For decades, the field of Mennonite literature has been dominated by the question of Mennonite identity. After Identity interrogates this prolonged preoccupation and explores the potential to move bey
"A collection of essays examining the history of nineteenth-century commercial lithography in Philadelphia. Analyzes the social, economic, and technological changes in the local trade from 1828 to 187
This modern biography provides a comprehensive and balanced view of a legendary figure in American medicine. Controversial because of his fierce fight against women's rights, S. Weir Mitchell achieved
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 sect
"An English translation of the writings of French constitutional theorist Nicolas de Condorcet (1743-94) on the United States. Subjects include the American Revolution, federal Constitution, and the e
"Examines the functioning of credit markets in Mexico, through the agency of notaries, during the Yucatan region's nineteenth-century henequen export boom. Explores the mobilization of capital and the
"Argues against the accepted idea that Thomas Hobbes turned away from humanism to pursue the scientific study of politics. Reconceptualizes Hobbes's thought within early modern humanist pedagogy and t
Modern scholarship, particularly historical studies, has long acknowledged the importance of the past to medieval conceptions of the present. This volume brings art history and music into dialogue wi
During the breakup of the Soviet Union, the countries of Eastern Europe underwent transitions to democracy that involved varying degrees of struggle and turmoil. Czechoslovakia eventually split in two
First published in 1986, Slow Burn chronicles Centralia's demise from an underground coal mine fire and depicts a singular epic event in Pennsylvania history, representing the confluence of environmen
Pennsylvania's Revolution embodies a new era of scholarship about the state's Revolutionary past, which breaks from a heavily focused study of Philadelphia and the 1776 constitution to evaluate Pennsy
This book examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Ranciere. Ranciere argues that a democratic politics emerges out of people's acting under the presupposition of the
"Examines the political perspective of French thinker and historian Jacques Rancisere. Rancisere argues that a democratic politics is one that emerges out of people's acting under the presupposition o
Originally published by Routledge in 1988, this pioneering collection of essays now features a new preface and updated bibliography by the editor, reflecting the most significant developments in Plato
As one of the preeminent philosophers of the twentieth century, W. V. Quine (1908–2000) made groundbreaking contributions to the philosophy of science, mathematical logic, and the philosophy of
An illustrated guide to the best small museums in Pennsylvania that provides directions and visiting hours for entertaining collections of everything from spittoons to trolley cars. A Keystone Book
"Although a great many memoirs are being published these days, this autobiography by Morton White has special significance because professional philosophers seldom write their memoirs and, when they d
This first paperback edition of a 1998 publication collects translated biographical sources from the latest scholarship relating to St. Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179) and her spiritual mother, Jutta
A re-reading of the Cartesian corpus from the multiple vantage points of contemporary feminism. It includes discussion of: the implications of Descartes' epistemology for feminists and feminist episte
The essays in Part I of Beyond Poststructuralism seek to demonstrate fallacies of structuralist and poststructuralist thought that remain potent even though the theoretical structures that led to thei
""This is a stimulating book that should provoke rethinking many common assumptions about literary history. It offers both a coherent theoretical framework and many fresh insights into particular work
This is a collection of documents covering all aspects of slavery in Brazil, from its beginnings in Portugal and Africa in the 15th century to its abolition in 1888.
""An important contribution to understanding the massive social transformation of the 1980's. Hathaway's critical but sympathetic chronicle of regional organizing efforts is the best in print, and the
""Sacred Estrangement is an excellent study of the ways different autobiographers have found for adopting and adapting a tradition of Christian conversion narrative for their own secular purposes. It
" This] book illustrates the hazards facing governments who attempt to compromise established non-Aboriginal interests (however diverse) in Australia and this makes it a worthy contribution to the lit
In Translating the World, Birgit Tautz provides a new narrative of German literary history in the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Departing from dominant modes of thought regarding the
While rhetoric as a discipline is firmly planted in humanism and anthropology, posthumanism seeks to leave the human behind. This highly original examination of Kenneth Burke’s thought grapples
In Measuring Shadows, Raz Chen-Morris demonstrates that a close study of Kepler’s Optics is essential to understanding his astronomical work and his scientific epistemology. He explores Kepler&#
The question of how to understand Bruegel’s art has cast the artist in various guises: as a moralizing satirist, comedic humanist, celebrator of vernacular traditions, and/or proto-ethnographer. InPie
Giovanni Battista Piranesi was one of the most important artists eighteenth-century Europe produced. But Piranesi was more than an artist; he was an engraver and printmaker, architect, antiquities dea
Large carnivores in wild places are usually studied by biologists inside vehicles using telemetry and noninvasive methods. So what happens when an anthropologist studies a clan of spotted hyenas, Afri
In the days and weeks following the tragic shooting of nineteen Arizonans, including Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, there were a number of public discussions about the role that rhetoric might have
"Examines the text and background of The Flowers of Heavenly Teaching, an autobiography by the fourteenth-century Benedictine monk John of Morigny. Explores how the author negotiated the categories of
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution presents biographical sketches of almost seventy women who supported the American Revolution and the soldiers at Valley Forge, noting their liv
In the bookshops of present-day St. Petersburg, guidebooks abound. Both modern descriptions of Russia's old imperial capital and lavish new editions of pre-Revolutionary texts sell well, primarily att
Development studies has not yet found a vocabulary to connect large structural processes to the ways in which people live, love, and labor. Producing Knowledge, Protecting Forests contributes to such
William Parks: The Colonial Printer in the Transatlantic World of the Eighteenth Century is a cultural biography that traces the important early American printer and newspaper publisher’s path from th
"Explores how the Renaissance artist Hans Holbein the Younger came to develop his mature artistic styles through the key historical contexts framing his work: the controversies of the Reformation and
"Examines the American experience of a group of French liberal aristocrats who had participated in the early years of the French Revolution and subsequently lived as political refugees in Philadelphia
"Explores the phenomenon of xenoglossia, the sudden, miraculous ability to speak, understand, read, or write a foreign language, as it appears in the later medieval hagiographic record and in English
