Oxford University Press

Three HagiographiesRebecca J. Manring offers an illuminating study and translation of three hagiographies of Advaita Acarya, a crucial figure in the early years of the devotional Vaisnavism which originated in Bengal in the fifteenth century. Advaita Acarya was about fifty years older than the movement&'s putative founder, Caitanya, and is believed...

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A Soviet MemoirSee Deborah Kaple interviewed for New Books in History: http://newbooksinhistory.com/ The searing accounts of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Evgeniia Ginsberg and Varlam Shalamov opened the world&'s eyes to the terrors of the Soviet Gulag. But not until now has there been a memoir of life inside the camps written from the perspective of an...

The author's main contention is that the American Civil War was the real Revolutionary War, and that Lincoln was the catalyst of this revolution....

Geography, Destiny, and Globalization's Rough LandscapeThe world is not as mobile or as interconnected as we like to think. As Harm de Blij argues in The Power of Place, in crucial ways--from the uneven distribution of natural resources to the unequal availability of opportunity--geography continues to hold billions of people in its grip. We...

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