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50
The fiftieth anniversary of the Penn State Press is
an extraordinary milestone in the history of our
University. What began on an experimental basis
in 1956 has grown into an award-winning enterprise with a reputation for excellence.
Penn State Press has become an integral
part of our University community, allowing our
researchers and scholars to put into words the
substance and significance of their creative works
and scholarly initiatives. Penn State Press helps
sustain a literate culture and gives voice to many
whose perspectives and knowledge may not
otherwise be heard.
At the same time, Penn State Press extends
the University’s reach and influence, providing valuable information, ideas, analysis, and
research to the public. Since its founding five
decades ago, Penn State Press has carried with it
a special responsibility to contribute to society’s
knowledge through books and journals.
While the world of scholarly publishing has
changed much during the last fifty years, Penn
State Press has kept pace—embracing technology, collaborating with other institutions, and
emerging as a leader in a wide variety of fields.
As president of Penn State, I am pleased to
pay tribute to an organization that has done so
much to strengthen Penn State’s standing as a
university while enriching the lives of so many.
On its golden anniversary, the Penn State
Press is still relevant, still supporting great ideas,
and still deeply committed to serving academe,
its scholars, and society. We are tremendously
grateful.
Graham B. Spanier
President
The Pennsylvania State University
preface
As Penn State University Press celebrates its fiftieth anniversary, the entire publishing industry
is experiencing a period of revolutionary change.
Today’s rapid developments in technology are
comparable, in scope and impact, to those Gutenberg confronted in his era.
This booklet serves two purposes: to record
the accomplishments of the Press over the past
half-century, and to set the stage for its development over the next fifty years. A brief history
of the Press traces its growth under four directors—from its modest beginnings in 1956 to
its current status as one of the distinguished
midsize presses in the Association of American
University Presses. Emphasis is placed here on
the Press’s traditional strengths, the expansion
of its editorial program in the 1990s, its entry
into journal publishing, its early and continuing
achievement in design and production, and the
technological changes that, especially over the
last twenty years, have so affected the Press’s way
of doing business.
Outstanding copyediting, design, and
production, effective marketing, and superior
customer service in order fulfillment are vital to
any press’s success, of course, but its reputation
ultimately depends on the recognized excellence
of its editorial program. This anniversary
booklet thus devotes most of its space to the
Press’s accomplishments in the fields of the
humanities and social sciences in which the editors
have concentrated their efforts. Descriptions of
interdisciplinary areas in which the Press has
achieved prominence, such as medieval studies
and women’s studies, thread through the narratives devoted to the major disciplinary fields.
Some prominent scholars (who are not Press
authors) assess the Press’s record of achievement, and particularly significant publications
and awards are highlighted along the way. To
give proper credit to their very important role
in ensuring the high quality of the Press’s publications, a special section records the names of
the Penn State faculty who have served on the
Editorial Committee of the Press since the early
1970s. Historical documentation is lacking, unfortunately, for the names of faculty serving in
this capacity before that time. Similarly, another
section provides the names of all those faculty at
Penn State and elsewhere who have served as the
editors of the journals the Press has been honored to publish over the years.
For a publishing house without the advantages
of large capital resources and long-established
academic prestige, the Press can rightly feel proud
to have accomplished as much as it has in its fifty
years in existence. And with the Press’s recent
administrative merger into the structure of the
Penn State University Libraries—accompanied by
the inauguration of the jointly supported Office
of Digital Scholarly Publishing—the Press is leading the way into what promises to be a challenging
and exhilarating period in the evolution of scholarly publishing.
Sanford G. Thatcher
Director
Penn State Press
“The 50th anniversary of Penn
the history of penn state university press
State Press is cause for celebration for everyone who cares about
the dissemination of knowledge
and the future of publishing! Penn
State Press is a vital, thriving answer to the Cassandras who have
predicted the death of print pub-
press history
lishing in general, and scholarly
publishing in particular, as the inevitable ‘collateral damage’ of our
digital Brave New World. In recent
decades, Penn State Press has set
an example for others in all corners of the publishing world, finding ways to turn potential threats
into opportunities, meeting the
challenges of technology without sacrificing the standards of
intellectual excellence that have
been the hallmark of its publishing
program. Congratulations on this
milestone. We’re confident that
these first fifty years are only
the beginning!”
—Patricia Schroeder, President and
ceo, Association of American Publishers
An Experiment in Publishing
The origins of the Pennsylvania State University Press date back
to 1945, when a University committee was appointed “to study
the advisability and practicability of establishing a Pennsylvania
State College Press.” In 1953, as a first venture into universitypress publishing, Penn State’s Department of Public Information
issued a book titled Penn State Yankee: The Autobiography of Fred
Lewis Pattee. (Pattee, an advocate of the study of American literature and the author of the University’s Alma Mater, had taught
at Penn State at the turn of the century.) Louis H. Bell, the Public
Information director, edited and designed the book himself. Two
years later, the Penn State chapter of the American Association
of University Professors recommended that a university press be
established.
The Board of Trustees was persuaded. In 1956, it launched
the Pennsylvania State University Press “on an experimental
basis.” The Press’s mandate, in the words of the proposal dated
March 16, 1956, was “to make the products of scholarship and
research available to all, scholar and layman alike, . . . [through]
publication of books and periodicals of quality and distinction
. . . which would supplement the primary objectives of the University: understanding and scholarship.” Louis Bell served as the
first Press director. Unfortunately, he died in 1958, the same year
the Press issued its first book, Edward J. Nichols’s Toward Gettysburg: A Biography of General John F. Reynolds.
T. Rowland Slingluff, then director of the newly formed
Department of Publications, was named acting director of the
Press in 1958. He had come to Penn State from Baltimore with
degrees in international relations and some editing experience.
The University confirmed his appointment as director in 1959,
the year the Press published its second title, Henry Johnstone’s
Philosophy and Argument. In that year the Press also established
its first advisory committee to assist the director in selecting
manuscripts for publication.
The Press’s publishing program gradually gained momentum, and by the time Slingluff resigned in 1972 the Press had a
backlist of more than 150 titles. The list spanned a variety of disciplines, but almost from the beginning it manifested particular
strength in two fields: art history and literary criticism. In 1960
the Press became a member of the Association of American University Presses and soon began publishing journals. It launched
two new journals—Chaucer Review in 1966 and Philosophy and
Rhetoric in 1968—and took over publication of JGE: Journal of
General Education in 1961 and General Linguistics in 1967.
The focus of the Press during these early years was clearly
on publishing scholarly monographs and journals in the humanities, although the list had a sprinkling of titles in the social
sciences and natural sciences, too. The Press engaged in a few
other special ventures, especially in music publishing. The Penn
State Music Series (1963–71) issued in large paper format the
transcribed and annotated scores of classical music that had
long been unavailable. In 1965 it was announced that rca Victor
would distribute the Press’s first recording, The Cries of London
and Music in Honor of Queen Elizabeth I, and in 1966 the Press’s
catalogue advertised four stereo lps, among them Secular Spanish Music of the Sixteenth Century.
From French Heraldry to Atomic Fission
In March 1973 a new director, Chris Kentera, was appointed and
charged with increasing the size and diversity of the Press’s list.
Kentera was the first director of the Press to have had considerable experience in book publishing in both the commercial and
academic sectors. As director of the New York University Press,
he had managed to quadruple its annual title output. Under his
leadership—with the able assistance of Editor-in-Chief John
Pickering and, later, Senior Humanities Editor Philip Winsor—
Penn State Press raised its output to about thirty titles annually. By the time Kentera retired in March 1989, the backlist
had grown to nearly six hundred titles, covering a greater range
of subjects than ever before. A Press newsletter of this period
claimed that the Press published “in any area of recognized
scholarship from Chinese technology through French heraldry,
pig production, to atomic fission.”
The Press added to its stable of journals as well. Three new
journals were launched: SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies
in 1981 (a successor to The Shaw Review, a triannual journal the
Press had published since 1967), the Journal of Speculative Philosophy in 1987, and the Journal of Policy History in 1989. Comparative
Literature Studies migrated to the Press in 1987.
Kentera was responsible for setting up a series of regional
titles called Keystone Books—a successful series to this day. He
also worked out agreements to publish series for the College Art
Association of America and the American Academy in Rome.
Building Bridges and Defining Strengths
Sanford Thatcher became Press Director in June 1989. Thatcher
had spent his previous twenty-two years in publishing at Princeton
University Press, where he had advanced from copyeditor to
social science editor to assistant director and finally to editor-inchief. Penn State President Bryce Jordan challenged him to raise
the Press’s profile as part of the University’s ambition to move
Penn State into the ranks of the top ten public research universities in the country.
Thatcher first worked to make the Press a more effective
operation by computerizing many of its functions and adding
new staff in key positions. Editorially, Thatcher aimed to enhance the Press’s reputation for distinguished publishing both
by consolidating its strengths in core areas like art history and
literary criticism and by expanding the scope of the list within
liberal arts to build more systematically in fields like philosophy,
religion, history (mainly U.S. and European), and some of the
social sciences (especially political science and sociology). Over
time, the Press became well known for its focused publishing in
the interdisciplinary fields of Latin American studies, medieval
studies, Russian and East European studies and women’s studies.
Many new series were inaugurated, some purposely designed to build bridges across disciplines. Among these were
Literature and Philosophy, founded in 1991 and edited by
Anthony J. Cascardi, and Re-Reading the Canon, launched in
1993 and edited by Nancy Tuana. Several series were editorially
based at Penn State: Penn State Series in the History of the
Book, edited by James West; Penn State Studies in Lived Religious Experience, edited by Judith Van Herik; Penn State Studies
in Romance Literatures, edited originally by Fred De Armas and
Alan Knight; Penn State Library of Jewish Literature, edited by
Baruch Halpern and Aminadav Dykman; American and European
Philosophy, edited by Charles Scott and John Stuhr (both at
Penn State when the series started in 1997); and, most recently,
Latin American Originals: Colonial and Nineteenth-Century
Primary Sources, edited by Matthew Restall.
Some new series resulted from the establishment of formal
relationships between the Press and various associations. The
Pennsylvania German History and Culture Series, for example,
is co-published with the Pennsylvania German Society; the Rural
Sociological Society sponsors the Rural Studies Series. Indeed,
co-publication has helped the Press significantly at various stages of its development. In the early 1990s, the Press’s excellent
working relationship with Polity Press and a few other British
commercial academic publishers (such as Harvester Wheatsheaf
and Macmillan) allowed a distinguished list in European history,
feminist studies, and political philosophy to grow rapidly. Some
of the Press’s best-selling titles have been co-publications with
Polity, among them New Perspectives on Historical Writing (1992),
edited by Peter Burke, and Feminist Interpretations and Political
Theory (1991), edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman. Other notable collaborations in philosophy and history
series include the Press’s co-publication of the Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid with the University of Edinburgh Press,
Magic in History with Sutton Publishing, and Medieval Women
with Brepols.
In art history, the Press has published work most recently
with Gallimard, Manchester University Press, the Natural History Museum of London, the Tate Modern, and Penn State’s own
Palmer Museum of Art. And two recently launched art history
series—Refiguring Modernism and Buildings, Landscapes, and
Societies—aspire specifically to publish pioneering interdisciplinary scholarship. Former Art and Humanities Editor Gloria
Kury conceived of both series and selected their advisory boards.
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Regional Appeal
Peter Potter came to the Press in 1990, and he was instrumental
in expanding the range, depth, and quality of the editorial program in the humanities and social sciences, especially in American and European history and in medieval studies. Potter, who
became Editor-in-Chief in 1999 and then Associate Director in
2005, also took charge of the Press’s regional publishing program
with a mandate to increase its sales revenue and to expand its
role as part of the University’s overall outreach efforts.
One remarkable achievement in the regional publishing
program came in 2002, with the publication of Pennsylvania:
A History of the Commonwealth, edited by Randall Miller and
William Pencak. The first comprehensive history of the state in
over thirty years, Pennsylvania was co-published by the Press and
the Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission, thanks
in large part to generous funding from a unique source: sales of
the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania’s railroad heritage license
plate. Other cooperative projects focused on Pennsylvania have
brought the Press into fruitful working relationships with the
Balch Institute for Ethnic Studies in Philadelphia, the Max
Kade German-American Research Institute at Penn State, the
Pennsylvania Historical Association, and the Pennsylvania
German Society.
The Press has also contributed to the record of Penn State’s
own history with such books as Penn State: An Illustrated History
(1985), by Michael Bezilla, and histories of The Nittany Lion
(1997) by Jackie Esposito and Steven Herb and The Penn State
Blue Band (1999) by Tom Range and Sean Smith. Most recently,
the Press brought out We Are a Strong, Articulate Voice: A History
of Women at Penn State (2006) by Carol Sonenklar and This Is
Penn State: An Insider’s Guide to the University Park Campus (2006)
by the staff of the Press with contributions by Lee Stout, Gabriel
Welsch, and Craig Zabel.
Journals, Redefined
In 1991 Thatcher began to bring the Press’s journal publishing
program more into alignment with its book program. First, he
created a full-fledged Journals Department with Susan Lewis
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as Journals Manager. The Press then sought to add journals in
fields where the Press was more active in book publishing and
looked especially for ones that had institutional support. Three
more journals thus came to the Press: Book History, the official
annual journal of the Society for the History of Authorship,
Reading and Publishing (SHARP); the Journal of Nietzsche Studies, published by the Press for the Friedrich Nietzsche Society
of Great Britain; and The Good Society, a triannual journal sponsored by the Committee on the Political Economy of the Good
Society.
Meanwhile, in 2000, the Press entered into a crucial arrangement for the long-term financial viability of the journals
operation: participation in Project Muse. Project Muse is the
cooperative online enterprise of nonprofit journal publishers
that had been launched at Johns Hopkins in 1995 with support
from the NEH and the Andrew Mellon Foundation. Penn State
was the very first press outside Johns Hopkins to sign a letter
of intent to become a Muse member. In only a few years, journal
publishing has evolved from being primarily print based to being
principally web based, and thanks to Project Muse, the Press—
with MaryLou McMurtrie now as Journals Manager—has been
able to make that transition painlessly and profitably. Ten of
eleven Press journals are now available through Project Muse to
its 1,200 institutional subscribers in the United States and many
foreign countries.
Decades of Achievement
The Press has always taken special pride in the design and production of its books and journals—no doubt a reflection of its
having been a leading publisher in art history almost from the
start—and its record of success has been exceptional. First under
the guidance of Janet Dietz as Production Manager from 1963
to 1999 and, since then, under her successor, Jennifer Norton,
the Press’s Production Department (with such longtime staff as
Cherene Holland as Managing Editor and Steve Kress as Chief
Designer) has created an international reputation for excellence
in editing and design.
Awards have been plentiful for the content of the Press’s
books and journals as well as for their appearance. Especially
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since 1990, Press titles have been honored with more than eighty
prizes from many scholarly associations and other organizations,
including the American Academy of Religion, the American
Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, the American Sociological Association, the College Art
Association, and the Modern Language Association.
New Directions
The publishing industry has faced monumental challenges over
the past few decades, which some observers have compared in
their transformative magnitude to the early Gutenberg revolution. The Press has thus been compelled to adapt to the growth
of chain “superstores” and the accompanying consolidation of
the wholesale business, together with the decline of many independently owned bookstores, for example; the steady erosion of
the library market for scholarly monographs in the face of new
pressures on library budgets; and, of course, the advent of the
Internet and its massive impact on the way educational materials are accessed, marketed, bought, and sold. All of these changes, and more, have made it necessary for Press staff to be ready
to make appropriate adjustments in methods of doing business.
For instance, Sales and Marketing Director Tony Sanfilippo has
taken on responsibility for all of the electronic licensing of Press
books through netLibrary, Questia, and the like. The Press has
also tackled the complicated business of dealing with Google’s
various initiatives, which have proven both exciting and frustrating for publishers.
As digital technology advanced in the late 1990s, the
Press and the Libraries at Penn State discussed ways in which
to develop their partnership. Two Press books soon offered an
opportunity to do just that. Both Times of Sorrow and Hope: Documenting Everyday Life in Pennsylvania During the Great Depression
(2003) and TMI 25 Years Later: The Three Mile Island Nuclear Power
Plant Accident and Its Impact (2004) featured accompanying web
sites managed by the Libraries. Two long-term projects—digitizing books from the Libraries’ Beaver Collection and recasting the Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures series as a
broader-gauged series in Romance Studies, both in “open access”
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electronic form and with a print-on-demand option—suggested
the need for a formal structure for collaboration. Hence, in the
spring of 2005, the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing (ODSP)
was established, and it is forging ahead with innovative projects.
Organizationally, the Press is well positioned for its next
fifty years. We will undoubtedly continue to intensify our relationship with the Libraries and the University’s academic computing division as new digital publishing platforms evolve. We
may expect to see more experiments in open-access scholarly
publishing as well. The challenge ahead, as it has always been, is
to devise business models that will allow the Press to thrive and
remain true to its original mandate, making “the products of
scholarship and research available to all.”
The Constraint of Race
Legacies of White Skin Privilege
in America
Linda Faye Williams
2004 W. E. B. Du Bois Book
Award (National Conference of
Black Political Scientists)
spotlight
2004 Michael Harrington Award
(Caucus for a New
Political Science, apsa)
2004 Best Book on Public Policy
and Race and Ethnicity (apsa’s
Organized Section on Race,
Ethnicity, and Politics)
For a fuller history of the Press, please visit the Press’s web site:
http://www.psupress.org.
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The Constraint of Race offers a challenging new approach to understanding the evolution of American social
policy and the racial politics shaping it.
Rather than focusing on the disadvantages suffered by blacks in the American welfare state, Linda Faye Williams
looks at the other side of the coin: the
advantages enjoyed by whites. Her
hope is that rendering the benefits of
“white skin privilege” more visible will
help undermine their acceptance as
“normal” and motivate efforts toward
achieving a more equitable society.
Williams begins by comparing
two federal programs in the midnineteenth century—the Freedmen’s
Bureau and the Civil War Veterans’
Pension system. Already at this early
stage the emerging welfare state denied blacks the protections it provided
white Americans and stigmatized
blacks as welfare “dependents.” The
linkages among race, moral worthiness, and social policy established
then have persisted to the present.
