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Oxford University Press List of publications for Earlier publications can be accessed by using the History On-Line Search Page A History of the Royal College of Physicians This is the fourth volume to be published of A History of the Royal College of Physicians, covering the period 1948-1983. Volumes I-III were published in 1964, 1966, and 1972 respectively, and covered the history of the College from its foundation in 1518 to 1947. It is a scholarly study, based on archival and other sources, of a major historical institution, and examines the way in which it adapted to far-reaching changes in medical knowledge, social attitudes, and the organization of health. As such, it is a major contribution to institutional history. At the same time it illuminates the history of the National Health Service and examines controversial public issues such as smoking. Hardback - ISBN: 019925334X - £60.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title A Moral Reckoning This volume looks at the speeches and writings of five significant and influential figures of nineteenth century Delhi - Mohammad Zakaullah, Nazir Ahmad, Sayyid Ahmad Khan, Mizra Asadullah Khan Ghalib, and Khwaja Altaf Husai nHali. Based on Urdu sources, this is the first book on the intellectual history of nineteenth century Delhi. Hardback - ISBN: 0195672380 - £19.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title A New England? This absorbing narrative history brings INTO sharp and lively focus a period of immense energy, creativity, and turmoil. The book opens in 1886, as the Empire is poised to celebrate Victoria's golden jubilee, and ends in 1918 at the close of the 'war to end all wars', with England knowing that an era has conclusively ended. It vividly portrays every aspect of the nation's life - political, social, and cultural - carrying the reader FROM the wretched city slums to the bustling docks and factories, FROM the grand portals of Westminster to Blackpool's new holiday beach, FROM the world of the leisured aristocracy to the trenches of the Western Front and the violent politics of the militant suffrage movement. Paperback - ISBN: 0199284407 - £24.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Adams vs. Jefferson The dramatic contest between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson; a bitterly fought election with even more surprises than Bush v. Gore; that pitted two titans of the Revolutionary era against each other and changed the course of the young nation. Paperback - ISBN: 019518906X - £8.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Ancient India This insightful volume by one of the best-known historians of Early India is a comprehensive yet accessible account of ancient Indian history covering a wide spectrum, FROM the Neolithic and Chalcolithic cultures and the Harappan civilisation to the Guptas and Harshavardhana. Hardback - ISBN: 019566714X - £17.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1603 to 1900 In 1603, England and Scotland came together and Great Britain was created. Why has it stayed together? How near did it come to falling apart? Have the two nations ever done more than tolerate each other? Who were the gainers and losers? Political, economic, legal, intellectual and literary historians examine the first three centuries of Union, including the reception of James in the south, the Civil Wars, the background to Parliamentary Union in 1707, the spoils of Empire, and the Victorian climax. Together with its companion Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond (0-19-726331-3), the volume provides a vivid account of two nations which have often differed, remained very distinct, yet achieved endurance in European terms. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263305 - £40.00 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond These essays trace the changing relationship between Scotland and England following the unifying reign of Queen Victoria, through the debates over devolution, and into a future where the Union will be under continuing pressure to evolve. Historians, social scientists and lawyers investigate the personal, social, financial and constitutional tensions between the Scots and the English, both before and after devolution, and ask have Scots and English been driven apart, or brought more closely together by this reconstruction of the Union? Building on its companion ¡Anglo-Scottish Relations, from 1603 to 1900 (0-19-726330-5), this volume provides wideranging insights into what some may regard as 'unfinished business'. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263313 - £35.00 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose These twenty essays examine continuity and change in the language of Latin prose, from its emergence to the twelfth century AD. Issues debated include traditional distinctions between primitive archaic and sophisticated classical Latin, and between superior classical and inferior Silver Latin. A broad range of Latin authors are covered, including Caesar and Cicero, Bede and William of Malmesbury. An extensive introduction traces the volume's recurring themes - the use of poetic diction in prose, archaism, sentence structure, and bilingualism. The diversity of approaches makes this an essential handbook for all those interested in Latin language and literature. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263321 - £50.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Athenian Democratic Origins and Other Essays This is a defence of the Athenian democracy by a great radical historian. Geoffrey de Ste. Croix shows how even its oddest features made sense, and illustrates the different factors influencing Athenian politics - for instance, trade and commercial interests mattered very little. Though written in the 1960s, these hitherto unpublished essays remain fresh and innovative. Paperback - ISBN: 0199285160 - £29.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Basil II and the Governance of Empire (976-1025) This is the first book-length study in English of the Byzantine emperor Basil II, the 'Bulgar-slayer'. Basil presided over a Byzantium which was the superpower of the eastern Mediterranean and the Middle East in the century before the Crusades. Catherine Holmes peels away the layers of later interpretations to reveal an empire that was governed by a potent mixture of subtle persuasion and brute force. Hardback - ISBN: 0199279683 - £70.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Between Two Empires The incarceration of Japanese Americans has been discredited as a major blemish in American democratic tradition. Accompanying this view is the assumption that the ethnic group help unqualified allegiance to the United States. Between Two Empires probes the complexities of prewar Japanese America to show how Japanese in America held an in-between space between the United States and the empire of Japan, between American nationality and Japanese racial identity. Hardback - ISBN: 0195159403 - £38.99 - April 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 0195159411 - £12.99 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Black, White, and Indian Black, White, and Indian tells the story of a Native American family with a long-kept secret: one branch is of African descent. Focusing on five generations from 1780 to 1920, this book fluidly illustrates how Indians disowned their black relatives to survive in the shadow of the expanding American republic. Interludes in the text illuminate how this issue has continued to be a politically explosive one for modern-day Indians. Hardback - ISBN: 0195176316 - £21.50 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title British Sociology Seen from Without and Within These eleven essays look at the current state of sociology in Britain from a number of intriguing perspectives. How important is it for British sociologists to be aware of the historical development of their subject in this country? How is British sociology seen by British scholars working in related fields, such as social history, social anthropology and demography? And how are British sociologists perceived by their colleagues working abroad, in particular in continental Europe? A concluding essay by the President of the British Sociological Association identifies the recurring themes in these reflections. Paperback - ISBN: 0197263429 - £14.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Carry Me Back Carry Me Back is a tour-de-force examination of the history of the domestic slave trade in America. This book represents a detailed accounting of the movement of slaves from market within the United States, as well as an examination of the lives of those operating and participating in the business world of those markets. Finally, the book considers the impact of the slave trade on American life writ large, making this a major contribution to American history prior to Reconstruction. Hardback - ISBN: 0195160401 - £18.50 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Charters of Malmesbury Abbey This is the first scholarly edition of the Anglo-Saxon charters of Malmesbury Abbey, which are an important witness to the history of Wessex and the West Saxon church. The volume is comprised of editions of thirty-five charters and also a small group of separate boundary surveys, with detailed commentaries on their historical and topographical importance. This edition provides a useful background to William of Malmesbury's De gestis pontificorum Anglorum, and includes significant new material for the study of William's use of historical documents. