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Media Reviews "...two guides that approach Oxford and Buenos Aires unconventionally. Oxford is at once a travel guide and an overview of the city's cultural and social history. Rather than rehash travel guides of Oxford-there are already thousands-Horan (former editor of the Oxford Times) writes a story of Oxford through the lives and thoughts of famous past residents and characters such as King Charles, Cardinal Newman, Percy Bysshe Shelley, Christopher Wren and Inspector Morse....This perspective makes for an interesting and entertaining read. Buenos Aires is more difficult to capture, yet Wilson succeeds admirably. ...Well referenced and indexed, both titles are highly recommended for academic and large public libraries."
-Library Journal on Oxford and Buenos Aires
"In a city that has history dating to the 700s, there is time for much to happen, and in 256 pages Moran covers a lot of it in such a way that Oxford never reads like a history text.
Horan, a writer living in Oxford, obviously loves the city or is at least very taken by its quixotic stories. Oxford is full of anecdotes and oddities.
Horan describes both "gown" and 'town" Oxford, not leaving out its factories and non-university life. Lest anyone think that Oxford is staid and living in its glorious past, Horan reminds readers that Oxford is dynamic...Reading these guides is the next best thing to actually going there with them in hand."
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 Athens
A Cultural and Literary History
Michael Llewellyn Smith
Modern Athens is a bustling, overgrown city, continually coming to terms with its illustrious past. Dominated by the Parthenon, the world-famous symbol of classical antiquity, it has been touched by every aspect of Greece's turbulent history, suf...
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 Brussels
A Cultural and Literary Companion
André de Vries
Starting out as a few huts in a forbidding swamp, Brussels took more than a thousand years to become the capital of the Duchy of Brabant, of Burgundy, and from 1830 the capital city of the new kingdom of Belgium. Today its name popularly evokes Euroc...
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 Buenos Aires
A Cultural History
Jason Wilson
The most European of South American cities, Buenos Aires evokes exile and nostalgia. A nineteenth-century replica of Paris or Madrid set adrift in an alien continent, its identity is neither of the Old World nor the New. The Argentine capital's r...
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 Calcutta (new ed.)
A Cultural History
Krishna Dutta; foreword by Anita Desai
In the popular imagination, Calcutta is a packed and pestilential sprawl, made notorious by the
Black Hole and the works of Mother Teresa. Kipling called it a City of Dreadful Night, and a century later V.S. Naipaul, Günter Grass, and Louis...
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 Cambridge
A Cultural and Literary History
Martin Garrett
From its origins in the thirteenth century the University of Cambridge has attracted many notable students and teachers, both brilliant and eccentric. From Erasmus to Bertrand Russell and Wittgenstein, the university has been at the forefront of phil...
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 Edinburgh
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Donald Campbell; foreword by Allan Massie
From beneath the heights of the Castle Rock, Scotland's capital spreads out in Gothic glory and Classical pomp, its Old Town and New Town juxtaposed across one of the most celebrated streets in Europe. Baptized "the Athens of the North"...
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 Edinburgh (new ed.)
A Cultural History
Donald Campbell; foreword by Allan Massie
From beneath the heights of the Castle Rock, Scotland's capital spreads out in Gothic glory and Classical pomp, its Old Town and New Town juxtaposed across one of the most celebrated streets in Europe. Baptized "the Athens of the North"...
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 Hamburg
A Cultural History
Matthew Jefferies
A cultural guide to a colorful European destination that has been overlooked for too long, Hamburg has much to offer its 8 million annual visitors. It is a popular misconception that Hamburg is a coastal city. In fact, despite possessing...
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 Havana
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Claudia Lightfoot
From its humble birth as a few thatched huts along the shoreline, Havana has emerged from five hundred years of turbulent history as the most fascinating city in the Caribbean. Spain’s “Pearl of the Antilles” was in turn plundered b...
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 Helsinki
A Cultural and Literary History
Neil Kent
Helsinki is one of the world's most northerly capitals, but it is by no means a city frozen in northern wastes. Situated along the southern shore of the Gulf of Finland, magnificent lakes and forests reach into Helsinki's urban heart, a rare...
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 Istanbul
A Cultural History
Peter Clark
A celebration of an extraordinary city steeped in history Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul: these are only three names that have been given to the city that straddles two continents, was the capital of two multinational empires and is...
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 Kingston
A Cultural and Literary Companion
David Howard
Kingston wrestles with the enduring legacy of colonial rags and riches, recent episodes of political strife and the occasional outburst of modern-day turf rivalry. Formerly the hub of Britain’s Caribbean Empire, the Jamaican capital provides an...
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 Lisbon
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Paul Buck
Lisbon stands alone as the last city on the western edge of Europe: a capital and port rich with a history of exploration and discovery, a place immersed in romantic dreams of its maritime past. Shackled by the decades of Salazar's dictatorship,...
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 Madrid
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Elizabeth Nash
Planted by royal whim in a harsh, sun-drenched tableland, Madrid flaunts its distinctive Spanish identity as the most vibrant of Europe's capitals. An imperial court, remote from external influences, produced durable curiosities like the siesta,...
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 Mexico City
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Nick Caistor
Mexico City is a place of superlatives. The oldest city in the Americas, it is now the world's largest urban area. Formerly the center of the Aztec and Spanish empires, this vast modern metropolis is home to over fifteen million people, mirroring...
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 New York City
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Eric Homberger
New York City epitomizes modernity. Its skyscrapers and neon nightlife, together with its inner-city ghettoes, symbolize all the excitements and tribulations of contemporary urban living. But the city’s powerful contemporary presence is also bu...
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 New York City (new ed.)
A Cultural History
Eric Homberger
New York City epitomizes modernity. Its skyscrapers and neon nightlife, together with its inner-city ghettoes, symbolize all the excitements and tribulations of contemporary urban living. But the city's powerful contemporary presence is...
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 Oxford
A Cultural and Literary Companion
David Horan
Celebrated by Matthew Arnold as the "city of dreaming spires," Oxford has a long and illustrious history as one of Europe's oldest university towns. Its colleges, libraries and museums, ranging from the medieval to the modern, testify t...
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 Prague
A Cultural History
Richard Burton
Located at the very center of Europe, Prague has been on the frontline of international political, intellectual, religious, and cultural conflicts for more than six centuries. Invaded and occupied by the Habsburgs, the Austro-Hungarian Empire, the Na...
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 Rome
A Cultural and Literary Companion
Jonathan Boardman
Rome, the "Eternal City," has provided endless inspiration for religious thinkers, poets, artists and philosophers. As the first urban space to boast over a million inhabitants, its ancient glories endure, reflecting the Roman Empire's...
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