Her reexamination of key episodes
in the later evolution of the American
welfare state—from the New Deal
through the Clinton administration—
reveals how social policy advanced the
privileges of “whiteness” by a variety
of mechanisms, including the ongoing
reinterpretation of the American tradition of liberal individualism in racialized ways, the slow accretion of policy
legacies, the construction of “whiteness” itself as a political category, and
the normal procedures of coalition
building and electoral politics. Williams concludes by considering the
socioeconomic conditions and political
mechanisms that might help overcome the iron grip that white privilege
holds on American social politics.
“Engaging an ongoing
controversial debate, the
author convincingly sustains her thesis that race
continues to be a driving
force in the formulation
and implementation of
social policy in the United
States. Williams’s analyses link the past to the
present in an intelligent,
comprehensive way that
provides an understanding
of the important word in
her title, ‘legacies.’”
—Charles V. Hamilton,
Columbia University
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editorial program
“In its fifty years the Penn State
University Press has enjoyed
successes and weathered storms,
but in its last eighteen years under Sandy Thatcher it has grown
and matured into a press that any
scholar in art history, political science, Latin American studies, or
any of the other fields in which
it has distinguished itself would
be proud to publish with. Under
Sandy’s stewardship the Press
has also made impressive gains
in adapting the new technologies
. . . the Press was the first client
outside Johns Hopkins to sign up
its journals for electronic distribution through Project Muse, and it
has made very significant gains
in efficiency and inventory management through the use of printon-demand and short-run digital
printing technologies. If the past
is prologue, the last fifty years
foretell a very bright future for
the Press indeed.”
—Peter Givler,
Executive Director, Association of
American University Presses
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“A few months ago I was sent
a remarkable catalogue for what
must have been a remarkable
exhibition. Part Object Part Sculpture was conceived by Helen
Molesworth, the curator of the
exhibition, and held at the Wexner
Center for the Arts, among the
most innovative venues for advanced art. That must mean that
Penn State Press is among the
art history
most innovative of publishing
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houses, for I noticed its imprint.
As a critic, I see a lot of catalogues
and rely on them of necessity as
well. They are mainly graceless
volumes, gracelessly written. This,
by contrast, was as clever as the
show, with classy illustrations
and smart essays. If it embodies the spirit of Penn State Press,
it speaks for the latter’s entire
list—edgy and authoritative, living
where intellect itself lives. I share
in celebrating its fiftieth year!”
—Arthur C. Danto,
Columbia University
art history, architecture, photography
Art books from Penn State Press present exemplary scholarship
and introduce art of extravagant imagination. Painstakingly edited, designed, and produced, they can be counted on to please
the eye and engage the intellect.
Penn State Press began to develop the collaboration essential to fine art publishing in 1963, after deciding to expand
its range to a monograph on the Baroque painter Baciccio. The
efforts of the Press staff, especially the members of the design
and production department, are evident throughout this elegant
book. Its “ample footnotes, fine bibliography, useful index,
catalogue raisonné, and excellent black-and-white illustrations,
including details of some of the major fresco cycles never before
adequately photographed,” won immediate praise in Choice.
Books on architecture and art became a major part of the
Press’s program thereafter. One of the most notable publications
in the early years was the Corpus Palladianum series in architecture, a series devoted to Palladio’s major buildings. The first title,
The Rotonda of Andrea Palladio, appeared in 1968 and featured
seventy-five black-and-white plates, two color plates, and sixteen
fold-out drawings. Others soon followed, treating the Convento
della Carità in Venice, the Loggia del Capitaniato, and the Chiesa
del Redentore, among others. Chris Kentera gave a further boost
to the program after he became director in 1973 and initiated
series in art from two prestigious organizations: the Monograph
Series of the College Art Association, and the Memoir Series and
Papers and Monographs Series from the American Academy in
Rome. Monographs in these series helped raise the Press’s profile nationally and internationally, and they continued to be a
central element of the Press’s program until 1994.
The Press has published a number of studies on major figures—including, for example, Artemisia Gentileschi and the Authority of Art (1998), by Ward Bissell, and Giammaria Mosca Called
Padovano: A Renaissance Sculptor in Italy and Poland (1998), by
Anne Markham Schulz—as well as works analyzing the art of a
particular school or period. Notable titles in this area range from
Painting in the Age of Giotto: A Historical Reevaluation (1997), by
Hayden Maginnis, and Painting in Bruges at the Close of the Middle
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Ages (1997), by Jean Wilson, to Le tumulte noir: Modernist Art
and Popular Entertainment in Jazz-Age Paris, 1900–1930 (1999), by
Jody Blake.
Many Penn State Press books have their foundations in
both art history and another discipline. Linda Safran’s Heaven
on Earth: Art and the Church in Byzantium (1997), for instance,
combines the fields of art history and religion, as do Margherita
of Cortona and the Lorenzetti: Sienese Art and the Cult of a Holy
Woman in Medieval Tuscany (1998), by Joanna Cannon and André
Vauchez, and Dreams of Subversion in Medieval Jewish Art and
Literature (1997), by Marc Michael Epstein. David Carrier’s The
Aesthetics of Comics (2000) and Joseph Margolis’s What, After
All, Is a Work of Art? (1999) meld art history and philosophy. And
the disciplines of history and art history merge in books such as
Cathedrals Under Siege: Cathedrals in English Society, 1600–1700
(1996), by Stanford E. Lehmberg, and Creating the Musée d’Orsay
(1998), by Andrea Kupfer Schneider.
Aside from art history and architecture, the Press also has
developed along the way a small but distinguished list of books
in photography. The credit here is partly due to the Press’s longstanding relationship with the late Heinz Henisch (founding
editor of the journal History of Photography) and his wife, Bridget,
whose outstanding personal collection of historically valuable
photographs is now housed in Pattee Library at Penn State. Their
trio of books, beginning with the magisterial The Photographic
Experience, 1839–1914 (1994), laid a strong base on which to build.
Recent additions have included books featuring the photography
of Nan Goldin (Fantastic Tales, 2005) and Margaret Morton (Glass
House, 2004). Steve Edwards’s The Making of English Photography:
Allegories (2006) further enriches the Press’s photography list.
As with any part of the editorial program, success in art
publishing ultimately depends on the talents of the acquisitions
editors assigned to handle it. From 1984 to his retirement in
1998, that duty fell to Philip Winsor, who ably kept the momentum of the program going. Among authors he worked closely
with on more than one book were Paul Barolsky, David Carrier,
Creighton Gilbert, John Lowden, and Hayden Maginnis. In
1999 Gloria Kury, a former art history professor at Yale, arrived
with fresh ideas and a strong network of academic and museum
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contacts to build on existing strengths and take the program in
some new directions.
Kury deepened the Press’s relationships with major museums,
such as the Baltimore Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of
Art, and the Walters Art Musuem, and she also fostered a close
collaboration with the Palmer Museum of Art at Penn State, all
of which resulted in co-publications and other arrangements
with these institutional partners. Among the titles that emerged
from these cooperative ventures were Painted Prints (with
Baltimore, 2002), Edvard Munch’s “Mermaid” (with Philadelphia,
2005), A Lost Art Rediscovered: The Architectural Ceramics of
Byzantium (with the Walters, 2001), and Picturing the Banjo
(with Palmer, 2005).
Several of Kury’s projects reflected the vast changes in outlook and methodology associated with postmodern thought.
For instance, monographs on the cultural politics of Napoleonic
France engaged rising concern with the ongoing impact of
nineteenth-century imperialism. And three museum copublications—SlideShow (2005), Work Ethic (2003), and Part
Object Part Sculpture (2005)—demonstrated the increasing
significance accorded contemporary art in the wake of expanding notions of the nature of art and its societal function. Kury
launched two bold new series as well: Buildings, Landscapes,
and Societies and Refiguring Modernism. The former series was
inaugurated by Dianne Harris’s The Nature of Authority: Villa
Culture, Landscape, and Representation in Eighteenth-Century Lombardy (2002), quickly followed by studies on the international
Romanesque revival, Sufism’s effect on urban space in medieval
Anatolia, and the Fascist “restoration” of Italy’s medieval and
Renaissance heritage. The Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences series, honored by a substantial grant from
the Getty Foundation in 2005, seeks to bring disciplines and
methodologies into intimate dialogue. David Peters Corbett’s
The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England, 1848–1914
(2004), served as its inaugural volume. Subsequent series titles,
including Barbara Larson’s The Dark Side of Nature: Science, Society, and the Fantastic in the Work of Odilon Redon (2005), Jordana
Mendelson’s Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and
the Modern Nation, 1929–1939 (2005), and The Social and the Real:
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Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere (2006), edited
by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg,
also offer expanded approaches to art-historical subjects.
Even as the Press responds to critical shifts in attitude
and practice among scholars and curators, it adheres to its core
commitment to the publication of substantive histories of art.
A forthcoming book offers the first comprehensive account of
the Psalter of Saint Louis, one of the treasures of thirteenthcentury France. And an anthology on the historiography of the
roles assigned Bernini will have, as its pendant, a new edition of
Baldinucci’s life of the Baroque polymath, first published by the
Press in 1966.
With the hiring of Eleanor Goodman as Art and Humanities
Editor in 2006, Penn State Press enters a new era of publishing
in art, architecture, and photography. These fields face special
challenges posed by the digital revolution in printing and publishing, and the Press looks forward to meeting those challenges
as it advances truly exemplary art-historical scholarship.
Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Jürgen Schulz, The New Palaces of Medieval Venice
(2005)
Philip Jacks and William Caferro, The Spinelli of
Florence: Fortunes of a Renaissance Merchant Family
(2001)
Anne Summerscale, Malvasia’s Life of the Carracci:
Commentary and Translation (2000)
Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The
Photographic Experience, 1839–1914: Images and
Attitudes (1994)
Carol F. Lewine, The Sistine Chapel Walls and the
Roman Liturgy (1993)
Howard Saalman, Filippo Brunelleschi: The Buildings
(1993)
Leo Allatios, The Newer Temples of the Greeks (1969)
Book Prizes
“It’s a pleasure to salute Penn State Press for
having had the vision and the daring to bring
out some of the most important (also beautifully made) books in the history of art of the
past decade. More and more, one thinks of
the Press as one of the field’s most important
resources.”
—Michael Fried, The Johns Hopkins University
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Dianne Harris, The Nature of Authority: Villa Culture, Landscape, and Representation in EighteenthCentury Lombardy (2006 Elizabeth Blair MacDougall Award, Society of Architectural Historians)
Jordana Mendelson, Documenting Spain: Artists, Exhibition Culture, and the Modern Nation,
1929–1939 (2006 Modernist Studies Book Award
[finalist])
Kathleen Curran, The Romanesque Revival: Religion, Politics, and Transnational Exchange (2005
Henry-Russell Hitchcock Book Award, The Victorian Society in America)
Randall C. Griffin, Homer, Eakins, and Anshutz:
The Search for American Identity in the Gilded Age
(2005 Vasari Award, Dallas Museum of Art)
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D. Medina Lasansky, The Renaissance Perfected:
Architecture, Spectacle, and Tourism in Fascist
Italy (2005 Henry Paolucci/Walter Bagehot Book
Award, Intercollegiate Studies Institute; 2006
Longman–History Today Book of the Year Award
[2nd place]; 2006 Charles Rufus Morey Book
Award [finalist], College Art Association)
Paul Barolsky, Giotto’s Father and the Family of
Vasari’s Lives; Michelangelo’s Nose; Why Mona Lisa
Smiles and Other Tales (1993 Honorable Mention,
Phi Beta Kappa Book Award)
C. Edson Armi, Masons and Sculptors in Romanesque Burgundy: The New Aesthetic of Cluny III
(1983 Book Prize, Confédération Internationale
des Négociants en Oeuvres d’Art)
Oscar Vásquez, Inventing the Art Collection:
Patrons, Markets, and the State in NineteenthCentury Spain (2003 Eleanor Tufts Award, American Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies)
Thomas F. Mathews, The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy (1973 Alice David
Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural
Historians)
John Lowden, The Making of the Bibles Moralisées
(2002 Otto Gründler Prize, The Medieval Institute)
D. Fairchild Ruggles, Landscapes, Gardens, and
Vision in the Palaces of Islamic Spain (2002 Eleanor
Tufts Award, American Society for Hispanic Art
Historical Studies)
Ascanio Condivi, The Life of Michelangelo, trans.
Hellmut Wohl and Alice Sedgwick Wohl (1999):
4,500+
Lynette M. F. Bosch, Art, Liturgy, and Legend in
Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia
Primada (2001 Eleanor Tufts Award, American
Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies)
David Carrier, Principles of Art History Writing
(1991): 4,000+
Daniel D. Reiff, Houses from Books: Treatises,
Pattern Books, and Catalogues in American
Architecture, 1738–1950: A History and Guide (2001
Historic Preservation Prize, Center for Historic
Preservation, Mary Washington College)
Helen Molesworth et al., Work Ethic (2003):
3,500+
Whitney Davis, Archaeology, Art History, Psychoanalysis (1998 Gradiva Award, National Association for the Advancement of Psychoanalysis)
Darsie Alexander, ed., SlideShow (2005): 3,000+
Samuel Terrien, The Iconography of Job Through
the Centuries: Artists as Interpreters (1997 Best
Book Relating to the Old Testament, Biblical Archaeological Society)
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Best Sellers
Heinz K. Henisch and Bridget A. Henisch, The
Photographic Experience, 1839–1914: Images and
Attitudes (1994 Honorable Mention, Best Book
in Arts, Literature, and Language, Professional
and Scholarly Publishing Division, Association of
American Publishers; 1997 Rudolph and Hertha
Benjamin Book Award, American Photographic
Historical Society)
Linda Safran, ed., Heaven on Earth (1997): 3,500+
Susan Dackerman, Painted Prints (2002): 3,000+
John Cech, Angels and Wild Things (1996): 3,000+
Jay M. Fisher, William R. Johnston, Kimberly
Schenck, and Cheryl K. Snay, The Essence of Line
(2004): 2,500+
R. Ward Bissell, Artemisia Gentileschi and the
Authority of Art (1998): 2,500+
Helen Molesworth et al., Part Object Part
Sculpture (2005): 2,500+
Thomas F. Mathews, The Early Churches of
Constantinople (1972): 2,500+
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“In a day and age when academic
publishing sometimes increasingly
seems like a contradiction in
terms, it is encouraging to see a
press like Penn State step up to the
plate and publish important
monographs in an area such as
the history of medieval manuscript
illumination, which, by definition,
requires a commitment to complex,
beautiful books that do not compromise when it comes to scholarship.
Medievalists of all stripes have many
reasons to be grateful to the Press
for its dedication and persistence,
which have produced an impressive,
international list. Penn State is now
without doubt one of the leading
publishers of books in this field.”
—Jeffrey Hamburger,
Harvard University
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history
“With special strengths in
social history, the early republic,
and labor history, as well as in
more traditional areas, Penn State
Press is one of the indispensable
publishers of American history.
Its taste at every level—in
authors, subjects, and the art of
publishing itself—is impeccable.
And its range—did I mention the
wonderful Penn State books on
history
baseball?—is remarkable.”
—Sean Wilentz, Princeton University
The very first book published by Penn State Press was a work
of American history: Edward J. Nichols’s Toward Gettysburg: A
Biography of General John F. Reynolds (1958). This biography of a
Pennsylvania Civil War general was called a “model of its kind”
by The New York Times Book Review, and over the years the Press
has continued to publish notable books that shed light upon
Pennsylvania’s contributions to the larger history of the nation.
Among them are Philip Klein’s President James Buchanan: A
Biography (1962), Robert Secor’s Pennsylvania 1776 (1976), and
Wayne Bodle’s The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and Soldiers in
War (2002).
Following the turn in historical scholarship toward a broader
consideration of social and cultural history, the Press has deepened its American history list by cultivating strengths in areas
such as labor history, urban history, African American history,
and gender history. Examples include The Miners of Windber:
The Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s–1930s by
Mildred Allen Beik (1996), A City Transformed: Redevelopment,
Race, and Suburbanization in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 1940–1980
by David Schuyler (2002), Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms: Social
and Literary Manipulations of a Religious Myth by Wilson J. Moses
(1982), and Wives of Steel: Voices of Women from the Sparrows Point
Steelmaking Communities by Karen Olson (2005). Even sports
history has found a place on the list, with David Quentin Voigt’s
authoritative American Baseball volumes (1983), John D. Fair’s
Muscletown USA (1999), and William C. Kashatus’s September
Swoon (2004). And the “American list” has expanded in recent
years to include the Americas, as the Press’s Latin American
titles and its new series, Latin American Originals, confirm.
The Press has also become a premier publisher in the field of
European history. Building in large part upon the success of the
art history program, we have developed particular strengths in
medieval and early modern history. The medieval list has evolved
to reflect the remarkably interdisciplinary nature of medieval
studies. It reaches beyond history into the fields of art history,
literature, and religion—a range of scholarship represented by
works such as John Lowden’s The Making of the Bibles Moralisées
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“In recent years, as the publishing
climate in the humanities has worsened,
scholars have become increasingly
dependent on a small number of university
presses that continue to publish highquality, well-produced books in fields that
some of the big names have abandoned as
‘unprofitable.’ In my own field of early
modern French history, Penn State University
Press has been magnificent, publishing
a steady stream of innovative, beautifully
designed books that have gone on
(2000), David Burr’s The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest to
Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis (2001), C. David
Benson’s Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late
Medieval English Culture (2003), and Michael D. Swartz and
Joseph Yahalom’s Avodah: Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur (2005).
In the early modern field, the Press has published broadly across
the Continent and England, with a clear strength emerging in
French history. John Markoff’s The Abolition of Feudalism (1996)
won multiple awards, including the Pinkney Prize of the Society
for French Historical Studies. And in 2001 the Press published
its first combined book/cd-rom, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity, by
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt.
