Author: Cathy D. Matson
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: new, directions, perspectives, historical, america, economy
Number of Pages: 380
Published: 2006-01
List price: $55.00
ISBN-10: 0271027118
ISBN-13: 9780271027111

In recent years, scholars in a number of disciplines have focused their attention on understanding the early American economy. The result has been an outpouring of scholarship, some of it dramatically revising older methodologies and findings, and some of it charting entirely new territory-- new subjects, new places, and new arenas of study that might not have been considered "economic" in the past. The Economy of Early America enters this resurgent discussion of the early American economy by showcasing the work of leading scholars who represent a spectrum of historiographical and methodolo

Author: Charles D. Cashdollar
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: reformed, congregations, american, british, home, life, spiritual
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2000-10
List price: $82.00
ISBN-10: 0271020148
ISBN-13: 9780271020143

An exploration of congregational life inside British and American Reformed churches between 1830 and 1915. At a time when scholars have become interested in the day-to-day experiences of local congregations, this work reaches back into the 19th century, a critically formative period in Anglo-American life, to examine the historical roots of congregational life. Taking the perspective of the laity, Charles D. Cashdollar ranges widely from worship and music to fund-raising and administration, from pastoral care to social work, from prayer meetings to strawberry festivals, from the sanctuary to t

Author: Michael S. Kochin
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: things, art, action, character, chapters, rhetoric, five
Number of Pages: 184
Published: 2009-05-30
List price: $65.00
ISBN-10: 0271034556
ISBN-13: 9780271034553

Kochin’s radical exploration of rhetoric is built around five fundamental concepts that illuminate how rhetoric functions in the public sphere. To speak persuasively is to bring new things into existence to create a political movement out of a crowd, or an army out of a mob. Five Chapters on Rhetoric explores our path to things through our judgments of character and action. It shows how speech and writing are used to defend the fabric of social life from things or facts. Finally, Kochin shows how the art of rhetoric aids us in clarifying things when we speak to communicate, and help

Author: Susan E. Gallagher
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: political, power, argument, smith’s, rich, adam, rule
Number of Pages: 141
Published: 1998-10
List price: $35.95
ISBN-10: 0271017740
ISBN-13: 9780271017747

An interpretation of Smith’s ideas in their historical context. The study rejects the common view of him as a champion of free enterprise, instead placing him within a tradition that condemed the aristocracy for abandoning the public good in favour of unceasing persuit of private gain.

Author: Richard Himelfarb
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: catastrophic, coverage, medicare, rise, politics
Number of Pages: 144
Published: 1995-09-01
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 0271014660
ISBN-13: 9780271014661

Upon its enactment in July 1988, the Medicare Catastrophic Coverage Act (MCCA) was hailed as the first major expansion of government health care since the creation of Medicare in 1965. Supported by President Reagan, majorities in both houses of Congress, and the nation’s largest senior-citizen interest group, the American Association of Retired Persons (AARP), the legislation effectively plugged many of the holes in the existing Medicare system by providing protection against some but not all catastrophic health care expenses. Additionally, the consensus behind the MCCA appeared to estab

Author: Gerd Althoff
Publisher: The Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: iii, otto
Number of Pages: 228
Published: 2003-01-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271024011
ISBN-13: 9780271024011

Otto III (980-1002) was one of the most powerful rulers in Europe in the late tenth century. He is also one of the most enigmatic. The son of the German emperor Otto II and the Greek princess Theophanu, he came to the throne at the age of three and was only twenty-one years old at the time of his death. Nonetheless, his reign had a lasting impact on both Germany and Italy for generations. In this book, Gerd Althoff provides a much-needed biography of this fascinating figure. In the process, he uses Otto’s life to explain how in practice early medieval kingship worked.

Author: Brian G. Caraher
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Keywords: reading, problematics, slumber, wordsworth
Number of Pages: 292
Published: 1991-06-01
List price: $29.95
ISBN-10: 0271026243
ISBN-13: 9780271026244

A critical study of the interpretive problems surrounding readings of one of Wordsworth’s best-known lyrics.Wordsworth’s "Slumber" and the Problematics of Reading engages in detail both the nature and the implications of what can be called literary pragmatics. It offers a new interpretation of Wordsworth’s "A slumber did my spirit seal" as well as "Strange fits of passion" and "She dwelt among untrodden ways," making a major contribution to an ongoing interpretive debate concerning the first poem and the theoretical issues to which is gives rise. It also provides new ways to