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Australia's Empire by Deryck Marshall Schreuder
Category: Australian History | Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series
This is the first major collaborative reappraisal of Australia's experience of empire since the end of the British Empire itself. The volume examines the meaning and importance of empire in Australia across a broad spectrum of historical issues-ranging from the disinheritance of the Aborigines to the fo ...Show more
Battle Cry of Freedom the Civil War Era by James M. McPherson
Category: History | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
Filled with fresh interpretations and information, puncturing old myths and challenging new ones, Battle Cry of Freedom will unquestionably become the standard one-volume history of the Civil War. James McPherson's fast-paced narrative fully integrates the political, social, and military events that ...Show more
From Colony to Superpower - U. S. Foreign Relations Since 1776 by George C. Herring
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
A finalist for the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction, this prize-winning and critically acclaimed history uses foreign relations as the lens through which to tell the story of America's dramatic rise from thirteen disparate colonies huddled along the Atlantic coast to theworld's gre ...Show more
Grand Expectations by James T. Patterson
Category: No Category | Series: Oxford History of the United States Ser.
Beginning in 1945, America rocketed through a quarter-century of extraordinary economic growth, experiencing an amazing boom that soared to unimaginable heights in the 1960s. At one point, in the late 1940s, American workers produced 57 percent of the planet's steel, 62 percent of the oil, 80 percent of ...Show more
The Oxford History of Science by Iwan Rhys Morus (Editor)
Category: Science | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust.The first part of the book tells the story of science in both East and West from antiquity to the Enlightenment: from the ancient Mediterranean world to ancient China; from the exchanges between Islamic and Christian scholars in the Middle Ages to the Chinese invention of gunpowd ...Show more
The Oxford History of Witchcraft and Magic by Owen Davies
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust. This history provides a readable and fresh approach to the extensive and complex story of witchcraft and magic. Telling the story from the dawn of writing in the ancient world to the globally successful Harry Potter films, the authors explore a wide range of magical beliefs and ...Show more
The Oxford History of World War II by Richard Overy
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust.World War Two was the most devastating conflict in recorded human history. It was both global in extent and total in character. It has understandably left a long and dark shadow across the decades. Yet it is three generations since hostilities formally ended in 1945 and the confl ...Show more
The Oxford History of the Book by James Raven (Editor)
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust. In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the ancient world to the digital present. Leading international scholars offer an original and richly illustrated narrative that is global in scope. The history ...Show more
The Oxford History of the Holy Land
Category: Philosophy and Religion | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust.The Oxford History of the Holy Land covers the 3,000 years which saw the rise of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - and relates the familiar stories of the sacred texts with the fruits of modern scholarship. Beginning with the origins of the people who became the Israel of the Bi ...Show more
The Oxford History of the Renaissance by Gordon Campbell (Editor)
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust. The Renaissance is one of the most celebrated periods in European history. But when did it begin? When did it end? And what did it include? Traditionally regarded as a revival of classical art and learning, centred upon fifteenth-century Italy, views of the Renaissance have ch ...Show more
The Oxford History of the Third Reich by Robert Gellately (Editor)
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trust.At age thirty in 1919, Adolf Hitler had no accomplishments. He was a rootless loner, a corporal in a shattered army, without money or prospects. A little more than twenty years later, in autumn 1941, he directed his dynamic forces against the Soviet Union, and in December, the Ge ...Show more
The Oxford History of the World
Category: History | Series: The\Oxford History Of... Ser.
Histories you can trustImagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it-with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can't attain.The Oxford History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings toge ...Show more