Oxford University Press

Mary Peckham Magray argues that the Irish Catholic cultural revolution in the nineteenth century was spearheaded not by male elites, as previous scholarship has claimed, but rather by those most overlooked and underestimated women in Ireland: the nuns. Once thought to be merely passive servants of the male clerical hierarchy, women's religious...

A new assessment of the economic history of Athens in the Hellenistic era. G. J. Oliver assesses how political and military change affected the fragile economies of the Athenian polis, and highlights the ways in which the citizens of Athens contributed to the defence and finances of their city....

In this book, Nancy Sherman, an expert on ancient philosophy and ethics uses the contemporary military as a window onto ancient Stoicism and its teachings....

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Approaches to well-being have been hotly debated across the social sciences, with most challenging the conventional economic approach which uses income as a key indicator of happiness. This volume compares and contrasts two such approaches, the Capability and Happiness Approach, via a series of interdisciplinary papers from top names in the field....

Jason Wilson explores the 5,000-mile chain of volcanoes, deep valleys, and upland        plains, revealing the Andes' mystery, inaccessibility, and power through the        insights of chroniclers, scientists, and modern-day novelists....