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263178 - £50.00 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Children and Childhood in Roman Italy Images of children in Roman society abound: an infant's first bath, learning to walk, playing with pets and toys, going to school, and - all too often - dying prematurely. The child was prominent in private houses and public space in the teeming, cosmopolitan city of ancient Rome and other towns of Italy. Such a vivid picture does not recur until the twentieth century. This study builds on the dynamic work on the Roman family that has been developing in recent decades. Its focus on the period between the first century BCE and the early third century CE provides a context for new work being done on early Christian societies, especially in Rome. Paperback - ISBN: 0199285179 - £25.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Civil Society in British History Ideas, Identities, Institutions This book explores the many different strands in the language of civil society FROM the sixteenth to the twentieth centuries. Through a series of case-studies it investigates the applicability of the term to a wide range of historical settings. The contributors SHOW how past understandings of the term were often very different FROM (even in some respects the exact opposite of) those held today. Paperback - ISBN: 0199279101 - £22.50 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Cold Peace Based on previously unavailable archival sources, this award-winning book examines the least understood phase of Stalin's rule through the despot's relations with his closest colleagues. Paperback - ISBN: 0195304209 - £12.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Combined Methods in Indology and Other Writings B.D Chattopadhyaya puts together in this volume hitherto scattered and inaccessible essays of the late D. D. Kosambi, the first in India to use an interdisciplinary method in historical investigation. Paperback - ISBN: 0195677307 - £16.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Confederate Emancipation Offers an engaging and illuminating account of a fascinating and politically charged idea, setting it firmly and vividly in the context of the Civil War and the part played in it by the issue of slavery and the actions of the slaves themselves. Hardback - ISBN: 0195147626 - £17.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Conflict and Cooperation Conflict and cooperation are the defining themes that weave together this collection of primary documents. The readings have been selected with the goal of making twentieth-century history accessible to students for whom these events are increasingly distant. The primary documents allow students to 'witness' essential moments in history through the words of the men and women who participated in and experienced these events. Paperback - ISBN: 0195422112 - £28.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Corpus of Anglo-Saxon Stone Sculpture This analytical catalogue of sculpture from the historic counties of Devon, Dorset, Somerset, and Wiltshire provides a new perspective on the artistic achievement of the late Saxon kingdom. The volume includes individual pieces of the highest quality such as the Bradford-on-Avon and Winterbourne Steepleton angels or the newly discovered figures from Congresbury. Most of the monuments were carved at a time when Wessex art was at its zenith in the tenth and eleventh centuries, a formative period for English cultural identity. This volume sets the sculpture within an historical, topographical and art-historical context, highlighting the close links with contemporary styles in manuscripts and metalwork. Full photographic records of each monument present many new illustrations unique to this volume. An indispensable research tool for all those interested in the early medieval world, this volume is also an authoritative aid for local historians. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263348 - £75.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Creating Black Americans Nell Painter writes a relatively brief text which provides an engaging and accessible overview of African-American history, outlining the most significant events from pre-slavery times to the present, all connected through a central motif of art. Hardback - ISBN: 0195137558 - £16.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Cuba Between Reform and Revolution Lou Perez's Cuba has been a welcome addition to the Cuban history course since it first appeared, and has solidified its place as the leading choice among teachers of modern Cuban history. Perez now updates his renowned book in the third edition with major events over the last 9 years, highlighting important scholarship of the past decade. Hardback - ISBN: 0195179110 - £39.50 - August 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 0195179129 - £17.50 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Debtor Diplomacy The United States was a debtor nation in the mid-nineteenth century, with half of its debt held overseas. The need to obtain foreign capital greatly influenced American foreign policy, principally relations with Britain. The intersection of finance and diplomacy was particularly evident during the Civil War when both the North and South integrated attempts to procure loans FROM European banks INTO their larger international strategies. Drawing on the unused archives of London banks and the papers of statesmen on both sides of the Atlantic, this work explores a central theme of mid-nineteenth-century foreign relations and a crucial, but previously ignored, aspect of the Civil War. Hardback - ISBN: 0199281033 - £50.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Decision-Making in Medieval Agriculture David Stone reconstructs the mental world of medieval farmers and reveals that agricultural decision-making was as rational in 1300 as in modern times. Arguing that man's impact on agriculture has been significantly underestimated, he challenges the view that the medieval period was devastated by ecological and economic crises. Hardback - ISBN: 0199247765 - £55.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Dictionary of Medieval Latin from British Sources This dictionary is an indispensable guide to the study of the Latin Middle Ages. It records the continuing usage of classical and late Latin in this period (6th-16th centuries), but it presents most fully the medieval developments of the language, drawing on a rich variety of printed and manuscript sources. Many new formations from other languages are revealed - some of the borrowings recorded in Latin centuries before their appearance in written vernacular sources. Due to the high number of entries for P, this letter will be spread over four fascicules. Paperback - ISBN: 0197263402 - £25.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Early Capitalism and Local History In South India This study of the Tirunelveli region of Tamil Nadu challenges the coventional view that subsistence, isolation, and immobility characterized Indian villages before 'modern' times. Examining the agrarian history of Tirunelveli during the millennium before 1900, David Ludden shows that peasant communities not only transformed rural society but shaped states and empires, including British India. This edition also has a new preface. Paperback - ISBN: 0195674847 - £9.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Elite Women in English Political Life c.1754-1790 Based on wide-ranging, original research into political, personal, and general correspondences across a period of significant social and political change, this book explores the gendered nature of politics and political life in eighteenth-century England by focusing on the political involvement of female members of the political elite. Chalus argues that the personal, social, and particularly the familial nature of eighteenth-century politics provided more women with a wider variety of opportunities for involvement than ever before. Hardback - ISBN: 019928010X - £50.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Empire Families Britons and Late Imperial India Empire Families focuses on childhood among middle-class Britons in India between the late nineteenth century and decolonization, and the impact that this had on the raj. Even though many Britons never perceived themselves to be permanent residents, imperial identities were forged and continued through generations of families in India, whilst in Britain, despite repeated travels to and from India, they experienced alienation. In this first study of family life in colonial India, Buettner highlights the social significance both of growing up in the raj and of the itinerant colonial lifestyle. Paperback - ISBN: 0199287651 - £16.