Oxford University Press

The first volume in a new series, Oxford Studies on the Roman Economy: a collection of essays, edited by the series editors, focusing on the economic performance of the Roman empire, and suggesting how we can derive a quantified account of economic growth and contraction in the period of the empire's greatest extent and prosperity....

John Donne was famous in his own time yet was virtually unknown in the eighteenth century. Haskin investigates what happened as Victorian readers, prompted by the enormous popularity of Izaak Walton's biography, began to gradually rediscover the poetry, before showing how Donne came to be seen as the discovery of T. S. Eliot and the modernists....

Explains the major changes in the textile and clothing industry that are taking place mostly in the USA. Shows the central role of information systems in providing data on sales at the retail level that is communicated back through the system to garment distributors, manufacturers, designers, and to the starting point: the manufacturers of the...

Few styles of popular music have generated as much controversy as progressive        rock, a musical genre best remembered today for its gargantuan stage shows, its        fascination with epic subject matter drawn from science fiction, mythology, and        fantasy literature, and above all for its attempts to combine classical...

In this landmark book, historians Erika Lee and Judy Yung (both descendants of immigrants detained on the island) provide the first comprehensive history of the Angel Island Immigration Station....

Ordinary people - mathematicians among them - grasp when they take something to follow (deductively) from something else. This is the backbone of our self-ascribed ability to reason. This book investigates the connection between that ordinary notion of consequence and the formal analogues developed by logicians....