Oxford University Press Usa: 518 books
Lyndon B. Johnson: Portrait of a President
Portrait of a President
Language: English
Release Date: January 8, 2004
Robert Dallek's brilliant two-volume biography of Lyndon Johnson has received an avalanche of praise. Michael Beschloss, in The Los Angeles Times, said that it "succeeds brilliantly." The New York Times called it "rock solid" and The Washington Post hailed it as "invaluable."...
Truth and Fiction in The Da Vinci Code:A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
A Historian Reveals What We Really Know about Jesus, Mary Magdalene, and Constantine
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2004
In his staggeringly popular work of fiction, Dan Brown states up front that the historical information in the The Da Vinci Code is all factually accurate. But is this claim true? As historian Bart D. Ehrman shows in this informative and witty book, The Da Vinci Code is filled with numerous historical...
by David Kilcullen
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
David Kilcullen is one of the world's most influential experts on counterinsurgency and modern warfare, a ground-breaking theorist whose ideas "are revolutionizing military thinking throughout the west" (Washington Post). Indeed, his vision of modern warfare powerfully influenced the United...
by Matthew Restall
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Language: English
Release Date: July 24, 2003
Here is an intriguing exploration of the ways in which the history of the Spanish Conquest has been misread and passed down to become popular knowledge of these events. The book offers a fresh account of the activities of the best-known conquistadors and explorers, including Columbus, Cortes, and...
by Matthew Restall, Felipe Fernandez-Armesto
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
With startling speed, Spanish conquistadors invaded hundreds of Native American kingdoms, took over the mighty empires of the Aztecs and Incas, and initiated an unprecedented redistribution of the world's resources and balance of power. They changed the course of history, but the myth they established...
Dividing the Spoils:The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
The War for Alexander the Great's Empire
Language: English
Release Date: April 6, 2011
Alexander the Great conquered an enormous empire--stretching from Greece to the Indian subcontinent--and his death triggered forty bloody years of world-changing warfare. These were years filled with high adventure, intrigue, passion, assassinations, dynastic marriages, treachery, shifting alliances,...
The Vietnam War:A Concise International History
A Concise International History
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2008
Hailed as a "pithy and compelling account of an intensely relevant topic" (Kirkus Reviews), this wide-ranging volume offers a superb account of a key moment in modern U.S. and world history. Drawing upon the latest research in archives in China, Russia, and Vietnam, Mark Lawrence creates an extraordinary,...
The Performance of Politics:Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
Obama's Victory and the Democratic Struggle for Power
Language: English
Release Date: October 13, 2010
Contemporary observers of politics in America often reduce democracy to demography. Whatever portion of the vote not explained by the class, gender, race, and religious differences of voters is attributed to the candidates' positions on the issues of the day. But are these the only--or even the main--factors...
A Century of Spies:Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Intelligence in the Twentieth Century
Language: English
Release Date: August 17, 1995
Here is the ultimate inside history of twentieth-century intelligence gathering and covert activity. Unrivalled in its scope and as readable as any spy novel, A Century of Spies travels from tsarist Russia and the earliest days of the British Secret Service to the crises and uncertainties of today's...
Everyday Stalinism:Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Ordinary Life in Extraordinary Times: Soviet Russia in the 1930s
Language: English
Release Date: March 4, 1999
Here is a pioneering account of everyday life under Stalin, written by one of our foremost authorities on modern Russian history. Focusing on urban areas in the 1930s, Sheila Fitzpatrick shows that with the adoption of collectivization and the first Five-Year Plan, everyday life was utterly transformed....
After Thermopylae: The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
The Oath of Plataea and the End of the Graeco-Persian Wars
Language: English
Release Date: April 20, 2013
The Battle of Plataea in 479 BCE is one of world history's unjustly neglected events. It decisively ended the threat of a Persian conquest of Greece. It involved tens of thousands of combatants, including the largest number of Greeks ever brought together in a common cause. For the Spartans, the driving...
Freedom Riders:1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2006
Here is the definitive account of a dramatic and indeed pivotal moment in American history, a critical episode that transformed the civil rights movement in the early 1960s. Raymond Arsenault offers a meticulously researched and grippingly written account of the Freedom Rides, one of the most compelling...
The Prince of Medicine: Galen in the Roman Empire
Galen in the Roman Empire
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Galen of Pergamum (A.D. 129 - ca. 216) began his remarkable career tending to wounded gladiators in provincial Asia Minor. Later in life he achieved great distinction as one of a small circle of court physicians to the family of Emperor Marcus Aurelius, at the very heart of Roman society. Susan Mattern's...
Fairness and Freedom:A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
A History of Two Open Societies: New Zealand and the United States
Language: English
Release Date: January 13, 2012
Fairness and Freedom compares the history of two open societies--New Zealand and the United States--with much in common. Both have democratic polities, mixed-enterprise economies, individuated societies, pluralist cultures, and a deep concern for human rights and the rule of law. But all of these...