Oxford University Press

Human beings have the unique ability to view the world in a detached way, but at        the same time each of us is a particular person in a particular place, each with his        own "e;personal"e; view of the world. Thomas Nagel's ambitious and lively book tackles        this fundamental issue, arguing that our divided nature is the root...

The Political Economy of Managed Migration is based on field work in and analysis of primary documents from six European countries (France, Italy, United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, and Poland). This book makes an important contribution to the study of a rapidly Europeanized policy domain....

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The Second World War in the Lives of America&'s ChildrenLooking out a second-story window of her family&'s quarters at the Pearl Harbor naval base on December 7, 1941, eleven-year-old Jackie Smith could see not only the Rising Sun insignias on the wings of attacking Japanese bombers, but the faces of the pilots inside. Most American children on the...

"e;They called it the Reagan revolution,"e; Ronald Reagan noted in his Farewell Address. "e;Well, I&'ll accept that, but for me it always seemed more like the great rediscovery, a rediscovery of our values and our common sense."e;  Nearly two decades after that 1989 speech, debate continues to rage over just how revolutionary those...

Reminiscences of an EyewitnessThe Girondins of Chile tells of the strong influence that the European revolutions of 1848 had in Chile, and how they motivated a young Santiago society with high cultural aspirations but little political knowledge or direction. Benjamin Vicuna Mackenna, a Chilean writer and historian who lived during those days in...