Oxford University Press

Probing the colonial history of New York City, Thelma Foote examines the broadly shared belief that slavery and antiblack racism were marginal to the experience of northern colonies in British North America. In this study of Dutch and English New York, she demonstrates that racial domination was a key foundation of society and culture in the...

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Laine Berman shows how working-class Javanese women use conversation to construct identity and meaning within the rigid constraints of an hierarchical social order. She does so by uncovering the structures and functions of conversational narratives uttered within natural social networks. In particular, she focuses on identifying the silences, the...

Volume XVII: Who owns Judaism? Public Religion and Private Faith in America and IsraelBringing together contributions from established scholars as well as promising younger academics, Volume XVII of  Studies in Contemporary Jewry offers a broad-ranging view of why Judaism, a religion whose observance is more honored in the breach in most western...

A Journey into the Physics of the LHCThis book provides an everyman's guide for understanding and following the discoveries that will soon take place at the famous Large Hadron Collider experiments at CERN. The material is presented accurately yet accessibly, and the book is infectious in its enthusiasm for the project....

La Monte Young is one of America's most important living composers, but his esoteric compositional methods and reclusive personality have prevented in-depth scholarly examination of his life and work. This book draws on rare access to the composer and his archives to tell the story of one America's most enigmatic artists....