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This book is a volume in the Penn Press Anniversary Collection. To mark its 125th anniversary in 2015, the University of Pennsylvania Press rereleased more than 1, 100 titles from Penn Press's distinguished backlist from 1899-1999 that had fallen out of print. Spanning an entire century, the Anniversary Collection offers peer-reviewed scholarship in a wide range of subject areas.

?Jim Davis is a keen observer of the political process and his book, National Conventions in an Age of Party Reform, is a solid and complete study of the convention process."--Robert S. Strauss, Former Chairman, Democratic National Committee "James W. Davis' new book, which defends national conventions, is the first study in 10 years devoted exclusively to this important topic. Professor Davis is a widely known scholar of the presidential nomi...

?DeBrizzi argues that the immense influence of [the John Commons-Wisconsin school theory, a live and let live' attitude, rather than class struggle] is better explained by its fit with the ideology of the reform-oriented entrepreneurs so admired by Commons than by its fit with the facts. DeBrizzi examines the earlier theories of Richard Ely and Henry Carter Adams (also reform-oriented antisocialist), the historical phenomena these theories wer...

?The stereotypical American woman after suffrage is a white, middle-class woman who goes from the emancipated glory of being a flapper to the staid satisfactions of being a housewife. The image suggests that women themselves rejected feminism and sank into political apathy and unconsciousness. This first-class collection of historical essays revises and rejects this view, pointing out the limitations of the view of suffrage as either solving a...

?This fine collection will appeal to a wide audience with its relevance to topical controversies concerning sex and race discrimination. It is an interdisciplinary work, with discussions bringing in ideas from genetics, evolutionary biology, sociobiology, political science, economics, and philosophy. ... The authors do a good job of explaining for a general audience the background material from their special fields, in particular concepts from...

., ."Two major sections deal with the Resistance and with concentration camp life, a shorter final section concerns re-entry into normal life by the survivors...." Library Journal

?John Budd's bibliography demonstrates one fact clearly: critical interest in Henry James has not diminished. In the five years covered by his book, an average of 34 dissertations, ten books, and 109 articles appeared each year. Interests of the critics vary widely. Their central concern, however, still is James's style and technique, its unique characteristics, and its relation to general literary modes (melodrama, gothic, realism) and to oth...

?Israel's policy in the Occupied Territories, intimately connected with the questions of security and ideology so important to Israelis of all parties, has been strongly influenced by the factionalism characteristic of Israeli politics within the major parties and within the coalition governments. The usefulness of this study lies in the running account of disputes and maneuvers from 1967 to 1981 and the strictures these placed on policy regar...

?This book is a scholarly study of Mozambique's war of independence which lasted a decade. In this reviewer's opinion, it is the most objective and relatively unbiased study of Mozambique in that crucial decade which we now have. ... The book's sources are quite varied and impressive in scope and depth. ... The periodical documenation is large and impressive, though ... books and monographs on Mozambique's past are hard to come by. In a field ...

?The insights of anthropology, social psychology, and history are here directed toward an understanding of the community of Bryn Athyn, Pennsylvania.... Meyer's traces the evolution of the community's ideas and institutions within a context in which Swedenborg's writings are normative. Her assessment of contemporary Bryn Athyn includes an examination of the community's response to recent external threats of physical or ideological encroachment...

..."Indeed, cognitive scientists who are more broadly concerned with the nature of knowledge and language comprehension will be interested in Knowledge and the Flow of Information." - Wendell R. Garner, Contemporary Psychology

?Michael Hughey has written an important book, one that should attract the attention of scholars in religion, sociology, and history. He has sought to apply the analytical perspective of Max Weber and Paul Radin to the study of civil religion in America. Throughout the work, this perspective is posed against Durkheimian functionalism, the dominant method of study of civil religion.?-Quarterly Journal of Ideology