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As part of the Oxford History of the United States series the author offers an account of the early American Republic, ranging from 1789 and the beginning of th...
"Japan and China have been rivals for more than a millennium. Until the late nineteenth century, China was the more powerful, while Japan took the upper hand in...
Many theories, from the routine to the bizarre, have been offered to explain the crime decline of the 1990s - record levels of imprisonment, an abatement of the...
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Drawing on examples from art, media, fashion, history and memoir, the author tackles a basic human interaction which has remained curiously unexplored, the huma...
"While scholars have long noted the fascination with Roman literature and history expressed by many preeminent British cultural figures of the early and middle ...
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