Oxford Historical Society

This edition of the building accounts is put into a wider context with a study of its founder, Richard Fox.

In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Say...

In Mutual Admiration Society Royal Historical Society fellow Mo Moulton relates the remarkable friendship of renowned crime novelist Dorothy L. Say...

Transactions of the Royal Historical Society is an annual collection of major articles representing some of the best historical research by some of...

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Oxford Studies in Medieval Philosophy showcases the best new scholarly work on philosophy from the end of antiquity into the Renaissance. OSMP comb...

Oxford International Primary History develops inquisitive and engaged learners through a six-year primary history course. Helping students contextu...

By studying a family of working-class suffragettes, Lyndsey Jenkins explores when, why and how the Kenney family got involved in militant suffrage ...

In The Value of the Humanities prize-winning critic Helen Small assesses the value of the Humanities, eloquently examining five historical argument...

Cecile Fabre draws back the curtain on the ethics of espionage and counterintelligence. In a book rich with historical examples she argues that spy...

UK Politics is the ideal introduction to the subject, providing students with the foundational understanding, critical perspectives, and historical...

Reducere. DescriptionNow published by Oxford University Press--at a new, lower price--Men's Lives reflects on the question "What does it mean to be a man in ...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Ann Laura (Willy Brandt Distinguished University Professor of Anthropology and Historical Studies,...

A Short History of Police and Policing traces the evolution of the multiple forms of 'policing' that existed in the past and the historical develop...

Global Politics is a concise and engaging introduction to international relations. Lawson presents key theories and concepts, demonstrating how the...

The Making of Mr Gray's Anatomy tells the story of one of the most iconic scientific books ever published: a textbook of anatomy that is still a ho...

First published in 1869, Culture and Anarchy debates questions about the nature of culture and society. Arnold asks what good culture can do and ho...

This authoritative survey of strategic studies gives students a complete introduction to strategic thinking, from historical and theoretical approa...

Encompassing everything from great power politics to everyday objects such as smart phones, geopolitics affects citizens, governments, and internat...

Adolescence can be a turbulent period. Encompassing both classic and modern research, Smith explores its cultural and historical context, the biolo...

A classic of early modernism, Capital combines vivid historical detail with economic analysis to produce a bitter denunciation of mid-Victorian cap...

Martyrdom is a controversial topic, with a long history of provoking fierce debate. In this Very Short Introduction Jolyon Mitchell provides a hist...

This book outlines a theory of ideational policy stabilization to explain stable policy choices despite changing incentives. Christina Zuber draws ...

A major new work by a leading historian and pioneer in women's studies, The Creation of Patriarchy is a radical reconceptualization of Western civi...

This is not a book about Winston Churchill as a man or a politician. Instead, it sees him as a cultural & historical symbol; how he is depicted in ...

Engles' was not only the father of dialectical and historical materialism, the official philosophies of history and science in many communist count...

Korea, long in the shadows of its neighbours China and Japan, is now the object of considerable interest. This book focuses on answering several hi...

Although Hegel is generally understood as a thinker of modernity, this volume argues that his modernity can only be understood in essential relatio...

Unrivalled coverage of IR theories from leading experts, featuring a new chapter that reflects on the historic marginalisation of global IR and a w...

Jane Austen is one of the most widely-read novelists in the English language, and one of very few pre-Victorian writers to have a large popular fol...

Diplomatic history is the critical study of the management of relations between nation-states. Based on significant historical case studies - the A...

Reducere. The standard text in the field, Vold's Theoretical Criminology is universally known by scholars in the discipline. Taking a largely historical appr...

The study of Roman society and social relations blossomed in the 1970s. By now, we possess a very large literature on the individuals and groups th...

Reducere. First published in 1978, this book rapidly established itself as a classic of modern Marxism. Cohen's masterful application of advanced philosophic...

In his writings, David Hume set out to bridge the gap between the learned world of the academy and the marketplace of polite society. This collecti...

In 1939, with an Oxford degree in hand and war looming, Evelyn finds herself recruited into an elite MI5 counterintelligence unit.A ruthless secret...

Reducere. The goal of The Oxford Handbook of African American Language is to provide readers with a wide range of analyses of both traditional and contempora...

