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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 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 History of Modern Europe is a series of books on the history of Modern Europe published by the Clarendon Press (an imprint of Oxford University Press) from 1954. [1] The most recent volume appeared in 2022.
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 ...
The Oxford History of England (1934–1965) was a book series on the history of the United Kingdom.Published by Oxford University Press, it was originally intended to span from Roman Britain to the outbreak of the First World War in fourteen volumes written by eminent historians.
The Short Oxford History of the Modern World series is a book series published by the Oxford University Press publishing house. Each book gives a comprehensive introduction to a particular period or theme in history. The general editor for the series was J.M. Roberts.
The Oxford History of Poland-Lithuania, Volume I: The Making of the Polish-Lithuanian Union, 1385–1569 (2015) by Robert I. Frost [17] The Russian Empire 1450–1801 (2017) by Nancy Shields Kollmann [18]
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 ...