Oxford University Press

In   Working at Play, Aron offers the first full-length history of how Americans have vacationed. In the early 19th century, Aron shows, vacations were taken for health more than for fun, as the wealthy travelled to watering places, seeking cures for everything from consumption to rheumatism. But starting in the 1850s the growth of a white-collar...

The first book-length study of Soviet veterans of the Second World War and their movement. Based on extensive research in Soviet archives and libraries, it analyses the fate of the millions who returned from the war with Germany....

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Jerusalem's Enduring PresenceThis volume focuses on the distinct character of Judaic thought concerning moral        value, the individual human being, the nature of political order, relations between        human beings, and between human beings and God. The work of ten scholars, it draws        on moral philosophy, philosophy of religion, ethics,...