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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 ...
[5] [6] Six days later, Davison set fire to two pillar boxes in the City of London, before again attempting to set fire to a post office in Parliament Street, but she was arrested during the act and imprisoned. [7] [6] After 1911, suffragette violence was directed increasingly at commercial concerns and then at the general public. [4]
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] It is the second-oldest university press after Cambridge University Press, which was founded in 1534. [3] [4] [5] It is a department of the University of Oxford.
Roberts first proposed the concept of a military revolution in 1955. On 21 January of that year he delivered a lecture before the Queen's University of Belfast; later published as an article, "The Military Revolution, 1560–1660," that has fueled debate in historical circles for five decades, in which the concept has been continually redefined and challenged.
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 ...
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.
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 ...