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title English Episcopal Acta 31, Ely 1109-1197 The 170 acta published in this volume provide one of the best records of the structuring of a new diocese and the establishment of a cathedral chapter. The diocese of Ely (comprising historic Cambridgeshire) was founded in 1109, and its first four bishops oversaw the elaboration of a system of local ecclesiastical government, and also the formulation of a settlement between themselves and the Benedictine monks of Ely, whose church became the cathedral. Two of the bishops also held high secular office - William de Longchamp was effective regent of England while King Richard I was on Crusade - and the acta issued in connection with these duties shed light on the delegation of royal power. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263356 - £47.50 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Eoin O'Duffy Eoin O'Duffy was one of the most controversial figures of modern Irish history. A leader of the Irish revolution, and protégé of Michael Collins, he commanded the Irish police and defence forces, before emerging as Ireland's leading fascist politician in the 1930s. A crusading moralist, obsessed with the need to counter public immorality, and a closet homosexual and alcoholic, O'Duffy's remarkable life was characterised by self-aggrandisement, fantasy, and contradiction. Hardback - ISBN: 0199276552 - £25.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Europe after Rome The 500 years following the collapse of the Roman Empire is still popularly perceived as Europe's 'Dark Ages', marked by barbarism and uniformity. Julia Smith's masterly book sweeps away this view, and instead illuminates a time of great vitality and cultural diversity. Through a combination of cultural history, regional studies, and gender history, she shows how men and women at all levels of society ordered their world, and she allows them to speak to the reader directly in their own words. This is the first single-author study in over fifty years to offer an integrated appraisal of all aspects of the early middle ages. Hardback - ISBN: 0199244278 - £25.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Europe and the Making of Modernity 1815-1914 This brief textbook chronicles the political, economic, and social changes that revolutionized Europe during the nineteenth century. Designed to allow professors to assign supplemental readings of their choice, and including chronologies, supplemental reading lists, maps, and illustrations for ease of reference, this book is the perfect choice for any undergraduate course on 19th-Century European history. Hardback - ISBN: 0195156218 - £30.50 - May 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 0195156226 - £16.99 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Fin de Siècle Beirut Fin de Siècle Beirut is a landmark contribution to the growing literature on Ottoman studies, Arab cultural history, and Mediterranean cities. Combining urban theory with postcolonial methodology, Jens Hanssen argues that modern Beirut is the outcome of persistent social and intellectual struggles over the production of space. Drawing on published and unpublished Ottoman government documents, Arabic sources, and European archival material, Hanssen traces the urban experience of modernity in the Ottoman Empire. Hardback - ISBN: 0199281637 - £50.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Flavius Josephus and Flavian Rome Flavius Josephus is best known for his portraits of first-century conditions in Judaea: foreign and native rulers, religious groups and customs, geography, paraphrase of the Bible, apologetics, and the war with Rome. This is the first book to attempt a detailed and nuanced treatment of Josephus' Roman context: the significance of his works for understanding Rome in the late first century, and the significance of that Roman world for understanding Josephus. Hardback - ISBN: 0199262128 - £70.00 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Framing the Early Middle Ages In the most ambitious and ground-breaking survey of the early middle ages ever written, Chris Wickham moves away FROM the fragmentary tendency to view the history of the period as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. Instead he provides a comparative history of the years 400-800 systematically analysing each of the regions of the early middle ages, FROM Denmark to Egypt. In doing so he creates a framework for early medieval social and economic history in Europe that is both innovative and authoritative. Hardback - ISBN: 019926449X - £85.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Franco's Justice Using extensive but only recently available judicial records, this book examines the consequences in Madrid of General Franco's victory in the Spanish Civil War. It argues that the post-war repression instituted by the victors was based on the cruel irony that Republicans, and not the military rebels of July 1936, were responsible for the Civil War. Yet despite the claims of other historians to the contrary, this book also demonstrates that Francoist repression was not genocidal. Indeed, it shows that the crucial decisions to end mass repression were taken in 1940-1, and not, as it has generally been believed, in the mid-1940s in response to Allied victory in the Second World War. Hardback - ISBN: 0199281831 - £50.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title From South Asia to North America The story of a South Asian who lived and worked during the latter half of the 20th century in India and Pakistan, and later in North America. The book provides an interesting account of the lifestyle, customs and mores of a middle class family in pre-partition Delhi, and of a man's journey from a modest background in India tothe higher echelons of the United Nations. The book ends with a portrayal of the pleasures and travails of retirement for an Asian immigrant to the West. Paperback - ISBN: 019547080X - £9.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Game to the Last Game to the Last reveals the story of the men of what would become 'one of the finest battalions which served in the war', the West Australian 11th Infantry Battalion, AIF, during the gruelling Gallipoli campaign of 1915. Hardback - ISBN: 0195553314 - £28.99 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Germany and the Second World War Volume VII of the 'Germany and the Second World War' series looks at Germany and her Japanese ally on the defensive after the tide of war turned in 1943. An exhaustive study of the air war over the Reich and the Luftwaffe's growing impotence is followed by an account of the invasion of occupied France and the Allies' advance to Germany's borders. A final section examines Japan's defeat and capitulation, and the creation of a new ORDER in the Far East. Hardback - ISBN: 0198228899 - £135.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Hillbilly This well-illustrated and wide-ranging study examines a pervasive and enduring icon of American popular culture. Featured in Literature, country music, comic strips, film and televsion shows, and even the internet, the hillbilly has served a mythic space through which Americans have attempted to define their personal and national identity and to reconcile the past and present. Paperback - ISBN: 0195189507 - £11.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title History of Universities Volume XX/1 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material. Hardback - ISBN: 0199281041 - £55.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title History of Universities Volume XX/2 of History of Universities contains the customary mix of learned articles, book reviews, conference reports, and bibliographical information, which makes this publication such an indispensable tool for the historian of higher education. Its contributions range widely geographically, chronologically, and in subject-matter. The volume is, as always, a lively combination of original research and invaluable reference material. Hardback - ISBN: 019928928X - £55.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title In Search of the Promised Land In an engaging narrative format, In Search of the Promised Land tells the story of the Thomas-Rapier family of Nashville, following Sally Thomas and her sons James, Henry, and John to analyze the complex and ambiguous nature of slavery and freedom in the Old South. Paperback - ISBN: 0195160886 - £7.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Inventing Modern In this book, Lienhard elucidates, from a de facto postmodern perspective, what unique ideas and developments explain the profound watershed transition, around 1900 or 1906, to a new and different era, the 'Modern' era which persisted into the 1950's. He explores the cultural history of the first half of the twentieth century, showing the impact of technological and scientific developments on the culture at large. Paperback - ISBN: 0195189515 - £11.99 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Isaac Newton Quarrelsome and quirky, a disheveled recluse who ate little, slept less, and yet had an iron constitution, Isaac Newton rose from a virtually illiterate family to become one of the towering intellects of science. Now, in this fast-paced, colorful biography, Gale E. Christianson paints an engaging portrait of Newton and the times in which he lived. Hardback - ISBN: 019530070X - £10.