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In September 2022 Oxbow's bookshop and distribution business merged with Pen & Sword Books, a family run independent publisher of history books. As Casemate UK, this new distribution business will continue to bring you the best books in the field of archaeology and related disciplines from our partner publishers. The Oxbow Books publishing imprint remains as a separate entity, still sold and distributed exclusively by us. Browse the archaeology subjects below, or visit our Ancient History and Medieval History books landing pages in the menus above.

Torajan Ricebarn

Format: Paperback
Pages: 37
ISBN: 9780861590728
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1991
Series: British Museum Press Occasional Paper
Illustrations: b/w illus
Description:
A study of the Torajan ricebarn, a traditional Indonesian structure where the rice crop is stored, and where the main social life of the village takes place. This paper was stimulated by the construction of a ricebarn for the Museum of Mankind at the British Museum in 1987.
RRP: £7.50

Feet of Fines for Essex V

Format: Hardback
Pages: 200
ISBN: 9780904920185
Pub Date: 01 Jun 1991
Imprint: Leopard's Head Press
RRP: £8.50

Intellectual Culture in Elizabethan and Jacobean England

The Latin Writings of the Age
Format: Hardback
Pages: 762
ISBN: 9780905205731
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1990
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: xxvi + 762 pages.
Description:
Works written and published in Latin by Elizabethan and Jacobean writers covered a vast range, from brief poetic trifles to massive scholarly, humanist and scientific treatises. Among its authors were some of the greatest intellects of the day; and study of Latin dedications and commendatory verses makes clear the importance of Latinate culture in the Court as well as in the universities and learned professions. English renaissance Latin culture was the shared intellectual background for all educated people, England's bridge to the scientific, literary, political, philosophical and religious life of continental Europe.
Archaeological Results from Accelerator Dating Cover
Format: Paperback
Pages: 176
ISBN: 9780947816117
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1987
Description:
Presents research contributions drawing on radiocarbon dates produced by the Oxford Radiocarbon Accelerator.
RRP: £12.50

A Survey of Visitors to the British Museum (1982-1983)

Format: Paperback
Pages: 60
ISBN: 9780861590643
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1986
Series: British Museum Press Occasional Paper

The Stock Exchanges of Ireland

Format: Hardback
Pages: 273
ISBN: 9780905205342
Pub Date: 01 Dec 1986
Imprint: Francis Cairns Publications
Illustrations: 8 plates
Description:
The Stock Exchanges of Ireland traces the evolution of the markets which have operated in Ireland from their emergence (Dublin at the end of the eighteenth century, and later Belfast and Cork in the nineteenth) to the mid-1980s when this book was published. It starts with the historical circumstances - the beginnings of the Irish National Debt in the mid-eighteenth century and the problems of government borrowing in time of peace and war - which preceded the formation, in 1799, of the Dublin Stock Exchange. Later chapters examine many aspects of the market's development during the nineteenth century: changes in its practices and customs; the origins of some of the oldest surviving broking firms; the important trade in government securities between London and Dublin; the Irish railways; and the formation of joint stock companies in Ireland.

The British School at Athens

The First Hundred Years
Format: Hardback
Pages: 100
ISBN: 9780500960226
Pub Date: 24 Nov 1986
Description:
Published to celebrate the BSA's centenary in 1986, this book reflects on its influence in the development of Greek archaeology and Hellenic studies. Chapters look at the BSA in London, Athens and Knossos, before providing a detailed overview of the School's various excavation campaigns and life at the School more generally.
RRP: £20.00