Books from Penn State Press
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Drug Control Policy: Essays in Historical and Comparative Perspective
By William O. WalkerClark, Deliver Us From Evil, 218-23; Bonnie and Whitebread, The Marihuana Conviction, 5-15, 28, 32-45; Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, ...
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A Kingdom on Earth: Anglo-American Social Christianity, 1880-1940
By Paul T. PhillipsJust why In His Steps was such an outstanding success has been thoroughly dissected and debated , with Paul S. Boyer most notably suggesting that it was really about a troubled American middle - class conscience , rather than religion ...
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The Book of Peace
By Karen Green, ChristineNonetheless let no one believe that I am referring to the principal malefactors from whom the recent sedition has come — perverters of others and sowers of encouragement to evildoing; it is not my intent that they ...
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Transforming Talk: The Problem with Gossip in Late Medieval England
By Susan E. PhillipsJ. V. Bullard and H. Chalmer Bell. London: Faith Press, 1929. MacDonald, Michael. Mystical Bedlam: Madness, Anxiety, and Healing in Seventeenth- Century England. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981. Malone, Kemp.
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Lydia Bailey: A Checklist of Her Imprints
By Karen NippsPhiladelphia: Printed for C. and A. Conrad and Co., B. B. Hopkins and Co., Johnson and Warner, M. Carey, Bennett and Walton, T. and W. Bradford, Edward Earle, and Stephen Pike, Booksellers; Lydia R. Bailey, printer, 1810. 155 p.
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Challenges of Ordinary Democracy: A Case Study in Deliberation and Dissent
By Karen Tracy28 A study by political scientists Deborah Jordan Brooks and John Geer offers an interesting case upon which we can reflect about the unacknowledged communicative complexities in past studies of negative campaigning.
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Women & Guerrilla Movements: Nicaragua, El Salvador, Chiapas, Cuba
By Karen KampwirthAn important factor that is not directly addressed in T. David Mason's otherwise excellent analysis is the fact that many women joined the armed insurgency at a very young age. Moreover, the factors that motivated young women were not ...
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The Challenge of Coleridge: Ethics and Interpretation in Romanticism and Modern Philosophy
By David P. HaneyLevinson recognizes the problem also identified by Gadamer: to "objectify" the past without considering its effect on the present is, in her very apt metaphor, to put us in a situation where " [t]he motor runs but the car doesn't go ...
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Rise of Sinclair Lewis, 1920-1930
By James M. HutchissonThese circumstances impaired his work on Elmer Gantry , and Lewis even bitterly parodied some of his troubles in the ... to visit the novelist William Allen White but apparently also for Lewis to reacquaint himself with the Midwest .
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Book History
By Ezra Greenspan, Jonathan RoseH. C. Marillier in his biography of Rossetti attacked Harry Quilter's representation of Rossetti as a " sordid , self - indulgent , mean , and querulous recluse , " and encouraged his readers to read Percy Bate's more generous depiction ...
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Art and the Religious Image in El Greco's Italy
By Casper, Andrew R.Robertson, “Il Gran Cardinale,”30. A rendering of the vision of Augustus circulated in some manuscript editions of Marvels of Rome, 17–18. 19. Robertson, “Il Gran Cardinale,” 30. See also Voelkle, “Farnese Hours,” 65–66. 20.
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America's Longest Run: A History of the Walnut Street Theatre
By Andrew Davisacting performances of, 116, 117, 122, 125, [27, 139 background and early career, 137 non-theatre employment of, 142 as stage and acting manager, 134, 137 Roberts, J. B. (juggler), 74 Robertson, Agnes (Boucicault, Mrs. Dion), 107—8, ...
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The Anglican Communion at a Crossroads: The Crises of a Global Church
By Christopher Craig Brittain, Andrew McKinnonThis has had dramatic implications for local economies now inextricably linked to the capitalist world system,8 as well as for nation-states and their interrelations.9 As Roland Robertson argues, there is an equally significant cultural ...
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From Harvard to the Ranks of Labor: Powers Hapgood and the American Working Class
By Robert BusselZieger , CIO , 266-70 ; Willy Bartels to PH , September 22 , 1947 , PH to Phil Murray , November 19 , 1947 , PH Papers ; Brody , Workers in Industrial America , 221-27 . 29. Zieger , CIO , 273-74 ; Brophy , Miner's Life , 288-94 ...
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The Culture and Commerce of the Early American Novel: Reading the Atlantic World-system
By Stephen Shapiro10 In the first instance, Smith does not characterize sympathy as a mechanism for politicizing worldly distress and removing the differences of rank between the viewer and the subject of his optics. Smith postulates sympathy as ...
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I Was a Communist for the FBI: The Unhappy Life and Times of Matt Cvetic
By Daniel J. LeabLeab also writes about Cvetic&’s life prior to his involvement with the FBI, his glory days, and shows that there is much to be learned from the story of an &"anti-Communist icon.&"
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A Politician Goes to War: The Civil War Letters of John White Geary
By William Alan Blair, Bell Irvin WileyLovell Harrison, 152, 152n.28 Ruger, Brig. Gen. Thomas H., 98 St. Lawrence Hotel, 19, 22, 30 Salem, Va., 104 Salem Township, Pa., JWG farm at, 1, 59- 60 San Francisco, 67n.40 JWG postmaster and mayor of, ix, xvii Sand Mountain.
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Staging Ground: An American Theater and Its Ghosts
By Leslie StaintonHe began extending credit to his customers, and farmers started to invest their cash surpluses with him, making Hager a banker as well as a merchant. He issued loans to friends and family, expanded his store, bought real estate, ...
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Ezra Pound in London and Paris, 1908-1925
By James J. WilhelmThis book systematically traces Pound's career from his arrival in London in 1908 to his departure from Paris in 1924, emphasizing his activities but also describing his writings and relating them to his life.
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Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy of Indian Assimilation
By William C. KashatusKashatus offers compelling evidence that Bender intentionally compromised his performance in the Series as retribution for the poor treatment he suffered. Money Pitcher is not just another baseball book.