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Jewish Slavery in Antiquity This book is the first comprehensive analysis of Jewish attitudes towards slavery in Hellenistic and Roman times. Against the traditional opinion that after the Babylonian Exile Jews refrained FROM employing slaves, Catherine Hezser shows that slavery remained a significant phenomenon of ancient Jewish everyday life and generated a discourse which resembled Graeco-Roman and early Christian views while at the same time preserving specifically Jewish nuances. Hardback - ISBN: 019928086X - £55.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title John Winthrop The preeminent figure of early New England, John Winthrop was the first governor of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. More than anyone else, he shaped the culture of New England and his effort to create a Puritan 'City on a Hill' has had a lasting effect on American values. Incorporating previously unexplored archival materials from both sides of the Atlantic, here is the definitive portrait of one of the giants of our history. Paperback - ISBN: 0195179811 - £10.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Journeymen-Printers, Heresy, and the Inquisition in Sixteenth-Century Spain Griffin's study reveals the virtually unknown lives of the men who worked in the sixteenth-century presses. Using the papers of the Spanish and Portuguese Inquisition, he provides insights INTO popular culture and religion; the history of printing, reading, and writing; the Inquisition; and the double lives led by lower-class Protestants living within a vigilant Catholic society. Hardback - ISBN: 0199280738 - £60.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Konark Part of the Monumental Legacy series, this concise and well-illustrated book discusses in lucid language the historical background and architecture of the temple complex at Konark. Paperback - ISBN: 0195675916 - £6.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Landon Carter's Uneasy Kingdom A Pulitzer-Prize winning historian's brilliant reconstruction of a Virginia planter's world based on his diary. Paperback - ISBN: 0195189086 - £11.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Learning from the Left The ways in which the Cold War and McCarthyism circumscribed dissent are well known; less documented are the opportunities they inadvertently created. This book shows how pervasive and influential Left politics were in children's book writing, illustrating, publishing, and dissemination during the middle third of the twentieth century - precisely the time when Americans were most concerned about protecting their children against Communist influences. Hardback - ISBN: 0195152808 - £45.00 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Leonardo This fascinating exploration of Leonardo da Vinci's life and work identifies what it was that made him so unique and explains the phenomenon of one of the world's most celebrated artistic geniuses who, five hundred years on, still grips and inspires us. Martin Kemp offers us exceptional insights into what it was that made this Renaissance man so special, and the 'real' meaning behind such masterpieces as The Mona Lisa and the Last Supper. Tracing Leonardo's career in all its variety, we learn of his unfulfilled dreams, relationships with powerful patrons, and the truth about his religious views. Paperback - ISBN: 0192806440 - £9.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Life After Partition By the 1990s, ethnic politics had come to dominate Sindh, with calls for Karachi to become a fifth province in its right. Life After Partition examines the historical background to these developments by focusing on events in the province in the years immediately following partition, when migrants form India and local people in Sindh found themselves living alongside each other on the newly created state of Pakistan. How far they retained distinctive notions of community and identity, and what its impact was on processes of accommodation and integration forms the main focus of this study of life in Sindh between 1947 and 1962. Hardback - ISBN: 019597834X - £11.99 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title London in the Later Middle Ages This is the first full account of the evolution of the government of London FROM the tempestuous days of the Commune in the late twelfth century to the calmer waters of Tudor England. Caroline Barron shows how the elected rulers of London developed ways of dealing with both demanding monarchs and quarrelsome city inhabitants. The remarkable survival of the city's own records makes it possible to trace, in unexpected detail, the inner workings of civic politics and government over three hundred years. Paperback - ISBN: 0199284415 - £24.95 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Lord Cromer In the heyday of Empire just before the First World War, Lord Cromer was second only to Lord Curzon in fame and public esteem. In the days when Cairo and Calcutta represented the twin poles of British power in Asia and Africa, Cromer's commanding presence seemed to radiate the essential spirit of imperial rule. In this first modern biography, Roger Owen charts the life of the man revered by the British and hated by today's Egyptians, the real ruler of Egypt for a quarter of a century. Paperback - ISBN: 0199279667 - £14.99 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain The fine mahogany secretaire with its secret drawers, the lacquered tea table, Chinese and Japanese porcelain tea ware. These fine luxury goods now seem to belong to the English country house or the exclusive antique shop. But what do they tell us about their eighteenth-century consumers? Who owned these goods, what made them desirable, where did they come from, and how were they made? And how many people actually enjoyed their novelty and fashion? In Luxury and Pleasure in Eighteenth-Century Britain Maxine Berg explores not only how luxury consumer goods transformed the homes of Britain's urban middle classes but how their very production fostered and sustained the world's first industrial revolution. Hardback - ISBN: 0199272085 - £25.00 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Massive Resistance Massive Resistance brings together ten essays that critically assess southern white resistance to school desegregation. The collection examines in close detail the practice of massive resistance, revealing the ideological and tactical divisions that characterized the southern white response to civil rights protest as well as the illusion of the union of racial moderates and extremists in what has been called a solid white South. The essays also look at white resistance through gender issues, the wider context of international Cold War politics, the critical backlash against Brown, religious and theological bases of resistance, the events of Little Rock, private education as an alternative to desegregation, and the intellectual foundations of massive resistance. Hardback - ISBN: 0195177851 - £39.50 - September 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 019517786X - £12.50 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC Urban life as we know it in the Mediterranean began in the early Iron Age: settlements of great size and internal diversity appear in the archaeological record. This collection of essays offers for the first time a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain. Leading scholars in the field look critically at what is meant by urbanization, and analyse the social processes that lead to the development of social complexity and the growth of towns. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263259 - £40.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 Migration and Inequality in Germany 1870-1913 is a rigorous analysis of migration in Germany within the demographic and socio-economic contexts of the period studied. Focusing particularly on the rural labour market and the factors affecting it, it also examines the 'pull' factor to cities, and offers more nuanced interpretations of German industrialization in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Hardback - ISBN: 0199276560 - £60.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Military Identities The regimental system has been the foundation of the British army for three hundred years. This iconoclastic study shows how it was refashioned in the late nineteenth century, and how it was subsequently and repeatedly reinvented to suit the changing roles that were forced upon the army. Based upon research in the National Archives, regimental museums and collections, and other depositories, this is the first book to strip away the myths that have been deliberately manufactured to justify or to condemn the system. Hardback - ISBN: 0199258031 - £45.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Minnie Fisher Cunningham Minnie Fisher Cunningham was Texas's most important female political activist. After directing Texas's woman suffrage campaign, she helped found the National League of Women Voters and the Woman's National Democratic Club. This is the first biography of the lifelong politician affectionately known as Minnis Fish. Paperback - ISBN: 0195304861 - £12.