HISTORY OXF UNIV PRESS VOL 4 HOUP C

Erscheinungsjahr 2017
ISBN: 978-0-19-957479-7
Verlag: ACADEMIC

Buch, Englisch, 798 Seiten, Format (B × H): 175 mm x 250 mm, Gewicht: 1527 g

The story of Oxford University Press spans five centuries of printing and publishing. Beginning with the first presses set up in Oxford in the fifteenth century and the later establishment of a university printing house, it leads through the publication of bibles, scholarly works, and the Oxford English Dictionary, to a twentieth-century expansion that created the largest university press in the world, playing a part in research, education, and language learning in more than 50 countries. With access to extensive archives, the four-volume History of OUP traces the impact of long-term changes in printing technology and the business of publishing. It also considers the effects of wider trends in education, reading, and scholarship, in international trade and the spreading influence of the English language, and in cultural and social history - both in Oxford and through its presence around the world.

In the decades after 1970 Oxford University Press met new challenges but also a period of unprecedented growth. In this concluding volume, Keith Robbins and 21 expert contributors assess OUP's changing structure, its academic mission, and its business operations through years of economic turbulence and continuous technological change. The Press repositioned itself after 1970: it brought its London Business to Oxford, closed its Printing House, and rapidly developed new publishing for English language teaching in regions far beyond its traditional markets. Yet in an increasingly competitive worldwide industry, OUP remained the department of a major British university, sharing its commitment to excellence in scholarship and education. The resulting opportunities and sometimes tensions are traced here through detailed consideration of OUP's business decisions, the vast range of its publications, and the dynamic role of its overseas offices. Concluding in 2004 with new forms of digital publishing, The History of OUP sheds new light on the cultural, educational, and business life of the English-speaking world in the late twentieth century.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Robbins

Robbins, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Weltgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Mentalitäts- und Sozialgeschichte
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Unternehmensgeschichte, Einzelne Branchen und Unternehmer
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- General Introduction

- Preface

- List of Colour Plates

- List of Figures

- List of Maps

- List of Tables and Graphs

- List of Abbreviations

- List of Contributors

- Maps

- 1: Keith Robbins: Repositioning Oxford University Press, 1970-2004

- PART I: The Business of a University Press

- 2: C. S. Nicholls: The Waldock Report and After, 1970-1974

- 3: Howard Cox and Daniel Raff: Business Performance, 1975-2004

- 4: Lawrence Goldman: The Press and the Wider University

- 5.1: Adrian Bullock: Changing Focus, 1973-1989: Moving the London Business to Oxford

- 5.2: Dawn D'Arcy Nell: Changing Focus, 1973-1989: Distribution: Neasden to Corby, 1970-1985

- 5.3: Angus Phillips: Changing Focus, 1973-1989: The Closure of the Printing House

- 6: Simon Wratten: Sales and Marketing

- 7: Paul Luna: Technology

- 8: Paul Luna: Design 200

- 9: Nick Wilson: Working life in Oxford

- 10: William Whyte: Architecture, Building Designs, and Jericho

- PART II: Publications

- 11: Andrew Schuller: Academic Publishing

- 12: Angus Phillips: Trade Publishing

- 13: Simon Catling: UK School Book Publishing

- 14: Elizabeth Knowles: Dictionaries and Reference

- 15: Martin Richardson: Journals

- 16: Simon Wright: Music Publishing, Bibles, and Hymnals

- 17: Roy Foster: The Poetry Question

- PART III: Publishing Worldwide

- 18: Dawn D'Arcy Nell: English Language Teaching

- 19: Martin Richardson: OUP España

- 20: Thorin Tritter: New York

- 21: Thorin Tritter: Australia, Canada, and New Zealand

- 22: Atalanta Myerson: East Asia

- 23: Padmini Ray Murray: India

- 24: Ali Raza: Pakistan

- 25: Dawn D'Arcy Nell: Africa

- Conclusion

- Appendices

- I: Chronology, 1970-2004

- II: Delegates of the Press, 1970-2004

- III: Secretaries to the Delegates, Printers to the University and Publisher to the University, 1970-2004

- Archival Overview

- Index

Über Autor(innen)

Keith Robbins was educated at Bristol Grammar School, and Magdalen and St. Antony's Colleges in Oxford. He has held Chairs of History at Bangor and Glasgow Universities and lectured across Europe and in Russia, China, the United States, Canada and Australia. He is a former President of the Historical Association.