Oxford University Press

The most comprehensive text to date on China's telecommunications industry, this book considers the way Chinese companies and the government acted in concert to put telephones and Internet access in the hands of hundreds of millions in less than 25 years, and looks at the economic and political consequences of this telecommunications...

An important new appraisal of the life and ministry of the Anglican minister and Evangelical leader Charles Wesley (1707-88), and his contribution to the early Methodist movement. Gareth Lloyd's study, based on original documents, offers a new perspective on the formative years of a denomination that today has about 80 million members worldwide....

A True Tale of Love, Race, and Religion in AmericaRising Road resurrects an infamous murder trial of the 1920s South. As Sharon Davies reveals with novelistic richness, the trial laid bare the most potent bigotries of the Jim Crow era: a hatred not only of blacks, but of Catholics and "e;foreigners"e; as well. In one of the case's most...

Looking Past the Holocaust toward a Jewish FutureSince biblical times, Jews have defined themselves as God's uniquely chosen people--a status affirmed and symbolized by the Exodus story. Israel's deliverance from Egypt offers evidence of a God who makes and keeps generation-spanning covenants. In the past fifty year, however, Jewish identity has...

For this anthology, the renowned folklorist and master storyteller Howard        Schwartz, a three-time-winner of the National Jewish Book Award, selects the most        interesting and significant tales from each of his four OUP collections: Elijah's        Violin and Other Jewish Fairy Tales (1994), Lilith's Cave: Jewish Tales of...

Between 1700 and 1850 the Church of England was the among the most powerful and        influential religious, social, and political forces in Britain. This was also a        momentous time for the British Empire, during which it developed and then lost the        North American colonies, extended into India, and settled the colonies of...