Oxford University Press

Defeat, the Lost Cause, and the Emergence of the New South, 1865-1913After Lee and Grant met at Appomatox Court House in 1865 to sign the document ending the long and bloody Civil War, the South at last had to face defeat as the dream of a Confederate nation melted into the Lost Cause. Through an examination of memoirs, personal papers, and postwar...

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Why Humans Share FoodFrom the earliest evidence of human consumption around half a million years ago to the era of the drive-through diner, Martin Jones unfolds the history of the human meal and its huge impact both on human society and the ecology of the planet....

Technology and the Pastoral Ideal in AmericaFor over four decades, Leo Marx&'s work has focused on the relationship between technology and culture in 19th- and 20th-century America. His research helped to define--and continues to give depth to--the area of American studies concerned with the links between scientific and technological advances, and...

Simon Glendinning explores Jacque Derrida's work, from his engagement with the        history of metaphysics to his views on law and justice and ethics and politics.          Confronting and refuting claims that Derrida was an irresponsible 'postmodernist' or        'nihilist' he instead reveals Derrida's significant contributions...

with parallel German textRainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926) is one of the leading poets of European Modernism,        whose poetry explores themes of death, love, and loss. This bilingual edition fully        reflects Rilke's poetic development and includes the full text of the Duino Elegies        and the Sonnets to Orpheus in accurate and sensitive...