Oxford University Press

Hollywood Stars and Historical VisionsSensing the Past explores perennial themes in American culture as manifested through the works of six of Hollywood's biggest movies stars: Clint Eastwood, Daniel Day-Lewis, Denzel Washington, Meryl Streep, Tom Hanks, and Jodie Foster....

From the Higgs to Dark MatterThe author illustrates in non-technical terms how physicists hope to identify the nature of the mysterious form of matter that goes under the name of dark matter, and that seems to permeate the Universe....

The Ends of the Family in American Literature, 1850-1900American Blood argues that many nineteenth-century authors challenged preconceptions of the family and portrayed it as a detriment to true democracy and, by extension, the political enterprise of the United States....

In the mid-eleventh century, secular Byzantine poetry attained a hitherto unseen degree of wit, vividness, and personal involvement, chiefly exemplified in the poetry of Christophoros Mitylenaios, Ioannes Mauropous, and Michael Psellos. This is the first volume to consider this poetic activity as a whole, critically reconsidering modern assumptions...

Racial Politics and Social Movements in Post-War AmericaBy many measures--commonsensical or statistical--the United States has not been more divided politically or economically in the last hundred years than it is now. How have we gone from the striking bipartisan cooperation and relative economic equality of the war years and post-war period to...

The Modern Jurisprudence of Tribal Land RightsAboriginal title represents one of the most remarkable and controversial legal developments in the common law world of the late-twentieth century. Overnight it changed the legal position of indigenous peoples. The common law doctrine gave sudden substance to the tribes&' claims to justiciable property...