Followers of the Press’s publishing program will observe
that religious themes have tied together many of the offerings in
history over the years. We have not specifically developed lists in
areas such as theology or biblical studies, but the history of religion is central to our American and European history programs,
as evidenced by series such as Hermeneutics: Studies in the
History of Religions (published mainly during the 1990s), Magic
in History, and the Pennsylvania German History and Culture
Series. As the Press initiates its next half-century of publishing,
we continue to seek out innovative approaches that stretch historical methodologies and bridge disciplines.
to win prizes and establish themselves as
keystones of the field. The Press is to be
congratulated for its courage and its
wisdom in these difficult times. It has
rendered a real service to scholarship.”
—David A. Bell,
The Johns Hopkins University
Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety
in Colonial Bethlehem (2004)
Naomi Janowitz, Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late
Antiquity (2003)
Andrzej Paczkowski, The Spring Will Be Ours: Poland and
the Poles from Occupation to Freedom (2003)
Wayne C. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians and
Soldiers in War (2002)
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality, Fraternity: Exploring the French Revolution (2001)
Christine Hunefeldt, Liberalism in the Bedroom: Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima (2000)
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Cliff Welch, The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of
Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964 (1999)
Richard N. Juliani, Building Little Italy: Philadelphia’s
Italians Before Mass Migration (1998)
Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightenment of Joseph Priestley: A Study of His Life and Work from 1733 to 1773 (1997)
Malcolm Greenshields, An Economy of Violence in Early
Modern France: Crime and Justice in the Haute Auvergne,
1587–1664 (1995)
Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians (1994)
Gerald G. Eggert, Harrisburg Industrializes: The Coming
of Factories to an American Community (1993)
Book Prizes
Robert E. Schofield, The Enlightened Joseph Priestley:
A Study of His Life and Work from 1773 to 1804 (2006
Roy G. Neville Prize for Bibliography or Biography,
Chemical Heritage Foundation)
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety
in Colonial Bethlehem (2005 Dale W. Brown Award in
Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Young Center at Elizabethtown College)
Jeff Bach, Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of
Ephrata (2005 Outstanding Publication Award, Communal Studies Association; 2004 Dale W. Brown Award
in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Young Center at
Elizabethtown College)
William C. Kashatus, September Swoon: Richie Allen, the
’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration (2005 Dave Moore
Award, Elysian Fields Quarterly)
Amy Nelson, Music for the Revolution: Musicians and
Power in Early Soviet Russia (2005 Heldt Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
Augustine Thompson, O.P., Cities of God: The Religion of
the Italian Communes, 1125–1325 (2005 Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic Historical Association)
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Francie R. Chassen-López, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico,
1867–1911 (2004 Thomas F. McGann Prize, Rocky
Mountain Council on Latin American Studies)
David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest
to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
(2003 Otto Gründler Prize, The Medieval Institute; 2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize and 2002
Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic
Historical Association)
Renate Wilson, Pious Traders in Medicine: German
Pharmaceutical Networks in Eighteenth-Century
North America (2003 St. Paul Prize, Lutheran
Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic Region;
2002 Kremers Award, Institute for the History of
Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
William A. Blair and William Pencak, eds., Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War (2002
Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical
Association)
Kenneth J. Heineman, A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh (2000
Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical
Association)
Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John
of Kronstadt and the Russian People (2000 Heldt
Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
Mary Patrice Erdmans, Opposite Poles: Immigrants
and Ethnics in Polish Chicago, 1976–1990 (1999
Oskar Halecki Award, Polish American Historical
Association)
Charles D. Orzech, Politics and Transcendent
Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the
Creation of Chinese Buddhism (1999 Best First Book
in the History of Religions, American Academy
of Religion)
Peter P. Hinks, To Awaken My Afflicted Brethren:
David Walker and the Problem of Antebellum Slave
Resistance (1998 Gustavus Myers Center Outstanding Book Award)
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John Markoff, The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords,
and Legislators in the French Revolution (1998 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award, American Sociological Association; 1997 Allan Sharlin Memorial Award,
Social Science History Association; 1996 David Pinkney
Prize, Society for French Historical Studies)
Charles D. Ameringer, The Caribbean Legion: Patriots,
Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950 (1997 Arthur P.
Whitaker Book Award, Middle Atlantic Council of Latin
American Studies)
Robert Zaretsky, Nîmes at War: Religion, Politics, and Public
Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944 (1997 Hans Rosenhaupt
Memorial Book Award, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
Mildred Allen Beik, The Miners of Windber: The Struggles of
New Immigrants for Unionization, 1890s–1930s (1996 Book
of the Year, International Labor History Association)
“Penn State University Press
has, over the past decade, become
one of the premier American
publishers of important scholarship in medieval studies. It has
simultaneously won a reputation for publishing innovative and
William R. Sutton, Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian Baltimore (1994
Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern
History, Conference on Faith and History)
beautifully designed and printed
Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom:
The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians (1993 Albert C.
Outler Prize in Ecumenical History, American Society of
Church History)
ship the work of some of Europe’s
David W. Kling, A Field of Divine Wonders: The New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern Connecticut, 1792–
1822 (1991 Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and
Modern History, Conference on Faith and History)
Daniel W. Pfaff, Joseph Pulitzer II and the “Post-Dispatch”:
A Newspaperman’s Life (1991 Frank Luther Mott–Kappa
Tau Alpha Award)
books in medieval art history, for
bringing to an English readerleading scholars, and for daring to
publish pathbreaking books
by established scholars and
first-time authors alike.”
—Patrick Geary, ucla
Richard P. Gildrie, The Profane, the Civil, and the Godly: The
Reformation of Manners in Orthodox New England, 1679–
1749 (1990 Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion
and Modern History, Conference on Faith and History)
Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield,
1947–1952, vol. 2 of A History of the United States Atomic
Energy Commission (1970 David B. Lloyd Prize, Harry S.
Truman Library Institute)
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Best Sellers
Peter Burke, ed., New Perspectives on Historical
Writing (1992; 2nd ed. 2001): 11,000+
John P. Murtha, From Vietnam to 9/11 (2003):
3,500+
Jack R. Censer and Lynn Hunt, Liberty, Equality,
Fraternity (2001): 10,000+
William C. Kashatus, September Swoon (2004):
3,000+
Susan E. Klepp and Billy G. Smith, eds., The Infortunate (1992; 2nd ed. 2005): 10,000+
Luis Alberto Romero, A History of Argentina in the
Twentieth Century (2002): 3,000+
Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose (1997):
8,000+
Lorett Treese, Valley Forge (1995): 3,000+
Randall M. Miller and William Pencak, eds.,
Pennsylvania (2002): 7,000+
Philip S. Klein and Ari Hoogenboom, A History of
Pennsylvania, 2nd ed. (1980): 7,000+
Peter P. Hinks, ed., David Walker’s “Appeal to the
Coloured Citizens of the World” (2000): 7,000+
A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation, 2nd ed.
(1999): 6,500+
“Over the past decade or so, Penn State
University Press has developed a truly distinguished list in French history. In an era when
Bridget Henisch, Fast and Feast (1976): 6,500+
many university presses avoid anything but
Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites (1998):
5,000+
the safest of volumes, Penn State still pub-
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the
Creation of a Superpower (2000): 5,000+
For historians of France, it has become the
Paul J. Archambault, trans., A Monk’s Confession
(1995): 4,500+
Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head, eds.,
Soldiers of Christ (1995): 4,000+
lishes splendid cutting-edge monographs.
place to look for the latest research—and
also the place to publish it.”
—William H. Sewell Jr., University of Chicago
Christopher A. Snyder, An Age of Tyrants (1998):
4,000+
John D. Fair, Muscletown USA (1999): 4,000+
Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity
to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (1991): 3,500+
Wilson J. Moses, Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms
(1982): 3,500+
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language and literature
“Penn State University Press’s
impressive publication list provides a splendid mirror of the past
half-century’s scholarship and
criticism in language and literature. Beginning with several highly
regarded studies in French,
German, and American literature,
it quickly responded to the times,
initiating series and journals to
reflect the growing importance
literature
of Spanish, the emergence
of African American literature,
and the rediscovery of women
writers. By cultivating comparative literature and various
interdisciplinary approaches, it has
responded imaginatively to evernew vogues in theory and
methodology while wisely
avoiding the extremes of traditionalism or trendiness.”
—Theodore Ziolkowski,
Princeton University
Along with art history and philosophy, the study of language and
literature was well represented on the Press’s list from the very
beginning. Of the first thirty titles issued, a third came from
this sector of the humanistic disciplines, with the earliest being
Laurent LeSage’s Jean Giraudoux: His Life and Works (1959). Besides French literature, the Press concentrated for its first three
decades mostly on the literatures of England, Germany, and
the United States, with some attention to Italian and Russian
literature as well. By the mid-1990s, however, Spanish literature
became the primary focus, largely owing to the energy of Frederick de Armas, a co-editor of the Penn State Studies in Romance
Literatures series, and to the Spanish Ministry of Culture’s generosity in providing subsidies for books devoted to its national
literary heritage.
Press books largely examined the genres of fiction and
poetry, while drama tended to receive less attention—with the
major exception of the works of George Bernard Shaw. Shaw was
the subject not only of numerous individual titles but also of
SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies, edited for many years
by Stanley Weintraub (himself a prolific writer of books about
Shaw and other topics). Other authors featured in several Press
books include Chaucer, Dickinson, Eliot, Emerson, Hemingway,
Joyce, Milton, Pound, Shakespeare, Whitman, and Wordsworth.
Like Shaw, Chaucer holds a place of special importance at the
Press: the Press journal The Chaucer Review was founded in 1966
and edited for more than thirty years by Robert Frank. The distinguished literary scholar Philip Young contributed a number of
books on Hemingway, and his The Private Melville was published
posthumously in 1993. (Young’s former students David Morrell
and Sandra Spanier edited a collection of his essays titled American Fiction, American Myth in 2000.) Another subfield in which
the Press has made some notable contributions is African American literature, especially with the anthology edited by Richard A.
Long and Eugenia W. Collier, Afro-American Writing (1985), which
was the main collection on the market until the Norton Anthology of African American Literature arrived in 1997 to provide stiff
competition.
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Complementing the many Penn State Press books focused
on a single author or national literary culture was the list the
Press developed in explicitly comparative literature. This was
stimulated by the Press’s publication of the Yearbook of Comparative Criticism, edited by Joseph Strelka, which produced
ten volumes from 1968 to 1983. The Press later took over publication of one of the leading journals in the field, Comparative
Literature Studies, from the University of Illinois Press in 1987.
Monographs by preeminent scholars offered a magisterial sweep
across the writings of multiple authors and the literatures of
multiple countries. The Press published Thomas Beebee’s “Clarissa” on the Continent (1990) and The Ideology of Genre (1994), for
example; Martin Green’s The Robinson Crusoe Story (1990), Seven
Types of Adventure Tale (1991), and The Adventurous Male (1993);
several books by Bettina L. Knapp, including Women in TwentiethCentury Literature (1987) and Exile and the Writer (1991); and four
books by Giancarlo Maiorino, from The Cornucopian Mind and the
Baroque Unity of the Arts (1990) up to his prize-winning At the
Margins of the Renaissance (2003).
The Press has tried to build bridges between literary criticism and other disciplines in which it publishes. Some books
signaled this aim in their very titles, such as Frederick Garber’s
Repositionings: Readings of Contemporary Poetry, Photography, and
Performance Art (1995) and L. H. LaRue’s Constitutional Law as
Fiction: Narrative in the Rhetoric of Authority (1995). Others did so
more subtly, like Peter A. Dorsey’s Sacred Estrangement: The Rhetoric of Conversion in Modern American Autobiography (1993), Roy
Eriksen’s The Building in the Text: From Alberti to Shakespeare and
Milton (2000), Luba Freedman’s Titian’s Portraits Through Aretino’s
Lens (1995), and Anne Winston-Allen’s Stories of the Rose: The
Making of the Rosary in the Middle Ages (1997). Two of the Press’s
series—History of the Book, edited by James L. W. West III, and
Literature and Philosophy, edited by Anthony J. Cascardi—aim
to foster interdisciplinary scholarship.
Besides literary criticism as such, the Press also achieved
visibility in language, linguistics, and rhetoric. Burton Raffel,
called by one reviewer “arguably the greatest living translator of
verbal art into English,” produced companion volumes on The
Art of Translating Poetry (1988) and The Art of Translating Prose
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(1994) that have proved of enduring value. Among translations of
literary masterpieces the Press has issued, two in particular have
stood the test of time very successfully: Gerard J. Brault’s translation of La Chanson de Roland (1984) and Judith H. McDowell’s
translation of Rousseau’s La Nouvelle Héloïse (1986). Both have
gone through many printings. From 1967 until 1991 the Press
published the journal General Linguistics and, complementing it, a
modest but steady stream of related books. In rhetoric, the Press
came to the fore early on, launching the journal Philosophy and
Rhetoric in 1968. (P&R has long been regarded as one of the best
in its field.) In recent years, Penn State Press books have concentrated in what is now called informal logic, but the range of the
list extends from classics like Thomas Wilson’s The Art of Rhetoric
(1994), as edited by Peter Medine, to Gary Remer’s Humanism and
the Rhetoric of Toleration (1996) and Talking Democracy: Historical
Perspectives on Rhetoric and Democracy (2004), edited by Benedetto
Fontana, Cary J. Nederman, and Gary Remer.
Over time, the field of language and literature came to
dominate the Press’s list. Indeed, in the period 1985–1989, it
accounted for nearly half of the Press’s output. But as the scope
of the publishing program broadened, especially into the social
sciences, fewer works on language and literature appeared; in
1995, when director Sanford Thatcher identified traditional literary criticism as particularly vulnerable to changes in the market
for scholarly monographs, he regretfully announced the Press’s
decision to withdraw from the field, except for the series to
which it was already committed.
The Press still publishes the History of the Book and the
Literature and Philosophy series, and two new Penn State Press
series will welcome scholarly contributions in language and literature: The Penn State Library of Jewish Literature, edited by
Baruch Halpern and Aminadav Dykman, and Refiguring Modernism: Arts, Literatures, Sciences, edited by a multidisciplinary
advisory board now chaired by Penn State English professor
Mark Morrisson. Several books by art historians—David Peters
Corbett, Barbara Larson, and Jordana Mendelson, among others—inaugurated the Refiguring Modernism series, but the series
will embrace interdisciplinary works by authors in literature
departments as well.
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One of the Press’s noteworthy new initiatives is its revival
of the Penn State Studies in Romance Literatures series—now
renamed the Penn State Series in Romance Studies—as a major
project of the Office of Digital Scholarly Publishing, formed in
2005 as a joint effort of the Press and the Penn State Libraries.
An advisory board has been appointed from the Departments
of French and of Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese to oversee
the series editorially, and two books by senior scholars have
already been approved for publication, with several more under
consideration. This unique series will take advantage of modern
technology to provide fully searchable “open access” to the books
online at the Libraries’ web site; at the same time, it will offer
browsers the option of purchasing the books “on demand,” in
regular print format, through one of the Press’s printing partners. The series will thus afford serious students and scholars the
opportunity to have the books in print at a reasonable price, and
the web technology will make available supplementary materials—such as color illustrations, documentary appendixes, and
texts in their original languages—that enhance the rich experience of engaging with these books but are too expensive to provide in print editions. Indeed, in a happy irony, the advance of
digital technology is now giving new and even perpetual life to
books once thought to be headed for extinction.
Choice Outstanding Academic Books
C. David Benson, Public Piers Plowman: Modern Scholarship and Late Medieval English Culture (2004)
Reed Way Dasenbrock, Truth and Consequences: Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics (2001)
Lou Charnon-Deutsch, Fictions of the Feminine in the
Nineteenth-Century Spanish Press (2000)
James Engell, The Committed Word: Literature and Public
Values (1999)
John Miles Foley, Homer’s Traditional Art (1999)
James Perrin Warren, Culture of Eloquence: Oratory and
Reform in Antebellum America (1999)
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Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance:
Four Women Confront the Holocaust—Edith Stein,
Simone Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (1997)
Frederick Burwick, Poetic Madness and the Romantic
Imagination (1996)
Gary Remer, Humanism and the Rhetoric of Toleration (1996)
Michael Ugarte, Madrid, 1900: The Capital as
Cradle of Literature and Culture (1996)
Robert Thomas Fallon, Divided Empire: Milton’s
Political Imagery (1995)
Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically: Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics (1994)
William J. Berg, The Visual Novel: Emile Zola and
the Art of His Times (1993)
Peter J. Burgard, Idioms of Uncertainty: Goethe and
the Essay (1993)
Catherine Craft-Fairchild, Masquerade and Gender:
Disguise and Female Identity in Eighteenth-Century
Fictions by Women (1993)
Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges, eds., Johann
Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764–1767
(1993)
Gavriel Shapiro, Nikolai Gogol and the Baroque
Cultural Heritage (1993)
Kent Cartwright, Shakespearean Tragedy and Its
Double: The Rhythms of Audience Response (1991)
Oscar Mandel, August von Kotzebue: The Comedy,
the Man (1990)
Robert M. Browning, German Poetry in the Age of
Enlightenment: From Brockes to Klopstock (1979)
Nathaniel Hawthorne, Hawthorne’s Lost Notebook,
1835–1841, with a Preface by Barbara S. Mouffe,
Introduction by Hyatt H. Waggoner, and Foreword by Charles Ryskamp (1979)
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Bernard Oldsey, Hemingway’s Hidden Craft: The
Writing of “A Farewell to Arms” (1979)
Gerard J. Brault, The Song of Roland: An Analytical
Edition, 2 vols. (1978)
Joseph P. Strelka, ed., Yearbook in Comparative
Criticism, Vol. 1: Perspectives in Literary Symbolism
(1972)
Philip O’Leary, The Prose Literature of the Gaelic Revival,
1881–1921 (1995 Donald Murphy Prize, American Conference for Irish Studies)
Robert Thomas Fallon, Milton in Government (1993
James Holly Hanford Award, Milton Society of America)
Juan Ruiz, Book of True Love, trans. Saralyn R. Daly
(1980 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award,
Academy of American Poets)
Book Prizes
Giancarlo Maiorino, At the Margins of the Renaissance: Lazarillo de Tormes and the Picaresque Art of
Survival (2004 James Russell Lowell Prize, Modern Language Association)
Ezra Greenspan, George Palmer Putnam: Representative American Publisher (2001 Prize in Biography, Professional and Scholarly Publishing
Division, Association of American Publishers)
Ezra Greenspan and Jonathan Rose, eds., Book
History (2000 Best New Journal Award, Council
of Editors of Learned Journals)
Heinrich Fichtenau, Heretics and Scholars in the
High Middle Ages, 1000–1200, trans. Denise A.
