Oxford University Press

Victorian culture was dominated by an ever expanding world of print. A tremendous increase in the volume of books, newspapers, and periodicals, was matched by the corresponding development of the first mass reading public. 'Victorian Print Media: A Reader' consists of edited extracts from nineteenth-century sources which discuss all aspects of the...

An international team of twelve expert contributors provides both an introduction to and an interpretation of the key themes in German history from the foundation of the Reich in 1871 to the end of the First World War in 1918....

Lessons for Living from 85 and BeyondIn 1998, Hallmark unveiled their new "e;One-Hundredth-Birthday"e; cards, and by 2007 annual sales were at 85,000. America is rapidly graying: between now and 2030, the number of people in the U.S. over the age of 80 is expected to almost triple. But how long people live raises the question of how well...

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The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes debunks the standard view of Hobbes as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. Culminating with an exploration of Hobbes's surprising sympathies with Cromwell, Jeffrey Collins offers a new interpretation of the religious significance of the English Revolution....