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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.

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.

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.

Examines Nietzsche's approach to what he called "the tragic age of the Greeks" as the foundation not only for his attack upon the birth of philosophy during the "Socratic era," but also for his overall critique of Western culture.

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.

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.

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.

Reappraises the end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union based on the author's 35-year career as a specialist in Soviet and post-Soviet affairs. Explores the psychological universe of Soviet rulers to clarify the nature of Mikhail Gorbachev's reforms.

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.

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.

For over 40 years Victor Israelyan served in the Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs, rising through the ranks to become one of the Soviet Union's leading diplomats specializing in disarmament negotiations. Here he offers an insight into the volatile inner workings of the Soviet Foreign Ministry.

Argues the case for a foundationalist ethics centrally based on an empirical understanding of human nature. Demonstrates that the tension between the darker and the more positive sides of human nature calls for an interdisciplinary therapeutic resolution.

Explores the role played by technocrats in the political and institutional evolution of Chile since the late nineteenth century until today, with emphasis on the period from 1938-1973 as well as the period following democratic restoration in 1990.

Examines the relations and obligations of committed individuals working to create social change. Addresses issues involving forms of solidarity, the role of violence in activism, the moral and epistemological privilege of the oppressed, the relation between solidarity and social justice, and the prospects for global solidarity.