Oxford University Press

From the beginning of modern intellectual history to the culture wars of the present day, the experience of assimilating Jews and the idiom of "e;culture"e; have been fundamentally intertwined with each other. Freedman's book begins by looking at images of the stereotypical Jew in the literary culture of nineteenth- and twentieth-century...

This book analyses the international law and international organisations that have        been constructed to regulate the worldwide proliferation of weapons technologies,        particularly those have been classified as weapons of mass destruction (WMD) i.e.          nuclear, chemical and biological weapons....

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Diversity and Conflict in the Age of SophoclesIn this study of the relationship between a modern philosophical idea and an        ancient historical moment, Lauren Apfel explores how the notion of pluralism, made        famous by Isaiah Berlin, features in the Classical Greek world and, more        specifically, in the thought of three of its most...

This study approaches the Puritan experience in church government from the perspective of both the pew and the pulpit. For ten years, James Cooper immersed himself in local manuscript church records. These previously untapped documents provide a fascinating glimpse of lay-clerical relations in colonial Massachusetts, and reveal that ordinary...