Oxford University Press

Becoming African in America reveals how an African identity emerged in the late eighteenth-century Atlantic world, tracing the development of "e;African"e; from a degrading term connoting savage people, to a word that was a source of pride and unity for the diverse victims of the Atlantic slave trade....

Rousseau's Legacy is an original and ambitious work of literary scholarship that focuses on the emergence with Rousseau of a new and influential paradigm of the writer who brings together revolutionary sociopolitical critique and `confessionalism'. Combining a wide-ranging knowledge of contemporary theory with an informed interest in sociopolitical...

Bill Starbuck has been one of the leading management researchers over several decades. In this book he reflects on a number of challenges associated with management and social science research - the search for a 'behavioral science', the limits of rationality, the unreliability of many research findings, the social shaping of research agendas,...

Can humans know God? Eastern Orthodox theology affirms that we cannot know God in his essence, but may know him through his energies. Henny Fiska H"e;agg investigates the beginnings of Christian negative (apophatic) theology, focusing on Clement of Alexandria in the late second century....

Throughout his career, David Lewin laboured to make even the most abstract theory speak to the experience of the ordinary listener. This book combines many of Lewin's classic articles on song and opera with newly drafted chapters on songs of Brahms, Robert Schumann, Clara Schumann, and Milton Babbitt. Bound together by Lewin's cogent insight, the...

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