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Missions and Empire The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Special attention is paid to emerging themes such as the missionary role in anthropology, gender relations, language, medicine, and decolonization. Hardback - ISBN: 0199253471 - £30.00 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Modern Architecture in an Oxford College In the sixty years since 1945 St John's College, Oxford has been one of the major patrons of modern architecture in Oxford and Cambridge, commissioning a series of innovative and successful buildings from a sequence of leading architectural practices. Geoffrey Tyack discusses these buildings in detail, with the help of copious illustrations, placing each building within the context of its architect's oeuvre and relating it to the changing character of Oxford University. It is thus intended to be a contribution to the understanding both of modern collegiate architecture, and of recent English architecture in general. Publication will coincide with the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the College. Hardback - ISBN: 0199271623 - £30.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Nelson's Surgeon The death of Admiral Nelson on his flagship, the Victory, at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 is the basis of a well-known story. This book focuses on William Beatty, the surgeon who attended Nelson in his last hours and was later to publicize the deathbed scene. It traces his life and career as a leading naval surgeon during the Napoleonic Wars and afterwards. Hardback - ISBN: 0199287422 - £45.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title New Spirits Americans in the Gilded Age, 1865-1905 Edward's book on the Gilded Age outlines one of the most crucial periods in American history, when Americans found themselves living no longer in a rural republic, but rather in an industrial world power. Through engaging narrative and numerous images , New Spirits tells the stories of both tragedy and injustice, as well as humour, endurance and triumph in the period between 1865-1905. Paperback - ISBN: 0195147294 - £16.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Perceptions, Emotions, Sensibilities This volume studies three different themes: the mental world of the colonial middle class in India, reassessment of the British rule, and the implications of the communal chauvinism in contemporary South Asia. Paperback - ISBN: 019567894X - £8.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman and Early Christian Antiquity Seeing the Gods The essays in this volume examine the range of pilgrimage practices in Graeco-Roman antiquity and the early Church. From healing to oracles, from collective civic delegations to individual pilgrims seeking salvation, from localized sacred topographies to empire-wide travel, this book shows the importance of pilgrimage in pagan antiquity and its ancestry to later Christian practice. Hardback - ISBN: 0199250790 - £65.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Plantagenet England 1225-1360 The dramatic period 1225-1360 in Britain witnessed Simon de Montfort's challenge to the crown, Edward II's deposition and death, great English victories in France, and the disaster of the Black Death. It also saw the development of the state, with the emergence of parliament a key element. Michael Prestwich provides a comprehensive study of this period, illuminating themes of politics, economics, war, and society. Hardback - ISBN: 0198228449 - £35.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Polytheism and Society at Athens Probably more is known about the religious life of Athens than of any other ancient city. This book attempts for the first time to give a comprehensive account of that religion FROM every angle - public festivals are there, including the Eleusinian Mysteries, but so are private rites and magic, and the treatment of religion by the great playwrights of Athens. The Athenians emerge as both very pious and very down-to-earth. Hardback - ISBN: 0199274835 - £65.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Property and Civil Society in South-Western Germany 1820-1914 This is a study of the uses of property in south-western Germany from 1820 to 1914. Based on extensive documentation from civil court records, the book provides important new insights into the nature of civil society, forms of social conflict, and the application of the law to everyday life. The book's intriguing, sometimes bizarre, and always revealing stories of legal disputes offer an ironic and bemused view of the past human condition. Hardback - ISBN: 019928475X - £55.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Reporting from Washington This is the first comprehensive history of the Washington press corps during the twentieth century. Through profiles of Washington reporters for the major news media, wire services, syndicated columnists, and investigative reporters, this study considers their liberal and conservative leanings, and evaluates them on a scale from objectivity to advocacy. Hardback - ISBN: 0195178610 - £21.50 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Roger Williams This definitive short biography explores the life of Roger Williams (1603-1683): first champion for the separation of church and state, advocate for a Native American population abused by British colonists, cofounder of the Baptist Church, and founder of the state of Rhode Island. Edwin Gaustad, the world's leading scholar of Roger Williams , tells the story of this crucial figure in American history with an eye to the debate that continues to be hotly contested in the U.S. to this day: where do we draw the line between church and state? Hardback - ISBN: 019518369X - £10.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Royal Coin Cabinet, Stockholm, Part V This fully illustrated catalogue of coins of Edward the Confessor and Harold II in the superb collection of the Swedish Royal Coin Cabinet is a fundamental reference work for anyone studying or identifying late Anglo-Saxon coins. The volume catalogues and illustrates 1,280 coins of Edward the Confessor, the largest collection ever published, mostly from Swedish Viking-age finds. In an introductory chapter Dr Colman, a leading philologist, provides an analytical discussion of the moneyers' names. The volume includes a supplement to Part VI, by Mark Blackburn and Kenneth Jonsson, which publishes 72 additional Anglo-Norman coins from the Stockholm collection. Hardback - ISBN: 0197262333 - £60.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Russian Identities Investigates the question of Russian identity, spanning a huge territory, many centuries, and a variety of political, social, and economic structures. Its main emphases are on the struggle against the steppe peoples, Orthodox Christianity, autocratic monarchy, and Westernization. Hardback - ISBN: 0195156501 - £29.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Sanchi Monumental Legacy Part of the prestigious Monumental Legacy series, this well illustrated and well informed book explains in lucid language the historical background and architecture of the Buddhist monuments of Sanchi. Paperback - ISBN: 0195675908 - £6.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Savages within the Empire Savages within the Empire explores how Britons perceived and represented American Indians during a time when the empire and its constituent peoples began to capture the nation's sustained attention for the first time. Troy Bickham considers an array of contexts,including newspapers, imperial policy, museum exhibits, the Enlightenment, missionary records, and the public outcry over the use of American Indians as allies during the American War of Independence. He thus reveals the prevailing pragmatism with which Britons of all ranks approached the empire as well as its impact on British culture. Hardback - ISBN: 0199286965 - £50.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Schooling America A short history of the last 100 years of American education by America's most respected educational historian. Schooling America uses a wide array of colourful sources, including student diaries, popular magazines, PTA minutes, and more, to show us what Americans have demanded from the schools over the last century. Hardback - ISBN: 0195172221 - £15.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Scotland A History Taking in events as diverse as the Scottish assertion of independence at the end of the thirteenth century, the Union of the Crowns, and devolution, the contributors trace Scottish history FROM pre-1100 to the twentieth century, and SHOW that Scotland was a remarkably successful, thriving, and important kingdom of international renown. Hardback - ISBN: 0198206151 - £25.00 - August 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Scottish Coins in the National Museums of Scotland, Edinburgh, Part I This full illustrated catalogue will become the standard reference work for Scottish coins of the middle and later sixteenth century, which include some of the most beautiful coins ever minted in Britain. The collection at the National Museums of Scotland is the largest and most comprehensive public collection of this series in the world. The period covered extends from the innovations of James V's second coinage in 1526, up to the harmonisation of the Scottish and English coinages in 1603. The history of Scottish coin production during this period is discussed in the introduction. An essential tool for numismatists, museum curators and coin collectors, this catalogue will also appeal to all those interested in the art of the Renaissance. