Penn State University Press: 456 books
In the Name of Reason
Technocrats and Politics in Chile
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2009
The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Robert Nelson’s Reaching for Heaven on Earth, Economics as Religion, and The New Holy Wars: Economic Religion Versus Environmental Religion in Contemporary America read almost like a trilogy, exploring and charting the boundaries of theology and economics from the Western foundations of ancient...
Homeland Mythology
Biblical Narratives in American Culture
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2007
Since 9/11, America has presented itself to the world as a Christianist culture, no less antimodern and nostalgic for an idealized past than its Islamist foes. The master-narrative both sides share might sound like this: Once upon a time, the values of the righteous community coincided with those...
Sign of Pathology
U.S. Medical Rhetoric on Abortion, 1800s–1960s
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Much of the political polarization that grips the United States is rooted in the so-called culture wars, and no topic defines this conflict better than the often contentious and sometimes violent debate over abortion rights. In Sign of Pathology, Nathan Stormer reframes our understanding of this conflict...
My Degeneration
A Journey Through Parkinson’s
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2015
How does one deal with a diagnosis of Parkinson’s disease at the age of forty-three? My Degeneration, by former Anchorage Daily News staff cartoonist Peter Dunlap-Shohl, answers the question with humor and passion, recounting the author’s attempt to come to grips with the “malicious whimsy”...
Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book
Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio from Venice to Jerusalem
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
Bernhard von Breydenbach’s Peregrinatio in terram sanctam (Journey to the Holy Land), first published in 1486, is one of the seminal books of early printing and is especially renowned for the originality of its woodcuts. In Picturing Experience in the Early Printed Book, Elizabeth Ross considers...
Women and Guerrilla Movements
Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
Language: English
Release Date: July 9, 2002
The revolutionary movements that emerged frequently in Latin America over the past century promoted goals that included overturning dictatorships, confronting economic inequalities, and creating what Cuban revolutionary hero Che Guevara called the "new man." But, in fact, many of the "new...
The Wanton Jesuit and the Wayward Saint
A Tale of Sex, Religion, and Politics in Eighteenth-Century France
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2015
This microhistory investigates the famous and scandalous 1731 trial in which Catherine Cadière, a young woman in the south of France, accused her Jesuit confessor, Jean-Baptiste Girard, of seduction, heresy, abortion, and bewitchment. Generally considered to be the last witchcraft trial in early...
by Judson Emerick
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1998
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 1998
This is the first full-length study of the enigmatic Early Medieval chapel near the river Clitunno in central Umbria. Judson Emerick makes the Tempietto del Clitunno, a celebrated art-historical test case, the focus of a study that penetrates to the deep structure of the discipline.
For centuries...
Gifford Pinchot
Selected Writings
Language: English
Release Date: May 26, 2017
The founding chief of the U.S. Forest Service and twice governor of Pennsylvania, Gifford Pinchot was central to the early twentieth-century conservation movement in the United States and the political history and evolution of the Keystone State. This collection of Pinchot’s essays, articles, and...
Limiting Resources
Market-Led Reform and the Transformation of Public Goods
Language: English
Release Date: August 31, 2010
The provision of public goods such as education, electricity, health, sanitation, and water used to be regarded as primarily the responsibility of governments, but in the 1980s privatization of such services spread and reliance on market mechanisms instead of governments became common in many parts...
Post-transitional Justice
Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador
Language: English
Release Date: August 20, 2010
Latin America is still dealing with the legacy of terror and torture from its authoritarian past. In the years after the restoration of democratic governments in countries where violations of human rights were most rampant, the efforts to hold former government officials accountable were mainly conducted...
The Supreme Court of Pennsylvania
Life and Law in the Commonwealth, 1684–2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 24, 2018
Established in 1684, over a century before the Commonwealth, Pennsylvania’s Supreme Court is the oldest appellate court in North America. This balanced, comprehensive history of the Court examines over three centuries of legal proceedings and cases before the body, the controversies and conflicts...
Seaweeds
A Color-Coded, Illustrated Guide to Common Marine Plants of the East Coast of the United States
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 1990
Automobiles, interstate highways, shorter work weeks, longer vacations, and higher salaries have all combined to bring the seashore closer to man. Where once a visit to the shore was only a dream for many, or a once-in-a-lifetime trip for others, the varied oceanic life that has held man's interest...