, a Conservative Jew who wrote from and about his tradition and the conflicts between observance and acculturation. With a plain, straightforward style, his novels were set against the moral, spiritual, and intellectual currents of the twentieth century....

The House of the Black Ring

A Romance of the Seven Mountains

by Fred Lewis Pattee, Joshua R. Brown
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2012

Fred Lewis Pattee, long regarded as the father of American literary study, also wrote fiction. Originally published in 1905 by Henry Holt, The House of the Black Ring was Pattee’s second novel—a local-color romance set in the mountains of Central Pennsylvania. The book’s plot is driven by family...

Opening Windows onto Hidden Lives

Women, Country Life, and Early Rural Sociological Research

by Julie N. Zimmerman, Olaf F. Larson
Language: English
Release Date: January 6, 2011

Building on their analysis in Sociology in Government (Penn State, 2003), Julie Zimmerman and Olaf Larson again join forces across the generations to explore the unexpected inclusion of rural and farm women in the research conducted by the USDA’s Division of Farm Population and Rural Life. Existing...

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education

George W. Atherton and the Land-Grant College Movement

by Roger L. Williams
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 1991

The Origins of Federal Support for Higher Education revises the traditional interpretation of the land-grant college movement, whose institutions were brought into being by the 1862 Morrill Act to provide for "the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes." Rather than being...

Religious Routes to Gladstonian Liberalism

The Church Rate Conflict in England and Wales 1852–1868

by Jacob Ellens
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 1994

This book, covering the period 1832 to 1868, describes how the so-called "church rates" controversy contributed to the rise of a secular liberal state in England and Wales. The church rate was an ancient tax required of all ratepayers, regardless of denomination, for the upkeep of parish...

Made in Mexico

Regions, Nation, and the State in the Rise of Mexican Industrialism, 1920s–1940s

by Susan M. Gauss
Language: English
Release Date: November 25, 2010

The experiment with neoliberal market-oriented economic policy in Latin America, popularly known as the Washington Consensus, has run its course. With left-wing and populist regimes now in power in many countries, there is much debate about what direction economic policy should be taking, and there...

Eastern Mennonite University

A Century of Countercultural Education

by Donald B. Kraybill
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2017

In this unique educational history, Donald B. Kraybill traces the sociocultural transformation of Eastern Mennonite University from a fledgling separatist school founded by white, rural, Germanic Mennonites into a world-engaged institution populated by many faith traditions, cultures, and nationalities. The...

Blood and Debt

War and the Nation-State in Latin America

by Miguel Angel Centeno
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2002

What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today...

The Fourth Enemy

Journalism and Power in the Making of Peronist Argentina, 1930–1955

by James Cane
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2012

The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement’s evolution, or what the resulting transformation...
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