Penn State University Press: 456 books
Care Work and Class
Domestic Workers’ Struggle for Equal Rights in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2012
Despite constitutions that enshrine equality, until recently every state in Latin America permitted longer working hours (in some cases more than double the hours) and lower benefits for domestic workers than other workers. This has, in effect, subsidized a cheap labor force for middle- and upper-class...
Economics as Religion
From Samuelson to Chicago and Beyond
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2001
In this study, Robert H. Nelson explores the genesis, the prophets, the prophesies, and the tenets of what he sees as a religion of economics that has come into full blossom in latter-day America. Nelson does not see "theology" as a bad word, and his examination of the theology underlying...
Reactions to the Market
Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China
Language: English
Release Date: February 23, 2010
It is manifest in developing countries around the world that the “shock” therapy administered to their economies by the neoliberal model of structural adjustment has failed, leaving much social and economic destruction in its wake. In Latin America this failure has led to a resurgence of interest...
The Illusion of Civil Society
Democratization and Community Mobilization in Low-Income Mexico
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2008
Much has been written about how civil society challenges authoritarian governments and helps lead the way to democratization. These studies show that neoliberal economic policies have harmed many sectors of society, weakening the state and undermining clientelistic relationships that previously provided...
From Windfall to Curse?
Oil and Industrialization in Venezuela, 1920 to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2009
Since the discovery of abundant oil resources in the 1920s, Venezuela has had an economically privileged position among the nations of Latin America, which has led to its being treated by economic and political analysts as an exceptional case. In her well-known study of Venezuela’s political economy,...
Remarks on Architecture
The Vitruvian Tradition in Enlightenment Poland
Language: English
Release Date: June 16, 2015
At the end of the eighteenth century, the authors of Poland’s 3 May 1791 Constitution became the heirs to a defunct state whose territory had been partitioned by Russia, Prussia, and Austria. At this moment of intensive national postmortem, Ignacy Potocki, an eminent statesman and co-author of the...
The Politics of Resentment
A Genealogy
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2015
In the days and weeks following the tragic 2011 shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have played in this horrific event. In question was the use of violent and hateful rhetoric that...
Alchemical Belief
Occultism in the Religious Culture of Early Modern England
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
What did it mean to believe in alchemy in early modern England? In this book, Bruce Janacek considers alchemical beliefs in the context of the writings of Thomas Tymme, Robert Fludd, Francis Bacon, Sir Kenelm Digby, and Elias Ashmole. Rather than examine alchemy from a scientific or medical perspective,...
Freedom and the Cage
Modern Architecture and Psychiatry in Central Europe, 1890–1914
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2017
Spurred by ideals of individual liberty that took hold in the Western world in the late nineteenth century, psychiatrists and public officials sought to reinvent asylums as large-scale, totally designed institutions that offered a level of freedom and normality impossible in the outside world. This...
Common Nymphs of Eastern North America
A Primer for Flyfishers and Flytiers
Language: English
Release Date: September 21, 2011
Although the concept of “matching the hatch” has been central to flyfishing for 150 years, it has been used almost exclusively for dry flyfishing. With Common Nymphs of Eastern North America: A Primer for Flyfishers and Flytiers, Caleb Tzilkowski and Jay Stauffer Jr. take trout enthusiasts in...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2015
Each of the five volumes in the Stone Art Theory Institutes series brings together a range of scholars who are not always directly familiar with one another’s work. The outcome of each of these convergences is an extensive and “unpredictable conversation” on knotty and provocative issues about...
Forbidden Rites
A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century
Language: English
Release Date: March 20, 1998
Preserved in the Bavarian State Library in Munich is a manuscript that few scholars have noticed and that no one in modern times has treated with the seriousness it deserves. Forbidden Rites consists of an edition of this medieval Latin text with a full commentary, including detailed analysis of the...
Conscience and Community
Revisiting Toleration and Religious Dissent in Early Modern England and America
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2001
Religious toleration appears near the top of any short list of core liberal democratic values. Theorists from John Locke to John Rawls emphasize important interconnections between the principles of toleration, constitutional government, and the rule of law. Conscience and Community revisits the historical...
Pennsylvania in Public Memory
Reclaiming the Industrial Past
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2012
What stories do we tell about America’s once-great industries at a time when they are fading from the landscape? Pennsylvania in Public Memory attempts to answer that question, exploring the emergence of a heritage culture of industry and its loss through the lens of its most representative industrial...