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Explores prayer as a rhetorical art, examining situations, strategies, and performative modes of discourse directed to the divine.

Explores the dynamics of African American engagements with the Holy Odu, the unwritten sacred scriptures of the West African Ifa Orisha tradition. Examines the experiences of selected practitioners, focusing on the ways in which the divinatory narrative and associated mythology impact self-understanding and worldview.

The fall of communism in the Soviet Union led many to expect that liberal democracy would take root, since then however, a very different picture has emerged. This work examines this phenomenon and shows how liberalism and nationalism were more difficult to reconcile because Leninism was indigenous and had a significant impact on nation-building.

The letters contained in As Ever Yours, published here for the first time, reveal an epistolary love story-and they provide fresh insights into Perkins the man and Perkins the editor. The Perkins-Lemmon letters illuminate the thoughts and experiences of the greatest literary editor of the twentieth century.

The Scottish publishing house of William Blackwoood & Sons, founded in 1804, was a major force in 19th- and early 20th-century British literary history, publishing a diverse group of important authors, including George Eliot and Joseph Conrad. This is a look at its success and eventual demise.

A collection of essays examining citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, in the sense that important civic functions take place in deliberation among citizens and that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement.

The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger offers an unparalleled insider's view of Indian society during times of both war and peace. Zeisberger's diaries, present a detailed picture of the effect of the American Revolution on one Indian nation-not only on political issues but also in terms of its economy, culture, and demographic structure.

The essays in this volume reconsider the impact of the Civil War on Pennsylvania and the way its memory remains alive even today. These ten essays include courage on the battlefield but reflect the current trends to understand the motivations of soldiers and the impact of war on civilians, rather than focusing solely on battles or leadership.

A collection of essays examining citizenship as a discursive phenomenon, in the sense that important civic functions take place in deliberation among citizens and that discourse is not prefatory to real action but in many ways constitutive of civic engagement.

Examines the role of confession in American culture. Argues that the genre of confession has profoundly shaped (and been shaped by) six of America's most intractable cultural issues: sexuality, class, race, violence, religion, and democracy.

A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption.

A reprint of a 1904 novel by Pennsylvania State College (now University) professor of English Fred Lewis Pattee, set in the 1890s in central Pennsylvania. Includes a preface by poet and essayist Julia Spicher Kasdorf and endnotes by Joshua R. Brown.

A biography of Philadelphia physician S. Weir Mitchell. Examines his life and his interactions with many prominent nineteenth-century Americans, including Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jane Addams, Winifred Howells, Edith Wharton, William Osler, Mary Putnam Jacobi, Walt Whitman, and Andrew Carnegie.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Athaliah. Includes critical notes and commentary.

A collection of essays tracing the history of the Episcopal Church in Pennsylvania, with emphasis on the greater Philadelphia area. Includes discussions of the diversity of practice and belief within the church, and between the church and the wider national culture.

A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821.

A collection of American antiwar speeches from every major conflict starting with the Mexican-American War. Includes critical analyses, biographical and bibliographical information, and an appendix describing common rhetorical devices used by antiwar speakers.

Investigates the decline of the corporatist and inward-oriented postwar model of development during the 1970s and 1980s and the emergence of a new paradigm driven by the desire to participate in the process of globalization. Uses Argentina as a case study.

Considers the contributions of philosophical theories of property rights, political obligation, and self-determination to our moral understanding of political control over geographical space. Focuses on American Indian and other indigenous claims to a separate political status, including potentially to full legal independence.

Examines the effectiveness of the citizen-petition mechanisms established by North American Free Trade Agreement's parallel labor and environmental accords. Reconceptualizes the changing roles of international law and transnational activism in shaping global and domestic politics.

Walton here examines how reasoning operates in trials and other legal contexts, with special emphasis on the law of evidence. The model he develops, drawing on the methods of argumentation theory, can be used to identify, analyze and evaluate specific types of legal argument.

A journal, originally published in 1887, describing a 1790 surveying expedition to explore newly purchased land in northwestern Pennsylvania. Includes historical annotations by John F. Meginness.

An English translation, originally published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1917, of the diary of radical German Pietist Johannes Kelpius (1667-1708). Includes facsimile pages of his prayer book A Short, Easy, and Comprehensive Method of Prayer.

A history, originally published in 1786 and translated in 1889, of the Seventh Day Baptist congregation in Ephrata, from the early Pietist movement in Germany to the founding of Ephrata and other communities in southeastern Pennsylvania in the 1730s. Written by two members of the Ephrata community.

A collection of folklore from north-central Pennsylvania, collected by Henry W. Shoemaker and originally published in 1914. Includes photographs by William T. Clarke.

An annotated English translation of the fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine, by Jean d'Arras.

Examines concepts for persuasive communication. Explores the art of rhetoric and how it aids in clarification when we speak to communicate, but also helps to protect us from clarity when we speak to maintain our connections to others.

Shows that while the vast majority of working women in eighteenth-century France labored at unskilled, low-paying jobs, it was not at all unusual for women to be actively engaged in economic activities as workers, managers, and merchants. This book also shows how gender politics complicated the day-to-day experience of these working women.

Arthur Kahn offers an account of how the fight against Nazism came to be transformed into the Cold War. He reveals how those in the Military Government of Germany who were dedicated to democratization of Germany were defeated by those in Washington who were more intent on the Soviet Union than on the eradication of Nazism and German militarism.