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Despite their continued rejection of modern technology, the Wengers - popularly known as horse-and-buggy Mennonites - continue to thrive on their own terms. A study of the Wenger Mennonites, this work uses cultural analysis to interpret the Wengers in both Pennsylvania and Wisconsin.

In the second volume of three, Khrushchev covers the period from 1945 to 1956, from the famine and devastation immediately after the war to Stalin's death, the subsequent power struggle, and the Twentieth Party Congress. The remaining sections are devoted to Khrushchev's recollections and thoughts about various domestic and international problems.

"Philosophy and Rhetoric" is one of Penn State Press' longest-running journals. This volume brings together the journal's most noteworthy articles, beginning with Henry Johnstone's essay underscoring the relationship between the art of rhetoric and philosophy.

Benjamin Coates was committed to helping black Americans relocate to West Africa. This put him at the center of a discourse with abolitionists, including such thinkers as Alexander Crummell, Mary Ann Shadd Cary, Frederick Douglass, and Henry Highland Garnet. This work examines these remarkable personalities and their tireless efforts at reform.

"A collection of essays examining public health policy and the decision-making process behind it"--Provided by publisher.

Bringing together leading scholars of the informal economy and informal politics, this book addresses how globalization has influenced local efforts to resolve political and economic needs - and how these seemingly separate issues are indeed deeply related.

"September Swoon" is important because it not only chronicles how the Phillies disintegrated, but also looks at the racial tension surrounding the Phillies star rookie, Richie Allen."

Set Up Running tells the story of a Pennsylvania Railroad locomotive engineer, Oscar P. Orr, who operated steam-powered freight and passenger trains throughout central Pennsylvania and south-central New York. From 1904 to 1949, Orr sat at the controls of many famous steam locomotives; moved trains loaded with coal, perishables, and other freight; and encountered virtually every situation a locomotive engineer of that era could expect to see. John W. (Jack) Orr, Oscar's son, tells his father's story, which begins at the Central Steam Heating Plant in Bellefonte, Pennsylvania. Oscar operated nearly every kind of steam locomotive the Pennsylvania Railroad owned, working from the bottom of the roster to the top position (number one in seniority). Orr has an ear for detail and a vivid memory. He tells about his father's first encounter with an automobile along the right-of-way, about what it was like to operate a train in a blizzard, and about the difficulties railroadmen encountered in stopping a trainload of tank cars loaded with oil in order to take on water and coal--and many other stories. This compelling railroad history will enthrall not only everyone in the railroad community but also the general reader interested in railroads and trains, past and present.

While the President and Congress as elected by popular vote are representative, can they really reflect the will and sentiment of the populace? Or do money and power dominate everyday politics to the detriment of true self-governance? Leib offers this blueprint for a fourth branch of government as a way of giving the people a voice of their own.

When countries become more democratic, opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But some sectors of society are ill-equipped to take advantage of these. This title shows how small industry in Mexico is an example of a sector whose representation decreased during democratisation.

From the early 1960s to the late 1980s, John A. Hostetler was the world's premier scholar of Amish life. This book contains four essays in which Hostetler is the primary subject. The second half reprints in chronological order fourteen key writings by Hostetler with commentaries and annotations by Weaver-Zercher.

Fifteenth-century Germany was the birthplace of movable type and of one of its powerful consequences, the broadside. These mass-produced printed sheets allowed both the Renaissance and the Reformation to spread with previously unimaginable speed, and when German immigrants made their way to North America, the cultural significance of the broadside followed. Don Yoder's Pennsylvania German Broadside examines the history and legacy of these printed sheets within the Pennsylvania German community. The author defines a broadside as any piece of paper printed on one side that is intended to be given away or sold. Where some experts have narrowed--and, in Yoder's opinion, distorted--the definition of the broadside to focus primarily on song and ballad broadsides, Yoder's definition encompasses a much wider range of material. In this more comprehensive approach to the medium, not only "street literature" but also such documents as elegies, spiritual testaments, and certificates of birth, baptism, confirmation, and marriage are all considered legitimate broadsides that tie the individual to the culture of the community. After tracing the migration of the broadside from Germany to America, the author dedicates each of ten chapters to a specific broadside subject, including medical broadsides, political and military broadsides, sale bills, posters, house blessings, and "letters from heaven." Yoder recently donated a vast collection of Pennsylvania German broadsides to the Library Company of Philadelphia. These artifacts, part of the Roughwood Collection, will go on display in September 2005 as the centerpiece of a broadside exhibition at the Library Company. More than a catalogue of theexhibition, this book explores the history and cultural significance of the broadside, illuminating the ways in which it both reflected and influenced Pennsylvania German life. Intended for historians, collectors, and general readers, The Pennsylvania German Broadside features more

The winner of the 2004 W.E.B. DuBois Book Award, NCOBPS and the2004 Michael Harrington Award "for an outstanding book that demonstrates how scholarship can be used in the struggle for a better world."

This volume brings together scholars in classics, political philosophy, and rhetoric to analyze prudence as a distinctive and vital form of political intelligence.

The first English translation of Michael de Carvajal's Spanish play Complaint of the Indians in the Court of Death, originally published in 1557. Translated by Carlos Jauregui and Mark Smith-Soto. An annotated bilingual edition, with an introduction that discusses the origins and ideological significance of the play.

Upon publication in 2001, "Russia's First Civil War" greeted by scholars as a "historical tour de force," the first major post-Marxist reassessment of the Time of Troubles. Now available in an abridged paperback, "A Short History of Russia's First Civil War" is suited for classroom use.

By uncovering the structural design of the dialogue, "The Symposium", this work aims at revealing a Plato for whom the dialogical form was not merely ornamentation or philosophical methodology, but the essence of philosophical exploration. His dialectic is not only argument; it is also play.

The category of the aesthetic has been accused of promoting class-based ideologies of distinction, of cultivating political apathy, and of indulging irrational sensuous decadence. This work re-examines the history of aesthetic theorizing that has led to this critical alienation from works of art.

The family register holds a distinctive place in American visual culture. Used to record marriages and offspring within a family through several generations, it also incorporates hand-illuminated decorative art. This study explores Pennsylvania German family registers and their place in American social, religious, and cultural traditions.

In this study of the politics of economic reform, Javier Corrales argues that the key struggle is between the executive and the ruling party. He puts this argument to the test by examining closely the events in Argentina and Venezuela during the 1990s.

There has long been debate among scholars of ancient philosophy about how the "Socratic Method" should be defined, or indeed, whether Socrates can be said to have used any single uniform method distinctive to his way of philosophising. These essays examine this controversial view.

This work traces the course of the Susquehanna River through New York, Pennsylvania and Maryland to Chesapeake Bay. The author discusses key locations along the route and how the river changes from sources to sea.

This volume examines the ways in which artists and critics such as Winslow Homer, Thomas Eakins and Thomas Anshutz, sought to forge a new identity for America during the era of growth and change dubbed the "Gilded Age" because of its leaders' taste for opulence.