Kaiser (1999 Ungar Prize, American Translators
Association)
Arabella Lyon, Intentions: Negotiated, Contested,
and Ignored (1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book
Award, Association of Teachers of Advanced
Composition)
Dubravka Ugrešić, The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays, trans. Celia Hawkesworth (1999 Heldt
Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
“For the past half-century, despite the ups
and downs most university presses have
experienced, Penn State University Press
has continued to be at the forefront of
literary publishing. From French theory
and American poetics to medieval Spanish
literature and the biography of T. S. Eliot,
Penn State continues to bring us high-quality
books on genuinely new subjects. The Press
has managed to avoid passing trends even
as it is at the cutting edge of literary scholarship: its new Office of Digital Scholarly
Publishing is an example.”
—Marjorie Perloff, Stanford University
Frederick Burwick, Poetic Madness and the Romantic Imagination (1997 Book Prize, American
Conference on Romanticism)
John Cech, Angels and Wild Things: The Archetypal
Poetics of Maurice Sendak (1997 Honor Book,
Children’s Literature Association)
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Best Sellers
Richard A. Long and Eugenia W. Collier, eds.,
Afro-American Writing (1985): 20,000+
James L. Potter, Robert Frost Handbook (1980): 2,500+
Thomas F. Magner, Introduction to the Croatian
and Serbian Language (1991; rev. ed. 1995): 9,000+
Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew
Sciabarra, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
(1999): 2,000+
Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose (1997):
8,000+
Bernard Oldsey, Hemingway’s Hidden Craft (1979):
2,000+
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, La Nouvelle Héloïse,
trans. Judith H. McDowell (1986): 6,000+
Brian Johnston, The Ibsen Cycle (1992): 2,000+
Gerard J. Brault, The Song of Roland, 2 vols. (1978):
5,500+
Gerard J. Brault, La Chanson de Roland (1984):
4,000+
Wilson J. Moses, Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms
(1982): 3,500+
Stanley Weintraub, Aubrey Beardsley (1976):
3,000+
John Cech, Angels and Wild Things (1991): 3,000+
Harrison T. Meserole, ed., American Poetry of the Seventeenth Century (1986): 2,000+
Martin Green, The Robinson Crusoe Story (1991): 2,000+
Dorothy Huff Oberhaus, Emily Dickinson’s Fascicles
(1995): 2,000+
Martin Klammer, Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence
of “Leaves of Grass” (1994): 2,000+
James Nagel, Stephen Crane and Literary Impressionism
(1980): 2,000+
Elizabeth Phillips, Emily Dickinson (1988): 2,000+
Earl C. Haag, A Pennsylvania German Reader and
Grammar (1982): 3,000+
James E. Miller Jr., T. S. Eliot’s Personal Waste
Land (1977): 3,000+
Philip Baldi and Ronald N. Werth, eds., Readings
in Historical Phonology (1978): 2,500+
Juan Ruiz, Book of True Love, trans. Saralyn R.
Daly (1978): 2,500+
Pamela Joseph Benson, The Invention of the
Renaissance Woman (1992): 2,500+
Peter Bürger, The Decline of Modernism (1992):
2,500+
Jean-Paul Sartre, Mallarmé, or the Poet of Nothingness, trans. Ernest Sturm (1988): 2,500+
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“Most university presses are a
labor of love, and none more so than
those like the Penn State University
Press, which has been publishing outstanding books by literary scholars for
the past half-century. For every
‘best seller’ it publishes (which in this
instance means a book that sells more
published dozens that, even while they
are of genuine scholarly importance,
are bought only by libraries and by
a handful of specialists. This is true
dedication to the spread of humanistic
knowledge. I applaud the Penn State
Press for its new initiative in digital
publishing in the field of Romance
studies, which will allow it to continue
producing outstanding books in the
literary scholarly field that would be
economically unfeasible to publish
in the traditional way.”
—Susan Rubin Suleiman,
Harvard University
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Poetic Madness and the Romantic
Imagination
Frederick Burwick
Choice Outstanding Academic
Book, 1996
1997 Book Prize (American Conference on Romanticism)
spotlight
than 2,000 copies), the Press has
Using as his starting point the historical
notion that poets may be, at least in
moments of inspiration, “out of their
senses,” Frederick Burwick explores
the theoretical implications of inspiration as furor poeticus, particularly as
that concept was presented during the
latter eighteenth and early nineteenth
centuries. Drawing on social and
medical attitudes toward madness and
the so-called poetic rapture, Burwick
addresses the appeal to poetic madness
in critical theory, the thematization
of the mad poet in literature, and the
reception of mad poets. With a mad king on the throne
of England, mad prophets in the
marketplace, and mad poets in their
midst, many writers of this period,
not surprisingly, used their fiction to
explore the conditions of madness.
In discussing the mad poet as a character in Romantic literature, Burwick
examines the reception and representation of the Italian poet Torquato
Tasso in Goethe’s play and in the
poetry and criticism of the Schlegels,
Byron, Shelley, Peacock, and Hazlitt.
In his commentary on narratives of
madness, Burwick discusses Nodier’s
Jean-François les bas-bleus, Hoffmann’s
Der Goldne Topf, Shelley’s Julian and
Maddalo, and Blake’s account of the
struggle between Los and Urizen. The
final section interprets the visual strategies adopted by Hölderlin, Nerval,
and Clare in relating their visionary
experiences.
“An original and hugely
learned study that weaves
its argument from England to the Continent, and
from literature through
philosophy and psychology of the Romantic era.
It is at home in rarely noticed areas of the mentation of both Coleridge and
De Quincey, as well as in a
whole panoply of relevant
materials and figures in
Germany, most notably
Kant and Fichte, Goethe,
the Schlegel brothers, and
Achim von Arnim.”
—Thomas McFarland,
Princeton University
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latin american studies
“Now one of the world’s
premier publishers of books
about Latin America, Penn State
latin america
Press has acquired an admirable
record of presenting cutting-edge
work by both senior and junior
scholars, often taking a risk in the
process, but just as often helping
establish new directions in
diverse fields ranging from political economy to gender studies.
‘Innovative’ and ‘distinguished’—
two adjectives that are not often
used in the same sentence—may
best capture the contribution
Penn State Press has made to
Latin American studies.”
—Lars Schoultz,
University of North Carolina
Before 1990 the Press published only a few books about Latin
America, mainly in history and political science, and had virtually no visibility in the field. But this was a field that Sanford
Thatcher had cultivated during his years as an editor at Princeton University Press, and when he came to Penn State as director
in mid-1989, he saw an opportunity to build a strong program
at the Press (partly because Princeton had decided not to put
much effort into continuing the program he had built there).
Beginning in that year and extending to the present, the Press
has consequently made a reputation for itself as a publisher of
Latin American studies that ranks it among the leading publishers in the world. Press books have received numerous honors,
including six named as Outstanding Academic Books by Choice
and several that have won major awards. A number have become
staple reading in college classrooms around the country.
Latin American studies has been characterized by interdisciplinary communication of the highest order, which makes it
an exciting and rewarding field in which to publish. One often
cannot tell from the title or subject matter whether a book in the
field has been written by a scholar from anthropology, economics, history, political science, or sociology. In subfields where
the Press has published most, such as political economy, gender
studies, and social movements, contributions have come from
people in all of these disciplines. Not only does interdisciplinarity
contribute to the advancement of scholarship, but for a publisher it provides opportunities to sell books in a wide range of
disciplinary markets.
Also characteristic of the field, as evident from attendance
at the meetings of the Latin American Studies Association, is the
strong cooperative relationship that exists between North American and South American scholars. Many of the edited volumes
published by the Press, such as Argentine Democracy, Out of the
Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America, and Rethinking Development in Latin America, are the results
of just such cooperation. This cross-fertilization of scholarship
between North and South ensures, among other things, that
theories generated by U.S. and Canadian scholars quickly get put
to the test of empirical research carried on in Latin America.
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Hitherto the Press has not published any series in this field,
but as part of an effort to work more closely with the interdisciplinary Latin American program at Penn State, the Press has
recently launched a new series titled Latin American Originals:
Colonial and Nineteenth-Century Primary Sources, edited by
Matthew Restall. This series will also help establish the Press as a
major publisher in colonial Latin American history, complementing the Press’s strength in nineteenth- and twentieth-century
history.
While aiming to maintain its primary focus in the social
sciences and in history (extending the breadth of the list more
into the colonial era), the Press in the future will likely try to do
some innovative publishing in cultural studies, particularly art
history and literature, as exemplified by the recent publication
of The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western
Hemisphere, edited by Alejandro Anreus, Diana L. Linden, and
Jonathan Weinberg.
Choice Outstanding Academic Books
José Itzigsohn, Developing Poverty: The State, Labor
Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in
Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (2001)
Christine Hunefeldt, Liberalism in the Bedroom:
Quarreling Spouses in Nineteenth-Century Lima
(2000)
space for a new model of interdisciplinary social science and historical
research. Covering a vast area of Latin
American history and current events,
Penn State can boast an impressive list
of cutting-edge work that will chart
future directions of scholarly frontiers.”
—Jeremy Adelman, Princeton University
“Penn State Press has developed
from a minor publisher of works on
Latin America to a leading force
in the field. The Press now publishes
a large, interesting, diverse range
of books in the social sciences and
Peter M. Siavelis, The President and Congress in
Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to
Democratic Consolidation (2000)
history that focus on Latin America,
Cliff Welch, The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo
Roots of Brazil’s Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964
(1999)
important studies by young scholars
Gerardo L. Munck, Authoritarianism and Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina,
1976–1983 (1998)
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason:
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (1994)
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“Penn State Press has created a
including prize-winning books and
along with internationally renowned
scholars. Its publications now
include ‘must-reads’!”
—Susan Eckstein, Boston University
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Book Prizes
Miguel Centeno addresses these
questions by analyzing three critical
developments in the Mexican state: the
centralization of power within the bureaucracy; the rise of a new generation
of technocrats and their use of a complex system of political networks; and
the dominance of a neoliberal ideology
and technocratic vision that guided
policy decisions and limited democratic
participation. In his conclusion, the
author proposes some alternative scenarios for Mexico’s future and suggests
lessons for the study of regimes undertaking similar transitions.
Francie R. Chassen-López, From Liberal to Revolutionary Oaxaca: The View from the South, Mexico,
1867–1911 (2004 Thomas F. McGann Prize, Rocky
Mountain Council on Latin American Studies)
Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and
the Nation-State in Latin America (Honorable
Mention, 2003 Mattei Dogan Award, Society for
Comparative Research)
Javier Corrales, Presidents Without Parties: The
Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s (Runner-up, 2003 Best Book
Prize, New England Council of Latin American
Studies)
Charles D. Ameringer, The Caribbean Legion: Patriots, Politicians, Soldiers of Fortune, 1946–1950 (1997
Arthur P. Whitaker Book Award, Middle Atlantic
Council of Latin American Studies)
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
Second Edition with a new Postscript
Miguel Angel Centeno
Choice Outstanding Academic
Book, 1994
Robert Edgar Conrad, ed., Children of God’s Fire
(1993): 4,500+
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason
(1994; 2nd ed. 1997): 4,000+
Luis Alberto Romero, A History of Argentina in the
Twentieth Century (2002): 3,000+
Eldon Kenworthy, America/Américas (1995):
2,000+
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, Drugs and Security in the
Caribbean (1997): 2,000+
Philip D. Oxhorn, Organizing Civil Society (1995):
2,000+
During the 1980s, the Mexican regime
faced a series of economic, social,
and political disasters that led many
to question its survival. Yet by 1992
the economy was again growing,
with inflation under control and the
confidence of international investors
restored. Mexico was now touted as an
example for regimes in Eastern Europe
to emulate.
How did Carlos Salinas and his
team of technocrats manage to gain
political power sufficient to impose
their economic model? How did they
sustain their revolution from above
despite the hardships these changes
brought for many Mexicans? How did
they stage their remarkable political
comeback and create their “democracy within reason”? Why did Salinas
succeed in keeping control of his revolution while Mikhail Gorbachev failed
to do so in his similar effort at radical
reform?
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Best Sellers
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Democracy Within Reason
“[Democracy Within Reason]
sheds light on a muchlauded case of successful
economic reform and provides valuable quantitative
material to complement
the prevailing sociological
work on Mexico. . . .
Centeno’s literature review
of the relationship between democracy and the
market is intelligent, comprehensive, nuanced, and
up-to-date. In addition to
bringing elite studies back
into the sociology of Mexico,
he also raises meaningful
questions about the
longer-term political implications of Salinas’s
tenure. As such, this book
lays a solid and necessary
foundation for future work
on Mexico.”
—Diane E. Davis,
Contemporary Sociology
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pennsylvania and the mid-atlantic region
“Down the Susquehanna to the
Chesapeake is doubly welcome, for
its own considerable virtues and
for filling in so many of the blanks
in our knowledge of a river that
plays a far larger role in this part
pennsylvania
of the country than most of us
realize. . . . Brubaker’s meticulous
and loving description of the river
should do much to heighten our
appreciation of this secret treasure in the heart of our part of the
world. It has been handsomely
published by Penn State Press
as a ‘Keystone Book,’ a series
‘intended to serve the citizens of
Pennsylvania by educating them
and others, in an entertaining way,
about aspects of the history,
culture, society, and environment
of the state as part of the Middle
Atlantic region.’ That, for my
money, is university-press
publishing at its absolute best.”
—Jonathan Yardley,
The Washington Post Book World
Sparked by the pioneering efforts of the University of North
Carolina Press back in the 1930s, regional publishing has become
a mainstay of university-press lists over the years—and it is especially important for presses located at public institutions with
a strong mandate to serve the citizens of their states. Indeed,
regional titles (both scholarly and nonscholarly) play a major
role in the publishing program of Penn State Press. The Press’s
regional books run the gamut from folklore to poetry, from
natural history and politics to sports. In 2000, for example, the
Press published both a regional cookbook, Seasons of Central
Pennsylvania by Anne Quinn Corr, and Renate Wilson’s Pious
Traders in Medicine, an award-winning study of German pharmaceutical networks in the mid-Atlantic colonies. The regional list
highlights Pennsylvania German history, too. Books such as
the beautifully illustrated To the Latest Posterity: PennsylvaniaGerman Family Registers in the Fraktur Tradition (2003), by
Corinne and Russell Earnest, and Don Yoder’s spectacular The
Pennsylvania German Broadside (2005) attest to the Press’s productive relationship with the Pennsylvania German Society.
To many outside the world of scholarly publishing, the
Press is perhaps best known for its line of popular regional titles
known as Keystone Books. According to the official series description, Keystone Books are “intended to serve the citizens of
Pennsylvania by educating them and others, in an entertaining
way, about aspects of the history, culture, society, and environment of the state as part of the Middle Atlantic region.” In a
very real sense, the series offers the Press an outlet for some
out-of-the-ordinary books that it might not otherwise be able
to publish.
The first Keystone Book was Donald S. Heintzelman’s Guide
to Eastern Hawk Watching (1976). The series made an early name
for itself with several books by Jeannette Lasansky that were
co-published with the Oral Traditions Project of the Union County
Historical Society. They included Willow, Oak, and Rye: Basket
Traditions in Pennsylvania (1979) and To Cut, Piece, and Solder: The
Work of the Rural Pennsylvania Tinsmith, 1778–1908 (1982). More
recently, Simon J. Bronner’s Popularizing Pennsylvania (1996)
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recounted the work of Pennsylvania’s first state folklorist, Henry
W. Shoemaker.
Many Penn State Press guidebooks have followed the original Keystone Guide to Eastern Hawk Watching, including the
best-selling title in the series, Marcia Bonta’s Outbound Journeys
in Pennsylvania (1987), and Therese Boyd’s kitschy The Best Places
You’ve Never Seen: Pennsylvania’s Small Museums (2003). Pennsylvania’s waterways are well represented, beginning with Tim
Palmer’s Rivers of Pennsylvania (1980) and followed by noteworthy books about the Allegheny and Monongahela rivers (by Mike
Sajna and Arthur Parker in 1992 and 1999, respectively). Jack
Brubaker added to the list with his Down the Susquehanna to the
Chesapeake from 2002. And in 2005 the Press issued a new edition of Richard Albert’s Damming the Delaware, which recounts
the fraught history of the Tocks Island Dam Project.
The rough-and-tumble of Pennsylvania politics has always
fascinated readers. Keystone titles have tackled the subject
through biography, memoir, and survey, as George Wolf’s William Warren Scranton: Pennsylvania Statesman (1981), Vincent
Carocci’s A Capitol Journey: Reflections on the Press, Politics, and
the Making of Public Policy in Pennsylvania (2005), Paul Beers’s
classic Pennsylvania Politics Today and Yesterday (1980), and Jack
Treadway’s Elections in Pennsylvania (2005) demonstrate.
For those whose interests lie with sports, several Keystone
Books have featured Little League, minor league, and professional baseball: 2001 saw the publication of Lance and Robin
Van Auken’s Play Ball! The Story of Little League Baseball as well as
James Quigel Jr. and Louis Hunsinger Jr.’s Gateway to the
Majors: Williamsport and Minor League Baseball. William Kashatus’s
September Swoon: Richie Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration (2004) and his Money Pitcher: Chief Bender and the Tragedy
of Indian Assimilation (2006) appeared just a few years later.
But baseball isn’t the only sports theme. John Fair’s 1999 book
about Bob Hoffman and York Barbell, Muscletown USA, garnered national attention and is one of the better-selling titles
in the Keystone series. The Press is also noted for its pioneering
books on sports in which the University has excelled in national
competition, written or edited by longtime Penn State coaches:
Gymnastics Safety Manual (1977; 2nd ed. 1979), edited by Eugene
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Wettstone, and Foil Fencing (1984), co-authored by Maxwell
Garret, who was joined by current coach Emmanuil Kaidanov
and another co-author in writing Foil, Saber, and Épée Fencing
(1994), which has been through multiple printings with nearly
10,000 copies sold.
