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For items in the Oxford Handbooks series, not merely any OUP title that could be called a handbook. Pages in category "Oxford Handbooks" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
The New Oxford Book of Carols; Cartesian Reflections; Catastrophe: Risk and Response; Charles Babbage: Pioneer of the Computer; Chartbreak; Oxford Chemistry Primers; The Chimera's Curse; Oxford Classical Texts; Closing the Gap: The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers; Cold Tom; Collision Course (Hinton novel) The Condition of the Working Class in ...
The University of Oxford began printing around 1480 and became a major printer of Bibles, prayer books, and scholarly works. [7] Oxford's chancellor Archbishop William Laud consolidated the legal status of the university's printing in the 1630s and petitioned Charles I for rights that would enable Oxford to compete with the Stationers' Company ...
The Oxford History of the United States book series originated in the 1950s with a plan laid out by historians C. Vann Woodward and Richard Hofstadter for a multivolume history of the United States published by Oxford University Press, modeled on the Oxford History of England, that would provide a summary of the political, social, and cultural history of the United States for a general ...
The Oxford World's Classics were classed as "the most famous works of the English Language" [3] and many volumes contained introductions by distinguished authors, such as T. S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf, among others. [4] The books were marketed as a cheap and accessible series for the general public to read some of the greatest works of literature:
A labour revolt or workers' uprising is a period of civil unrest characterised by strong labour militancy and strike activity. The history of labour revolts often provides the historical basis for many advocates of Marxism, communism, socialism and anarchism, with many instances occurring around the world in both the 19th and 20th centuries.
At the conclusion of the campaign in August 1914, the attacks had, in total, cost approximately £700,000 in damages (equivalent to £84,850,000 in 2023), although according to historian C. J. Bearman this figure does not include "the damage done to works of art or the more minor forms of militancy such as window-smashing and letter-burning". [110]
According to The Oxford Handbook of Sikh Studies, bands of young Sikhs began indiscriminately killing Hindus in response to Bhindranwale's arrest. [ 249 ] By 1982, Bhindranwale's campaign to stroke tensions among Sikhs and Hindus was underway; a particular tactic employed by Sikh militants was to throw the heads or other body parts of cows into ...