New Content
Happy new year from Oxford University Press! The latest update to Oxford Reference Online: Premium Collection includes four superb titles, containing plenty of fascinating and scholarly content, focussing mainly on quotations and world history and politics. There are two new titles — The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics and The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations — which both contain outstanding content, boasting comprehensive and authoritative coverage of Australian political life and thought, and a rich array of American quotations.
Subscribers also benefit from two new editions — The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and A Dictionary of Contemporary World History.
Another exciting update to the Premium Collection is the addition of three fantastic new Timelines — Settlements of North America, The American Revolution and The American Civil War. These provide a chronological account of events in North America from 1200 BCE to 1877, with each moment linked to an entry in a trusted Oxford title in the Premium Collection.
Subscribers also benefit from two new editions — The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Quotations and A Dictionary of Contemporary World History.
Another exciting update to the Premium Collection is the addition of three fantastic new Timelines — Settlements of North America, The American Revolution and The American Civil War. These provide a chronological account of events in North America from 1200 BCE to 1877, with each moment linked to an entry in a trusted Oxford title in the Premium Collection.
New Functionality
In addition to these new titles, this update offers further progress with linking together of all the biographical entries in the Premium Collection, with an extra 15,000+ new links added. That brings the current total to over 20,000! Browsing and exploring the people included in Premium Collection is now even easier and more satisfying — seen through all their different contexts, the wealth of biographical content on offer can now be truly appreciated. Even better, subscribers will also be offered links to biographies in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, the American National Biography, Grove Music Online, and Grove Art Online*. Look forward to the addition of many thousands more links in forthcoming updates!*If the subscriber also subscribes to these products.
Find out about Walpurgis Night, read quotes from Einstein, and discover the meaning of life - view a range of sample entries from the Premium Collection here!
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NEW TITLES
The Oxford Companion to Australian PoliticsFirst Edition
Edited by Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts
Over 400 entries
The Oxford Companion to Australian Politics is the first scholarly and comprehensive account of Australian political life and thought that gives attention to all aspects of national politics and to Australian politics in regional, international and global contexts. It also takes full account of the colonial origins of Australian politics and includes entries on indigenous politics, frontier politics and settler societies.
Over 400 specially commissioned entries cover such topics as biographies, key events, policy issues, colonial origins, indigenous politics, organisations and institutions, settler societies and frontier politics. Individual entries vary in length, from longer interpretive essays of 4,000 words commissioned from acknowledged experts in particular fields — of the kind used in The Oxford Companion to Politics of the World — to shorter, more factual entries. This Companion is an essential reference source for those teaching or studying Australian politics and culture, as well as the general reader with an interest in Australian and/or world affairs.
Brian Galligan is Professor of Political Science at the University of Melbourne
Winsome Roberts is a lecturer with the School of Social Work at the University of Melbourne
Print edition ISBN: 9780195555431
Publishing history: First published 2007
Copyright: © Brian Galligan and Winsome Roberts 2007, 2008
The Oxford Dictionary of American Quotations
First edition
Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner Nearly 6000 quotations
"This compilation is one of that special breed of reference books that is both suitable for browsing and satisfactory for ready-reference use." — Booklist
With nearly 6,000 quotations, this volume offers a stimulating picture of American culture and life. Up-to-date and thoroughly researched, the Dictionary covers more than five hundred topics, giving readers a nutshell history of what great (and not-so-great) Americans had to say about each one. This thoughtfully laid out compilation represents Americans ranging from the famous to the infamous, and from the distant as well as recent past, from George Abbott to Fran Lebowitz to Frank Zappa and numerous personalities, presidents, and analysts.
This is an essential browser-friendly reference not only for writers, editors, teachers and students, but also for anyone interested in the great people and ideas of American history.
Margaret Miner and Hugh Rawson are also the editors of The New International Dictionary of Quotations, A Dictionary of Quotations from the Bible, A Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare, The American Heritage Dictionary of American Quotations, and The Penguin Dictionary of Quotations from Shakespeare. Miner is also the author Resonant Gaps: Between Baudelaire and Wagner; Rawson is also the author of Wicked Words, Devious Derivations, Unwritten Laws: The Unofficial Rules of Life As Handed Down by Murphy and Other Sages, and Rawson's Dictionary of Euphemisms and Other Doubletalk. They live in Roxbury, Connecticut.
Print edition ISBN: 9780195168235; 0195168232
Publishing history: First published 2006
Copyright: © 2006, 2008 by Hugh Rawson and Margaret Miner
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The Concise Oxford Dictionary of QuotationsFifth edition
Over 9000 quotations
Edited by Susan Ratcliffe
Based on the critically acclaimed sixth edition of the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, this fascinating collection contains over 9,000 diverse quotations from over 2,400 authors. Ranging from historical and literary quotations to the recent sayings of public figures, this book is a browser’s delight, an inspiration for speechmakers, and an invaluable reference tool.
Print edition ISBN: 9780198614173; 0198614179
Publishing history: First edition published 1964; second edition published 1981; third edition published 1993; revised third edition published 1997; fourth edition published 2001; revised fourth edition published 2003; fifth edition published 2006
Copyright: © O.U.P. 1993, 1997, 2001, 2006, 2008
A Dictionary of Contemporary World History
From 1900 to the Present
Third edition
Jan Palmowski
Over 2600 entries
"Concise, current information ... highly recommended" — Choice, the magazine of the American Library Association
This authoritative dictionary distinguishes itself by providing informative and analytical entries on the most important people, organizations and events that have shaped our history from 1900 to the present day. Fully updated and revised, and with over 2,600 entries, this volume gives excellent 'global' coverage and – while also providing an enhanced coverage of the European Union – avoids presenting an exclusively 'Euro-centric' perspective of World History. The new edition boasts a wealth of new material including entry-level web links, extended coverage of historical context in the country entries, new and expanded biographical entries on figures such as Angela Merkel and President 'Lula' of Brazil, and useful tables including lists of office-holders for countries and organizations and winners of the Nobel Peace Prize.
Written by an authority in the field, this is a comprehensive reference work that will prove invaluable to a range of readers from students of history, politics, and international relations to people involved in politics, social studies and related disciplines, as well as the general reader interested in the modern world.
Jan Palmowski is Senior Lecturer in European Studies (German Politics and European Institutions) King's College, University of London.
Print edition ISBN: 9780199295678
Publishing history: First published as the Dictionary of Twentieth Century World History 1997; reprinted with corrections 1998; second edition 2003; reissued with new covers 2004; third edition 2008
Copyright: © Oxford University Press 1997, 2003, 2004, 2008
