Oxford University Press: 9227 books
Grand Expectations: The United States, 1945-1974
The United States, 1945-1974
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 1996
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...
by Simon Winchester
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: February 11, 2011
In the summer of 1858 in a garden behind Christ Church in Oxford Charles Dodgson--better known by his pseudonym Lewis Carroll--dressed the six-year-old Alice Liddell in ragamuffin's clothes and then snapped the camera's shutter. In The Alice Behind Wonderland Simon Winchester uses the famous photograph...
Americanos: Latin America's Struggle for Independence
Latin America's Struggle for Independence
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2007
A premier volume in Oxford's Pivotal Moments in World History series, Americanos offers an engagingly written, compact history of the Latin American wars of independence. Proceeding almost cinematically, scene by vivid scene, John Charles Chasteen introduces the reader to lead players, basic concepts,...
Founder of Modern Economics: Paul A. Samuelson
Volume 1: Becoming Samuelson, 1915-1948
Language: English
Release Date: April 5, 2017
Paul Samuelson was at the heart of a revolution in economics. He was "the foremost academic economist of the 20th century," according to the New York Times, and the first American to win the Nobel Prize in Economics. His work transformed the field of economics and helped give it the theoretical...
The Last Indian War:The Nez Perce Story
The Nez Perce Story
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2009
This newest volume in Oxford's acclaimed Pivotal Moments series offers an unforgettable portrait of the Nez Perce War of 1877, the last great Indian conflict in American history. It was, as Elliott West shows, a tale of courage and ingenuity, of desperate struggle and shattered hope, of short-sighted...
As Big as the West
The Pioneer Life of Granville Stuart
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2008
Granville Stuart (1834-1918) is a quintessential Western figure, a man whose adventures rival those of Wyatt Earp, Buffalo Bill, or Sitting Bull, and who embodied many of the contradictions of America's westward expansion. Stuart collected guns, herded cattle, mined for gold, and killed men he thought...
The Republic for Which It Stands
The United States during Reconstruction and the Gilded Age, 1865-1896
Language: English
Release Date: August 4, 2017
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multivolume history of the American nation. In the newest volume in the series, The Republic for Which It Stands**, acclaimed historian Richard White offers a fresh and integrated interpretation of Reconstruction and the Gilded Age as the...
by Elijah Wald
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2010
Praised as "suave, soulful, ebullient" (Tom Waits) and "a meticulous researcher, a graceful writer, and a committed contrarian" (New York Times Book Review), Elijah Wald is one of the leading popular music critics of his generation. In The Blues, Wald surveys a genre at the heart...
by Stephen Mansfield
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2009
Tokyo seems like an ultra modern--even postmodern--city, with its inventive skyscrapers and digitized surfaces. But it is also a city where past, present, and future coexist--where backstreets both inspire science fiction and host wooden temples, fox shrines, and Buddhist statues that evoke past ages....
by David Sterritt
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2013
In the late 1950s and early 1960s, the writers of the Beat Generation revolutionized American literature with their iconoclastic approach to language and their angry assault on the conformity and conservatism of postwar society. They and their followers took aim at the hypocrisy and taboos of their...
From Colony to Superpower:U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
U.S. Foreign Relations since 1776
Language: English
Release Date: September 24, 2008
The Oxford History of the United States is the most respected multi-volume history of our nation in print. The series includes three Pulitzer Prize-winners, a New York Times bestseller, and winners of prestigious Bancroft and Parkman Prizes. From Colony to Superpower is the only thematic volume commissioned...
by Timothy Rice
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2013
Ethnomusicologists believe that all humans, not just those we call musicians, are musical, and that musicality is one of the essential touchstones of the human experience. This insight raises big questions about the nature of music and the nature of humankind, and ethnomusicologists argue that to...
From the Stage to the Studio
How Fine Musicians Become Great Teachers
Language: English
Release Date: April 30, 2012
"The fact is, you will teach." from the Foreword by Stephen Clapp, Dean Emeritus, The Julliard School. Whether serving on the faculty at a university, maintaining a class of private students, or fulfilling an invitation as guest artist in a master class series, virtually all musicians will...
Jane Crow
The Life of Pauli Murray
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2017
Throughout her prodigious life, activist and lawyer Pauli Murray systematically fought against all arbitrary distinctions in society, channeling her outrage at the discrimination she faced to make America a more democratic country. In this definitive biography, Rosalind Rosenberg offers a poignant...