Oxford University Press

1600-1740 A History of US Book 2People are coming to America--all kinds of people. If you're European, you come in search of freedom or riches. If you're African, you come in chains. And what about the Indians, what is happening to them? Soon with the influx of so many people, thirteen unique colonies are born, each with its own story. Meet...

A compact biography and guide to one of the greatest English-language poets, T. S.          Eliot sheds new light on the themes and events that shaped the life and work of the        Nobel laureate....

'She wanted to swim far out, where no woman had swum before.' Kate Chopin was one of the most individual and adventurous of nineteenth-century american writers, whose fiction explored new and often startling territory. When her most famous story, The Awakening, was first published in 1899, it stunned readers with its frank portrayal of the inner...

Oral history is vital to our understanding of the cultures and experiences of the        past. Unlike written history, oral history forever captures people's feelings,        expressions, and nuances of language. But what exactly is oral history? How reliable        is the information gathered by oral history? And what does it take to become an...

This comprehensive and widely acclaimed study of British history since 1945 has been fully updated and expanded to include a chapter on the rise of New Labour. This edition contains some further updating....

This book is on fusion energy, burning hydrogen which is available from water. Here we describe how to use powerful lasers to ignite the hydrogen fuel. This book is about the physics of this future energy source and addresses people who work on it or want to understand its technical basis....