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263283 - £50.00 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru This volume of the Selected Works coversthe period between 1 June to 31 August 1955. Part of a presigious series that is cited as an indispensible reference for research INTO modern India, this volume deals with a period rich in foreign policy developments. Hardback - ISBN: 0195659775 - £17.99 - August 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Sites of Power A concise history of Ontario from the beginnings to the present day. The text will be a revised and expanded version of Ontario: Image, Identity, and Power - part of the Illustrated History of Canada series. Paperback - ISBN: 0195418921 - £15.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Sport in Canada A concise introduction to the history of sport in Canada. Paperback - ISBN: 0195419960 - £19.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Stalin and the Politics of Mobilization The relationship between ideas and politics in inter-war Russia has long been controversial, and historians have been sharply divided over the influence of Marxism on Stalinist politics. This study presents a reassessment of Bolshevik ideology, and of the ways in which it interacted with other political forces during the period. By analysing the political discourse of the Bolshevik leadership, it shows how differing interpretations of Marxism-Leninism informed contrasting political and economic strategies. In particular, it traces the emergence of a strategy of mobilization, which was closely associated with leftist trends within Bolshevism. In exploring these ideas and strategies, the study sheds new light on inter-war Bolshevik politics, and in particular on the origins of Stalin s Great Terror of 1936-8. Hardback - ISBN: 0199245134 - £55.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title State, Society, and Religion in Medieval India This collection of essays represents the best of S. Nurul Hasan's pioneering work in the field of medieval Indian history. It is a comprehensive record of his diverse and constantly evolving studies. His confrontation of the contentious issue of national identity, and the role which nationalism has played in distorting historical studies of India, is typically thought provoking. Professor Satish Chandra, a leading historian in the field of medieval Indian studies, offers new insights into Hasan's personality, achievements and monumental contribution to medieval Indian scholarship. Hardback - ISBN: 0195667654 - £25.00 - August 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Storm over Texas The tumultuous tale of how Texas joined the Union in a bitter political contest that helped set the nation on the course to civil war. Hardback - ISBN: 0195139445 - £16.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum A fully illustrated catalogue of over 1000 Greek coins in the collection of the Newcastle Society of Antiquaries, this publication offers within a single volume a remarkably full survey of the broad sweep of Greek coinage. The particularly rich collection held at Newcastle contains a number of important and rare coins, drawn from all areas of the Greek world, from Spain, Numidia and Carthage in the West to Greece, Asia Minor and the Levant in the East. An important work of reference, this volume will be of interest to numismatists, coin collectors, and scholars and students of the archaeology and history of the Greek world. Hardback - ISBN: 0197263100 - £50.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Text and Practice The essays included in this book represent the bulk og Ronald Inden's essays deadling with the two major themes he worked on during his scholarly career - caste and religion. Some of these essays take a closer look at medieval Indian history to understand modern history. Hardback - ISBN: 0195668952 - £21.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes The Allegiance of Thomas Hobbes offers a new interpretation of Thomas Hobbes's response to the English Revolution. By focusing of his religious thought, it debunks the standard view of him as a royalist, and recovers his sympathies with the religious projects of the 1640s and 1650s. This reinterpretation culminates with an exploration of Hobbes's surprising sympathies with Oliver Cromwell and his supporters. By placing Thomas Hobbes within fresh contexts, Professor Collins offers a new angle of vision on the religious significance of the English Revolution itself. Hardback - ISBN: 0199268479 - £55.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The American Intellectual Tradition This two-volume anthology, the only collection of its kind, traces the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to more recent essays on diversity and postmodernity. The thoroughly updated edition addresses new themes making it a perfect choice for any undergraduate course in American intellectual history. Paperback - ISBN: 019518338X - £25.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The American Intellectual Tradition This two-volume anthology, the only collection of its kind, traces the evolution of intellectual writing and thinking from its origins in Puritan beliefs to more recent essays on diversity and postmodernity. The thoroughly updated edition addresses new themes making it a perfect choice for any undergraduate course in American intellectual history. Hardback - ISBN: 0195183398 - £46.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Andaman and Nicobar Islands in the Twentieth Century This book is a gazetteer on the Andaman and Nicobar Islands and provides a geographical position and complete history of the islands and its people together with the develpemntal processes and landmark events. Hardback - ISBN: 0195670531 - £7.99 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Anglo-Saxon Library This invaluable study sets out the evidence for the nature and holdings of libraries in Anglo-Saxon England, from the sixth century to the eleventh. It is furnished with appendices which include editions of all surviving Anglo-Saxon book inventories, lists of those manuscripts exported from and imported into Anglo-Saxon England, and a catalogue of all classical and patristic works cited by Anglo-Saxon authors. The volume is concluded by a comprehensive index (combining the evidence of inventories, surviving manuscripts, and citations) of all classical and patristic writings known in England before 1100. Hardback - ISBN: 0199267227 - £55.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Arguments of Time These nine essays address fundamental questions about time in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? In physics, general relativity and quantum theory give contradictory treatments of time. So in the current search for a theory of quantum gravity, which should give way: general relativity or quantum theory? In linguistics and psychology, how does our language represent time, and how do our minds keep track of it? Paperback - ISBN: 0197263461 - £14.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Aryan Debate This book, the seventh in the Debates series, brings together a selection of significant essays on the extremely topical Aryan debate. The central question behind this selection is, did the Sanskrit-speaking Aryans enter India FROM the Northwest in 1500 BC, or were they indigenous to India and identical with the people who inhabited the INdus Valley between 2800 - 1500. Hardback - ISBN: 0195669088 - £20.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Battle over Hetch Hetchy The first American conservation movement was born during the progressive Era out of the concern that industrial growth and urban developement threatened to extinguish America's wilderness. The era's most controversial environmental issue was the five year struggle over federal approval for the flooding of a remote corner of federally owned land in California's Yosemite National Park to build the Hetch dam. The city of San Francisco, rebuilding after the devastating 1906 eathquake, believed the dam was necessary to meet its burgeoning needs for reliable supplies of water and electricity. In a fight that pitted the city government against the chief forester and John Muir's nascent Sierra Club, and took the controversy to teh US Congress, the utilitarian needs of San Fransico's citizen's were put above the aesthetic and moral advantages of the leaving federal land and the continuing struggle to restore the valley, especially in light of continuing resource management issues in California. Hardback - ISBN: 0195149475 - £18.50 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Bismarck Myth Few statesmen in history have inspired the imagination of generations of Germans more than the founder of the Kaiserreich, Otto von Bismarck. The archetype of charismatic leadership, the Iron Chancellor maintained his pre-eminent position in the pantheon of Germany's political iconography for much of the twentieth century. Based on a large selection of primary sources, this book provides an insightful analysis of Bismarck's legacy as a political myth that undermined parliamentary democracy in Germany and contributed to the rise of Hitler. Hardback - ISBN: 019928184X - £45.