Oxford University Press

The Rise and Fall of the DollarSince the Second World War, the US dollar has been the world's sole international reserve currency, giving it, in the words of one critic, 'exorbitant privilege'. But in the wake of the worldwide financial crisis, will other currencies overtake it? And what impact would that have? Eichengreen explains the history and...

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As it seeks to protect the health of populations, public health inevitably confronts a range of critical ethical challenges. This volume brings together 25 articles that open up the new terrain of the ethics of public health. The topics concern both classic and novel problems, including tobacco and drug control, infectious disease, environmental...

The End of Class Politics? challenges the prevailing view that class is no longer important in politics. Drawing upon evidence from around the world, the book argues that we need to radically reconsider the political role of class in the postindustrial world....

Plantagenet Palliser's fragile coalition government and troubled marriage is set against the social climbing of the unscrupulous financial speculator Ferdinand Lopez, whose relationship with Emily Wharton generates misery and scandal. Part of the Palliser series, the novel is one of Trollope's most complex....

Soviet Tourism at Home and Abroad after StalinAll this is your World offers an exploration of the revolutionary integration of        the Soviet Union into global processes of cultural exchange. Anne E. Gorsuch        examines what it meant to be "e;Soviet"e; in a country no longer defined as        Stalinist....