Interviews with Oxford University Press authors about their books
Nineteenth-century observers would say that the British Empire was an Islamic one; be that as it may
Popular culture is replete with warnings about the dangers of technology. One finds in recent films,
When I was a kid I loved movies about Nazis who had escaped justice after the war. There was “The Ma
The founding fathers–and mothers, sons and daughters–were British. Sort of. It’s true that they were
When it comes to Russia’s great reformers of the nineteenth century, Count Sergei Witte looms large.
In a liberal democratic society, individuals share political power as equals. Consequently, liberal
‘Traders to rulers’ is an enduring caption insofar as the English East India Company is concerned. B
Great Britain and Russia faced off across the Pamirs for much of the nineteenth century; their rival
The human capacity for language is always cited as the or one of the cognitive capacities we have th
Europe may currently be in crisis and riven with divisions, but at least it’s a Europe of independen
There is a lot of ritual involved in Buddhist practice. As more and more North Americans are discove
The Victor’s Crown brings to vivid life the signal role of sport in the classical world. Ranging ove
If Edith Sheffer‘s excellent Burned Bridge: How East and West Germans Made the Iron Curtain (Oxford
Everyone knows that the late nineteenth-century Russian Empire was the largest land based empire aro
A book called Southeast Asia in World History (Oxford University Press, 2009) might seem on the face
Today on “New Books in Buddhist Studies” we’ll be going to hell and back with Bryan Cuevas in a disc
If you’ve ever lived in New York City, you know exactly what a “pre-war building” is. First and fore
Today’s podcast features a book about disgusting art – that is, art that deliberately aims to cause
In his new book, The Pleasures of Reading in an Age of Distraction (Oxford University Press, 2011),
What can judges do to change society? Fifty-seven years ago, the Supreme Court resolved to find out:
