Publications
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Hellenistic Nysa-Scythopolis I
(2025)
This book deals with the first three campaigns of the German-Israeli Tell Iẓṭabba Excavation Project, conducted by the Institute for Classical Archaeology and Christian Archaeology / Archaeological Museum of the University ...
Korean Americans and Their Religions
(2001)
Since 1965 the Korean American population has grown to over one million people. These Korean Americans, including immigrants and their offspring, have founded thousands of Christian congregations and scores of Buddhist ...
Infertility
(2016)
This book explores the arguments, appeals, and narratives that have defined the meaning of infertility in the modern history of the United States and Europe. Throughout the last century, the inability of women to conceive ...
Civil Rights and Social Wrongs
(1997)
The persistence of racial inequality in a democratic society may be the gravest problem confronting the United States. It has surely been the most intractable. Yet the torrent of scholarship and comment unleashed in recent ...
Baptism Through Incision
(2020)
In 1786, Guatemalan priest Pedro José de Arrese published a work instructing readers on their duty to perform the cesarean operation on the bodies of recently deceased pregnant women in order to extract the fetus while it ...
Whitman, Slavery, and the Emergence of Leaves of Grass
(1994)
Although the significance of Walt Whitman's thinking about African Americans and slavery to his poetry has been largely ignored by Whitman scholars, Martin Klammer argues that Leaves of Grass is a major text dealing with ...
The Pennsylvania-German in the Revolutionary War, 1775–1783
(2012)
Published by the Pennsylvania German Society in 1908, this volume is one among many compiled to help illuminate the achievements of the Pennsylvania Germans during our nation’s early years. In the pre–World War I era, such ...
Stages of Desire
(1999)
Within the rich tradition of Spanish theater lies an unexplored dimension reflecting themes from classical mythology. Through close readings of selected plays from early modern and twentieth-century Spanish literature with ...
Second-Wave Neoliberalism
(2010)
The first wave of neoliberal reform that swept across Latin America in the early 1990s focused on economic policies favoring structural adjustment, such as currency devaluation, cuts in state-supplied social services, and ...
Religion, Ethnicity, and Politics
(1995)
In September 1787 the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia proposed a new Federal Constitution to replace the beleaguered Articles of Confederation. Each state then had to call a convention of its own to vote on ...
Penn's Grandest Cavern
(2007)
Published in 1916, this illustrated edition of Penn’s Grandest Cavern begins with several legends of Penn’s Cave and the surrounding area, followed by a description and history, all compiled and written by Henry W. Shoemaker. ...
Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania
(2014)
Tales of the Bald Eagle Mountains in Central Pennsylvania , originally published in 1912 by the Bright Printing Company, was the fourth of Henry Shoemaker’s many published volumes of fantastical tales about Pennsylvania’s ...
Falckner's Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania
(2012)
Originally circulated in Germany, Daniel Falckner’s Curieuse Nachricht von Pensylvania was one in a wave of pamphlets about the American colonies disseminated in Europe during the late seventeenth and early eighteenth ...
Allegories of Kingship
(1995)
This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderón de la Barca (1600–1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing ...
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution
(2014)
Some Pennsylvania Women During the War of the Revolution , first published in 1898 by the Harrisburg Publishing Company, presents biographical sketches of almost seventy women who supported the American Revolution and the ...
Pennsylvania Lion or Panther & Felis Catus in Pennsylvania?
(2007)
This Metalmark volume combines two of Henry W. Shoemaker’s pamphlets, both published by Shoemaker’s Times Tribune Co., which also published his newspaper, the Altoona Tribune . Pennsylvania Lion or Panther , published in ...
The Cultural Politics of Tel Quel
(1996)
Founded in 1960 by a group of relatively unknown young writers, Tel Que l quickly became one of the most influential literary journals and controversial intellectual movements in France. During the following two decades ...
Refiguring the Hero
(1991)
Refiguring the Hero reassesses the social significance of several of the most widely read plays of Spain's Golden Age in light of then-contempory ideas about heroism. The Spanish dramatists Lope de Vega and Pedro Calderón ...
Pioneer Life; or, Thirty Years a Hunter
(2014)
Pioneer Life is a mostly autobiographical narrative of the life of Philip Tome. Tome was born in 1782 near present-day Harrisburg and lived on the upper Susquehanna for much of his life. He tells colorful (and mostly true) ...