Oxford University Press

Our third president was also one of America's greatest intellectuals. His immense curiosity, deep learning, and unusual vision fuelled his ambition and expanded the possibilities for life in the New World. Kevin Hayes, an expert on the everyday life of colonial America, brings a fresh sensibility to Jefferson's life story. This is a major new...

In a thought-provoking analysis Keating reviews the political, constitutional, and legal issues around Scottish independence and the political economy of independence, surveying the options for a social and economic project for an independent Scotland....

Black shows how authority above the law, once the preserve of pope and emperor, was seized, exploited, and eventually relinquished, by the ruling Milanese dynasties. Lawyers supported the free use of absolute power at first, but both sides eventually realized that society could not function unless property and other rights were respected....

This book pays to tribute to Jonathan Glover, a pioneering figure whose thought and personal influence have had a huge impact on applied philosophy. The papers collected here, written by some of the most distinguished contemporary moral philosophers, reflect the topics to which Glover has contributed. Glover's replies to these papers constitute an...

Ideographic Modernism reconstructs the modernist invention of the "e;ideograph"e; (Chinese writing as imagined in the West) in relation to such other modern forms of writing as photography, phonography, cinematography, and telegraphy. Analyzing works by Pound, Kafka, Benjamin, and others, it recovers the presence of China in the text of...

The Promise of Preschool explores the roots of today's movement toward "e;preschool for all"e; by investigating past policy decisions about early childhood education. By looking at policy issues through the lens of history, this book offers a unique perspective on an important area of education reform, and explores how understanding the...