Oxford University Press

Hume on Personal IdentityThe Evident Connexion presents a bold new reading of David Hume's famous 'bundle'        theory of the self or mind, and his later rejection of it. Galen Strawson        illuminates the 'uniting principle' of Hume's philosophy and argues that the bundle        theory does not, as widely supposed, claim that there are no...

At Home in Revolutionary AmericaGeorge Washington&'s Mount Vernon brings together--for the first time--the details of Washington&'s 45-year endeavor to build and perfect Mount Vernon. In doing so it introduces us to a Washington few of his contemporaries knew, and one little noticed by historians since.    Here we meet the planter/patriot who also...

Slavery, Region, and Nation in the Age of ProgressBringing together original scholarly essays, The Old South's Modern Worlds deprovincializes the antebellum South, revealing a diverse region both shaped by and contributing to the complex modern developments that were transforming the nineteenth-century world....

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Conservation genetics focuses on understanding the role of genetic variation for population persistence. This book is about the methods used to study genetic variation in endangered species and whether genetic variation matters in the extinction of species....

This volume brings together for the first time all of the ancient Jewish novels and fragments of novels. Written at about the same time as the Dead Sea Scrolls and the New Testament, but before the period of Rabbinic Judaism, these texts reveal the ambiguities and conflicts encountered by Jews in this period....