Oxford University Press

The third volume of  A New History of Ireland opens with a character study of early modern Ireland and a panoramic survey of Ireland in 1534, followed by twelve chapters of narrative history. There are further chapters on the economy, the coinage, languages and literature, and the Irish abroad....

This is the study of the failure of democracy in Russia after the collapse of the USSR. It traces the origins of that failure into the Soviet period, and shows how Russian political elites built a system which was more about maximizing their own power than opening the system up to popular control....

Leroux's classic Gothic melodrama, here freshly presented in a vivid new        translation, with informative introduction and notes. The original novel behind        Andrew Lloyd Webber's famous musical, The Phantom of the Opera tells of the masked        Phantom whose obsessive love for Christine Daa sets in chain a series of        terrifying...

Andrew Hadfield's innovative and wide-ranging study examines the ways in which Renaissance travel-writers used their works to reflect on the state of contemporary English politics. Exploring representations of Europe, the Americas, Africa, and the Far East, as well as some of the problems involved in the usual assumption that we can make sense...

A Short History"e;Quite ambitious, tracing religion in the United States from European colonization up to the 21st century.... The writing is strong throughout."e;--Publishers Weekly (starred review) "e;One can hardly do better than Religion in American Life.... A good read, especially for the uninitiated. The initiated might also read...

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