| Oxford: Story of the City and the University Contributor(s): Lang, Andrew (Author) |
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ISBN: 1523745258 ISBN-13: 9781523745258 Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform OUR PRICE: $8.07 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: January 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Europe - Great Britain - General |
| Physical Information: 0.33" H x 5.25" W x 8" (0.37 lbs) 140 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - British Isles |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most old towns are like palimpsests, parchments which have been scrawled over again and again by their successive owners. Oxford, though not one of the most ancient of English cities, shows, more legibly than the rest, the handwriting, as it were, of many generations. The convenient site among the interlacing waters of the Isis and the Cherwell has commended itself to men in one age after another. Each generation has used it for its own purpose: for war, for trade, for learning, for religion; and war, trade, religion, and learning have left on Oxford their peculiar marks... |