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The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern China
Author | : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 374 |
Release | : 2016 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780199683758 |
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This lavishly illustrated volume explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) through to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower on the verge of what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.
The Oxford Illustrated History of the Book
Author | : James Raven |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 2020-07-31 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780191007507 |
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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 History of Modern China
Author | : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 513 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 9780192895202 |
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Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. A new chapter for this edition brings the story into the era of Xi Jinping.
The Oxford Illustrated History of Modern Europe
Author | : T. C. W. Blanning |
Publsiher | : Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | : 426 |
Release | : 2001-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0192854267 |
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'a superb volume, complete with maps, and tells the story of a continent from the 18th century to the present day.' -Irish Times
The Oxford Illustrated History of World War Two
Author | : Richard Overy |
Publsiher | : OUP Oxford |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2015-04-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780191045387 |
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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 Science
Author | : Iwan Rhys Morus |
Publsiher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 443 |
Release | : 2017 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 9780199663279 |
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The Oxford Illustrated History of Science offers readers an accessible and entertaining introduction to the history of science as well as a valuable and authoritative reference work.
Middle English Literature
Author | : Christopher Cannon |
Publsiher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 2013-04-18 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780745654768 |
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This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
The Oxford History of Modern China
Author | : Jeffrey N. Wasserstrom |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 135 |
Release | : 2022 |
Genre | : China |
ISBN | : 0192648292 |
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Explores the history of China from the founding of the Qing Dynasty (1644-1912) to the present day. Essential reading for anyone who wants to understand this rising superpower in what promises to be the 'Chinese century'.