Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs, 1939 - 1945

File — Box: 10, Folder: 1-3

Scope and Contents

33 issues from the Oxford Pamphlets on World Affairs series, short accounts of key topics in international history, economics, and politics published by Oxford University Press between 1939 and 1945. The full run contains 72 pamphlets. Issues included in the collection are as follows.

No. 8: R.R. Kuczynski, ‘Living-Space’ and Population Problems, 1939
No. 10: C.A. Macartney, The Danube Basin, 1939
No. 12: J.L. Brierly, Encirclement, 1939
No. 17: W. Arnold-Foster, The Blockade 1914-1919, 1939
No. 19: L.P. Thompson, Can Germany Stand the Strain?, 1939
No. 21: J. Walter Jones, The Nazi Conception of Law, 1939
No. 22: An Atlas of the War, 1939
No. 23: Geoffrey Crowther, The Sinews of War, 1939
No. 24: Sir William Beveridge, Blockade and the Civilian Population, 1939
No. 25: Geoffrey Crowther, Paying for the War, 1940
No. 26: Admiral Sir Herbert Richmond, The Naval Role in Modern Warfare, 1940
No. 27: J. Hampden Jackson, The Baltic, 1940
No. 29: J.A. Williamson, The Life and Growth of the British Empire, 1940
No. 31: James Parkes, Palestine, 1940
No. 33: William A. Robson, Labour Under Nazi Rule, 1940
No. 35: Cyril Falls, Was Germany Defeated in 1918?, 1940
No. 37: Arnold D. McNair, War and Treaties, 1940
No. 39: E.A. Walker, South Africa, 1940
No. 41: E.L. Woodward, The Origins of the War, 1940
No. 42: A.L. Goodhart, What Acts of War are Justifiable?, 1940
No. 43: Robin A. Humphreys, Latin America, 1941
No. 48: Barbara Ward, Italian Foreign Policy, 1941
No. 50: D.W. Brogan, American Foreign Policy, 1941
No. 51: G.M. Gathorne-Hardy, Norway and the War, 1941
No. 54: P.M. Roxby, China, 1942
No. 55: Sir John Pratt, Japan and the Modern World, 1942
No. 56: G.N. Clark, Belgium and the War, 1942
No. 57: Stanley Casson, Greece, 1942
No. 58: Sir John Pratt, Great Britain and China, 1942
No. 59: Ivor Thomas, Who Mussolini Is, 1942
No. 62: Violet Conolly, Soviet Asia, 1942
No. 63: Jasper H. Stembridge, An Atlas of the U.S.A., 1943
No. 66: R.C.K. Ensor, The Uphill War: Sept. 1939-Nov. 1942, 1943
No. 72: E.J. Passant, The Problem of Austria, 1945

Dates

1939 - 1945

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