Penn State University Press imprint: 456 books
Evan Pugh’s Penn State
America’s Model Agricultural College
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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...