Devoted Penn Staters have enjoyed Keystone Books about
the University itself, including The Nittany Lion: An Illustrated
Tale (1997), by Jackie Esposito and Steven Herb, and The Penn
State Blue Band: A Century of Pride and Precision (1999), by
Thomas Range II and Sean Patrick Smith (1999). The year 2006
will mark the publication of This Is Penn State: An Insider’s Guide
to the University Park Campus, written and designed by Press
staff and featuring a Foreword by “honorary alumnus” Old Coaly.
In short, some of the most colorful and entertaining Penn
State Press publications have found a perfect home in the Keystone
series. Recent Keystone titles include a full-color guide to Pennsylvania mushrooms and an account of the battle over
managing whitetail deer in the state.
“I have the highest regard for the work of
Penn State Press in promoting state and
local history and in setting high standards
with publications that are both scholarly
and accessible to a general audience.”
—Brent D. Glass, Director,
National Museum of American History,
Smithsonian Institution
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Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem (2004)
Kenneth J. Heineman, A Catholic New Deal:
Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh
(2000 Philip S. Klein Book Award, Pennsylvania
Historical Association)
Wayne C. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians
and Soldiers in War (2002)
Jody Blake and Jeannette Lasansky, Rural Delivery: Real Photo Postcards from Central Pennsylvania
(1997 Award of Merit, American Association for
State and Local History)
Richard N. Juliana, Building Little Italy: Philadelphia’s Italians Before Mass Migration (1998)
Gerald G. Eggert, Harrisburg Industrializes: The
Coming of Factories to an American Community
(1993)
Mildred Allen Beik, The Miners of Windber: The
Struggles of New Immigrants for Unionization,
1890s to 1930s (1996 Book of the Year, International Labor History Association)
Richard C. Albert, Damming the Delaware: The Rise
and Fall of Tocks Island Dam (1988)
Best Sellers
Book Prizes
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem (2005 Dale W.
Brown Book Award in Anabaptist and Pietist
Studies, Young Center at Elizabethtown College)
Jeff Bach, Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred
World of Ephrata (2005 Outstanding Publication
Award, Communal Studies Association; 2004
Dale W. Brown Book Award in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies and 2003 First Annual Book Award
in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Young Center
at Elizabethtown College)
William C. Kashatus, September Swoon: Richie
Allen, the ’64 Phillies, and Racial Integration (2005
Dave Moore Award, Elysian Fields Quarterly)
Wayne C. Bodle, The Valley Forge Winter: Civilians
and Soldiers in War (2003 Distinguished Writing
Award Finalist, Army Historical Foundation)
William A. Blair and William Pencak, eds., Making and Remaking Pennsylvania’s Civil War (2002
Philip S. Klein Book Award, Pennsylvania Historical Association)
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James P. Quigel Jr. and Louis E. Hunsinger Jr.,
Gateway to the Majors: Williamsport and Minor
League Baseball (2001 Casey Award Finalist, Spitball: The Literary Baseball Magazine)
Marcia Bonta, Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania
(1987): 10,000+
Jackie R. Esposito and Steven L. Herb, The
Nittany Lion (1997): 9,500+
Maxwell R. Garret, Emmanuil G. Kaidanov, and
Gil A. Pezza, Foil, Saber, and Épée Fencing (1994):
9,500+
Randall M. Miller and William Pencak, eds.,
Pennsylvania (2002): 7,000+
Jim Schafer and Mike Sajna, The Allegheny River
(1992): 7,000+
Philip S. Klein and Ari Hoogenboom, A History of
Pennsylvania, 2nd ed. (1980): 7,000+
Jack Brubaker, Down the Susquehanna to the
Chesapeake (2002): 5,000+
Lance and Robin Van Auken, Play Ball! (2001):
4,500+
Richard J. Medve and Mary Lee Medve, Edible
Wild Plants of Pennsylvania and Neighboring States
(1990): 4,500+
John D. Fair, Muscletown USA (1999): 4,000+
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John W. Orr, Set Up Running (2001): 4,000+
Anne Quinn Corr, Seasons of Central Pennsylvania
(2000): 3,500+
William C. Kashatus, September Swoon (2004):
3,000+
Marcia Bonta, More Outbound Journeys in Pennsylvania (1995): 3,000+
Lorett Treese, Valley Forge (1995): 3,000+
E. Willard Miller, ed., A Geography of Pennsylvania
(1995): 2,500+
Therese Boyd, The Best Places You’ve Never Seen
(2003): 2,500+
Arthur Parker, The Monongahela (1999): 2,500+
Lorett Treese, The Storm Gathering (1992): 2,000+
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Pennsylvania
A History of the Commonwealth
Edited by Randall M. Miller and
William Pencak
Co-published with the Pennsylvania
Historical and Museum Commission
A Keystone Book™
The Keystone State, so nicknamed
because it was geographically situated
in the middle of the thirteen original
colonies, played a crucial role in the
founding of the United States. Many
ideas, institutions, and interests that
were first formed or tested in Pennsylvania spread across the country and
continue to inform American culture,
society, and politics.
Pennsylvania: A History of the
Commonwealth offers fresh perspectives on the Keystone State from a
distinguished array of scholars. As
the first comprehensive history of
Pennsylvania in almost three decades,
the book sets the Pennsylvania story
in the larger context of national social,
cultural, economic, and political development. Without sacrificing treatment
of the influential leaders who made
Pennsylvania history, the book focuses
especially on the lives of everyday
people over the centuries.
The volume is divided into two
parts. Part i offers a narrative history
of the Commonwealth, paying special
attention to the peopling process (the
spotlight
Thomas E. Range II and Sean Patrick Smith, The
Penn State Blue Band (1999): 2,500+
movement of people into, around, and
out from the state); the ways people
defined and defended communities;
the forms of economic production;
the means of transportation and communication; the character, content,
and consequences of people’s values;
and the political cultures that emerged
from the kinds of society, economy, and
culture each period formed. Part ii offers a series of “Ways to Pennsylvania’s
Past”: geography, architecture, archaeology, folklore and folklife, genealogy,
photography, art, oral history, and
literature are all discussed as methods
of uncovering and understanding
the past. An important feature of the
book is the large selection of illustrations—more than 400 prints, maps,
photographs, and paintings.
This book is the result of a unique
collaboration between Penn State
Press and the Pennsylvania Historical
and Museum Commission (phmc), the
official history agency of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Together
they gathered scholars from all over
the Commonwealth to envision a new
history of the Keystone State and
committed their resources to make
that new history possible.
“This book is not like any
other history of Pennsylvania you have ever seen.
This is an engagingly written, profusely illustrated
presentation of the latest academic thinking
about the history of the
Keystone State, as viewed
within the expanded perspective of the nation’s
history.”
—Jack Brubaker,
Lancaster New Era
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philosophy
“Over the past few decades,
Penn State Press has published
some of the most interesting
philosophy being written in the
United States. It has made available the writings of important,
but unfashionable, philosophers
philosophy
who are not part of the analytic
‘mainstream.’ Penn State has also
published many books that link
up philosophy with other areas
of the humanities, and others
that bring together analytic and
Continental philosophy. Its editorial policies have resulted in a very
impressive philosophy backlist.”
—Richard Rorty, Stanford University
Publishing in philosophy has been part of the Press’s program
since its inception. Indeed, Philosophy and Argument (1959), by
Henry W. Johnstone Jr., was the second book published by Penn
State Press. Then, in 1968, the Press launched Philosophy and
Rhetoric, a journal edited by Johnstone—and P&R quickly became a leader in the field.
For its first three decades the Press published a modest
number of titles in philosophy, principally in ancient philosophy,
ethics, history of philosophy, metaphysics, philosophy of religion, and rhetoric. Beginning in 1989, however, the Press consciously aimed to expand the list’s depth, breadth, and quality. In
addition to maintaining its established concentrations, the Press
sought to forge connections between philosophy and other areas
of the Press’s list, launching major initiatives in aesthetics, feminist studies, philosophy of literature, and political philosophy.
Helping gain visibility for the Press’s endeavors were three
newly created series: Literature and Philosophy, edited by
Anthony J. Cascardi, begun in 1990; Re-Reading the Canon, edited by Nancy Tuana, initiated in 1991; and Studies of the Greater
Philadelphia Philosophy Consortium, edited by Michael Krausz
and inaugurated in 1993. These series produced more than four
dozen new titles for the Press. Another boost came in the early
1990s, as the Press developed an alliance with England’s Polity
Press. The co-publishing agreement with Polity brought the first
two titles in the Literature and Philosophy series and enabled
the Press to publish such well-known authors as Jay Bernstein
(The Fate of Art), Peter Bürger (The Decline of Modernism), and
Anne Phillips (Engendering Democracy and Democracy and Difference). An equally important transatlantic relationship with the
University of Edinburgh Press saw the Press’s co-publication of
The Edinburgh Edition of Thomas Reid, one of the most influential figures in the eighteenth-century Scottish Enlightenment.
A newer series, American and European Philosophy, began
in 1997 under the editorship of Charles Scott and John Stuhr.
Its titles have confirmed the Press’s reputation as a publisher
interested in linking the worlds of American and Continental
philosophy—an important aim, as well, of the Journal of Speculative
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Philosophy since its revival in 1987. Indeed, such synergy between
the Press’s book and journal publishing programs motivated the
Press to assume publication of The Journal of Nietzsche Studies in
2000 and The Good Society in 2001.
Further developing the subfields in which it has already
earned regard, the Press plans to maintain its program in publishing philosophy with about six to eight new titles a year. The
list is purposely eclectic with respect to methodology, welcoming
contributions from the Anglo-American analytic, the American
pragmatic, and the Continental traditions and especially from
those scholars who—like Joseph Margolis, Todd May, and Nancy
Tuana—are conversant in all three discourses.
Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Tom Huhn, Imitation and Society: The Persistence
of Mimesis in the Aesthetics of Burke, Hogarth, and
Kant (2005)
George E. Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen: Emotion in Democratic Politics (2002)
Reed Way Dasenbrock, Truth and Consequences:
Intentions, Conventions, and the New Thematics
(2001)
Daniel R. Ahern, Nietzsche as Cultural Physician
(1995)
Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically: Kierkegaard’s Existential Aesthetics (1994)
“The rapid rise to prominence of Penn State
Ernest A. Menze and Karl Menges, eds., Johann
Gottfried Herder: Selected Early Works, 1764–1767
(1993)
Press is reason indeed for celebration in its
fiftieth year. It has become a leading publisher
Howard P. Kainz, Paradox, Dialectic, and System: A
Contemporary Reconstruction of the Hegelian Problematic (1989)
of books at the cutting edge of philosophy,
and has achieved a particular eminence in my
own field of aesthetics and philosophy of art.
As well, its ongoing publication of the works
of Thomas Reid, a philosopher of the first
rank who is only now receiving the attention
he deserves, will, on its completion, constitute a major contribution to the history of
philosophy in general and the history of the
Scottish Enlightenment in particular. For
philosophers seeking publication of their
work, Penn State Press is presently right up
there with the best of them.”
—Peter Kivy, Rutgers University
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Book Prizes
Kok-Chor Tan, Toleration, Diversity, and Global
Justice (Runner-up, 2003 Book Prize, Canadian
Philosophical Association)
James C. Edwards, The Plain Sense of Things: The
Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism (1999
John N. Findlay Award, Metaphysical Society of
America)
Michael Forman, Nationalism and the International
Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist
and Anarchist Theory (1999 Michael Harrington
Award, Caucus for a New Political Science)
Arabella Lyon, Intentions: Negotiated, Contested,
and Ignored (1999 W. Ross Winterowd Book
Award, Association of Teachers of Advanced
Composition)
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Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan, eds.,
Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives (Honorable Mention, 1998 Victoria Schuck
Award, American Political Science Association)
Mark Kingwell, A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue,
and the Politics of Pluralism (1997 Elaine and David
Spitz Book Prize, Conference for the Study of
Political Thought)
Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (1992 Victoria
Schuck Award, American Political Science Association)
“Penn State Press has made
a distinctive contribution to
philosophy by publishing excellent
work in new interdisciplinary
areas, such as feminism and
philosophy-and-literature, as well
Best Sellers
Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand (1995): 9,500+
Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, eds.,
Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory (1991):
5,500+
Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (1991):
4,500+
as in more traditional areas such
as aesthetics, philosophy of
religion, and history of philosophy.
Particularly admirable has been
the Press’s strong commitment
to feminist philosophy, in which
David Carrier, Principles of Art History Writing
(1991): 4,000+
it has published some of the best-
J. M. Bernstein, The Fate of Art (1992): 2,000+
quality work around, especially in
Philip Alperson, ed., What Is Music? (1994):
2,000+
Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
(1999): 2,000+
its valuable series exploring
feminist interpretations of
traditional figures in the history
of philosophy.”
Tomas Kulka, Kitsch and Art (1996): 2,000+
David Carrier, The Aesthetics of Comics (2000):
2,000+
—Martha Nussbaum,
University of Chicago
Nancy Tuana, ed., Feminist Interpretations of Plato
(1994): 2,000+
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political science
political science
“The books that Penn State Press
publishes in political science,
the discipline I know best, engage
controversial political or policy
questions in a scholarly, informative
way; at the same time, they offer
strong arguments and assertions
backed by clear evidence. Thus
they avoid both timidity and shrillness. Perhaps most important,
Penn State Press books are consistently interesting to read and valuable to return to again and again,
attesting to the good taste and
talent of its editors as well as the
Press’s appeal to high-quality
authors—a winning combination.”
—Jennifer Hochschild,
Harvard University
In its first thirty-five years, the Press only published sporadically
in political science, with a few titles scattered across four main
subfields: American politics, comparative politics, international
relations, and political theory. In the past fifteen years, however,
the Press has moved to the forefront of publishing in this field.
Aided in the early 1990s by frequent co-publishing with Polity
Press, especially in the area of political theory—with titles by
Alex Callinicos, Bob Jessop, Anne Phillips, Chris Pierson, and
other luminaries, plus volumes like the landmark Feminist Interpretations and Political Theory, edited by Mary Lyndon Shanley
and Carole Pateman—the Press has earned a significant place for
itself among the premier smaller presses operating in political
science.
Impelled by a firm belief that books about politics matter
and should be able to speak to students, scholars, and laypeople
who are not trained in mathematics, the Press has shown a preference for books that employ narrative techniques and qualitative methodology rather than heavy doses of statistical analysis
and formal modeling. Because American politics and international relations manifest the strong influence of the latter
approach, the Press has concentrated more in comparative politics
and political theory. Political scientists who have experienced
the recent turmoil in the field prompted by those identifying
themselves under the banner of “perestroika” may note that the
Press’s publishing priorities express decided sympathies for the
perestroikans’ side of the debate.
In comparative politics, the Press emphasizes two area
studies, East Europe/Russia and Latin America, with the help
of strong neighboring disciplines like history and sociology. The
list also highlights political economy and political sociology. And
many Penn State Press titles, such as those that appear in the
Post-Communist Cultural Studies series edited by Tom Cushman, feature historical-institutionalist analysis and historical
sociology.
Political theory is a major strength of the Press’s publishing
program, reflected not only in the many individual books the
Press has published but also in its relationship with the Political
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Economy of the Good Society (PEGS), headed by Stephen Elkin
and based at the University of Maryland, which sponsors both
The Good Society journal and a book series. Contributors to the
Press’s list in this area come from both political science and
philosophy departments. Not surprisingly, our books reflect
these differing disciplinary approaches to political theory: the
former emphasizes more historical, contextualist, interpretive
approaches, while the latter stresses the mode of analysis known
as “rational reconstruction.”
In American politics, the Press proudly publishes the interdisciplinary Journal of Policy History, which was recognized in the
June 2005 issue of the American Political Science Association’s
Perspectives on Political Science as a leading journal in the subfield
of American political development. Much of the Press’s list in
this subfield has a historical orientation, with titles such as Scott
Bowman’s The Modern Corporation and American Political Thought
(1995), Marc Allen Eisner’s From Warfare State to Welfare State
(2000), Dennis Ippolito’s Why Budgets Matter (2003), David Nichols’s The Myth of the Modern Presidency (1994), Sheldon Pollack’s
The Failure of U.S. Tax Policy (1998), and Jack Treadway’s Elections
in Pennsylvania (2005). The Press also publishes a series of paperback books titled Issues in Policy History. Drawn from special
thematic issues of the Journal, these books treat topics ranging
from urban public policy to money’s role in politics.
History is also prominently featured in Penn State Press
books on international relations (including international law),
as exemplified by Emily Goldman’s Sunken Treaties (1994), Randall Newnham’s Deutsche Mark Diplomacy (2002), and Norrin
Ripsman’s Peacemaking by Democracies (2002). Within international relations, the Press has made substantial contributions
to the subfields of intelligence and Cold War studies, including
analytic works such as Anne Hessing Cahn’s Killing Detente: The
Right Attacks the CIA (1998) and Carolyn McGiffert Ekedahl and
Melvin Goodman’s The Wars of Eduard Shevardnadze (1997) as
well as memoirs like Anatoly Chernyaev’s My Six Years with Gorbachev (2000) and Victor Israelyan’s On the Battlefields of the Cold
War (2003). Other books combine memoir with analysis, such
as Douglas MacEachin’s U.S. Intelligence and the Confrontation in
Poland, 1980–1981 (2002); Willard Matthias’s America’s Strategic
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Blunders (2001); John Murtha’s From Vietnam to 9/11 (2003,
with new paperback editions in 2005 and 2006); Cold War Endgame: Oral History, Analysis, Debates (2002), edited by William
Wohlforth; Yale Richmond’s Cultural Exchange and the Cold
War (2003); and the three-volume complete memoirs of Nikita
Khrushchev (2005, 2006, 2007).
