Oxford University Press

This book examines the rise and diffusion of free-market thinking, from the early        20th Century through to the age of Obama. It tracks the ascendency of neoliberalism,        its key players and decisive moments of reconstruction, including the Chicago School        of economics, New York City's bankruptcy, Hurricane Katrina, and the Wall...

Reopening a Murder Investigation from the Plantation SouthIn May of 1857, the body of Duncan Skinner was found in a strip of woods along the edge of the plantation near Natchez, Mississippi, where he worked as an overseer. Although a coroner&'s jury initially ruled his death to be accidental, an investigation organized by planters from the...

Science, Philosophy, and their HistoriesThis unconventional book by a distinguished historian of philosophy tells the        story of how humans became rational beings....

In   The Mark of Shame, Stephen P. Hinshaw addresses the psychological, social, historical, and evolutionary roots of the stigma of mental illness as well as the long history of such stigmatization....

The widely acclaimed comprehensive survey of the role of the medieval Orthodox Church in the Byzantine Empire (   c.600- c.1453), by the late Professor J. M. Hussey. Discusses landmark events in ecclesiastical affairs, the influence of the Church on the West, its officials and organization, and the spirituality of laity, monks, and clergy....

My Antonia took Cather out of the rank of provincial novelists while at the same time celebrating the provinces. It depicts the pioneering period of European settlement in the American prairie, through the stories of Jim Burden and Antonia Shimerda, who is the embodiment of the pioneer spirit....