British Academy Occasional Papers – serie
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Joined-Up Government
Häftad, 2005
307 kr
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'Joined- up government' is a key theme of modern government. The Labour government, first elected in 1997, decided that intractable problems such as social exclusion, drug addiction and crime could not be resolved by any single department of government. Instead, such problems had to be made the …
Information Technology and Scholarship
Applications in the Humanities and Social Sciences
Av Coppock, Terry Coppock
Häftad, 2000
780 kr
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The impact of information technology is reviewed by scholars who are leading pioneers in the application of that technology to research in their disciplines. From both a general appreciation of their fields, and from their own personal research, they discuss whether this impact amounts to a …
Images and Artefacts of the Ancient World
Av Alan K. Bowman, Michael Brady
Häftad, 2005
625 kr
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These fifteen papers explore the ways in which recent developments in imaging, image analysis, and image display and diffusion can be applied to objects of material culture in order to enhance historians' understanding of the period from which the objects came (in this case, the remote past). In …
Hutton and Butler
Lifting the Lid on the Workings of Power
Häftad, 2004
255 kr
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These essays offer penetrating insights into the events and controversies that have dominated the news agenda for the last two years.Never has the path to a British war been mapped so fully and swiftly as the road to Baghdad in 2002-3. Between them, the Hutton and Butler reports lifted the lid on …
British Sociology Seen from Without and Within
Av Halsey, A H Halsey m. fl.
Häftad, 2005
285 kr
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These eleven essays look at the current state of sociology in Britain from a number of intriguing perspectives. How important is it for British sociologists to be aware of the historical development of their subject in this country? How is British sociology seen by British scholars working in …
Britain's Pensions Crisis
History and Policy
Av Hugh Pemberton, Pat Thane m. fl.
Häftad, 2006
471 kr
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British pensions are in crisis. Yet in all the discussion of what exactly the crisis consists of, and how it might be addressed, attention to the history of how the crisis has come about is surprisingly lacking. History has much to tell us about how pensions have developed in Britain, how that …
Marxist History-writing for the Twenty-first Century
Av Wickham, Chris Wickham
Häftad, 2007
332 kr
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Since 1989, there have been many claims that Marxist approaches to history are out of date. As the challenge of more recent events shows, however, history has not stopped and historical change continues to need explanation. There is still plenty of space for structural analysis of how history in …
History, Commemoration and National Preoccupation
Trafalgar 1805-2005
Av Holger Hoock
Häftad, 2007
316 kr
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This volume explores the commemoration of the Battle of Trafalgar and Admiral Lord Nelson's death over the past two centuries. It includes the extraordinary celebrations of 2005, which saw hundreds of official, commercial, and popular events celebrating and commemorating the bicentenary of …
The International Politics of EU-China Relations
Av Liu Fei, David Kerr
Häftad, 2007
532 kr
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In the past 10 years the European Union and China have emerged as new international actors. They have an increasingly diverse relationship covering economy, politics, technology, culture and education; but beyond these two-way linkages the EU-China development is also changing the international …
Cabinets and the Bomb
Häftad, 2007
935 kr
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The nuclear weapons question runs through post-1940 British history like an irradiated thread. It represents part of the hidden history of twentieth-century Britain, given the high level of technical secrecy and political sensitivity in which the bomb was - and is - embedded. This volume publishes …
Mexico City through History and Culture
Av Newson, Linda A. Newson m. fl.
Inbunden, 2009
363 kr
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These essays celebrate Mexico City as a centre of cultural creativity, diversity, and dynamism, trace its history from the founding of the Aztec city of Tenochtitlan to the present day, and explore how the varied experiences of its inhabitants have been represented in poetry, film, and photography. …
Dispossession and Displacement
Forced Migration in the Middle East and North Africa
Av Dawn Chatty, Bill Finlayson
Häftad, 2010
427 kr
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This volume explores the extent to which forced migration has become a defining feature of life in the Middle East and North Africa. The papers present research on refugees, internally displaced peoples, as well as 'those who remain', from Afghanistan in the East to Morocco in the West.Dealing with …
Risk, Democratic Citizenship and Public Policy
Av Albert Weale
Häftad, 2002
277 kr
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In recent years there has been growing concern about the effectiveness and legitimacy of public decision making about risk, sparked by a series of high profile issues that have made headline news. These ten essays analyse the public understanding of risk and the policy making process. BSE, …
