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The Pursuit of the Millennium: Revolutionary Millenarians and Mystical Anarchists of the Middle Ages (Galaxy ...

16 reviews
Norman Cohn

Oxford University Press, USA, 1970

As ever, the millennium is just around the corner
Cohn's "Pursuit of the Millennium" has aged well and nearing 50 years of age it is deservedly a classic. Its subjet might be considered by some to be esoteric: it deals with prophets from middle age Europe who led others to believe that the end of times was at hand, and that they had been chosen by God to purify the world in preparation for the Kingdom of the Last Days, and with pantheistic ...

Don Segundo Sombra (Pergamon Oxford Latin America)

4 reviews
Ricardo Guiraldes

Elsevier, 1973

Fading away country
This is one of the greatest books in Argentine literature. I can remember reading it at the age of sixteen and the impression it made on me. It was as it was telling my own life and childhood in the countryside with the good men that I knew there. And how they all dissapeared facing a modern and much different world giving the word gaucho a more "typical" and superficial meaning. Very, very ...

The Golden Ass

20 reviews
Apuleius

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

A wild and entertaining romp of a novel
This is certainly an entertaining reading experience and Robert Grave's translation makes this 1800 year old novel come to life for modern audiences. The book is full of stories within stories, a device that I found very entertaining and reminded me of the best works of A.S. Byatt. The story within a story approach allowed for multiple wild digressions of the most fantastic types. Stories of ...

Colonial Latin America

4 reviews
Mark A. Burkholder, Lyman L. Johnson

Oxford University Press, USA, 1990

A good survey of colonial Latin America
If you are a novice in the study of colonial Latin America, this book is a good place to start. Burkholder and Johnson have covered just about every aspect of society and politics in colonial Latin America from pre-Columbian cultures to the struggles for independence in the 1800's. The book covers religion, slavery, the environmental impact of Europeans, government structures, gender roles, ...

Life of Constantine (Clarendon Ancient History Series)

4 reviews
Eusebius

Oxford University Press, USA, 1999

The best book on Constantine the Great.
Eusebius, the bishop of Caesarea and author of the first history of the Church, wrote The Life of Constantine, or Vita Constantini. This book praised the Emperor for changing the Empire from one that persecuted Christians to an Empire that supported Christianity. Many modern scholars believe that much of what Eusebius, who acutally met the Emperor, was false. Before this book, translated by ...

A Latin Grammar

7 reviews
James Morwood

Oxford University Press, 1999

An Accessible Guide to the Latin Language
The Latin grammar by James Morwood is a smoothly flowing, accessible guide to the Latin language, providing many short sentence examples and explaining nouns and noun inflection, adjectives, adverbs, verb conjugation, and sentence construction in depth. The readability is excellent, and the information presented is easily utilized.

Latin Dictionary Founded on Andrew's Edition of Freund's Latin Dictionary

6 reviews
Charlton T. Lewis, William Freund

Oxford University Press, USA, 1956

Is there a better Latin-English Dictionary?
This is the classic Lewis and Short Latin-English Dictionary. Its only real contender is the newer Oxford Latin Dictionary (OLD). However, the OLD is handicapped by its limited scope: anyone interested in Late, Ecclesiastical, Medieval, or Neo-Latin need not apply. Lewis and Short is more comprehensive. It's sole drawback is its great bulk and weight. If you are interested in a much smaller, but ...

Terence, The Comedies

4 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 2007

timeless classic comedy
Terence's character development is superb. He takes stock characters of past Greek plays and turns them around so that the reader sees that people are not black or white. They are rather gray with good and bad qualities. His stories develop around his characters and in each comedy there is a message that is as timesless as the dialogue and interaction between characters in his plays. I didn't ...

The Great Sophists in Periclean Athens

5 reviews
Jacqueline de Romilly

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

There's More to the Great Sophists Than Plato Would Allow
"The Great Sophists" by Jacqueline de Romilly is a thorough and first class book on an important but rarely studied aspect of ancient Greek thought: the Sophists. Ms. de Romilly is a great French classicist with numerous thoughtful publications to her credit of which "The Great Sophists" is the most recent. The Sophists have historically had an evil reputation as the first cultural and moral ...

Weavers of Revolution: The Yarur Workers and Chile's Road to Socialism

5 reviews
Peter Winn

Oxford University Press, USA, 1986

A tapestry of voices from the trenches of revolution
Winn's book gives a detailed (and Trotskyist) account of a "revolution from below" that transpired during Allende's "revolution from above." It depicts the struggles of textile workers as they grew conscious of their class standing, became unionized and, ultimately, siezed control of the nation's most prominant mill. In the end, however, Winn demonstrates how the Yarur workers and the Popular ...

