Oxford University Press

New Negroes, Sex, and Popular Culture in the 1920sProve It On Me explores the sexual politics of the modern racial ethos and reveals        the exploitative underside of the New Negro era. Analyzing intersecting primitivism,        consumerism, and New Negro patriarchal aspirations, this history investigates the        uses made of black women in...

Vasiliki Limberis has discovered a hitherto untold element in the history of the Cappadocian Fathers (Basil of Caesarea, his brother Gregory of Nyssa, and their friend Gregory of Nazianzus). Simply stated, for the Cappadocians all aspects of Christian life were best communicated, understood, and indeed lived, through the prism of martyr piety....

Arie Morgenstern argues the roots of modern Zionism go backy to a group of messianic jews in the early 1800s. reader Morgenstern shows how the belief in the messianic modern significance of the year 1840 spurred immigration to Israel by Jews from all over the world....

This book offers a new account of the origins of modern biblical criticism. Focusing on the scholarship of J. D. Michaelis (1717-1791), it shows how critics created a post-theological academic Bible to replace Europe's scriptural Bibles and assimilate biblical scholarship to the social goals of the Enlightenment....

Patrick Farrell explains how grammatical relations are characterized in competing theories of grammar and reveals the different theories' merits and limitations. He compares mainstream generative-transformational theory with formalist and functionalist approaches, showing points of convergence and divergence. This is an ideal introduction to the...

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