The Oxford Illustrated History of the World
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 448 |
Release | 2019-01-03 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191067202 |
Imagine the planet, as if from an immense distance of time and space, as a galactic observer might see it—with the kind of objectivity that we, who are enmeshed in our history, can ́t attain. The Oxford Illustrated History of the World encompasses the whole span of human history. It brings together some of the world's leading historians, under the expert guidance of Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, to tell the 200,000-year story of our world, from the emergence of homo sapiens through to the twenty-first century: the environmental convulsions; the interplay of ideas (good and bad); the cultural phases and exchanges; the collisions and collaborations in politics; the successions of states and empires; the unlocking of energy; the evolutions of economies; the contacts, conflicts, and contagions that have all contributed to making the world we now inhabit.
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two PDF eBook |
Author | Richard Overy |
Publisher | OUP Oxford |
Pages | 416 |
Release | 2015-04-09 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191045381 |
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 conflict is now a lived memory for only a few. And this growing distance in time has allowed historians to think differently about how to describe it, how to explain its course, and what subjects to focus on when considering the wartime experience. For instance, as World War Two recedes ever further into the past, even a question as apparently basic as when it began and ended becomes less certain. Was it 1939, when the war in Europe began? Or the summer of 1941, with the beginning of Hitler's war against the Soviet Union? Or did it become truly global only when the Japanese brought the USA into the war at the end of 1941? And what of the long conflict in East Asia, beginning with the Japanese aggression in China in the early 1930s and only ending with the triumph of the Chinese Communists in 1949? In The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two a team of leading historians re-assesses the conflict for a new generation, exploring the course of the war not just in terms of the Allied response but also from the viewpoint of the Axis aggressor states. Under Richard Overy's expert editorial guidance, the contributions take us from the genesis of war, through the action in the major theatres of conflict by land, sea, and air, to assessments of fighting power and military and technical innovation, the economics of total war, the culture and propaganda of war, and the experience of war (and genocide) for both combatants and civilians, concluding with an account of the transition from World War to Cold War in the late 1940s. Together, they provide a stimulating and thought-provoking new interpretation of one of the most terrible and fascinating episodes in world history.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book PDF eBook |
Author | James Raven |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 468 |
Release | 2020-07-31 |
Genre | Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | 0191007501 |
In 14 original essays, The Oxford Illustrated 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 of the book is the history of millions of written, printed, and illustrated texts, their manufacture, distribution, and reception. Here are different types of production, from clay tablets to scrolls, from inscribed codices to printed books, pamphlets, magazines, and newspapers, from written parchment to digital texts. The history of the book is a history of different methods of circulation and dissemination, all dependent on innovations in transport, from coastal and transoceanic shipping to roads, trains, planes and the internet. It is a history of different modes of reading and reception, from learned debate and individual study to public instruction and entertainment. It is a history of manufacture, craftsmanship, dissemination, reading and debate. Yet the history of books is not simply a question of material form, nor indeed of the history of reading and reception. The larger question is of the effect of textual production, distribution and reception - of how books themselves made history. To this end, each chapter of this volume, succinctly bounded by period and geography, offers incisive and stimulating insights into the relationship between books and the story of their times.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of Theatre PDF eBook |
Author | John Russell Brown |
Publisher | Oxford Illustrated History |
Pages | 598 |
Release | 2001 |
Genre | Art |
ISBN | 9780192854421 |
A scholarly look at 4,500 years of theater, beginning with its Greek origins and concluding with a study of theater since 1970.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of the First World War PDF eBook |
Author | Hew Strachan |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 406 |
Release | 2016-03-29 |
Genre | World War, 1914-1918 |
ISBN | 0198743122 |
Originally published: 1998. New edition published in hardcover in 2014.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of the World PDF eBook |
Author | Felipe Fernández-Armesto |
Publisher | Oxford Illustrated History |
Pages | 494 |
Release | 2019 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0198752903 |
The Oxford Illustrated History of the World is the story of humanity itself, from earliest times to the present day, and the changes--good and bad--which have shaped our world.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
Title | The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China PDF eBook |
Author | Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Pages | 444 |
Release | 2016-06-16 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0191506710 |
This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China during a period of dramatic shifts and surprising transformations, from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China promises to be essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century', introducing readers to important but often overlooked events in China's past, such as the bloody Taiping Civil War (1850-1864), which had a death toll far higher than the roughly contemporaneous American Civil War. It also helps readers see more familiar landmarks in Chinese history in new ways, such as the Opium War (1839-1842), the Boxer Uprising of 1900, the rise to power of the Chinese Communist Party in 1949, and the Tiananmen protests and Beijing Massacre of 1989. This is one of the first major efforts -- and in many ways the most ambitious to date -- to come to terms with the broad sweep of modern Chinese history, taking readers from the origins of modern China right up through the dramatic events of the last few years (the Beijing Games, the financial crisis, and China's rise to global economic pre-eminence) which have so fundamentally altered Western views of China and China's place in the world.