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Mediterranean Urbanization 800-600 BC
Av OSBORNE, Robin Osborne m. fl.
Inbunden, 2005
1074 kr
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Urban life as we know it in the Mediterranean began in the early Iron Age: settlements of great size and internal diversity appear in the archaeological record. This collection of essays offers for the first time a systematic discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, …
Defining the Discographic Self
Desert Island Discs in Context
Av Julie Brown, Nicholas Cook m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1422 kr
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The radio programme Desert Island Discs has run almost continuously since 1942, and represents a unique record of the changing place of music in British society. In 2011, recognising its iconic status, the BBC created an online archive that includes podcasts of all programmes from 1976 on, and many …
When the Party's Over
The Politics of Fiscal Squeeze in Perspective
Av HOOD ET AL, Christopher Hood m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
1123 kr
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The politics of cutting public spending or raising taxes (or both) has dominated politics in many democracies in recent years. A new era of conflict has developed, with old political alignments being tested and new battles emerging over whose expectations are to be disappointed and who should be …
Printing Colour 1700 - 1830
Histories, Techniques, Functions, and Receptions
Av Margaret Morgan Grasselli, Elizabeth Savage
Inbunden, 2024
2660 kr
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Printing Colour 1700-1830 offers a broad-ranging examination of the rich period of invention, experimentation and creativity surrounding colour printing in Europe between two critically important developments, four-colour separation printing around 1710, and chromolithography around 1830. Its 28 …
Gertrude Bell and Iraq
A life and legacy
Av Collins, Paul Collins m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
1333 kr
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This is a major re-evaluation of the life and legacy of Gertrude Lowthian Bell (1868-1926), the renowned scholar, explorer, writer, archaeologist, and British civil servant. The book examines Gertrude Bell's role in shaping British policy in the Middle East in the first part of the 20th century, …
The Birth of the Codex
Av Colin H. Roberts, T. C. Skeat
Häftad, 1987
255 kr
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In The Codex, published in 1954, C.H. Roberts studied the process by which in the early centuries of our era the roll as the vehicle for literature was replaced by the codex, which has remained the format of the book ever since. New evidence that has accumulated in the last thirty years has set …
Proceedings: Vol. LXXIII (1987)
Inbunden, 1989
2279 kr
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Lectures: M. Hart: The SERC Experiment in Science-Based Archaeology; M. Woods: Plato's Division of the Soul; Lord Carver: Strategy in the Twentieth Century; C. J. Becker: Farms and Villages in Denmark from the Late Bronze Age to the Viking Period; E. M. Jope: Celtic Art: Expressiveness and …
New Developments in Archaeological Science
A Joint Symposium of the Royal Society and the British Academy, February 1991
Av Pollard, A. M. Pollard
Inbunden, 1992
871 kr
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In order to make the contents of the British Academy's Proceedings more accessible to readers, the following changes have been made:The large annual volumes have been replaced by an irregular series of slimmer volumes, published about three times a year, with most of the volumes containing papers …
The Development of Industrial Society in Ireland
The Third Joint Meeting of the Royal Irish Academy and the British Academy
Av Goldthorpe, J. H. Goldthorpe m. fl.
Inbunden, 1993
1030 kr
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An important text for scholars and students on an aspect of Irish society that has been inadequately covered elsewhere. Ireland is one of the nations of the western world in which industrialization was longest delayed. In these papers, sociologists, economists and political scientists offer 'rich …
The Meeting of Two Worlds
Europe and the Americas 1492-1650
Av Bray, Warwick Bray
Inbunden, 1994
1333 kr
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Heroic endeavour or diaster of hemispheric proportions? What is certain is that Columbus's discovery of the New World resulted in biological and cultural exchanges unprecedented in the history of human populations.This volume brings together 11 scholars - from both sides of the Atantic and from the …
The History of English Law
Centenary Essays on `Pollock and Maitland'
Av Hudson, John Hudson
Inbunden, 1996
1157 kr
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Pollock and Maitland's classic The History of English Law before the time of Edward I is perhaps unique amongst late Victorian historical works in remaining the fundamental text on its subject a hundred years later. The current volume gathers leading legal historians to celebrate Maitland's …
Agriculture in Egypt from Pharaonic to Modern Times
Av Bowman, Alan K. Bowman m. fl.
