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Studies the response of English writers during the first half of the twentieth century to the process of revolution in neighbouring Ireland. It explores novels, letters, travelogues, and memoirs from writers such as Wyndham Lewis, Virginia Woolf, D.H. Lawrence, Evelyn Waugh, May Sinclair, Ethel Mannin, George Thomson, and T.H.White.

The Catholic Church and European State Formation, AD 1000-1500 inserts the Catholic Church as the main engine of the persistent international and domestic power pluralism, which has moulded European state-formation for almost a millennium.

This volume explores the role that functional elements play in syntactic change and investigates the semantic and functional features that are the driving force behind those changes. It contains both case studies of individual languages such as German, Hungarian, and Romanian, and detailed investigations of cross-linguistic phenomena.

This book offers a new interpretation of one of the most prominent themes in Latin poetry, the divinization of Augustus, and argues that this theme functioned as a language of political science for the early Augustan poets as they tried to come to terms with Rome's transformation from Republic to Principate.

The Mishnaic Moment describes a remarkable encounter between Jews and Christians in seventeenth-century northern Europe, where scholars from both communities were printing, producing, and discussing commentaries on the canonical corpus of Jewish Law, the Mishnah.

It is often claimed that the French invented cinema, and although their prominence may have been supplanted by Hollywood today, the French film industry remains both prolific and highly lauded. Exploring the entire French cinematic oeuvre, Andrew teases out the distinguishing themes, to bring the defining features of French cinema to light.

This book examines the ways in which domestic politics contributes to the emergence of international legal disputes that have far-ranging consequences for states and citizens. More broadly, it illustrates how globalization clashes with democratic decision-making and state sovereignty.

Justice In-Between is a study of intermediate criminal verdicts, and advances a novel justification of these controversial devices with the aim to produce a consensus amongst scholars subscribing to different theories of punishment.

This is the first biography of a gay American novelist, story writer, and playwright who in the early 1960s was considered a major talent and whose work was praised by Jonathan Franzen, Susan Sontag, Langston Hughes, and Tennessee Williams.

Transparency has become an unquestionable good in modern society, spreading from its origins in governance to most arenas of the modern world. But is it always good? This book turns a critical eye towards transparency, deconstructing its theoretical preconceptions and seeking a more nuanced view of what it means to be transparent.

In Overreach, Susan L. Shirk combines decades of research, analysis, and first-hand anecdotes to illuminate China's evolving role on the world's stage and the deterioration of relations with the United States. Shirk opens the "black box" of China's political system, revealing what lies behind China's aim to expand soft and hard power abroad, and how the United States might respond.

Universities are social spaces where diverse personal trajectories connect, confront each other, and/or run parallel to each other. This book captures dynamic transformations in the realm of higher education from South Asian perspectives.

The Endless Siege is an ethnographic study of the Vidya Bharati chain of schools in India which are run by a Hindu nationalist organization called the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS).

The contributors to this volume share a commitment to the idea that Kant's philosophy cannot be properly understood without careful attention to its metaphysical presuppositions. Topics discussed include modal metaphysics, the continuum, the epistemology of the a priori, and the foundations of Kant's "metaethical" views.

An anthology of writings by English travellers in the Renaissance that helps students understand travel and colonial writing by English writers in the first age of English exploration. This second edition includes new research on race, women in travel texts, and non-English voices.

An anthology of writings by English travellers in the Renaissance that helps students understand travel and colonial writing by English writers in the first age of English exploration. This second edition includes new research on race, women in travel texts, and non-English voices.

The Dark Bible explores early modern England's interactions with difficult aspects of the Bible. It charts early modern English use of biblical scholarship in vernacular culture and investigates how vernacular writing in various genres could give voice to questioning and confused biblical interactions.

Christopher S. Hill offers an original philosophical account of perceptual experience: its intrinsic nature, its engagement with the world, its relations to mental states of other kinds, and its role in epistemic norms. He argues that it constitutively involves representations of worldly items, which can be explained in broadly biological terms.

Alexander Kirichenko argues that the development of Greek literature was motivated by the need to endow political geography with a sense of purposeful structure. The discussion focuses on how power and space were understood in the Archaic, Classical, and Hellenistic periods.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.

Oxford Studies in Ancient Philosophy is a volume of original articles on all aspects of ancient philosophy. The articles may be of substantial length, and include critical notices of major books. OSAP is now published twice yearly, in both hardback and paperback.

Doctors writing about menopause in France vastly outnumbered those in other cultures throughout the 19th century. This is the first comprehensive study of the origins of the medical concept of menopause, richly contextualising its role in nineteenth-century French medicine and revealing the complex threads of meaning that informed its invention.

The Handbook of State Capitalism and the Firm assesses, develops, and extends the debates on how firms are influenced by and respond to state capitalism, that is, the government's direct influence on economic relationships in capitalist economies.

This book is a festschrift in honour of David Miller, one of the world's leading political philosophers.

This book focuses on the personalization of politics - whereby politicians increasingly become the main focus of political processes - a prominent phenomenon in modern democracies that has received considerable attention in national politics.

There is a broad consensus across European states and the EU that social and economic inequality is a problem that needs to be addressed. Yet inequality policy is notoriously complex and contested. This book approaches the issue through extensive analysis of territorial politics and policy.

A slimline diary available in dark blue boards with marker ribbon. Indispensable for all those connected with the University of Oxford, containing dates of degree days, dates of terms; details of university officers, departments and institutes, religious dates, national holidays, trains, airports,coaches, and much more.

This book covers three aspects of the study of International Economics: pure theory of trade, trade policy, and theory of balance of payment and exchange rate.