While favoring narratives, “case studies,” and qualitative
research in general, the Press remains open to publishing books
that combine qualitative and quantitative research. Several of
these already grace the Press’s list, such as Kirk Bowman’s
Militarization, Democracy, and Development (2002) and Mark
Peceny’s Democracy at the Point of Bayonets (1999). The trend
toward “nested analysis” looks particularly promising, and Penn
State Press hopes to lead in advancing research of this kind. In
addition, political theory will remain a priority for the Press
as this subfield—with institutional support from the recently
founded Association for Political Theory—develops in its own
distinctive ways.
“Under the leadership of Sandy Thatcher,
Penn State Press has become a major force to
contend with in political theory, ir, and allied
fields. I always make sure to peruse its books
at Association meetings, and I am never disappointed with the results.”
—William E. Connolly,
The Johns Hopkins University
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Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Andrzej Paczkowski, The Spring Will Be Ours:
Poland and the Poles from Occupation to Freedom
(2003)
George E. Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen:
Emotion in Democratic Politics (2002)
Nathan Newman, Net Loss: Internet Prophets,
Private Profits, and the Costs to Community (2002)
José Itzigsohn, Developing Poverty: The State,
Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (2001)
Peter M. Siavelis, The President and Congress in
Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to
Democratic Consolidation (2000)
Gerardo L. Munck, Authoritarianism and
Democratization: Soldiers and Workers in Argentina,
1976–1983 (1998)
James Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in
Western and Islamic Traditions (1997)
Christopher Pierson, Beyond the Welfare State? The New
Political Economy of Welfare (1991)
Ronald T. Libby, Hawke’s Law: The Politics of Mining and
Aboriginal Land Rights in Australia (1990)
Edward Keynes, Undeclared War: Twilight Zone of Constitutional Power (1983)
“As a biographer of Nikita Khrushchev and
of Mikhail Gorbachev, I have found myself
referring again and again to invaluable Penn
State Press books. To put it simply, Khrushchev’s and Gorbachev’s biographies couldn’t
A. Mark Weisburd, The Use of Force: The Practice of
States Since World War II (1997)
be written without works like Sergei Khrush-
Gary Remer, Humanism and the Rhetoric of
Toleration (1996)
Superpower, Anatoly Chernyaev’s My Six Years
Uri Bar-Joseph, Intelligence Intervention in the
Politics of Democratic States: The United States,
Israel, and Britain (1995)
Years with Gorbachev and Shevardnadze. Along
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason:
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (1994)
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God: The Resurgence
of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern
World (1994)
Ethan A. Nadelmann, Cops Across Borders: The
Internationalization of U.S. Criminal Law Enforcement (1994)
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Peter H. Merkl, German Unification in the European
Context (1993)
chev’s Nikita Khrushchev and the Creation of a
with Gorbachev, and Pavel Palazchenko’s My
with these and other volumes, the Press’s ongoing publication of a full English-language
version of Khrushchev’s memoirs constitutes
a major contribution to the fields of Soviet
politics and Cold War history.”
—William Taubman, Amherst College
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Book Prizes
Linda Faye Williams, The Constraint of Race:
Legacies of White Skin Privilege in America (2004
W. E. B. Du Bois Book Award, National Conference of Black Political Scientists; 2004 Michael
Harrington Award, Caucus for a New Political
Science; 2004 Best Book on Public Policy and
Race and Ethnicity, Organized Section on Race,
Ethnicity, and Politics of the American Political
Science Association)
Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and
the Nation-State in Latin America (Honorable
Mention, 2003 Mattei Dogan Award, Society for
Comparative Research)
Javier Corrales, Presidents Without Parties: The
Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s (Runner-up, 2003 Best Book
Prize, New England Council of Latin American
Studies)
Kok-Chor Tan, Toleration, Diversity, and Global
Justice (Runner-up, 2003 Book Prize, Canadian
Philosophical Association)
Michael Forman, Nationalism and the International
Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist
and Anarchist Theory (1999 Michael Harrington
Award, Caucus for a New Political Science)
Elizabeth Bussiere, (Dis)Entitling the Poor: The
Warren Court, Welfare Rights, and the American
Political Tradition (Honorable Mention, 1998
Victoria Schuck Award, American Political Science
Association)
Gerald W. Creed, Domesticating Revolution: From
Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village (1998 Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies
Association)
Mary Lyndon Shanley and Uma Narayan, eds.,
Reconstructing Political Theory: Feminist Perspectives (Honorable Mention, 1998 Victoria Schuck
Award, American Political Science Association)
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Mark Kingwell, A Civil Tongue: Justice, Dialogue, and the
Politics of Pluralism (1997 Elaine and David Spitz Book
Prize, Conference for the Study of Political Thought)
Jan Kubik, The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of
Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of State Socialism
in Poland (1994 Biennial Young Scholar Award, Polish
Studies Association)
Alex Callinicos, The Revenge of History: Marxism and
the East European Revolutions (1992 Distinguished
Scholarship Book Award, Marxist Sociology Section
of the American Sociological Association)
Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (1992 Victoria
Schuck Award, American Political Science Association)
Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, Social Movements:
A Cognitive Approach (Honorable Mention, 1991 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and the Social Sciences)
Richard G. Hewlett and Francis Duncan, Atomic Shield,
1947–1952, vol. 2 of The History of the United States
Atomic Energy Commission (1970 David B. Lloyd Prize,
Harry S. Truman Library Institute)
Best Sellers
Chris Matthew Sciabarra, Ayn Rand (1995): 9,500+
Mary Lyndon Shanley and Carole Pateman, eds., Feminist
Interpretations and Political Theory (1991): 5,500+
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God (2004): 5,500+
Martin Carnoy, Manuel Castells, Stephen S. Cohen, and
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, The New Global Economy in
the Information Age (1993): 5,000+
Judy Scales-Trent, Notes of a White Black Woman (1995):
5,000+
Sergei N. Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev and the
Creation of a Superpower (2000): 5,000+
Martha Crenshaw, ed., Terrorism in Context (1995):
4,500+
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Anne Phillips, Engendering Democracy (1991):
4,500+
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason
(1994; 2nd ed. 1997): 4,000+
John P. Murtha with John Plashal, From Vietnam
to 9/11 (2003): 3,500+
Ethan A. Nadelmann, Cops Across Borders (1994):
3,500+
Ken Booth and Steve Smith, eds., International
Relations Theory Today (1995): 3,000+
James Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in
Western and Islamic Traditions (1997): 3,000+
Christopher Pierson, Beyond the Welfare State?
(1991; 2nd ed. 1998): 3,000+
John Higham, ed., Civil Rights and Social Wrongs
(1999): 3,000+
Alex Callinicos, The Revenge of History (1991):
2,500+
Bob Jessop, State Theory (1991): 2,500+
Mimi Reisel Gladstein and Chris Matthew Sciabarra, eds., Feminist Interpretations of Ayn Rand
(1999): 2,000+
Melvin G. Holli, The American Mayor (1999):
2,000+
Eldon Kenworthy, America/Américas (1995):
2,000+
Ivelaw Lloyd Griffith, Drugs and Security in the
Caribbean (1997): 2,000+
“In the broad field of social movements and contentious politics,
Penn State Press has made a name
for itself with the publication of
such books as Ron Eyerman and
Andrew Jamison’s Social Movements (1991), Myron and Penina
Glazer’s The Environmental Crusaders (1998), Jan Kubik’s The Power
of Symbols Against the Symbols of
Power (1994), and Anna Szemere’s
Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist
Hungary (2001). Penn State now
vies with the best presses—even
those with a much longer history
in this field—for the most original
works on social movements.”
—Sidney Tarrow, Cornell University
Philip D. Oxhorn, Organizing Civil Society (1995):
2,000+
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“A third of a century ago those
of us who were vocationally committed to encouraging scholars
tended to commend their prospective books to a few ‘old familiars’
among the university presses that
included religious studies in their
offerings. Then came Penn State,
at first unfamiliar to most of us.
Suddenly we noticed that it was
publishing series and individual
volumes that demonstrated editorial initiative, the ability to produce
attractive books, and the ambition
to market and place them well. The
Press’s own ‘place’ is now secure,
religion
and those responsible for this
achievement give no sign of losing ambition, interest, or finesse. A
third of a century ago citizens liked
to say ‘religion is a private affair.’
Today, for better and for worse, it
has ‘gone public,’ and Penn State
University Press has made major
contributions to the scholarly pursuit of religious subjects.”
—Martin E. Marty,
University of Chicago
religion
Though not a field developed with as much energy and focus as
art history, literature, and philosophy, religion has nevertheless
been a pervasive presence on the list from the Press’s early years.
Typically, religion has been a topic of books written by scholars
in the Press’s main fields of concentration, rather than by scholars
in the field of religion itself.
The first three books dealing with religion published by the
Press followed this pattern. These were Rum, Religion, and Votes
(1962) by sociologist Ruth C. Silva; The Religious Speeches of Bernard
Shaw (1963), edited by Warren S. Smith, a literary scholar; and
An Introduction to the Philosophy of Saint Augustine (1964) by
philosopher John A. Mourant. The trend continues today, with
all of these fields regularly featuring titles in religion and its
history, particularly in relation to medieval studies. Religion has
thus been well represented in the Press’s publishing program,
despite seldom being the focus of any acquiring editor’s activity,
and our books on religion have garnered considerable critical
acclaim as well as commercial success. In fact, Press titles have
won major awards from scholarly associations in religion, and one
of the top two best sellers for the Press historically—with sales
exceeding 25,000 copies—is The Holy Teaching of Vimalalakīrti: A
Mahāyāna Scripture (1976), a translation by renowned Buddhist
scholar Robert A. F. Thurman.
In three periods of its history, Penn State Press published
books on religion that were primarily the product of religion
departments or divinity schools. In the 1970s, perhaps because
of the renewed interest in Eastern religions spurred by hippie culture, scholarship on Buddhism flourished, and the Press
issued a number of books on the subject that have become
staples of the backlist, selling steadily year after year. By far the
most successful of these has been Thurman’s Holy Teaching of
Vimalalakīrti, which developed from an arrangement the Press
established with the Institute for the Study of World Religions at
Harvard University. Some others came courtesy of Penn State’s
own leading Buddhist scholar, Charles Prebisch, whose edited
volume Buddhism: A Modern Perspective (1975) has enjoyed a long
and influential life.
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The second wave came in the late 1980s, when senior editor
Philip Winsor made a concerted effort to build up the religion
list. The Press brought out a dozen books by theologians, including some of the leaders in the field, such as Rowan Greer,
Stanley Hauerwas, Wesley Kort, Gilbert Meilaender, and Paul
Ramsey. And two Press series, edited by prominent scholars of
religion, were launched in the mid-1990s. Penn State Studies in
Lived Religious Experience, edited by Judith Van Herik, focused
on “books that interpret religions by studying personal experience in its historical, geographical, social, and cultural settings.”
Among its offerings were two books by Lee Hoinacki, titled El
Camino: Walking to Santiago de Compostela (1996) and Stumbling
Toward Justice: Stories of Place (1999). The other series—
Hermeneutics: Studies in the History of Religions, edited by
Kees Bolle—ranged widely both in subject matter, from the
Neoplatonism of Iamblichus to Adavita Vedanta, and geographical focus, from the Maori of New Zealand to the Golden Horde of
Central Asia. Several books in the series garnered major prizes.
In his role as acquiring editor in history and social science,
Peter Potter developed three additional series that provided outlets for books with religious themes. For a number of years the
Press, by arrangement with the Conference on Faith and
History, published books based on dissertations that had won
the Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern
History—the last one being William R. Sutton’s Journeymen
for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian
Baltimore (1998). And in 1998, initially in cooperation with Britain’s
Sutton Publishing and later on its own, the Press undertook
publishing the Magic in History series, edited by Richard Kieckhefer. This series has been a remarkable success, commercially
and critically. It brought some older titles, such as Elizabeth M.
Butler’s Ritual Magic and The Fortunes of Faust, back into print; it
has also produced new works, such as Kieckhefer’s own Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1998)
and W. F. Ryan’s The Bathhouse at Midnight: An Historical Survey
of Magic and Divination in Russia (1999). Finally, the Penn State
Library of Jewish Literature, a series edited by Baruch Halpern and
Aminadav Dykman, began with the 2005 publication of Avodah:
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Ancient Poems for Yom Kippur, edited and translated by Michael D.
Swartz and Joseph Yahalom. The series aims to “present
Jewish and Hebrew works from all eras and cultures, offering
both scholars and general readers original, modern translations
of previously overlooked texts.”
As varied in subject matter and scattered across disciplinary
terrains as the religion list may be, it constitutes an important
part of Penn State Press’s publishing legacy and forms a solid
basis on which future editors can build.
“I admire what Penn State Press has accomplished in the area of religion. The list includes
many books that are already widely recognized as essential reading in the field and
others that, in my opinion, deserve wider
recognition than they have yet received. It
strikes an apt balance between the rigorous
scholarship of writers like James Turner
Johnson, Douglas Langston, Gordon Michalson, and John P. Reeder and the bold, creative,
visionary thinking of writers like James C.
Edwards and Stanley Hauerwas.”
—Jeffrey Stout, Princeton University
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Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety
in Colonial Bethlehem (2004)
Naomi Janowitz, Icons of Power: Ritual Practices in Late
Antiquity (2003)
James Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in Western
and Islamic Traditions (1997)
Renate Wilson, Pious Traders in Medicine: German
Pharmaceutical Networks in Eighteenth-Century
North America (2003 St. Paul Prize, Lutheran
Historical Society of the Mid-Atlantic Region;
2002 Kremers Award, Institute for the History of
Pharmacy, University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Devin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion in the
Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (1994)
John Lowden, The Making of the Bibles Moralisées,
Vol. i: The Manuscripts (2002 Otto Gründler Prize,
The Medieval Institute)
Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians (1994)
Lynette M. F. Bosch, Art, Liturgy, and Legend in
Renaissance Toledo: The Mendoza and the Iglesia
Primada (2001 Eleanor Tufts Award, American
Society for Hispanic Art Historical Studies)
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, Writing as Resistance: Four
Women Confronting the Holocaust—Edith Stern, Simone
Weil, Anne Frank, Etty Hillesum (1997)
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God: The Resurgence of Islam,
Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern World (1994)
Sylvia Walsh, Living Poetically: Kierkegaard’s Existential
Aesthetics (1994)
Book Prizes
Craig D. Atwood, Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety
in Colonial Bethlehem (2005 Dale W. Brown Book Award
in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Young Center at
Elizabethtown College)
Jeff Bach, Voices of the Turtledoves: The Sacred World of
Ephrata (2005 Outstanding Publication Award, Communal Studies Association; 2004 Dale W. Brown Book
Award in Anabaptist and Pietist Studies, Young Center
at Elizabethtown College)
Kathleen Curran, The Romanesque Revival: Religion,
Politics, and Transnational Exchange (2005 HenryRussell Hitchcock Book Award, The Victorian Society
in America)
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David Burr, The Spiritual Franciscans: From Protest
to Persecution in the Century After Saint Francis
(2003 Otto Gründler Prize, The Medieval Institute; 2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize and 2002
Howard R. Marraro Prize, American Catholic
Historical Association)
Kenneth J. Heineman, A Catholic New Deal: Religion and Reform in Depression Pittsburgh (2000
Philip S. Klein Book Prize, Pennsylvania Historical Association)
Nadieszda Kizenko, A Prodigal Saint: Father John
of Kronstadt and the Russian People (2000 Heldt
Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
James C. Edwards, The Plain Sense of Things: The
Fate of Religion in an Age of Normal Nihilism (1999
John N. Findlay Award, Metaphysical Society of
America)
Heinrich Fichtenau, Heretics and Scholars in the
High Middle Ages, 1000–1200, trans. Denise A.
Kaiser (1999 Ungar Prize, American Translators
Association; 1998 Bookman News Exceptional
Book)
Lutz Kaelber, Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and
Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
(1999 Book of the Year Award, Sociology of
Religion Section of the American Sociological
Association)
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Charles D. Orzech, Politics and Transcendent
Wisdom: The Scripture for Humane Kings in the Creation of Chinese Buddhism (1999 Best First Book
in the History of Religions, American Academy of
Religion)
Richard P. Gildrie, The Profane, the Civil, and the
Godly: The Reformation of Manners in Orthodox
New England, 1679–1749 (1990 Kenneth Scott
Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History,
Conference on Faith and History)
Glennys Young, Power and the Sacred in Revolutionary Russia: Religious Activists in the Village
(Honorable Mention, 1999 Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, Woodrow Wilson National
Fellowship Foundation)
Thomas F. Mathews, The Early Churches of Constantinople: Architecture and Liturgy (1973 Alice
David Hitchcock Book Award, Society of Architectural Historians)
Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites: A Necromancer’s Manual of the Fifteenth Century (1998 Bookman News Exceptional Book)
Samuel Terrien, The Iconography of Job Through
the Centuries: Artists as Interpreters (1997 Best
Book Relating to the Old Testament, Biblical
Archaeology Society)
Robert Zaretsky, Nîmes at War: Religion, Politics,
and Public Opinion in the Gard, 1938–1944 (1997
Hans Rosenhaupt Memorial Book Award, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)
Devin DeWeese, Islamization and Native Religion
in the Golden Horde: Baba Tükles and Conversion
to Islam in Historical and Epic Tradition (1995 Best
First Book in the History of Religions, American
Academy of Religion; 1995 Albert Hourani Book
Award, Middle East Studies Association)
William R. Sutton, Journeymen for Jesus: Evangelical Artisans Confront Capitalism in Jacksonian
Baltimore (1994 Kenneth Scott Latourette Prize
in Religion and Modern History, Conference on
Faith and History)
Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom: The Irony of the Reformed Episcopalians
(1993 Albert C. Outler Prize in Ecumenical History, American Society of Church History)
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David W. Kling, A Field of Divine Wonders: The
New Divinity and Village Revivals in Northwestern
Connecticut, 1792–1822 (1991 Kenneth Scott
Latourette Prize in Religion and Modern History,
Conference on Faith and History)
Best Sellers
Robert A. F. Thurman, trans., The Holy Teaching of
Vimalakīrti (1976): 25,000+
Garma C. C. Chang, Buddhist Teaching of Totality
(1971): 9,000+
Anne Winston-Allen, Stories of the Rose (1997):
8,000+
Charles Prebisch, Buddhism (1975): 7,000+
A. G. Dickens, The English Reformation (2nd ed.,
1999): 6,500+
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God (1994): 5,500+
Richard Kieckhefer, Forbidden Rites (1998):
5,000+
Paul J. Archambault, trans., A Monk’s Confession
(1995): 5,000+
Francis Cook, Hua-Yen Buddhism (1977): 4,000+
Thomas F. X. Noble and Thomas Head, eds.,
Soldiers of Christ (1995): 4,000+
Robert H. Nelson, Economics as Religion (2001):
3,500+
Wilson J. Moses, Black Messiahs and Uncle Toms
(1982): 3,500+
Henry Mayr-Harting, The Coming of Christianity
to Anglo-Saxon England, 3rd ed. (1991): 3,500+
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James Turner Johnson, The Holy War Idea in Western
and Islamic Traditions (1997): 3,500+
Gilbert Meilaender, The Limits of Love (1988): 3,000+
Lee Hoinacki, El Camino (1996): 2,500+
Allen C. Guelzo, For the Union of Evangelical Christendom
(1994): 2,500+
Rowan A. Greer, Broken Lights and Mended Lives (1986):
2,500+
Jess Hollenback, Mysticism (1996): 2,500+
Thomas F. Mathews, The Early Churches of Constantinople (1972): 2,000+
Garma C. C. Chang, trans., A Treasury of Mahāyāna
Sūtras (1983): 2,000+
Jeff Bach, Voices of the Turtledoves (2003): 2,000+
The Spiritual Franciscans
From Protest to Persecution in the
Century After Saint Francis
David Burr
2003 Otto Gründler Prize (The
Medieval Institute)
spotlight
2002 John Gilmary Shea Prize
(American Catholic Historical
Association)
2002 Howard R. Marraro Prize
(American Catholic Historical
Association)
When Saint Francis of Assisi died in
1226, he left behind an order already
struggling to maintain its identity. As
the Church called upon Franciscans
to be bishops, professors, and inquisitors, their style of life began to
change. Some in the order lamented
this change and insisted on observing
the strict poverty practiced by Francis
himself. Others were more open to
compromise. Over time, this division
evolved into a genuine rift, as those
who argued for strict poverty were
marginalized within the order.
