Oxford University Press

Written with narrative flair and a lively awareness of current issues in Western history, As Big as the West fully illuminates the conflicting realities of the frontier, where a man could speak of wiping out "e;half-breeds"e; while fathering 11 mixed-race children, and go from vigilante to diplomat in the space of a few years....

British and German Social Policy in the 21st CenturyThis volume reviews and compares welfare policy change in the UK and Germany. It        focuses on family policy, pensions, and the labour market, and covers both public        provision as well as the role of company-based social protection....

While we know a great deal about naval strategies in the classical Greek and later        Roman periods, our understanding of the period in between--the Hellenistic Age--has        never been as complete. However, thanks to new physical evidence discovered in the        past half-century and the construction of Olympias, a full-scale working model...

This book offers the first cultural history of Universalism and the Universalist idea - the idea that an all-good and all-powerful God saves all souls. Ann Bressler argues that Universalism begins as a radical, eschatological, and communally-oriented faith and only later became a 'comfortably established' progressive and individualistic one....

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