Oxford University Press

This book deals with the genesis and dynamics of exchange rate crises in fixed or        managed exchange rate systems. It provides a comprehensive treatment of the existing        theories of exchange rate crises and of financial market runs. It aims to provide a        survey of both the theoretical literature on international financial crises...

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This lively book explores the changes taking place in history and the archives as a result of new concepts, practices, and technologies. Among other issues, it raises the question of what future historical archives will be like if scholars and archivists cannot understand each others' work....

Eve Danziger's study re-addresses the issue of language and thought by viewing linguistic utterances as fully integrated into both the particular context of their use and the larger cultural context that makes it possible to use them at all. Using fourteen months of ethnographic fieldwork among the Mopan Maya in Belize, she examines the semantic...

David Brion Davis's trilogy on the   Problem of Slavery in World History is one of the most distinguished and honoured series of the past generation. The second book in the series,   The Problem of Slavery in the Age of Revolution, first published in 1975 by Cornell University Press, won the National Book Award, the Beveridge Award and the Bancroft...

A study of the distinctive brand of modernism that emerged in late 19th century Germany, illustrating through a series of analyses of key buildings and urban spaces how bourgeios modernism shaped the infrastructure of social and political life in the early twentieth century and transformed German cities....