The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography

The Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is a collection of 50,000 specially written biographies of men and women who have shaped all aspects of the British past, from the earliest times to the end of the year 2000. The stories of these lives--told in substantial, authoritative, and readable articles--will be published simultaneously in 60 print volumes and online in September 2004.

The Oxford DNB project is a unique amalgam of academic and publishing activity.
It is constituted as a research and publishing project of the University of Oxford, with research funding from the British Academy, and all other funding and resources from Oxford University Press.
The new dictionary will be published by Oxford University Press, the publisher (since 1917) of the first DNB and of the Oxford English Dictionary, and itself a department of the University of Oxford.

Replacing and extending the original Victorian Dictionary of National Biography, the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography is the largest co-operative research project ever undertaken in the humanities. Over a twelve-year period a team in Oxford has co-ordinated the work of 10,000 specialists worldwide to re-create one of the great reference works in English for the twenty-first century.

Due to its broad, accessible, and authoritative coverage, the Oxford DNB will in turn have a broad appeal: from scholarly researchers to university, college, and school students, professional writers to general readers of biography, local and family historians to librarians, archivists, and curators.

• 50,000 biographies and 60 million words record the lives of the men and women who shaped all aspects of British history, from the explorer Pytheas of the fourth century BC to modern figures who died before 31 December 2000.
• Over 36,000 newly written biographies, including 13,500 newly selected people from all historical periods.
• 10,000 expert contributors worldwide have written articles of up to 30,000 words in length.
• 450 specialist advisors and a 50-strong editorial team have worked for over 10 years to create this new authority.
• 10,000 portrait illustrations, shown next to the relevant biographies.

INTRODUCTORY OFFER
The Oxford DNB is available at the introductory price of £6500 until November 30 2004.
The published price will be £7500. (£ 1000 off the 60-volume print edition)

In addition if you purchase the Oxford DNB before publication you will also receive unlimited free access to the online edition for 12 months.

NOSTRE CONDIZIONI DI ACQUISTO

• Prezzo di offerta di £ 6500 per acquisti entro il 30/11/04 al cambio bancario del giorno di fatturazione senza commissione
• Spese di trasporto dei 60 volumi - del peso di oltre Kg. 100 - a nostro carico

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