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In this book, David Burr offers the
first comprehensive history of the socalled Spiritual Franciscans, a protest
movement within the Franciscan order. Burr shows that the movement existed more or less as a loyal opposition
in the late thirteenth century, but by
1318 Pope John XXII and leaders of the
order had combined to force it beyond
the boundaries of legitimacy. At that
point the loyal opposition turned into
a heretical movement and recalcitrant
friars were sent to the stake.
Although much has been written
about individual Spiritual Franciscan
leaders, there has been no general
history of the movement since 1932.
Few people are equipped to tackle
the voluminous documentary record
and digest the sheer mass of research
generated by Franciscan scholars
in the last century. Burr, one of the
world’s leading authorities on the
Franciscans, has given us a book that
will define the field for years to come.
“The fruit of a lifetime
of careful study of its
subject, this examination
of the Spirituals will not
soon be surpassed. In fact,
it is done so well there
may well be no need,
or possibility, of surpassing it.”
—Kevin Madigan,
American Historical Review
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sociology
“Scholars who read a lot and
care about good publishing soon
learn to distinguish between
those presses whose books they
will only read when compelling
reviews come out and those
whose imprint itself signals the
likelihood of interesting, valuable
publications. Over the last decade,
Penn State Press has put itself
sociology
firmly in the second category. Any
new book from the publisher of
Miguel Centeno, John Markoff,
Jan Kubik, Mark Lichbach,
and other distinguished political
analysts deserves a good look
from scholars who savor quality.”
—Charles Tilly, Columbia University
Compared with political science, which neatly breaks down into
four main subfields, sociology encompasses a plethora of subfields, ranging from economic sociology and medical sociology to
sociology of the family and sociology of law. As a relatively small
publishing house, the Press has largely staked a place in areas
where sociology intersects with other fields on the Press’s list.
Until 1990 the Press issued sociology books in four main
subfields. Titles such as Richard Stivers’s A Hair of the Dog: Irish
Drinking and American Stereotype (1976) or Ken Levi’s edited
volume on the People’s Temple of Jim Jones, Violence and Religious Commitment (1982), represented the subfield of crime, law,
and deviance. Harry Schwarzweller et al.’s Mountain Families in
Transition (1971) and Emilia Martinez-Brawley’s edited volume
Pioneer Efforts in Rural Social Welfare (1980), among others, fitted into rural sociology. Peter Roche de Coppens’s Ideal Man
in Classical Sociology (1976) and Rick Tilman’s C. Wright Mills
(1984) reflected the social theory subfield, and the sociology of
religion was represented by works such as The Ministry in Transition (1972), by Yoshio Fukuyama, or Richard Bord and Joseph
Faulkner’s The Catholic Charismatics (1983).
As recent catalogues demonstrate, the Press has continued
to publish in all of these subfields. Examples include Cecilie
Høigård and Liv Finstad’s Backstreets: Prostitution, Money, and
Love (1992), Jeffrey Jacob’s New Pioneers: The Back-to-the-Land
Movement and the Search for a Sustainable Future (1997), John
Rhoads’s Critical Issues in Social Theory (1991), and Fenggang
Yang’s Chinese Christians in America (1999). Of these four areas,
rural sociology has been developed most strongly, as the Press
assumed responsibility for publishing the Rural Studies Series
(sponsored by the Rural Sociology Society) in 1996.
But in conjunction with broadening programs in history and
political science, the Press began publishing regularly in additional sociological subfields, such as collective behavior and social movements; comparative and historical sociology; economic
sociology; labor and labor movements; Marxist sociology; political sociology; race, gender, and class; and sociology of culture.
The extended list in sociology is made manifest in titles ranging
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from Dag MacLeod’s Downsizing the State: Privatization and the
Limits of Neoliberal Reform in Mexico (2004) to Nathan Newman’s
Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community (2002) and Anna Szemere’s Up from the Underground: The
Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary (2001).
The close relationships among Penn State Press’s history,
political science, and sociology lists are mirrored in the Press’s
publication of the Journal of Policy History, which has representatives from all three disciplines on its editorial advisory board,
including Craig Calhoun and Theda Skocpol. Some Press authors
hold joint appointments, as John Markoff does in History and
Sociology at the University of Pittsburgh. Occasionally the Press
will publish a book jointly written by people from two fields, such
as Market and Community: The Bases of Social Order, Revolution, and
Relegitimation (2000), penned by political scientist Mark Lichbach
and sociologist Adam Seligman. (In the book, the two authors
enter into an engaging dialogue about their competing research
traditions.) A number of such titles came to the Press as part of
its co-publication arrangement with Polity Press.
But the most successful monograph in sociology the Press
has ever published simply arrived “over the transom” from F.
James Davis, a colleague of Press author Richard Stivers, who
suggested that Davis submit his manuscript. A study of the “onedrop rule” in the United States, with some comparisons to racial
orders elsewhere, Davis’s Who Is Black? (1991) quickly established
itself as a staple of classroom reading. (To update the story with
the trend toward multiracialism, the Press issued a tenth anniversary edition in 2001.) The book has sold in excess of 20,000 copies
and has gone through multiple printings. Along the way, Davis
became so widely recognized as an authority on this subject that
he even appeared on the Oprah Winfrey Show to talk about it. One
of the earliest enthusiastic reviews of Davis’s book was written by
G. Reginald Daniel, whose own Race and Multiraciality in Brazil and
the United States was published by the Press in mid-2006.
The title that received the most widespread attention in the
world outside academe was John Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey’s Time for Life: The Surprising Ways Americans Use Their Time
(1997), which became the subject of an Associated Press story,
was excerpted in Time magazine, and earned the authors appear-
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ances on ABC’s Good Morning America and NBC’s The Today Show.
The authors, using their extensive survey data, countered Juliet
Schor’s argument in The Overworked American by showing that
Americans actually have more free time than they did twenty
years earlier—but feel more stressed nevertheless. A foreword
to their book was contributed by Harvard’s Robert Putnam, who
was much influenced by their findings and later relied on them
heavily in his own best-selling Bowling Alone.
The Press’s sociology program has developed a number of
series. In addition to Issues in Policy History and the Rural Studies
Series, a third—Post-Communist Cultural Studies—was launched
in 1998. It will publish its final title (the fourteenth) in late 2006.
The series editor, Tom Cushman, has now launched a new series
with the Press, Essays on Human Rights. This series issued its first
title, Vulnerability and Human Rights by Bryan Turner, in mid-2006.
“In sociology—a discipline that often seems
to be searching for itself and finding that
it is really an enormously diverse collection
of subfields—Penn State Press has played a
very important role by publishing uniformly
high-quality books in a large number of these
subfields. My own shelves include valuable
books in the sociology of religion, political
sociology and social movements, culture,
and sociological theory. The lists on Latin
America, historical sociology, and agrarian
issues are especially strong. It is a great credit
to the Press’s leadership to have been able
to take risks at times and maintain such an
excellent selection of titles.”
—Robert Wuthnow, Princeton University
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Choice Outstanding Academic Books
Gerald W. Creed, Domesticating Revolution: From
Socialist Reform to Ambivalent Transition in a Bulgarian Village (1998 Book Prize, Bulgarian Studies
Association)
Michael Mayerfeld Bell, Farming for Us All: Practical Agriculture and the Cultivation of Sustainability
(2005)
David L. Brown and Louis Swanson, eds., Challenges
for Rural America in the Twenty-First Century (2004)
John Markoff, The Abolition of Feudalism: Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in the French Revolution
(1998 Distinguished Scholarly Publication Award,
American Sociological Association; 1997 Allan
Sharlin Memorial Award, Social Science History
Association; 1996 David Pinkney Prize, Society
for French Historical Studies)
Nathan Newman, Net Loss: Internet Prophets, Private Profits, and the Costs to Community (2002)
José Itzigsohn, Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy
in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic (2001)
Jan Kubik, The Power of Symbols Against the Symbols of Power: The Rise of Solidarity and the Fall of
State Socialism in Poland (1994 Biennial Young
Scholar Award, Polish Studies Association)
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason:
Technocratic Revolution in Mexico (1994)
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God: The Resurgence
of Islam, Christianity, and Judaism in the Modern
World (1994)
F. James Davis, Who Is Black? One Nation’s Definition (1992 Outstanding Book on the Subject of
Human Rights, Gustavus Myers Center for the
Study of Human Rights in the United States)
Christopher Pierson, Beyond the Welfare State?
The New Political Economy of Welfare (1991)
Alex Callinicos, The Revenge of History: Marxism
and the East European Revolutions (1992 Distinguished Scholarship Book Award, Marxist
Sociology Section of the American Sociological
Association)
Book Prizes
Miguel Angel Centeno, Blood and Debt: War and
the Nation-State in Latin America (Honorable
Mention, 2003 Mattei Dogan Award, Society for
Comparative Research)
Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, Social Movements: A Cognitive Approach (Honorable Mention,
1991 European Amalfi Prize for Sociology and
Social Sciences)
Michael Forman, Nationalism and the International Labor Movement: The Idea of the Nation in Socialist and Anarchist Theory (1999 Michael Harrington
Award, Caucus for a New Political Science)
Lutz Kaelber, Schools of Asceticism: Ideology and
Organization in Medieval Religious Communities
(1999 Book of the Year Award, Sociology of Religion
Section of the American Sociological Association)
Dubravka Ugrešić, The Culture of Lies: Antipolitical Essays, trans. Celia Hawkesworth (1999 Heldt
Prize, Association for Women in Slavic Studies)
Best Sellers
F. James Davis, Who Is Black? (1991; 10th anniv. ed.
2001): 23,000+
John P. Robinson and Geoffrey Godbey, Time for
Life (1997; 2nd ed. 1999): 6,500+
Gilles Kepel, The Revenge of God (1994): 5,500+
Judy Wajcman, Feminism Confronts Technology
(1991): 5,500+
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Martin Carnoy, Manuel Castells, Stephen S. Cohen, and
Fernando Henrique Cardoso, The New Global Economy in
the Information Age (1993): 5,000+
Sidney Kraus and Dennis Davis, The Effects of Mass
Communication on Political Behavior (1976): 5,000+
Judy Scales-Trent, Notes of a White Black Woman (1995):
5,000+
Martha Crenshaw, ed., Terrorism in Context (1995):
4,500+
James J. Shields Jr., ed., Japanese Schooling (1993):
4,000+
Åke Daun, Swedish Mentality (1995): 4,000+
Miguel Angel Centeno, Democracy Within Reason (1994;
2nd ed. 1997): 4,000+
Christopher Pierson, Beyond the Welfare State? (1991;
2nd ed. 1998): 3,000+
John Higham, ed., Civil Rights and Social Wrongs (1999):
3,000+
Alex Callinicos, The Revenge of History (1991): 2,500+
Bob Jessop, State Theory (1991): 2,500+
David L. Brown and Louis Swanson, eds., Challenges for
Rural America in the Twenty-First Century (2004): 2,500+
Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, Social Movements
(1991): 2,500+
Philip D. Oxhorn, Organizing Civil Society (1995): 2,000+
“Penn State Press has developed
a very impressive sociology list and has
been a leader in publishing books
that have multidisciplinary roots. It is
especially strong at the intersection of
sociology, politics, and history. In my
own subfield I find Penn State to be a
leader in the publication of books that
show the constructed and highly political nature of race and ethnicity. The
seminal Who Is Black? by F. James Davis,
published in 1991, compared the conceptions of race in the U.S. with other
countries, making clear the social construction of race in our society. . . .The
Press’s strength in the study of religion
has also intersected with one of the
most important emerging fields in the
study of immigration, and Fenggang
Yang’s Chinese Christians in America is an
early trailblazer in this field, along
with Kwon, Kim, and Warner’s Korean
Americans and Their Religions. Penn
State Press publishes high-quality
books with broad appeal and deep
scholarly roots. Its list in sociology is
innovative and stimulating.”
—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
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One Nation’s Definition
F. James Davis
spotlight
1992 Outstanding Book on
the Subject of Human Rights
(Gustavus Myers Center for the
Study of Human Rights in the
United States)
Who Is Black? provides both a history
and an analysis of miscegenation in
the United States, showing how a
black person is defined, how this definition emerged from the slave South
to become the nation’s definition with
the backing of the state and federal
courts, how the definition works in
everyday life, and what its consequences are.
According to the one-drop rule,
anyone with at least one African black
ancestor is black, even if the individual
appears to be white. The rule originated during the era of slavery in the
South and has come to be taken for
granted, strongly supported by blacks
and whites alike. No other nation defines a black person in this fashion.
Davis provides a comparison of the
one-drop rule with six other ways of
defining the status of racially mixed
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“Davis has given us a brilliant and informative history of the fateful policy
commonly called the rule
of hypodescent (the ‘onedrop’ rule) and the impact
it has had psychologically,
socially, economically,
and politically on African
American history. Davis’s
book is the most recent in
the series of works written on this topic, but is by
far the most thorough and
insightful.”
—G. Reginald Daniel,
Contemporary Sociology
The Abolition of Feudalism
Peasants, Lords, and Legislators in
the French Revolution
John Markoff
1998 Distinguished Scholarly
Publication Award (American
Sociological Association)
1997 Allan Sharlin Memorial
Award (Social Science History
Association)
spotlight
Who Is Black?
persons in societies around the world,
from Latin America to South Africa.
Davis discusses the dilemmas of
racial identity experienced by wellknown public figures. Conflicts over
color in the black community are also
discussed, along with such further
problems as collective anxieties, the
racial identity of transracially adopted
children, different modes of adjustment to ambiguities about racial identity, and personal traumas. Finally, the
question of potential changes to the
one-drop rule is considered in order to
demonstrate how entrenched the rule
now is in the black community as well
as the white, and why.
In the tenth-anniversary edition
of Who Is Black? Davis brings the story
up to date in an epilogue, highlighting revealing responses to the book
and examining recent challenges
to the one-drop rule, including the
multiracial identity movement and a
significant change in the census classification of racial and ethnic groups.
1996 David Pinkney Prize
(Society for French Historical
Studies)
One of the most important results of
the French Revolution was the destruction of the old feudal order, which
for centuries had kept the common
people of the countryside subject to
the lords. In this book, John Markoff
addresses the ways in which insurrectionary peasants and revolutionary
legislators joined in bringing “the time
of the lords” to an end and how, in
that ending, seigneurial rights came
to be central to the very sense of the
Revolution. He traces the interaction
of peasants and legislators, showing
how they confronted, challenged, and
implicitly negotiated with one another
during the course of events.
Contrary to many historians
who see the source of revolutionary
change in elite culture, Markoff argues that peasant insurrection was a
crucial element of the transformation
of France. Of particular importance to
the study is Markoff’s analysis of the
unique cahiers de doléances, the lists of
grievances drawn up in 1789 by rural
communities, urban notables, and
nobles alike. These documents are
invaluable for understanding the Revolution, but until the pioneering work
of Markoff and Gilbert Shapiro, they
had not been studied systematically
at the national level. In addition to an
unprecedented quantitative analysis
of the cahiers, Markoff traces the
ebb and flow of peasant insurrection
across half a decade of revolutionary
turbulence. He also offers qualitative
analysis through his use of the records
of the legislative debates as well as
the memoirs and journals of the
legislators.
“There is no book quite
like this in the field. Even
the French have not approached the peasant
dimension of the French
Revolution in this way.
Markoff’s use of the cahiers is a tour de force.”
—Robert Forster, The Johns
Hopkins University
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“Penn State Press has developed
a very impressive sociology list and has been
a leader in publishing books
that have multidisciplinary roots. It is especially strong at the intersection of sociology,
politics, and history. In my own subfield I find
Penn State to be a leader in the publication
“ . . . book design is a process
of books that show the constructed and
of discovery, guided by
highly political nature of race and ethnicity.
reading the contents page,
The seminal Who Is Black? by F. James Davis
scanning (if not reading) the
published in 1991 compared the conceptions
whole text, studying the illusof race in the U.S. with other
trations and their captions and
countries, making clear the social construcsimply putting oneself in the
tion of race in our society. . . . The Press’s
position of the reader. This may
strength in the study of religion has also inseem like common sense, but
tersected with one of the most important
it is surprisingly uncommon
emerging fields in the study of immigration,
in book design.”
and Fenggang Yang’s Chinese Christians in
design
America is an early trailblazer
in thisBirdsall,
field,
—Derek
Notes on Book Design
along
with Kwon, Kim, and Warner’s Korean Americans and Their Religions. Penn State Press
publishes high-quality books with broad appeal and deep scholarly roots. Its list in soci-
design and production
Book design could rightfully be called the most invisible art.
