History
The potential range of Oxford Handbooks in History is endless: history is concerned with everything that human beings have done. Thus volumes already published range chronologically from medieval times to the Cold War; regionally from the Americas to China; topically through race, religions, and gender to food; methodologically from oral history to environmental. A similar spread can be found in further volumes currently being planned. None of these collections claim to exhaust their subject, and one feature of the online series will be to add new topics to those already covered in existing handbooks. The aim of the series is to identify areas and approaches in history commanding widespread or awakening interest among scholars and students, to set out the current state of research into them, and to point the way towards further growth in our understanding. Newly commissioned essays will appear online as soon as they are ready, often in advance of the volumes of which they will form part. Existing essays will be regularly updated. The aim is to make readily and constantly available the present state of our knowledge of the past, and to explore new ways into its future.
Editor in Chief
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William Doyle is an authority on the history of early modern France and the age of revolution. Author of fifteen books and editor of several more (including The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime), he has taught at universities in the UK, France, and the USA. He is a Fellow of the British Academy.
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OUP: How did you become involved with the Oxford Handbook series?
Doyle: As the author of a number of books published by OUP, and general editor of their six-volume Short Oxford History of France, I was invited soon after the launch of the Oxford Historical Handbooks to edit The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime.
OUP: What did your work as a volume editor on The Oxford Handbook of the Ancien Regime entail?
Doyle: It involved recruiting over 30 contributors and molding their pieces into a substantial volume. This gave me some experience of the series and its ambitions, as well as the problems of keeping it moving and up-to-date.
OUP: What aspect of the Oxford Handbooks Online resource drew you to sign on as the History Editor in Chief?
Doyle: Putting the entire contents on line, with the possibility of flexible updating, easy addition of new items, and fast-tracking incoming contributions ahead of final projected volumes all seemed to be welcome improvements to the series as it existed; so that when an invitation came to oversee the whole enterprise in history, it seemed very welcome and worthwhile.
Editorial Board
| Senior Editors | ||
| Christopher Clark University of Connecticut Robert Bickers University of Bristol |
John Darwin Oxford University Rebecca Earle University of Warwick |
Robert Moore Professor Emeritus of History at Newcastle University |
Volume Editors
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Eiichiro Azuma |
Price V. Fishback University of Arizona James B. Gardner The Smithsonian Edward Gray Florida State University Karen Hagemann University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill Paula Hamilton University of Technology, Sydney Leslie M. Harris Emory University Frederick E. Hoxie University of Illinois Mark Jackson University of Exeter Jane Kamensky Brandeis University Ruth Karras University of Minnesota Amy Koehlinger Florida State University Brian P. Levack University of Texas at Austin Philippa Levine University of Texas at Austin Philip Morgan Johns Hopkins University A. Dirk Moses University of Sydney Jose C. Moya University of California, Los Angeles Catherine O'Donnell Arziona State University Robert L. Paquette Hamilton College John Parker University of London |
Devin O. Pendas Ripon College Cuddeson Jeffrey Pilcher University of Minnesota Pierre Purseigle University of Birmingham Richard Reid University of London Paul W. Rhode University of Michigan Donald A. Ritchie United States Senate Sonya Rose University of Michigan Ulinka Rublack University of Cambridge Adam R. Seipp Texas A&M University Helmut Walser Smith Vanderbilt University Mark M. Smith University of South Carolina Dan Stone Royal Holloway University of London Shirley Elizabeth Thompson University of Texas at Austin Frank Trentmann Birkbeck College, University of London Claudia Verhoeven Cornell University Wayne Wilson The LA84 Foundation David K. Yoo University of California, Los Angeles Nancy Beck Young University of Houston |
We want to hear from you.
Oxford Handbooks Online is a partnership between the publisher and the academic community, and we invite your questions about the content. Please feel welcome to email Adina Berk, our History editor, with comments, suggestions, or questions.