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Zionism: The Formative Years
This sequel to David Vital's The Origins of Zionism (Clarendon Press, 1980) traces the emergence of the Zionist movement through which the Jews were, to a large extent, re-formed …
Women in Late Antiquity
Although there are many books on women in the ancient world, this is the first to explore in depth what life was like for women in the period of late antiquity (3rd to 6th …
Women in Control?
How far have women progressed in the `unfeminine' career of policing? How far do they want to go and how far will their male colleagues and the public let them? Women in Control? …
Wise Choices, Apt Feelings
`Choices can be wise or foolish, and feelings can be apt or off the mark.' Since this is how we judge, it would be good to know what content these normative judgements carry. …
Western Plainchant
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the wake of the Carolingian …
Western Aristocracies and Imperial Court AD 364-425
The central theme of this book is the relationship between the `public' and `private' lives of the men who were involved in the politics of the western Roman Empire in the later …
Well-Being
The author offers answers to three central questions about well-being: the best way to understand it; whether it can be measured; and where it should fit in moral and political …
Walking, Literature, and English Culture
Walking, Literature, and English Culture is a cultural history of walking in nineteenth-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Engaging …
Virgil's Aeneid: Cosmos and Imperium
This book explores Virgil's poetic and mythical transformation of Roman imperialist ideology. The Romans saw an analogy between the ordered workings of the natural universe and the …
Virgil: Eclogues
Surprising though it may seem, this is the first full-scale scholarly commentary in English on Virgil's Eclogues. Written between about 42 and 35 BC, these ten short pastorals are …
Victorian Feminists
This is a study of Victorian feminism which focuses on four leading feminists: Emily Davies, Frances Power Cobbe,Josephine Butler, and Millicent Garrett Fawcett. This approach …