The Oxford History Of English
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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 | : Terttu Nevalainen (linguiste) |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 983 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0190627883 |
This ambitious handbook takes advantage of recent advances in the study of the history of English to rethink the understanding of the field.
Author | : Pat Rogers |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780192854377 |
Traces the history of English literature from Anglo-Saxon poetry to the present day.
Author | : Andrew Sanders |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2000-01 |
Genre | : English literature |
ISBN | : 9780198186960 |
A guide to the literature of the British Isles from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The volume includes information on Old and Middle English, the Renaissance, Shakespeare, the 17th and 18th centuries, the Romantics, Victorian and Edwardian literature, Modernism, and post-war writing.
Author | : Kenneth O. Morgan |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 896 |
Release | : 2021-02-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192577921 |
A new edition of this best-selling history of Britain, from Roman times, now updated to cover the first decade of the 21st century. The Oxford History of Britain tells the story of Britain and its people over two thousand years, from the coming of the Roman legions to the present day. Encompassing political, social, economic, and cultural developments throughout the British Isles, the dramatic narrative is taken up in turn by ten leading historians who offer the fruits of the best modern scholarship to the general reader in an authoritative form. A vivid, sometimes surprising picture emerges of a continuous turmoil of change in every period, and the wider social context of political and economic tension is made clear. But consensus, no less than conflict, is a part of the story: in focusing on elements of continuity down the centuries, the authors bring out that special awareness of identity which has been such a distinctive feature of British society. By relating both these factors in the British experience, and by exploring the many ways in which Britain has shaped and been shaped by contact with Europe and the wider world, this landmark work brings the reader face to face with the past, and the foundations of modern British society. This updated new edition (by the original editor) adds great richness by taking the story down from the economic crisis of 2008 to the conflict over Europe at the present day.
Author | : John Nowell Linton Myres |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 292 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780192822352 |
The dark ages of English history between the collapse of Roman rule in the early fifth century and the emergence of the Anglo-Saxon kingdoms in the seventh century are examined in this study, which draws attention to political and social factors linking Roman Britain to Anglo-Saxon England.
Author | : Peter James Marshall |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 662 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0198205635 |
Examines the history of British worldwide expansion from the Glorious Revolution of 1689 to the end of the Napoleonic Wars, a crucial phase in the creation of the modern British Empire.
Author | : Christopher Cannon |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0745654762 |
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
Author | : David G. Chandler |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192853333 |
From longbow, pike, and musket to Challenger tanks, from the Napoleonic Wars to the Gulf Campaign, from the Duke of Marlborough to Field Marshal Montgomery, this stimulating and informative book recounts the history of the British army from its medieval antecedents to the present day. Commanders, campaigns, battles, organization, and weaponry are all covered in detail within the wider context of the social, economic, and political environment in which armies exist and fight, making this the definitive one-volume history of the British army for specialists and non-specialists alike. Book jacket.
Author | : Andrew N. Porter |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 797 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
ISBN | : 0198205651 |
To China and Latin America, often regarded as central components of a British 'informal empire'.