Oxford University Press

The Oxford Handbook of the History of International Law provides an authoritative and original overview of the origins of public international law. It comprehensively analyses the modern history of international law from a global perspective, and examines the lives of those who were most responsible for shaping it....

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This collection of eighteen essays, including one by Nobel Prize winning author J. M. Coetzee, explores the fascinating and nuanced relationship between translation and the classic text....

Seven Generations of an American FamilyWhether opposing Nathaniel Bacon and his rebels in 1676, condemning English colonial policy in 1776, or turning back the Union Army at the Seven Days' Battles of 1862, the descendants of Richard and Anne Lee have occupied a preeminent place in American history. Two were signers of the Declaration of...

War of Another Kind studies a North Carolina county during the Civil War period and draws broader implications. It is essentially a work of social history - akin in many ways to Michael Fellman's Inside War. The book fits well into Civil War courses, those on the antebellum period and wartime South, and broader social-history oriented courses....

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