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Collected Works of Jeremy Bentham Correspondence: Jeremy Bentham, the philosopher and reformer, was at the height of his fame and influence in the 1820s. The 301 letters in this volume, many of which are previously unpublished, contain correspondence with international leaders such as Simón Bolívar, the 'Liberator', and Bernardino Rivadavia of Buenos Aires, British statesmen such as Robert Peel and Henry Brougham, and leading intellectuals such as John Stuart Mill and Sarah Austin. Hardback - ISBN: 019927830X - £95.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Construction of Communalism in Colonial North India This new edition containing a preface and afterword, is part of a larger exercise aimed at understanding the construction of Indian society, and politics as a whole in recent times by challenging the conventional analysis of communalism and providing alternative theorteical cues to grasp its nature and dynamics,. Hardback - ISBN: 0195676785 - £9.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Corpus of Late Celtic Hanging-Bowls with An Account of the Bowls Found in Scandinavia A beautifully illustrated book on a fascinating and distinctive class of Celtic metalwork, which ranges FROM the fifth to the eleventh century, this represents the culmination of a lifetime of research by the leading scholar on this subject, and is the only fully comprehensive account cataloguing the bowls FROM across Britain and Europe. It also includes new research by Dr Bruce-Mitford's co-author, Sheila Raven, on the little-known collection of bowls found in rich Viking burials abroad. Hardback - ISBN: 019813410X - £215.00 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Crusades The Crusades were one of the most extraordinary, vivid episodes in world history. But were they motivated by spiritual reward or by greed? Were they an early experiment in European colonialism? How were they organized? With customary flair and originality, Christopher Tyerman picks his way through the many debates to present a clear and lively discussion of the Crusades. Paperback - ISBN: 0192806556 - £6.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Detection of Heresy in Late Medieval England This is the first scholarly study of inquisition into heresy in medieval England. Heresy was the most feared crime in the medieval moral universe. It was seen as a social disease capable of poisoning the body politic and shattering the unity of the church. Ian Forrest argues that in order to understand who the heretics were, we first need to understand how they were defined in their own day. Successful heresy-detection relied on balancing suspicion against legal standards of evidence, and weighing the safety of the public against the rights of the suspect. Hardback - ISBN: 0199286922 - £50.00 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Economic Future in Historical Perspective The essays in this volume demonstrate the power of using history to improve our understanding of the economic and social challenges of the present and future. A distinguished group of authors provide new perspectives on the dynamics of economic growth, the challenges of economic and political transitions, and the relationships between economic growth, institutional development and individual well-being in mature industrial societies. Paperback - ISBN: 019726347X - £21.99 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Great Game of Genocide Approximately one million Armenian Christians were killed in 1915-16 under the auspices of the Ottoman government. For nearly a century this genocide has either been ignored or not recognized for what it was. In this book Donald Bloxham provides an explanation for why it happened and why it has subsequently been overlooked, and offers a new interpretation which places the genocide firmly in the context of international history. Hardback - ISBN: 0199273561 - £18.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Greatest Fight of Our Generation Held on June 22, 1938, in Yankee Stadium, the second title fight between black American Joe Louis and white German Max Schmeling sparked excitement around the globe. It remains one of the most memorable events in boxing history and, indeed, one of the most significant sporting events ever. Erenberg sheds light on what these fighters represented to their nations, and why their contest took on such international importance as a match between Nazism and American democracy. He discusses how Schmeling's ' dramatic first-round defeat was a devastating blow to Hitler, and how Louis, went from being a hero of his raceOur Joe to the first black champion embraced by all Americans, black and white. Hardback - ISBN: 0195177746 - £16.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Greek Wars The Greek Wars deals with the whole course of Persian relations with Greek states from the coming of Cyrus in the mid sixth century BC down to the defeat of Darius by Alexander the Great at the battle of Gaugamela in 331 BC. Cawkwell discusses from a Persian perspective major questions such as why Xerxes' invasion of Greece failed, and how important a part the Great King played in Greek affairs in the fourth century; he challenges received opinion at many points. Hardback - ISBN: 0198148712 - £65.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Handbook to Life in the Ancient Maya World Focuses on this mysterious and grand civilisation FROM its beginnings to the Spanish Conquest in the 16th century. Each chapter is supplemented by an extensive bibliography as well as photographs, original line drawings, and maps. Different sections include civilization and archaeology, evolution, geography, society and government, astronomy and the calendar, funerary beliefs and customs, and many more, Paperback - ISBN: 0195183630 - £12.50 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The King's Artists This is the first scholarly history of Britain's dominant fine art institution from its foundation in 1768 to the beginning of the Victorian age. Holger Hoock places the Royal Academy of Arts in the contexts of the metropolitan, British, and European art worlds and explores its influence on the notion of a national school of art. The story of the Academy in these early years illuminates the complex relationships between art and politics, and allows Hoock to explore the concepts and practices of professionalization, cultural patriotism, and royal and state patronage of the arts in an age of war, revolution, and reform. Paperback - ISBN: 0199279098 - £22.50 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Kingdom of the Hittites Hardback - ISBN: 019927908X - £70.00 - September 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 0199281327 - £29.99 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Knights Hospitaller of the English Langue 1460-1565 In this major contribution to the history of the crusades, O'Malley studies the establishments of the Hospital of St John of Jerusalem in Britain and Ireland in the later fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. He examines their involvement in the society in those islands and the military, medical, and devotional work of the Hospital's headquarters in Rhodes, Italy, and Malta. This is the first book-length scholarly examination of the work of the order's English and Irish priories in any period. Hardback - ISBN: 019925379X - £65.00 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Legacy of Alexander This major study by a leading expert examines the colourful and turbulent period after the death of Alexander the Great and the extraordinary people who created the Successor monarchies. It explains how and why Alexander's empire was split up, and investigates the fate of the Macedonian army of conquest. A highlight is the first full study of the great campaign in Iran (winter 317/16) when Alexander's men, led by the greatest strategists of their time, fought each other in the salt desert. Paperback - ISBN: 0199285152 - £19.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Long Sexual Revolution Between 1800 and 1975, sexuality in the West was transformed. Hera Cook shows how the growing effectiveness of contraception gradually eroded the connection between sexuality and reproduction. The increasing control over fertility was crucial to the remaking of heterosexual physical sexual behaviour and had a massive impact on women's lives. Dr Cook charts how, why, and when attitudes towards sex changed FROM the repression of the nineteenth century to the sexual revolution of the 1960s. Paperback - ISBN: 0199252181 - £22.50 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Making and Unmaking of Empires In The Making and Unmaking of Empires P. J. Marshall deals with a crucial period in the history of the British Empire in trying to explain how the British at the same time lost an empire in North America, while winning one in parts of India. He shows that British objectives were much the same all over the world and examines the conditions in America that frustrated these objectives and those in India that facilitated them. Hardback - ISBN: 0199278954 - £30.00 - May 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Medieval Stained Glass of St Peter Mancroft, Norwich This volume provides a definitive and fully illustrated catalogue of the finest surviving collection of medieval stained glass in fifteenth-century Norfolk, a county distinguished for this art form. St Peter Mancroft was the most important parish church in Norwich, which was itself one of the most important cities in late medieval England. The catalogue reconstructs the original glazing of the church, relating it to its urban context and to other glass in East Anglia. Including documentary evidence for all recorded Norwich glaziers from 1400, this volume is the fruit of a lifetime's study in the Norwich archives by the foremost authority on the subject. Hardback - ISBN: 0197262643 - £99.