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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 ...
Oxford University Press (OUP) is the publishing house of the University of Oxford.It is the largest university press in the world. Its first book was printed in Oxford in 1478, with the Press officially granted the legal right to print books by decree in 1586. [2]
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 Handbooks of Political Science is a ten-volume set of reference books which provide critical overviews of the state of political science.Each volume focuses on a particular political science topic, with volumes on Political Methodology, Public Policy, Political Theory, Political Economy, Comparative Politics, Contextual Political Analysis, International Relations, Law and Politics ...
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:
Battle Cry of Freedom: The Civil War Era is a 1988 book on the American Civil War, written by James M. McPherson. It is the sixth volume of the Oxford History of the United States series. An abridged, illustrated version was published in 2003. [1] The book won the 1989 Pulitzer Prize for History. [2]
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.