Oxford University Press

Olga Fischer presents a critical analysis of morphosyntactic change and the mechanisms that trigger it. She shows how changes in discourse, lexicon, semantics, pragmatics, and sound interact with changes in morphosyntax, and considers the interface between the internal and external factors of change. She reveals how rates and speed of change in...

How East and West Germans Made the Iron CurtainThe building of the Berlin Wall in 1961 shocked the world. Ever since, the image of this impenetrable barrier between East and West, imposed by communism, has been a central symbol of the Cold War.   Based on vast research in untapped archival, oral, and private sources, Burned Bridge reveals the...

How a changing climate triggers earthquakes, tsunamis, and        volcanoesThe last 20,000 years has seen our world flip from icehouse to greenhouse,        provoking earthquakes, tsunamis and volcanic outbursts. Like a giant stirring from a        long sleep, the Earth beneath our feet tossed and turned. Bill McGuire argues that        climate...

The two volumes of Kelley and Lewis's To Make Our World Anew integrate the work of        eleven leading historians into the most up-to-date and comprehensive account        available of African American history, from the first Africans brought as slaves        into the Americas, right up to today's black filmmakers and politicians. This...

Religious warfare has been a recurrent feature of European history. Norman Housley examines the spectrum of conflicts waged in God's name in the period from the Later Crusades to the early Reformation, arguing that the religious violence of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries sprang from deeply rooted proclivities within European society....

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