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Bargain Catalogue 2012 Oxbow Books Oxbow Books Bargain Catalogue 2012 Contents This, our complete bargain list for 2012, is at a whopping 80 pages, once again our biggest yet. It brings General Interest.........................................................................................................2 together well over a thousand budget books from Biography................................................................................................................2 publishers all over the world on our whole range of Method and Theory..............................................................................................3 subject areas, from the earliest hominids to modern Environmental Archaeology.................................................................................5 Chinatown in L.A. Heritage and Conservation.................................................................................6 Landscape Archaeology.........................................................................................7 Plenty here is brand new, including several shipments Evolution and World Prehistory.......................................................................10 of titles from the USA, and some great new reductions Prehistoric Britain....................................................................................................11 from publishers such as the McDonald Institute in Prehistoric Europe...................................................................................................15 Cambridge, the British Institute for Archaeology in World Archaeology...............................................................................................17 Ankara, and the Cotsen Institute in the States. We also Ancient Egypt.........................................................................................................19 have a wide range of fine new bargain stock from the Ancient Near East...............................................................................................26 Council for British Archaeology all at properly low Prehistoric Mediterranean...............................................................................33 prices. The Classical World...........................................................................................36 Ancient Greece....................................................................................................38 All stock is limited, and some titles will no doubt sell Greek Literature and Philosophy.....................................................................42 out fairly quickly, so its well worth getting orders in The Roman World..................................................................................................45 swiftly - feel free to phone to check availability. Please Roman Britain........................................................................................................48 also note that the Cotsen reductions were arranged just Latin Literature.......................................................................................................54 before going to press, and although we have some stock Late Antiquity and Byzantium..........................................................................56 of all of the titles, we are waiting for more to come in Islam.......................................................................................................................59 from the U.S. Anglo-Saxon........................................................................................................59 Early Medieval Europe.....................................................................................63 Bargain catalogues in previous years have seen orders Medieval History - Britain.................................................................................64 coming in by the truck load, but we will do everything Medieval History - Europe...................................................................................68 we can to get the books out to you as speedily as Medieval Art and Architecture........................................................................71 possible. We hope that you find plenty to tempt you Medieval Archaeology.........................................................................................73 here, and look forward to dealing with your orders. Medieval Philosophy and Literature............................................................77 Post-Medieval.........................................................................................................78 Order Form...........................................................................................................80 Once you’ve had a chance to peruse the catalogue at leisure, turn to the back page where you’ll find a handy order form! www.oxbowbooks.com General Interest Biography RITUAL SACRIFICE: A CONCISE HISTORY MALLOWAN’S MEMOIRS by Brenda Ralph Lewis by Max Mallowan Presents a brief history of the ritual activities adopted by With wit, erudition and a friendly tone, Mallowan recounts various cultures from prehistory to the present, including those his experiences at such sites as Ur, Nineveh and Tell Brak and, of Egypt and the New East, Greece and Rome, northern most notably, his major excavations at Nimrud, as well as his Europe, Central and South America, India, Africa, Central marriage to Agatha Christie. 320p, b/w pls (Harper Collins 1977, Asia and China and the Pacific Islands, finally touching on Pb 2001) Pb was £7.99 now £3.95 modern societies. 182p col pls, b/w illus (Sutton 2001) Pb was £12.99 now £4.95 FACES OF ARCHAEOLOGY IN GREECE: CARICATURES BY PIET DE JONG AMBASSADORS by Rachel Hood by Jonathan Wright Piet de Jong was draughtsman and architect to Sir Arthur Written with the general reader in mind, this book examines Evans for his excavations at Knossos, and worked with the history and development of diplomacy through the careers numerous other archaeologists on great sites in Greece. This of ambassadors. It is global in scope, taking in a wide range of book presents full colour cartoons in a striking modernist style cultures, states and empires, from Ancient Greece to Tudor of 40 of his archaeological colleagues together with England. 374p b/w pls (Harcourt 2006) Hb was £20.00 now £7.95 biographies, and a detailed biography of De Jong and his wide. 279P col illus (Leopards Head Press 1998) Hb was £26.00 now THE ANCIENT WORLD AT WAR £9.95 edited by Philip de Souza VISIONS OF ROME: THOMAS ASHBY, This well-illustrated history of warfare has a global scope from ARCHAEOLOGIST the familiar Greeks and Romans, to Egypt and the Near East, Celts, central Europeans, Olmecs, Aztecs and Incas, and the by Richard Hodges early armies of China, Japan and Korea. The chapters are each An academic biography of Thomas Ashby (1874-1931), the assigned to big names in their respective fields, and the text is first scholar and third Director of the British School at Rome. impressively detailed. 320p col illus (Thames & Hudson 2008) His ‘Roman Campagna in Classical Times’ remains a classic Hb was £28.00 now £12.95 work of topographic research. 134p, 40 b/w figs (British School at Rome 2000) Hb was £13.95 now £8.95 ANCIENT GLASS IN NATIONAL MUSEUMS SCOTLAND BORN TO REBEL: THE LIFE OF HARRIET BOYD by C.S. Lightfoot HAWES The objects in the Museum’s extensive collection range in date by Mary Allesbrook from the Late Bronze Age to the Middle Ages, spanning over At a time when few women travelled on their own, Harriet 2000 years of glassmaking. All four of the major techniques - Boyd discovered, excavated and published an account of the core-forming, casting , blowing and mould-blowing are Minoan town of Gournia in Crete. Mary Allesbrook’s represented. 208p b/w illus (National Museums Scotland 2007) lighhearted and extremely readable account of her mother’s Pb was £29.99 now £9.95 extraordinary experiences shows Harriet Boyd to be truly one of America’s pioneers. 236P illus (Oxbow Books revised ed 2002) THE STORY OF ENGLAND Pb was £12.95 now £6.95 by Tom Beaumont James CYRIL FOX : ARCHAEOLOGIST EXTRAORDINARY Recognising the equal merit of archaeology and history as evidence for reconstructing the history or story of England, by Charles Scott-Fox this very readable study focuses on the achievements of In this biography of Sir Cyril Fox (1882-1967), Charles Scott- England’s ordinary occupants from prehistory to the present Fox discovers that his father was an extrordinary man, an day who between them created the English landscape. 288p, inspiring teacher, an effective administrator, a humanist and 72 col and b/w pls, b/w figs (Tempus 2003) Pb was £12.99 now an influential archaeologist during the golden years of 20th £4.95 century archaeology. 256P b/w illus (Oxbow Books 2002) Hb was £25.00 now £9.95 OXFORDSHIRE: A LOOK AT THE PAST by Hilary L Turner BERNARD ASHMOLE : AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY A tour of the churches, monuments, trackways, markets, edited by Donna Kurtz houses and colleges of Oxfordshire, aimed at the resident and Recounts the author’s fascinating experiences one of the visitor alike. 128p, 30 col illus (Plotwood 1997) Pb £9.75 now outstanding classical archaeologists of the 20th century and £2.95 his armed service in both world wars. Also included are a full bibliography of Ashmole’s published writings, and essays on SEEING ENGLAND: ANTIQUARIES, TRAVELLERS his work at the British Museum and Kings College, London. AND NATURALISTS 236P, b/w illus (Oxbow 1994) HB was £16.95 now £4.95 by Charles
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