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Uses a feudal model to analyze contemporary American society, comparing its essential characteristics to those of medieval European societies.

This text studies how states in differing regions of the world are taking more control over their own affairs. It argues that universal principles of foreign policy are dangerous as regional orders differ, and policy must accommodate these differences if it is to succeed.

Examines the desegregation experience, with a focus on the impact of the Supreme Court's decisions from Brown v. Board of Education in 1954, through Parents Involved v. Seattle School District in 2007. Assesses desegregation in Delaware, one of the states involved in the original Brown litigation.

A description, originally published in 1789, of Pennsylvania German culture. Reprint of 1875 edition, with notes, preface, and appendixes by Pennsylvania historian Daniel Rupp.

A dictionary and guide to the language of the Pennsylvania Germans. Includes English-Pennsylvania German and Pennsylvania German-English translations, along with a phrase book and bilingual sections on conducting business in various settings. Concludes with translated excerpts of poetry, Bible verses, and Shakespeare.

A collection of folklore, stories, anecdotes, and reminiscences of Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania, from its earliest settlement in the eighteenth century to its foundation as a county and growth into a major hub of mining and industry.

A collection of nineteenth- and early twentieth-century folk songs and ballads, compiled with the assistance of John C. French and John H. Chatham from Union, Snyder, Centre, Lycoming, Clinton, Tioga, Potter, McKean, Forest, Cameron, Elk, and Clearfield Counties in Pennsylvania.

Examines the controversy in early seventeenth-century Spain over the elevation of Saint Teresa of Avila to co-patron saint alongside the traditional patron, Santiago. Assesses the crucial role of sanctity in the symbolic representation of the nation in early modern Europe.

Draws on philosophers, political theorists, activists, and poets to explain how unspoken and unspeakable knowledge is important to racial and gender formation; offers a usable conception of implicit understanding.

An English translation, in rhyming couplets, of the French playwright Jean Racine's Bajazet (1672). Includes critical notes and commentary.

Compares the theories of John Rawls and Immanuel Kant, and offers an internal critique and reconstruction of justice as fairness, reconceiving it as a comprehensive, universalistic Kantian liberalism.

An English translation, in iambic pentameter couplets, of all twelve of seventeenth-century French playwright Jean Racine's plays.

Since the arrival of the Spanish conquerors at the beginning of the colonial period, Cuba has been hugely influenced by international migration. This study of international migration in Cuba aims to elucidate the forces that have shaped international migration and the involvement of the migrants in transnational social fields.

An English translation and critical edition of a refutation, written about 1603 by the soldier Bernardo de Vargas Machuca, of Bartolome de las Casas's famous Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1558).

Examines the foundations of human rights, how their political and cultural validation in a global context is posing challenges to nation-state sovereignty, and how they become an integral part of international relations and are institutionalized into domestic legal and political practices.

Analyzes the politics of neoliberal health sector reform and its effects in Peru. Focuses on the intersecting dynamics of race, class, and gender in the developing world.

Provides a definition and defense of individual privacy rights. Applies the proposed theory to issues including privacy versus free speech; drug testing; and national security and public accountability.

A discussion of how everyday bystanders can learn to recognize and meet their shared and institutional political responsibilities for hunger, poverty, famine, civil war, wars of conquest and invasion, epidemics and pandemics, and genocide.

Traces conflicts in Mexico over regional authority and labor-employer relations between the state and competing industrialist and labor groups in Guadalajara, Mexico City, Monterrey, and Puebla from the 1920s to the 1950s.

An examination of the writings on virtues and ethics of eighteenth-century Puritan Jonathan Edwards.

A visitor's guide to central Pennsylvania, discussing local history, folklore, and geography. Originally published in 1917.

A listing of burials in various Moravian cemeteries in Nazareth, Pennsylvania. Originally published in 1906.

In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century.

Examines the history and development of Moravian theology, from its origins in the Hussite movement to the work of Comenius. Explores the theology of the Unity of the Brethren within the context of the Protestant Reformation.

What does God say about the "correct" social teaching of the Catholic Church? This work presents the history of American Catholic economic debates taking place during the generation preceding Vatican II. This was a time of immense social change, and especially in the light of the social and economic upheavals in Russia and Europe.

In this volume, leading experts from five countries explore the many dimensions of accommodation and conflict, control and independence, as well as subservience and resistance that characterized the relationship of universities to dictatorial regimes in communist and fascist states during the twentieth century.

The last half of the 20th century was a time of great social and economic change for Pennsylvanians. It was also a tumultuous time in state politics. Vincent Carocci offers a colorful and honest look at the ups and downs of state politics, Pennsylvania-style.

Hailing from the Keystone State's western counties, the Eleventh Pennsylvania Reserves was one of the Civil War's most heavily engaged units, suffering the most battle deaths which earned it the name of "Bloody Eleventh". This is the divisions story from before the war up through 1864.

Investigates the efforts of feminists in Chile to win policy reforms on a broad range of gender equity issues, from labor and marriage laws to educational opportunities to health and reproductive rights.