Oxford University Press

While much has been written about race in early America, scholars have generally focused on the southern colonies in the 18th century. Here, Bailey turns his gaze northward and to an earlier period, to the origins of puritan New England, and contends that as colonial New Englanders offered spiritual redemption to their neighbors they began creating...

Ethics and the Aesthetics of Suffering in the MahabharataThis book explores the relationship between ethics, aesthetics, and religion in classical Indian literature and literary theory by focusing on one of the most celebrated and enigmatic texts to emerge from the Sanskrit epic tradition, the Mahabharata....

The Partial PowerEminent China scholar David Shambaugh&'s China Goes Global is the sweeping synthesis of that nation&'s growing prominence on the world stage that we have been waiting for. Thirty years ago, China&'s role in global affairs beyond its immediate East Asian periphery was decidedly minor. Its military was extremely weak, and it had...

The History, Life, and Thought of Bhaktisiddhanta SarasvatiModern Hindu Personalism explores the life and works of Bhaktisiddhanta Sarasvati (1874-1937), a Vaishnava guru of the Chaitanya school of Bengal. Ferdinando Sardella examines Bhaktisiddhanta's background, motivation and thought, especially as it relates to his forging of a modern...

The Story of the Cori LaboratoryExamines the careers of Carl and Gerty Cori, and the other eminent scientists who trained in their laboratory...

Art Cinema and the Staging of GlobalizationThe Age of New Waves is a global and comparative study of new wave cinemas, from the French nouvelle vague eo films from Taiwan and mainland China in the late twentieth century, that focuses on the relationships among art cinema, youth, and cities during the era of globalization....