Oxford University Press

St. Rose of Lima (Isabel Flores y Oliva, 1586-1617) was canonized in 1671 as the first saint of the New World and Patron of the Americas. In this engrossing new biography, Frank Graziano offers the most comprehensive examination of the life of Rose to appear in any language. Graziano argues that the cult that grew up around St. Rose during her life...

The Theban PlaysThis volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a story that reveals the reversals and paradoxes that define moral life; and    Antigone, a touchstone of thinking about human conflict...

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Between 1830 and 1865, a very radical international women's movement rose and fell in the West; this is the first book to tell its story. Joyous Greetings recounts the lives and works of the heroic women who challenged the entire system of male supremacy in the United States, England, France, Germany and Sweden. Anderson's Book provides the lost...

The issue of prisoners in war is a highly timely topic that has received much        attention from both scholars and practitioners since the start of the military        operations in Afghanistan and Iraq and the ensuing legal and political problems        concerning detainees in those conflicts. This book analyses these...