Oxford University Press

1798 and 1802Wordsworth and Coleridge's joint collection of poems has often been singled out as the founding text of English Romanticism. This is the only edition to print both the original 1798 collection and the expanded 1802 edition, with Wordsworth's famous Preface. It includes important letters, a wide-ranging introduction and...

Urban Change and the Irish Past, 1957-1973Provides a new history of the capital of Ireland during the 1960s, examining how an aging eighteenth-century city was rapidly transformed by speculative office construction and suburban development, and exploring how this impacted on the lives of the city's ordinary inhabitants...

International Actors and the Politics of Electoral MisconductElectoral misconduct is widespread, but only some countries are punished by international actors for violating democratic norms. Using an original dataset and country case studies, this book explains variation in international norm enforcement and shows that despite being selective, it...

The Promise of Civic Renewal in AmericaPeter Levine defends the principles that motivate today's best civic renewal efforts, shows that these experiments have already reached substantial scale, analyzes the opposition that they face, and proposes a strategy to turn them into a movement that can tackle America's most serious social...

Red Sea Wars on the Eve of IslamThe Throne of Adulis vividly recreates the Red Sea world of Late Antiquity, transporting us back to a remote but pivotal epoch in ancient history, one that sheds light on the rise of Islam as well as the collapse of the Persian Empire....

Gender and Pathways to the State LegislaturesThis book advances a new approach for understanding women's election to office, proposing a relationally embedded model of candidate emergence. Analyzing nationwide surveys of state legislators, the authors challenge assumptions of a single model of candidate emergence and the necessity for women to...