Derek Walcott: A Caribbean Life

2 reviews
Bruce King

Oxford University Press, USA, 2000

From the provinces to Stockholm-a professional career
In this exhaustive and thorough 714page biography, Bruce King sets out the development of Derek Walcott as a poet and dramatist whose ambition and talent led him from the colonial backwaters of the Caribbean of the forties to the Nobel stage in Stockholm in 1992. The reader will not find a gossipy, tell-all chronicle.King follows Walcott from his earliest years as a child prodigy in Saint Lucia ...

Colombia: Fragmented Land, Divided Society (Latin American Histories)

3 reviews
Frank Safford, Marco Palacios

Oxford University Press, USA, 2001

An invaluable historical source
Most academics in the field concede that this is the most comprehensive single-source on Colombia's history. The work on the 19th Century is particularly strong. My only misgiving is that the contemporary period is somewhat thin, and as such some of the present debates are about especially the armed groups are not as detailed as they could be. That said, this should be the starting point for ...

M. Tulli Ciceronis Pro M. Caelio Oratio

3 reviews
Cicero

Oxford University Press, USA, 1988

Austin's done a great job
The Pro Caelio is a somewhat complicated oration with its various references to lesser known people and incidents in the Late Republic. Austin attempts to reconstruct Caelius' life from the details his commentary reveals a wealth of knowledge of Roman history and a sensitivity to the finer elements of Cicero's rhetoric. My only criticism is his tendency to avoid commenting on some of the ...

Opera (Scriptorum Classicorum Bibliotheca Oxoniensis)

2 reviews
Virgil

Oxford University Press, USA, 1969

An Excellent Edition
It would, of course, be folly of the highest order to give a critique of the Aeneid itself; by the number of years through which it has survived alone, it is justified. It is an unquestionable literary achievement, indeed, a monument of Western Civilization. This edition is a superb one for the student of Latin, although the light hearted should beware: As one might expect from the Oxford ...

De Officiis (Oxford Classical Texts, Latin Edition)

2 reviews
Cicero

Oxford University Press, USA, 1994

A book every person should read
It has been said in the past by prominent Christians that a person familiar with Cicero's De Oficiis can be moral without having read the Bible. What a fitting statement for this book! De Oficiis shows you how to lead a moral life, as a father would tell his son (in fact, this work is a series of libelli written from Cicero to his own son). Particularly if you are in a position of power, or ...

The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature

2 reviews
M. C. Howatson

Oxford University Press, USA, 1989

Avocational Requirement
For anyone interested in reading from Greek and Latin / Roman history, literature, philosophy, &c. this will help you through. Entries include texts, themes, authors, characters, place names, and genre discussion. If you have always wanted to read Virgil, Homer, Julius Caesar, and were not inclined to begin with a chronological survey of culture, history, philosophy, this book will enliven and ...

The Capitalist Revolution in Latin America

2 reviews

Oxford University Press, USA, 1997

Excellent work on Pinochet's Revolution.
This is an important book for future generations. The revolutionary work done by Pinochet and his advisors, copied not only in Latin America but the world at large. It is also important that this book calls Pinochet by his real name, a Capitalist. These days anybody that doesn't agree with marxists-liberals is a fascist. I'm still waiting to see how fascists implement free-market reforms like ...

Timbers of the New world,

2 reviews
Samuel J Record

G. Cumberlege, Oxford univ. press, 1947

Classic
There is no need to say much about Timbers of the New World, the classic on the timbers of America. Published in the forties this work is the crowning effort of the Yale School of Forestry, led by prof S.J.Record. This book contains a wealth of information on the trees & shrubs of America (N-,C- & S-America) and the woods they yield. In amongst the text some plates with B&W pictures of trees; in ...

The Fall of Che Guevara: A Story of Soldiers, Spies, and Diplomats

2 reviews
Henry Butterfield Ryan

Oxford University Press, USA, 1998

Very objective look at a relatively obscure episode.
Ryan places Guevara's Bolivian adventure in an historical context that gives it hemispheric significance. As a case study of the US's Latin American counterinsurgency efforts in the 1960s, it demonstrates that the mistakes made in Vietnam were not repeated everywhere. Ryan also attacks some widely held assumptions, including Guevara's diminished ties with Cuba and CIA involvement in his ...

Cultures of Devotion: Folk Saints of Spanish America

3 reviews
Frank Graziano

Oxford University Press, USA, 2006

CHECK IT OUT
I bought this book after hearing Graziano speak, and I'm really glad I did. In many places it reads like a novel; in others the insights into folk devotion are incredible. The website, [...], is amazing too. Highly recommended.

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