Inbunden, 1999
1687 kr
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From the Pharaohs to the United Arab Republic of the present day, Egypt's agriculture has been subject to very different forms of political power and organization. The papers in this volume draw on the abundant documentary and archaeological evidence to analyse and compare the patterns of …
Proceedings of the British Academy: Volume 101, 1998 Lectures and Memoirs
Inbunden, 2000
2180 kr
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Volume 101 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 British Academy lectures and 12 obituaries of Fellows of the British Academy.
Greek Personal Names
Their Value as Evidence
Av Elaine Matthews, Simon Hornblower
Inbunden, 2000
995 kr
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Within the great diversity of their world, the assertion of origin was essential to the ancient Greeks in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbours and strangers. Each person's name might carry both identity and origin - 'I am' . . . inseparable …
Henry Sidgwick
Inbunden, 2001
522 kr
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These essays constitute a welcome addition to the current re-engagement with the ethical thought of a prominent late Victorian philosopher and reformer. Henry Sidgwick wrote the first professional work of modern moral philosophy, yet one century after his death his thought remains relevant to the …
The Origin of Human Social Institutions
Inbunden, 2001
1068 kr
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These papers bring an interdisciplinary approach to bear on what is arguably the central question in the study of human social evolution: how did the simple hunting and foraging bands of the Upper Palaeolithic evolve into the institutionally complex societies of the so-called Neolithic Revolution? …
The Evolution of Cultural Entities
Av WHEELER, Michael Wheeler m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
1037 kr
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Ever since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether this comparison is 'just a metaphor', or …
Representations of Empire
Rome and the Mediterranean World
Av BOWMAN, Alan K. Bowman m. fl.
Inbunden, 2002
897 kr
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The essays in this volume cover the whole of the period in which Rome dominated the Mediterranean world. The belief shared by all the contributors is that the Roman empire is best understood from the standpoint of the Mediterranean world looking in to Rome, rather than from Rome looking out. The …
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 115 Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, I
Inbunden, 2003
1785 kr
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Volume 115 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 20 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy and an essay on James Bryce (President of the Academy, 1913-1917). Memoirs of Fellows have previously been published in the same annual Proceedings volume as that …
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 117
2001 Lectures
Inbunden, 2003
1785 kr
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Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.
Indo-Iranian Languages and Peoples
Av SIMS-WILLIAMS, Nicholas Sims-Williams
Inbunden, 2003
1245 kr
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The exciting recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists.In the last few years the materials available for the study of the older Indo-Iranian …
Fifty Years of Prosopography
The Later Roman Empire, Byzantium and Beyond
Inbunden, 2003
803 kr
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This book presents the first interdisciplinary discussion by leading international historians of the important methodological tool known as prosopography - the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent of computer technology it is now possible to …
Germany, Europe, and the Politics of Constraint
Inbunden, 2003
1552 kr
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The process of European integration is marked both by continued deepening and widening, and by growing evidence of domestic disquiet and dissent. Against this background, this volume examines three key themes: the challenge to the power of member states - as subjects of European integration - to …
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 120, Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, II
Inbunden, 2003
2180 kr
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Volume 120 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 121, 2002 Lectures
Inbunden, 2003
1390 kr
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Volume 121 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.
The Speciation of Modern Homo Sapiens
Av Crow, T. J. Crow
Häftad, 2004
394 kr
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This is the first volume to address directly the question of the speciation of modern Homo sapiens. The subject raises profound questions about the nature of the species, our defining characteristic (it is suggested it is language), and the brain changes and their genetic basis that make us …
The Promotion of Knowledge
Lectures to Mark the Centenary of the British Academy 1902-2002
Av John Morrill
Inbunden, 2004
891 kr
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To mark its centenary in 2002, the British Academy invited leading universities around the UK to host public lectures on the current state of and future prospects for a cross section of the disciplines which fall within the Academy's compass. The Academy proposed the discipline and the universities …
Trust and Democratic Transition in Post-Communist Europe
Av MARKOVA, Ivana Markova
2004
1068 kr
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These ten essays are concerned with theoretical and empirical analyses of trust and distrust in post-Communist Europe after the collapse of the Soviet bloc in 1989. The contributors come from different disciplines, ranging from history, economics and political science to social psychology and …
Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 124. Biographical Memoirs of Fellows, III
Inbunden, 2005
1588 kr
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Volume 124 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 19 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 125, 2003 Lectures
Inbunden, 2005
1884 kr
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Volume 125 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2003.
