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A collection of essays that examine intimacy and power in early modern French households, and explore how families reinvented themselves in response to changes in law, gender ideology, political culture, or patterns of consumption.
The Development of Political Discourse in the Hebrew Bible
Interprets the Bible as a text concerned with the political reality of conceiving and nurturing a nation. Highlights the emphasis that the Bible places on women's contribution to what it takes to make a nation.
The paintings and prints of the Steidle Collection capture the power and beauty of industry. The images, potent reminders of earlier vigorous industrial development in America, are a visual record connecting fine arts, industry, and education before World War II. Established and expanded by Edward Steidle during his tenure at The Pennsylvania ......
The Story of the Nation's Most Successful Collegiate Creamery
“How is it that a humble ice cream cone vies for icon status with JoePa and the Nittany Lion Shrine? What is so unique about Penn State’s Berkey Creamery . . . that causes it to grow when other college creameries have been shrinking or disappearing altogether? What draws business professionals from all over the world to Penn State ......
Examines poetry and ideology in Early Modern Spain. Includes eight representative Peninsular writers and one poet from the Americas to demonstrate the shifting ideologies of the self, language and the state that mark watersheds for European and American modernity.
Examines poetry and ideology in Early Modern Spain. Includes eight representative Peninsular writers and one poet from the Americas to demonstrate the shifting ideologies of the self, language and the state that mark watersheds for European and American modernity.
Many have argued that American Unitarianism originated solely from within Congregationalism and developed independent of outside influences. William Ellery Channing's “Unitarian Christianity” sermon in 1819 was a key moment in the history of the denomination, as Channing consciously sought to define the parameters of the faith and ......
Today’s political controversy over immigration highlights the plight of the working class in this country as perhaps no other issue has recently done. The political status of immigrants exposes the power dynamics of the “new working class,” which includes the former labor aristocracy, women, and people of color. This new ......
Examines concepts for persuasive communication. Explores the art of rhetoric and how it aids in clarification when we speak to communicate, but also helps to protect us from clarity when we speak to maintain our connections to others.
