Oxford University Press

In The Idea of the Library in the Ancient World Yun Lee Too argues that the        ancient library was much more than its incarnation at Alexandria, which has been the        focus for students of the subject up till now. In fact, the library is a complex        institution with many different forms. It can be a building with books, but it...

How Sex Became a Civil Liberty shows how we came to see sexual expression, sexual practice, and sexual privacy as fundamental rights enshrined in the Constitution, thanks to the work of ACLU leaders and attorneys who forged legal principles that advanced the sexual revolution....

In Byron's Shadow examines the history of how and why English and American authors projected their own concerns and consciousness onto modern Greece, tracing how the conception of the country evolved from a politicised, feminised, Apollonian space during the Roman era to a carefree Dionysian lotus land in the last decade of Modernism. Author David...

The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire        in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical        records. This fifth and final volume examines the historiography of empire,        investigating the shape and development of scholarly and popular opinion about...

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