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Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Hanna Diamond. Oxford University Press
- 2008-06-22
Fleeing Hitler: France 1940. Hanna Diamond. Oxford University Press [pounds sterling]16.99. xv + 255 pages. ISBN 978-0-19-280618-5. The capitulations of France to the Germans in 1940 inevitably meant the loss of Paris, the prize which had eluded Wilhelm II in 1914. The threat of Nazi occupation caused panic. The departure...
Jihad amid the dreaming spires
- 2007-07-07
The chaos and fear wrought by Islamic extremism this week would, ordinarily, seem a thousand miles from what we call the 'Oxford bubble'. Shocking, of course, most students would say, but emerging from this latest essay crisis is of greater immediate worry. And until this term, I'd think you crazy...
Subtle champion
- 2006-11-18
From J. Davis Sir: Charlie Boss's article on the reforms of government in Oxford University is dominated by a major misconception ('Is Oxford about to get rid of its Vice-Chancellor?', 4 November). Dr Hood, he says, is a controversial figure. Yes, exactly, and intended to be so. The...
Business steps up to support research.
- 2006-09-28
Byline: Ralph Cunningham Sep 28, 2006 (International Tax Review - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Mike Devereux has been appointed the inaugural director of the Oxford Centre for Business Taxation. Previously with the University of Warwick, where he was professor of economics, Devereux takes...
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice
- 2006-08-08
Freedom Riders: 1961 and the Struggle for Racial Justice. By Raymond Arsenault. Oxford University Press, 640 pp., $32.50. THE FREEDOM RIDERS have suffered from many misconceptions and distortions about their role in the civil rights struggle. In the movie The Ladykillers, Tom Hanks describes the Freedom Riders to a...
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges.(Book review)
- 2006-06-22
Morocco: The Islamist Awakening and Other Challenges. By Marvine Howe. Oxford University Press, 2005.448 pp. $29.95, paper. Morocco has been praised by the World Bank for having "one of the most successful programs of human development and political liberalization in the Middle East...
Birley, Anthony R.: The Roman Government of Britain.(Book review)
- 2006-03-22
Birley, Anthony R. The Roman Government of Britain Oxford: Oxford University Press 532 pp., $150.00, ISBN 0-19-925237-8 Publication Date: December 2005 Anthony Birley, retired from a chair in Germany and currently honorary professor in the department of classics and ancient history, University...
Human Rights.
- 2006-01-01
Oxford University Press (OUP; Cary NC) has published "International Human Rights Lexicon," a 470-page softbound book that presents a survey of the scope and significance of international human rights law. Rather than giving an overview of the field, the book examines specific cases involving the range...
Reading Islam
- 2005-05-17
PRIOR TO September 11, 2001, a substantial majority in the United States approached Islam with a strange kind of detailed ignorance. For many Americans the words Islam and Muslims evoked disjointed images of violence, religious fanaticism, rejection of the modern world, mistreated women, and praying men bowing in the direction...
New Sources of Development Finance.(Brief Article)(Book Review)
- 2005-03-22
NEW SOURCES OF DEVELOPMENT FINANCE A.B. Atkinson, ed. (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004), 251 pages The urgent need for increased development aid promises to be high on the international agenda for 2005. In Europe, the newly committed Blair government takes on both the...
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