Volume 154 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 17 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2007. From commemoration of the American Civil War, to an examination of our capacity as human beings to live in the world of imagination, and the opportunities and challenges which face cultural institutions in Britain today.
By:
Ron Johnston (Professor of Geography University of Bristol; Fellow of the British Academy) Imprint: Oxford University Press Country of Publication: United Kingdom Volume: 154 Dimensions:
Height: 241mm,
Width: 161mm,
Spine: 36mm
Weight: 1.143kg ISBN:9780197264355 ISBN 10: 0197264352 Series:Proceedings of the British Academy Pages: 478 Publication Date:25 December 2008 Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
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A / AS level
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Further / Higher Education
Format:Hardback Publisher's Status: Active
Wolfgang Meid: Celtic Origins, the Western and the Eastern Celts Timothy Ingold: Anthropology is not Ethnography David Bevington: Hamlet's Two Fathers Averil Cameron: Byzantium and the Limits of Orthodoxy Duncan Robinson: Palace or Power Station? Museums Today Deborah Howard: Architectural Politics in Renaissance Venice Noel O'Sullivan: Visions of European Unity since 1945 Alain Thote: Artists and Craftsmen in the Late Bronze Age of China (Eighth-Third Centuries BC): Art in Transition Susan-Mary Grant: Reconstructing the National Body: Masculinity, Disability and Race in the American Civil War Robin Dunbar: Mind the Gap or Why Humans aren't just Great Apes Tony Curtis: 'We keep the bread and wine for show': Consistent Irony and Reluctant Faith in the Poetry of Dannie Abse Cathy Shrank: 'But I, that knew what harboured in that hed': Thomas Wyatt and his Posthumous 'Interpreters' John Butt: Classical Music and the Subject of Modernity Baroness Hale of Richmond: A Minority Opinion? Michael Chisholm: Seventeenth Century Draining of the Fens and the Impact on Navigation Geoffrey Hartman: Theopoesis: The Contest of Priest and Poet