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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Examines the meaning and function of culture in contemporary society. This book argues that reason itself is cultural, but no less reasonable for it. It defines culture, gauges the consequences of the ineradicably cultural nature of cognition and action, yet argues that none of this implies relativism.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It has often been said that early America was the "best poor man's country in the world." After all, wasn't there an abundance of land and a scarcity of labourers? This book presents the evidence for poverty versus plenty and concludes that financial insecurity was a widespread problem.

First published in 1987, "Beyond the Covenant Chain" was one of the first studies to acknowledge that the Iroquois never had an empire. This book remains a valuable study of diplomatic amd military relations among Native American groups in 17th- and 18th-century North America.

A comprehensive, illustrated guide to the best small museums in Pennsylvania, interweaving anecdotes with the author's own visits along with descriptions of their histories and collections. Travel directions and complete information on each site's visiting hours and more are included.

This is a comprehensive account of how conflicts over the powers to tax, spend and borrow have been at the centre of American politics and how these budgetary conflicts have shaped national politics by determining the size and role of the federal government.

Images of and references to women are so rare in the corpus of his published work that there seems to be no "woman question" for Hans-Georg Gadamer. Yet the authors of these 15 essays show it is possible to read past Gadamer's silences to find rich resources for feminist theory and practice.

This text is a collaborative effort by policymakers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference in which high-level verterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations.

This text is a collaborative effort by policymakers and scholars to promote better understanding of how the Cold War ended. It includes the transcript of a conference in which high-level verterans of the Bush and Gorbachev governments shared their recollections and interpretations.

Inspired by Martin Heidegger, John Lysaker develops a concept of ur-poetry to explore philosophically how poetic language creates fresh meaning in our world and transforms the way in which we choose to live in it. To demonstrate ur-poetry in action, the book focuses on the work of Charles Simic.