Though dust jackets and paper covers might be the first elements
to attract a reader’s eye, successful interior designs generally
avoid calling attention to themselves. As award-winning designer
Richard Hendel puts it, “Designers are to books what architects
are to buildings. . . . Even the most seemingly mundane detail
needs to be decided, and it is just these tiny particulars that
make a design successful.” The overall size of the book, the type
choices, the style and placement of running heads and folios, the
appearance of title pages and chapter headings, the margins, the
treatment of captions, tables, and other illustrative material—
all of these “particulars” affect the clarity of the presentation of
the text. The designer serves as the conduit between author and
reader, conveying the message of the book clearly, readably, with
minimal intervention.
Even a designer who aspires to such minimal intervention
certainly is not absent from the finished product, because the
designer must offer an interpretation of precisely what the book
is. What does the author intend to communicate? Typefaces,
colors, styles, and other aesthetic choices will stem from the
designer’s sense of the content and the social and historical context in which the book will be read. Such selections also help set
the reader’s expectations. Does the book look like a guidebook,
perhaps narrow and tall, with line-drawn illustrations? Does a
square, squat appearance remind the reader of a textbook? Does
the typography suggest a classic or futuristic orientation? Every
reader feels the influence of such design decisions—even without being fully aware of them.
From the beginning, the Press has given special attention to
design and production, even while it remains conscious of budgetary limitations. Its high standards in copyediting and design
are now well known in fields such as art history and medieval
studies. The dedicated production staff has created an international reputation for excellence that has been recognized with
awards in annual competitions run by the Association of American University Presses and other organizations.
ology is
innovative and stimulating.”
—Mary C. Waters, Harvard University
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Design Awards
Boyd, The Best Places You’ve Never Seen (2004
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, trade
illustrated: Regina Starace, designer; Jennifer
Norton, production coordinator)
Hanson, The Jacobin Republic Under Fire (2004
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, jackets:
Steve Kress, designer; Jennifer Norton, production coordinator)
Greenshields, An Economy of Violence in Early
Modern France (1995 AAUP Book, Jacket, and
Journal Show, jackets: Steve Kress, designer)
Gray, Holidays (1984 AAUP Book and Jacket Show,
illustrated books: Constance Timm, designer;
Jeannette Lasansky, production coordinator)
Walker, Country Cloth to Coverlets (1983 AAUP
Book and Jacket Show, jackets: Constance Timm,
designer)
Molesworth, Work Ethic (2004 PRINT Regional
Design Annual: Lisa Tremaine, designer; Jennifer
Norton, art director)
Leos, Other Summers: The Photographs of Horace
Engle (1981 AAUP Book Show: Glenn Ruby,
designer; Janet Dietz, production coordinator)
MacEachin, U.S. Intelligence and the Confrontation
in Poland, 1980–1981 (2003 AAUP Book, Jacket,
and Journal Show, scholarly typographic: Steve
Kress, designer; Jennifer Norton, production
coordinator)
Wettstone, ed., Gymnastics Safety Manual,
paper edition (1978 AAUP Book and Jacket Show,
books: Glenn Ruby, designer)
Marcus, The Sentimental Citizen (2003 AAUP
Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, jackets: Lisa
Tremaine, designer; Jennifer Norton, production
coordinator)
Stokes, The Quattro Cento and Stones of Rimini,
(2003 PRINT Regional Design Annual: Regina
Starace, designer; Jennifer Norton, art director)
Vásquez, Inventing the Art Collection (2002 PRINT
Regional Design Annual: Jerry King Musser,
designer; Jennifer Norton, art director)
Eriksen, The Building in the Text (2001 AAUP Book,
Jacket, and Journal Show, jackets: Regina Starace
and Steve Kress, designers; Jennifer Norton, production coordinator)
Castells, Fernando de Rojas and the Renaissance
Vision (2001 AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal
Show, jackets: Regina Starace, designer; Jennifer
Norton, production coordinator)
Yanal, Paradoxes of Emotion and Fiction (2000
AAUP Book, Jacket, and Journal Show, jackets:
Sigrid Albert and Jennifer Norton, designers;
Janet Dietz, production coordinator)
Weintraub, Aubrey Beardsley (1977 AAUP Book
and Jacket Show, books: Glenn Ruby, designer)
Hyslop, Henri Evenepoel (1976 AAUP Book Show:
Andrew Vargo, designer)
Rosenberg, Custer and the Epic of Defeat (1975
AAUP Book Show: Glenn Ruby, designer)
Weil, The History and Decoration of the Ponte S.
Angelo (1975 AAUP Book Show: Glenn Ruby,
designer)
Kern, A Revised Taxonomic Account of Gymnosporangium (1974 AAUP Book Show, jackets: Marilyn
Shobaken, designer)
LeSage and Yon, Dictionnaire des critiques littéraires: Guide de la critique française du XXe siècle (1970
AAUP Book Show, books: Glenn Ruby, designer)
Schlegel, trans. Behler and Struc, Dialogue on Poetry
and Literary Aphorisms (1969 AAUP Book Show:
Marilyn Shobaken, designer)
Patterson, Plato on Immortality (1966 AAUP Book
Show: Marilyn Shobaken, designer)
Smith, ed., The Religious Speeches of Bernard
Shaw (1963 Aiga 50 Books of the Year: Marilyn
Shobaken, designer)
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journal editors
Marie J. Secor, Editor (1993–1997)
Stephen H. Browne, Editor (1993–2003)
JGE: The Journal of General Education (1961–present)
Pierre Kerszberg, Editor (1997–1999)
Howard A. Cutler, Editor (1961–1962)
Richard Doyle, Editor (1997–2003)
Carol Sams, Assistant Editor (1963–1986)
Richard A. Lee Jr., Editor (2000–2002)
journal editors
Ben Euwema, Editor (1963–1967)
Henry W. Sams, Editor (1967–1974);
Associate Editor (1974–1981)
General Linguistics (1967–1991)
Caroline D. Eckhardt, Editor (1974–1986)
Philip Baldi, Editor (1975–1991)
Robert B. Eckhardt, Editor (1974–1986)
George P. Faust, Associate Editor (1967–1977)
Philip Winsor, Editor (1987–1988)
Eric P. Hamp, Associate Editor (1967–1991)
Cherene Holland, Assistant Editor (1987–1988)
Thomas F. Magner, Associate Editor (1967–1974)
James L. Ratcliff, Editor (1991–1998)
Ernst Ebbinghaus, Editor (1987–1991)
William Toombs, Associate Editor (1991–1992)
Saul Levin, Editor (1987–1991)
William R. Schmalstieg, Editor (1967–1991)
William G. Tierney, Associate Editor (1991–1992)
Susan B. Twombly, Associate Editor (1992–1996)
L-Arte (1968–1973)
Elizabeth A. Jones, Assistant Editor (1991–1992);
Associate Editor (1993–2000); Senior Associate Editor
(2001–2004)
Adolfo Venturi, Editor (1968–1970)
Marilyn J. Amey, Associate Editor (1996–2000);
Editor (2001–2004)
SHAW: The Annual of Bernard Shaw Studies (1981–present)
Enio Sindona, Editor (1970–1973)
John J. Romano, Editor (1999–2000)
Stanley Weintraub, General Editor (1981–2000);
Editor (1982, 1984, 1986, 1988)
Jeremy Cohen, Editor (1999–2000)
Charles A. Berst, Editor (1981)
Claire Major, Editor (2004–present)
Daniel Leary, Editor (1983)
The Chaucer Review (1966–present)
Robert W. Frank Jr., Editor (1966–2002)
Rodelle Weintraub, Editor (1985)
Alfred Turco Jr., Editor (1986)
Jeanne Krochalis, Associate Editor (1994–2002)
Fred D. Crawford, Editor (1989, 1990, 1992, 1995, 1998, 2000);
General Editor (1990–2000)
Mary Hamel, Associate Editor (1994–2002)
T. F. Evans, Editor (1991)
Edmund Reiss, Editor (1966–1970)
John A. Bertolini, Editor (1993)
Susanna Fein, Editor (2002–present)
Bernard F. Dukore, Editor (1994)
David Raybin, Editor (2002–present)
Dan H. Laurence, Editor (1996, 2000)
The Shaw Review (1967–1980)
Stanley Weintraub, Editor (1967–1980)
Philosophy and Rhetoric (1968–present)
Henry W. Johnstone Jr., Editor (1968–1976, 1987–1997)
Carroll C. Arnold, Associate Editor (1969–1976)
Donald Phillip Verene, Editor (1976–1987)
Gerard A. Hauser, Associate Editor (1976–1992);
Editor (1993, 2004–present)
Margot Peters, Editor (1996)
Milton T. Wolf, Editor (1997)
Gale K. Larson, Editor (1999, 2001, 2003); General Editor
(2001–2005)
MaryAnn K. Crawford, Editor (2002, 2003, 2005);
Assistant General Editor (2001–2003); Associate General
Editor (2004–2005); General Editor (2006–present)
Michel W. Pharand, Editor (2004); General Editor (2006–
present)
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Comparative Literature Studies (1987–present)
Resources for American Literary Study (1990–2001)
Owen Aldridge, Editor (1987–1988)
Jackson R. Bryer, Editor (1990–2001)
Stanley Weintraub, Editor (1987–1992)
Carla Mulford, Editor (1992)
Gerhard F. Strasser, Associate Editor (1987–1988),
Editor (1989–2001)
Robert Secor, Editor (1993)
Richard Kopley, Associate Editor (1993); Editor (1994–2001)
Earl E. Fitz, Associate Editor (1987–1996)
Thomas A. Hale, Associate Editor (1987–present)
Legacy: A Journal of American Women Writers (1991–1999)
Frederick A. de Armas, Associate Editor (1989–2000)
Joanne Dobson, Editor (1991–1994)
Raymond R. Fleming, Associate Editor (1989–2001)
Martha Ackmann, Editor (1991–1997)
Robert R. Edwards, Editor-in-Chief (1992–2000)
Karen Dandurand, Editor (1991–1999)
Patrick Cheney, Editor (1992–2001)
Susan K. Harris, Editor (1994–1997)
Thomas O. Beebee, Associate Editor (1993–2001);
Editor-in-Chief (2001–present)
Sharon M. Harris, Editor (1997–1999)
Michael M. Nayden, Associate Editor (1993–present)
Book History (1998–present)
Ernst Schürer, Associate Editor (1993–2001)
Ezra Greenspan, Editor (1998–present)
Laura L. Knoppers, Associate Editor (1998–2001)
Jonathan Rose, Editor (1998–present)
Kang Liu, Associate Editor (1998–2004)
Djelal Kadir, Associate Editor (2000–present)
Michael Bérubé, Associate Editor (2002–present
Caroline D. Eckhardt, Associate Editor (2002–present)
Anibal Gonzalez-Perez, Associate Editor (2002–present)
Reiko Tachibana, Associate Editor (2002–present)
The Journal of Nietzsche Studies (2000–present)
Daniel Conway, North American Editor (2000–2002)
Jim Urpeth, UK Editor (2000–2002)
Brian Domino, Editor (2003–2006)
Christa Davis Acampora, Editor (2006–present)
Philip J. Mosley, Associate Editor (2003–present)
The Good Society (2002–present)
Sophia A. McClennen, Associate Editor (2005–present)
Stephen Elkin, Editor (2002–present)
The Journal of Speculative Philosophy (1987–present)
Alexandra Kogl, Associate Editor (2002–2003)
Carl G. Vaught, Editor (1987–1990)
Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies (2002–present)
Henry W. Johnstone Jr., Editor (1987–1994)
Brian C. Black, Editor (2002–2004)
Carl R. Hausman, Editor (1987–1999)
John C. McWilliams, Associate Editor (2002–2005)
Douglas R. Anderson, Editor (1995–1999)
Jean Soderlund, Editor (2004–2005)
Vincent M. Colapietro, Editor (1997–present)
Paul Douglas Newman, Editor (2005–present)
John J. Stuhr, Editor (1999–present)
Jeffrey A. Davis, Associate Editor (2005–present)
The Journal of Policy History (1989–present)
Donald T. Critchlow, Editor (1989–present)
David B. Robertson, Associate Editor (1992–present)
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editorial committee members
committee
(in chronological order)
Paul H. Rigby|Business Administration|Associate Dean
of Research (1973–1989)
Wilbur Zelinsky|Geography (1973–1990)
Charles W. Mann|English|Chief of Rare Books and
Special Collections Libraries (1973–1992)
Stanley Weintraub|English|Director of the Institute for
Arts and Humanistic Studies (1973–1993)
Manfred Kroger|Food Science (1975–1976)*
John D. Sink|Animal Science (1975–1976)*
J. Larry Duda|Chemical Engineering (1975–1977)
Roland Fleischer|Art History (1975–1977)
Heinz K. Henisch|Physics (1975–1977)
John H. Lumley|Aerospace Engineering (1975–1977)
Howard B. Palmer|Fuel Science (1975–1977)
William Rabinowitz|Educational Psychology (1975–1977)
Joseph J. Rubin|English (1975–1977)
Ruth Silva|Political Science (1975–1977)
Kent Forster|History (1975–1979)
Paul T. Baker|Anthropology (1975–1983)
Richard C. Rose|Surgery|Physiology (1975–1984)
Jan S. Prybyla|Economics (1975–1985)
Roland J. Pellegrin|Psychology|Sociology (1975–1986)
Rosemary Schrarer|Biochemistry (1975–1986)
Paul H. Cutler|Physics (1975–1990)
Thomas Smyth Jr.|Entomology (1975–1990)
Ronald A. Smith|Exercise and Sports Science (1975–1991)
Herbert Cole Jr.|Plant Pathology (1976–1977; 1989–1990)*
Miles T. Pigott|Engineering Research (1976–1979)*
Thomas D. Larson|Government and Management
(1978–1979)*
Philip A. Klein|Economics (1979–1982; 1996–1997)*
John D. Martz|Political Science (1979–1982)*
Robert K. Murray|History (1979–1984)
Cara-Lynne Schengrund|Biochemistry (1982–1983)*
Sabih I. Hayek| Engineering Mechanics (1982–1984)*
George K. Simkovich|Metallurgy (1983–1985)*
Richard L. Frautschi|French (1984–1987)*
R. W. Bernlohr|Biochemistry (1986–1989)*
Ronald E. Buckalew|Biochemistry (1987–1990)*
Jean Landa Pytel|Engineering Science|Mathematics
(1989–1990)
Jonathan Goldstine|Computer Science (1990–1991)*
Daniel Walden|American Studies|English|Comparative
Literature (1990–1991)*
Ronald Filippelli|Labor Studies and Industrial Relations
(1990–1993)
J. Philip Jenkins|Administration of Justice|American
Studies (1990–1993)
Nancy Love|Political Science (1990–1997)
David M. Bressoud|Mathematics (1991–1992)*
Gordon A. Hamilton|Chemistry (1991–1993)*
Judith Van Herik|Religious Studies (1991–1994)
Anthony Cutler|Art History (1992–1998; 1999–2001)
Bonnie MacEwan|Assistant Dean for Collections,
Libraries (1992–2001; 2002–2005)*
Gary Gallagher|History (1993–1994)
Wendell V. Harris|English (1993–1996)
Anne C. Rose|History (1993–1996)*
Carol R. Nechmias|Public Policy (1994–1995)*
Judd B. Arnold|English (1994–1996)*
Gary N. Knoppers|Religious Studies|Jewish Studies
(1994–1997)
William Pencak|History (1995–2001)
Robert E. Burkholder|Associate Professor of English
(1996–1997)*
Beno Weiss|Italian (1996–1999)*
Joan Landes|Women’s Studies|History (1997–2000)
Mark H. Munn|History (1998–1999)*
Susan Welch|Political Science|Dean of the College of
Liberal Arts (1998–2002)*
Michael Bernhard|Political Science (1998–2006)
Daniel Conway|Philosophy (1999–2002)
Laura Knoppers|English (2000–2001)*
Laura K. Probst|Head of Public Services, Libraries
(2001–2002)*
Willa Silverman|French Studies|Jewish Studies
(2001–2006)
David Myers|Political Science (2001–2003; 2006–present)
Mark E. Neely|History (2001–present)
Craig Zabel|Art History (2001–present)
Leif Jensen|Rural Sociology|Demography (2002–2003)*
Shannon Sullivan|Philosophy|Women’s Studies (2003)
Irene E. Harvey|Philosophy (2003–2004)*
Norris J. Lacy|French|Medieval Studies (2003–2004)
Jeff Nealon|English (2004–2005)*
Nan Woodruff|History (2004–2005)
Nancy Locke|Art History (2004–present)
Nadine Smith|Bioengineering (2005–2006)*
William Brockman|Paterno Family Librarian, Libraries
(2005–present)*
Rosa A. Eberly|Communication Arts and Sciences|English
(2005–present)
Bernard J. Badiali|Education (2006–present)*
* Faculty Senate Representative
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keystone books committee
(1998–present)
Julie Brink|Centre Daily Times (1998–2000)
William Pencak|History Department, Penn State
(1998–present)
Tony Sanfilippo|Svoboda’s Books (1998–2000)*
Mark Smukler|WPSU (1998)
Leon Stout|Penn State Libraries (1998–present)
Patty Satalia|WPSU (1999–present)
Helen Bechdel|Centre Daily Times (2002–2003)
Julia Kasdorf|English Department, Penn State
(2002–2003)
William Keister|Penn State Bookstore (2002–present)
Cynthia Berger|WPSU (2006–present)
Elaine Meder|Webster’s Bookstore (2006–present)
* Tony Sanfilippo became a member of the Press staff in 2000.
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