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Explores early modern university plays from Oxford and Cambridge and the extent to which participation in university drama influenced the experiences of early modern students. Studies Latin plays to investigate the links between theatre, ritual, and ceremony to show how theatrical performance could confer status and membership within the academy.

The extraordinary story of the first 'All India' national cricket tour of Great Britain and Ireland - and how the idea of India as a nation took shape on the cricket pitch.

Peasants Making History examines a peasant community in the English west midlands in the middle ages to understand how peasants lived, interacted, and made changes in their society in ways that have long been disregarded in scholarship.

This volume in the 21st Century Oxford Authors series offers students an authoritative, comprehensive selection of the work of John Ruskin (1819-1900). The edition represents Ruskin's extraordinary literary output, ranging from lectures, essays, and treatises to reviews, correspondence, and critical notes.

Matthew Tugby develops and defends a new metaphysical theory of natural modality called 'Modal Platonism', which puts properties first in the metaphysical hierarchy. This theory solves a range of philosophical puzzles regarding dispositions and laws and provides a plausible metaphysical framework for natural science.

Few countries have caused or experienced more calamities in the 20th century than Germany. This handbook provides a comprehensive overview of some of the major issues of German domestic politics, economics, foreign policy, and culture by leading experts in their respective fields.

Christine M. Korsgaard has had a profound influence on moral philosophy over the past forty years. This volume is written in her honor, engaging with seminal questions that recur in her writing and teaching and staking out provocative new positions on topics in ethics, agency, and the normative dimension of human life that are central to her work.

A history of Asante from the late 17th century to the 1930s, authorized and produced by the 12th Asantehene Osei Agyeman Prempeh II. Perhaps the single longest historical work produced by a ruler of any sub-Saharan African society, this is an indigenous account of the three hundred year history of a still vigorous African polity.

Public-private collaborations are key to the functioning of most essential ecosystems such as security, healthcare, education, and energy. William B. Rouse addresses the challenges of transforming these ecosystems and provides an integrated perspective for understanding and enabling change.

This book highlights debates in the epics among men and women from all sections of society. These debates criticize discrimination based on gender, varna, poverty, age, and disability through the dharmas of singleness, friendship, marriage, parenting, and ruling.

Marathi Cinema, Cultural Space, and Liminality is a critical history of Marathi cinema. It locates Marathi cinema in an aesthetic and industrial in-betweenness, to give a historical account of region as performance in Marathi films.

The topic of the CXII session of the Les Houches Summer School, held in September 2018, was Active Matter and Nonequilibrium Statistical Physics, offering a broad introduction to the foundations and modern applications of active matter and nonequilibrium physics.

With three of the world's largest economies, Asia is poised to home half of the world's middle class-both the driver and the product of higher education. This Handbook presents country case-studies and explores cross-cutting trends to offer an understanding of higher education achievements, failings, potential, and limitations in the region.

This volume offers philosophical perspectives on the work of David K. Lewis, one of the most important analytic philosophers of the twentieth century. Leading philosophers of today discuss his contributions to metaphysics, epistemology, semantics, and ethics.

Clearly laid out and highly illustrated in full colour, this new edition is a comprehensive yet accessibly guide to all those studying ophthalmology, optometry, and orthoptics

This book gives the virtue of friendship the prominence it deserves in contemporary virtue ethics. It offers a more realistic version of Aristotelian theory and integrates it with social scientific research on friendship. And it argues for the importance of friendship in moral education, as a path to to the development of virtue.

Considers George Orwell's writing about the East, and the presence of the East in his writing and argues that in thinking of Orwell as an 'Anglo-Indian writer', not just in upbringing and experience, but in many of his views, perceptions, and reactions, a different Orwell emerges.

Fantasy has become a dominant mode of storytelling and it mirrors our experiences and anxieties better than any representation of the merely real. This book poses two central questions about fantastic storytelling: how can it be meaningful if it doesn't claim to represent things as they are, and what kind of change can it make in the world?

This is the first monograph that explores the work and legacy of Walter Pater from a European perspective. It offers an in-depth analysis of Pater's fictional 'imaginary portraits' which trace the development of the European self over an extensive period of some two thousand years.

A history of creative writing programmes in British and American universities, from the 1930s onwards, that argues against the notion that creative writing programmes are driven by conformity.

The studies of eight countries from different regions undertaken for this book provide answers to key policy questions related to state capitalism and state-owned enterprises.

Unconventional Lawmaking in the Law of the Sea explores the ways that actors operating at the international level develop standards of behaviour to regulate varied maritime activities beyond traditional lawmaking. This 'soft law' is now prolific in ocean governance, so it is vital to consider its significance for the law of the sea.

Divided into eight parts, this handbook traces the history of international tax law from its earliest days until the present. With over sixty authors from 28 different countries, the Oxford Handbook of International Tax Law is an invaluable resource for scholars, academics, and practitioners alike.

Thorough and practical in its treatment of individual and collective employment law issues. Selwyn's Law of Employment delivers broad and consistently detailed coverage of the topics, making it the ideal reference book for students.

Fully revised and updated for its second edition, Paediatric Haematology and Oncology provides an easily accessible source of information about all of the basic principles of childhood cancer and leukaemia, and detailed specialist knowledge on how to care for children with those conditions.

Anti-democracy in England 1570-1642 is a detailed study of anti-democratic ideas in early modern England. By examining the rich variety of debates about democracy that took place between 1570 and 1642, it shows the key importance anti-democratic language held in the late Tudor and early Stuart periods.

With the media bringing us constant tales of terrorism and violence, questions regarding the nature of evil are highly topical. Luke Russell explores the philosophical thinking and psychological evidence behind evil, alongside portrayals of fictional villains, considering why people are evil, and how it goes beyond the normal realms of what is bad.

Generations examines how the English Reformation was shaped by the generations that experienced, witnessed, and participated in it. Drawing on a rich array of evidence, it highlights the vital part played by families bound by blood and by faith in the religious revolution that stretched across the 16th and 17th centuries.