The Oxford Book Of Historical Stories
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Author | : Michael Cox |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780192832085 |
Historical fiction is as popular today as it was at its birth in the nineteenth century. The imaginative recreation of a period beyond living memory has a power to evoke the past better than any history textbook. The stories in this collection travel in time from pre-history and the ancient Greeks to Regency bucks and Edwardian suffragettes, by way of medieval Europe, the English Civil War and the French Revolution. Emperors and kings, poets and soldiers walk these pages, in tales of intrigue, adventure, mystery and romance. As well as the giants of the genre - Stanley Weyman, Rafael Sabatini, and Georgette Heyer among them - this anthology also includes tales by Elizabeth Gaskell, Thomas Hardy, Aldous Huxley, William Faulkner and Marjorie Bowen, and by writers from the golden age of the Victorian magazine. In their choices the editors demonstrate the vitality of a form that cuts across the boundaries of popular and literary fiction to appeal to anyone who enjoys a cracking good read.
Author | : James Raven |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0198702981 |
In 14 original essays, this book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present
Author | : Daniel R. Woolf |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 673 |
Release | : 2011-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199218153 |
A chronological scholarly survey of the history of historical writing in five volumes. Each volume covers a particular period of time, from the beginning of writing to the present day, and from all over the world.
Author | : L. W. B. Brockliss |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 912 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : Electronic book |
ISBN | : 0199243565 |
This fresh and readable account gives a complete history of the University of Oxford, from its beginnings in the 11th century to the present day - charting Oxford's improbable rise from provincial backwater to modern meritocratic and secular university with an ever-growing commitment to new research.
Author | : Lynda Mugglestone |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 613 |
Release | : 2012-11-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0199660166 |
This text traces the language from its obscure Indo-European roots to its 21st-century position as the world's first language. It describes the history of English within the British Isles, its changing roles in different places, and its rise to global pre-eminence.
Author | : Paul S. Boyer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 985 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : United States |
ISBN | : 0195082095 |
In this volume that is as big and as varied as the nation it portrays are over 1,400 entries written by some 900 historians and other scholars, illuminating not only America's political, diplomatic, and military history, but also social, cultural, and intellectual trends; science, technology, and medicine; the arts; and religion.
Author | : Edward L. Ayers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 608 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : American literature |
ISBN | : 0195124936 |
Gathers short stories, journalism, and excerpts from novels, diaries, and memoirs by Southern authors.
Author | : Nigel Saul |
Publisher | : Oxford Illustrated History |
Total Pages | : 348 |
Release | : 1997 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780192893246 |
A comprehensive introduction to medieval England surveying the years from the departure of the Roman legions to the Battle of Bosworth.
Author | : Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 2019-01-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0191067199 |
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
Author | : Richard Ovenden |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2020-10-13 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0674241207 |
The director of the famed Bodleian Libraries at Oxford narrates the global history of the willful destruction—and surprising survival—of recorded knowledge over the past three millennia. Libraries and archives have been attacked since ancient times but have been especially threatened in the modern era. Today the knowledge they safeguard faces purposeful destruction and willful neglect; deprived of funding, libraries are fighting for their very existence. Burning the Books recounts the history that brought us to this point. Richard Ovenden describes the deliberate destruction of knowledge held in libraries and archives from ancient Alexandria to contemporary Sarajevo, from smashed Assyrian tablets in Iraq to the destroyed immigration documents of the UK Windrush generation. He examines both the motivations for these acts—political, religious, and cultural—and the broader themes that shape this history. He also looks at attempts to prevent and mitigate attacks on knowledge, exploring the efforts of librarians and archivists to preserve information, often risking their own lives in the process. More than simply repositories for knowledge, libraries and archives inspire and inform citizens. In preserving notions of statehood recorded in such historical documents as the Declaration of Independence, libraries support the state itself. By preserving records of citizenship and records of the rights of citizens as enshrined in legal documents such as the Magna Carta and the decisions of the US Supreme Court, they support the rule of law. In Burning the Books, Ovenden takes a polemical stance on the social and political importance of the conservation and protection of knowledge, challenging governments in particular, but also society as a whole, to improve public policy and funding for these essential institutions.