Oxford University Press

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Rejecting the notion that economic indicators are the only valid measures of progress in the United States, the authors offer a fuller and deeper view of the quality of life in the United States, presenting reliable information on such factors as the well being of America's youth, accessibility of health care, the quality of education, and the...

The book traces the extraordinary development of ideas about the concept of communication over the past two centuries. It focuses on how these ideas developed out of economic and social conditions, and how the ideas have been constantly subject to radical critique....

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This ambitious Handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field....

How Revolutionary America Became a Postcolonial NationFrom household objects to maps and ideas of race, Kariann Yokota examines early US history through the lens of postcolonial theory. While its leaders went to great lengths to establish their "e;civility,"e;what really distinguished the new nation were its unlimited natural resources,...