Penn State University Press: 456 books
Consensus and Debate in Salazar's Portugal
Visual and Literary Negotiations of the National Text, 1933–1948
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2008
Ellen Sapega’s study documents artistic responses to images of the Portuguese nation promoted by Portugal’s Office of State Propaganda under António de Oliveira Salazar. Combining archival research with current theories informing the areas of memory studies, visual culture, women’s autobiography,...
Reorganizing Popular Politics
Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations...
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 6, 2009
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...
Elections in Pennsylvania
A Century of Partisan Conflict in the Keystone State
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2005
The most comprehensive state election study ever undertaken, Elections in Pennsylvania provides data and analysis for more than 13,000 general elections and more than 6,000 primary elections held in the state between 1900 and 1998, with a postscript examining in less detail the elections of 2000 and...
Licensing Loyalty
Printers, Patrons, and the State in Early Modern France
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 2011
In Licensing Loyalty, historian Jane McLeod explores the evolution of the idea that the royal government of eighteenth-century France had much to fear from the rise of print culture. She argues that early modern French printers helped foster this view as they struggled to negotiate a place in the...
State, Labor, and the Transition to a Market Economy
Egypt, Poland, Mexico, and the Czech Republic
Language: English
Release Date: March 8, 2013
In response to mounting debt crises and macroeconomic instability in the 1980s, many countries in the developing world adopted neoliberal policies promoting the unfettered play of market forces and deregulation of the economy and attempted large-scale structural adjustment, including the privatization...
Troublesome Women
Gender, Crime, and Punishment in Antebellum Pennsylvania
Language: English
Release Date: February 4, 2019
This book traces the lived experiences of women lawbreakers in the state of Pennsylvania from 1820 to 1860 through the records of more than six thousand criminal court cases. By following these women from the perpetration of their crimes through the state’s efforts to punish and reform them, Erica...
Gendered Paradoxes
Women's Movements, State Restructuring, and Global Development in Ecuador
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2005
Since the early 1980s Ecuador has experienced a series of events unparalleled in its history. Its “free market” strategies exacerbated the debt crisis, and in response new forms of social movement organizing arose among the country’s poor, including women’s groups. Gendered Paradoxes focuses...
America's New Working Class
Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in a Biopolitical Age
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 2008
Today’s political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the “new working class,” which includes the former labor aristocracy, women,...
Valley Forge
Making and Remaking a National Symbol
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 1995
More than four million people a year visit Valley Forge, one of America's most celebrated historic sites. Here, amid the rolling hills of southeastern Pennsylvania, visitors can pass through the house which served as Washington's Headquarters during the famous winter encampment of 1777–1778. Others...
Income Inequality in Capitalist Democracies
The Interplay of Values and Institutions
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2009
There has been much concern about rising levels of income inequality in the societies of advanced industrial democracies. Commentators have attributed this increase to the impact of globalization, the decline of the welfare state, or the erosion of the power of labor unions and their allies among...
The Politics of National Capitalism
Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2009
In mid-twentieth-century Latin America there was a strong consensus between Left and Right—Communists working under the directives of the Third International, nationalists within the military interested in fostering industrialization, and populists—about the need to break away from the colonial...
by Dolores Trevizo
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
When the PRI fell from power in the elections of 2000, scholars looked for an explanation. Some focused on international pressures, while others pointed to recent electoral reforms. In contrast, Dolores Trevizo argues that a more complete explanation takes much earlier democratizing changes in civil...
Democracy Within Reason
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 1997
During the 1980s the Mexican regime faced a series of economic, social, and political disasters that led many to question its survival. Yet by 1992 the economy was again growing, with inflation under control and the confidence of international investors restored. Mexico was now touted as an example...