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History: John Arnold: 24 February 2000: History 017: Roman Britain: Peter Salway: 10 August 2000 1 August 2015 (2nd ed.) Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 018: The Anglo-Saxon Age: John Blair: 10 August 2000: Chapter from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain, 1984: History – U.K. 019: Medieval ...
Most of the books have been written specifically for the series, but around 60 were recycled from earlier OUP publications: several had been in OUP's Past Masters series, [7] and numbers 17–24 used chapters from The Oxford Illustrated History of Britain (1984). Each book of the series is numbered on its spine. These numbers broadly, but not ...
Leading 20th-century authors at Oxford University include C. S. Lewis (works including The Chronicles of Narnia series of seven books) and J. R. R. Tolkien (works including Middle-earth books). Inspector Morse is a detective book series based in Oxford, by Colin Dexter. It has spawned a successful television series.
The Oxford Illustrated Histories are a series of single-volume history books written by experts and published by the Oxford University Press. [1] According to Hew Strachan , its intended readership is the 'intelligent general reader' rather than the research student.
The Oxford Historical Monographs Committee is the series' editorial board and is composed of postholders in the History Faculty at the University of Oxford. It meets four times each year to consider examiners' reports and conduct other business. The committee is intended to represent as wide a range of period and thematic interests as possible. [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 ...
Oxford Early Christian Texts; Eclipse of Reason (Horkheimer) Ecology or Catastrophe; The Economy of Esteem; The Edge of the Cloud; The Elephant in the Brain; The Emperor's New Mind; Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic, 1789–1815; The End of Time (book) Enemies of the Enlightenment; Essays in Musical Analysis; Ethics (Moore book)
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]