Oxford University Press

This group biography follows three generations of ministers' daughters and wives in a famed American Unitarian family. Cynthia Tucker examines the Eliots, their religious tradition, and the Eliot women's largely neglected female vocation. Spanning 150 years from the early 19th century forward, the narrative is shaped into a series of stories. Each...

Life, Labours and LegacyA collection of chapters, authored by leading experts, which cover the life and wide-ranging scientific contributions made by William Thomson, Lord Kelvin (1824-1907)....

Self-restraint may appear to be the opposite of erotic desire. But in this careful literary analysis, Diane Lipsett traces the intriguing interplay of desire and self-restraint in three ancient Christian or Jewish tales of conversion, analyzing "e;conversion"e; itself as an effect of story, a function of narrative texture and coherence....

The relationship between men and the domestic in eighteenth-century Britain has        been obscured by two well-established historiographical narratives. The first charts        changes in domestic patriarchy, founded on political patriarchalism in the early        modern period and transformed during the eighteenth century by new types of...

The 1997 Asian Crisis principally affected Thailand, Indonesia, Malaysia, and Korea, as well as other East Asian countries heavily dependent on intra-regional trade. Banks and other financial institutions quickly become insolvent, and heavily indebted industrial firms went bankrupt. Many of these firms were affiliated with the business groups of...

Music in the Galant Style is an authoritative and readily understandable study of the core compositional style of the eighteenth-century....