Reducere. DescriptionAll languages change, just as other aspects of human society are constantly changing. This book is an introduction to the concepts and t...

Contributor(s): Author: C. Vann WoodwardWith: William S. McFeelyC. Vann Woodward, who died in 1999 at the age of 91, was America's most eminent Sou...

Information overload is something that humans have dealt with for millennia. During different historical eras, massive increases in what was availa...

Liberalism is one of the most central and pervasive political theories and ideologies, yet it is subject to different interpretations as well as mi...

In A Very Short Introduction to Politics, Kenneth Minogue begins with a discussion of issues arising from a historical account of politics, and goe...

In this innovative and engaging new study, Sebastian Raj Pender utilises extensive archival research from India and Britain to trace the ways in wh...

Award-winning religious scholar Richard Bauckham here explores the historical figure of Jesus, evaluating the sources and showing that they provide...

Winner of the Best Anthology Book Award from the John Whitmer Historical Association Winner of the Special Award for Scholarly Publishing from the ...

Today it is usually not long before a problem gets expressed as a human rights issue. Indeed, human rights law continues to gain increasing attenti...

Henry Fielding wrote both Joseph Andrews (1742) and Shamela (1741) in response to Samuel Richardson's book Pamela (1740), of which Shamela is a spl...

Covering 11 counties from Aldbury in Hertfordshire in Herfordshire to Woodstock in Oxfordshire, Inspector Morse on Location, published in conjuncti...

Reducere. Despite recent progress against racial inequalities, American society continues to produce attitudes and outcomes that reinforce the racial divide....

Reducere. DescriptionThis highly acclaimed text provides a comprehensive selection of the most important documents in American legal history, integrating the...

Political Ideologies provides an extensive collection of extracts from the texts of major intellectuals, politicians, and writers who represent som...

Reducere. DescriptionFifty years ago, John Steinbeck's now classic novel, The Grapes of Wrath, captured the epic story of an Oklahoma farm family driven west...

Terez�n, as it was known in Czech, or Theresienstadt as it was known in German, was operated by the Nazis between November 1941 and May 1945 as a t...

DescriptionAcross the Color Line: Reporting 25 Years in Black Cincinnati presents newspaper reporter Mark Curnutte's stories published in The Cinci...

Egyptian myths articulated the core values of one of the longest lasting civilizations in history, and myths of deities such as Isis and Osiris inf...

Sir Anthony Kenny's engaging new multi-volume history of Western philosophy now advances into the modern era. The Rise of Modern Philosophy capture...

The individual volumes of Sir Anthony Kenny's acclaimed History of Western Philosophy have been hailed as "wonderfulauthoritativehugely rewarding" ...

Reducere. Winner of the Society for History in the Federal Government's George Pendleton Prize for 2013The United States Senate has fallen on hard times. Onc...

Reducere. A Space for Race engages in a critical examination of some of the major discourses related to original/settler/immigrant and, particularly, raciali...

The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: the...

Distilling the ideas of the greatest military theoreticians of history, including Sun Tzu, Niccolo Machiavelli, and Carl von Clausewitz, Antulio J....

Reducere. DescriptionHeadcase uses a collection of personal reflections and artistic representations to illustrate the intersection of mental wellness, illne...

In this invitation to "concept-driven" sociology, defying the conventional split between "theory" and "methodology" (as well as between "quantitati...

Reducere. Diversity, Oppression, and Change, Third Edition provides a culturally grounded approach to practice, policy, and research in social work and allie...

Persian Letters is a classic of European literature by Baron de Montesquieu, the brilliant thinker who had a huge influence on the Enlightenment. T...

Reducere. DescriptionRevolutions, social movements, religious and ethnic conflict, nationalism and civil rights, and transnational movements: these forms of ...

DescriptionThe passage from Imperial Rome to the era of late antiquity, when the Roman Empire underwent a religious conversion to Christianity, saw...

Reducere. Using a three-part framework of Ideas, Arguments, and Contexts and Applications, International Relations, Third Edition, shows students how to thin...

Reducere. As local media institutions collapse and news deserts sprout up across the country, the US is facing a profound journalism crisis. Meanwhile, conti...

Reducere. The relationship between hospitals and the environment is defined by a glaring contradiction: as health care facilities deliver care at any cost, t...