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Politics of the Irish Civil War This book provides a detailed account of the origins, course, and aftermath of the Irish civil war, 1922-3. Based on much recently released material, including the papers of Eamon de Valera, each chapter is devoted to a particular aspect of war, and political aspects of the civil war are systematically discussed. Hardback - ISBN: 0199273553 - £45.00 - August 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Roman Government of Britain The Roman Government of Britain contains biographical entries on the hundreds of known Romans who served in Britain FROM AD 43 to 409. Evidence for imperial visits is discussed, and the Roman career-structure is explained. All the ancient evidence is quoted in full and translated, making this book the fullest available collection of sources for Britain under Roman rule. Hardback - ISBN: 0199252378 - £80.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The Work We Have to Do In this book, The Work We Have To Do, Mark Noll establishes a coherent history of the multidimensional, multiregional , and multiethnic Protestant religious group. Beginning with the 'separatists' in England, Noll traces the physical and ideological route of protestants in America up to the present day. Back matter includes chronology, further reading, table of Protestant denominations or associations, and an index. Sidebars address primary source material, and a section of black-and-white illustrations is included. Paperback - ISBN: 0195154975 - £5.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title The World's Richest Indian The first biography of Jackson Barnett, who gained unexpected wealth from oil found on his property. This book explores how control of his fortune was violently contested by his guardian, the state of Oklahoma, the Baptist Church, the Bureau of Indian Affairs, and an adventuress who kidnapped and married him. Coming into national prominence as a case of Bureau of Indian Affairs mismanagement of Indian property, the litigation over Barnett's wealth lasted two decades and stimulated Congress to make long-overdue reforms in its policies towards Indians. Paperback - ISBN: 0195182987 - £11.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Thomas Jefferson This book explores the life of Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826): first Secretary of State, second Vice President, fifth President of the United States, and a renaissance man of early America. Perhaps best known as the author of the Declaration of Independence, he also drafted the Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom and wrote Notes on the State of Virginia (1787); as President, he approved the Louisiana Purchase and organized the Lewis and Clark Expedition. he led the effort to organize the University of Virginia, and served as its first rector. But these are merely the highlights of his life. Long hailed as a visionary shaper of American history, Jefferson was a man of his time and place. This biography sets him in context, as a member of the Virginia gentry, an able and skilled lawyer, a talented politician who nonetheless shunned the political spotlight, and the finest writer of his era. Paperback - ISBN: 0195181301 - £7.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Traditions in Motion This collection of 13 original essays demonstrates traditions - religious, architectural, textual - in motion in South Asia, thorough the historical period to contemporary times, presenting viewpoints of those outside as well as of believers FROM inside the traditions. Hardback - ISBN: 0195669150 - £30.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Viking Pirates and Christian Princes This book studies two Viking families who appear in the records of the Atlantic littoral as pagan raiders and reinvent themselves as established Christian rulers. Their rise and transformation from the 10th to the 12th centuries highlights a period and people important for understanding the political, religious, and culture development of Europe in the High Middle Ages. Hardback - ISBN: 0195162374 - £39.50 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Village Schools Village Schools traces, through three centuries, the development of rural education in the United Kingdom and abroad. Memoirs, contemporary observations and versse are used effectively to enable the reader to look over the shoulders of the pupils, teachers, inspectors or occasional visitors, into a surprising variety of ancient and modern village schools. Hardback - ISBN: 0195979966 - £11.99 - October 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title War-Horse and Elephant in the Delhi Sultanate This classic work on the military history of medieval South Asia by the renowned medievalist Simon Digby, provides a fascinating and insightful glimpse into the military organization of the Delhi Sultanate (1192- 1398). This volume has been updated with a new introduction. Hardback - ISBN: 0195665309 - £12.99 - July 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title We've Learnt Nothing From History This book examines the early entry of Pakistan's armed forces into the country's politics and the struggle for the restoration of democracy since 1968. It deals in some detail with the rule of General Yahya Khan and Zulfiqar Ali Bhutto during the 1970's, the General Ziaul Haq during the 1980's. The author also reviews the events that led to the re-entry of the armed forces into politics in 1999, after a short and turbulent period of 'demomcracy', and provides some insights into possible political developments in Pakistan in the future. Hardback - ISBN: 0195978838 - £10.99 - November 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Weaving the Past Weaving the Past is the first comprehensive history of Latin America's indigenous women. While concentrating mainly on native women in Mesoamerica and the Andes, it also covers indigenous peoples in a variety of areas of South and Central America. Drawing on primary and secondary sources, it argues that change, not continuity, has been the norm for indigenous peoples whose resilience in the face of complex and long-term patterns of cultural change is due in no small part to the roles, actions, and agency of women. Hardback - ISBN: 0195123816 - £45.00 - September 2005 - Paperback - ISBN: 0195183282 - £13.50 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Westward Bound Charles Stewart's translation of Abul Taleb's travels in Asia, Africa, adn Europe during 1799 - 1803 is valuable for anyone who wishes to undertake a comparative study of contemporary sources for social life and conditions in Ireland, England, and France during the early years of the nineteenth century. This volume is edited and annotated by Professor Mushirul Hasan. Hardback - ISBN: 0195666046 - £13.99 - April 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Windows of the Soul In early modern Europe there was a small group of books on the art of physiognomy which claimed to provide self-knowledge through an interpretation of external features. The authors of these books explained how the eyes, the face, and all of nature's natural bodies became windows of the soul. Dr Porter uses remnants of the highly illustrated and graffitied texts on physiognomy to interpret the way that these books were read and viewed, and trace the changes that took place between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of Romanticism. Hardback - ISBN: 0199276579 - £55.00 - June 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Women and Authority in Early Modern Spain Using a wide array of archival documentation, including Inquisition records, wills, dowry contracts, folklore, and court cases, Poska examines how early modern Spanish peasant women asserted and perceived their authority within the family and community and how the large numbers of female-headed households in the region functioned in the absence of men. Hardback - ISBN: 0199265313 - £50.00 - December 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title Young Women, Work, and Family in England 1918-1950 This study of young women's lives challenges existing assumptions about working class life and womanhood in England between 1918 and 1950. A wide range of sources, including rich autobiographical accounts, are weaved into this vivid account and highlight the fact that young women forged new patterns of social mobility, were important as workplace militants, and developed a distinct youth culture. Hardback - ISBN: 0199282757 - £50.00 - September 2005 Oxford University Press - further details for this title 25 April 2006 |
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