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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]
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.
Let's Go is a series of American-English based EFL (English as a foreign language) textbooks developed by Oxford University Press and first released in 1990. While having its origins in ESL teaching in the US, and then as an early EFL resource in Japan, [1] the series is currently in general use for English-language learners in over 160 countries around the world. [2]
Inaccurately retelling history, through textbooks or other literature, has been practiced in many societies, from ancient Rome to the Soviet Union (USSR) and the People's Republic of China. The content of history textbooks is often determined by the political forces of state adoption boards and ideological pressure groups. [57]
The Oxford History of Britain (1987, rev ed 2010) The Red Dragon and the Red Flag (1989) (ed.) The Oxford Mini History of Britain (1989, in 5 vols.) Britain and Europe (1995) The People's Peace: Britain since 1945 (1989, rev ed 2001) Modern Wales, Politics, Places and People (1995) (ed.) The Young Oxford History of Britain and Ireland (1996)
Conrad Sebastian Robert Russell, 5th Earl Russell, FBA (15 April 1937 – 14 October 2004), was a British historian and politician. As an academic historian, he worked primarily on 17th-century English history, having extensively written and lectured on the parliamentary struggles of the English Civil Wars .