Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 1102 g
Volume 131, 2004 Lectures
Buch, Englisch, Band 131, 460 Seiten, Format (B × H): 239 mm x 160 mm, Gewicht: 1102 g
Reihe: Proceedings of the British Academy
ISBN: 978-0-19-726351-8
Verlag: British Academy
- Includes the Governor of the Bank of England on the future pensions crisis.
The topical issues debated in this volume include the patenting of AIDS drugs, the future pensions crisis, Britain's universities, and Pan-Islam.There are studies of Shakespeare, Pope, Montaigne, Robert Graves, and William Faulkner. And there are lectures on the Inquisition, empires in history, and the journey towards spiritual fulfilment.
Contents
- Fran Brearton: Robert Graves and The White Goddess
- Joyce Hill: Authority and Intertextuality in the Works of Ælfric
- Michael Pennington: Barnardine's Straw: The Devil in Shakespeare's Detail
- David Womersley: Dulness and Pope
- Terence Cave: Montaigne
- Lord Moser: The Future of Our Universities
- Alexander Murray: The Inquisition and the Renaissance
- Robert Bagley: The Prehistory of Chinese Music Theory
- Edwin Cameron: Patents and Public Health: Principle, Politics and Paradox
- Mervyn King: What Fates Impose: Facing Up to Uncertainty
- Dominic Lieven: Empire, History and the Contemporary Global Order
- Joan Oates: Archaeology in Mesopotamia: Digging Deeper at Tell Brak
- Timothy Besley: The New Political Economy
- Richard Gray: 'They Worship Death Here': William Faulkner, Sanctuary and Hollywood
- Lord Sutherland: Nomad's Progress
- James Piscatori: Imagining Pan-Islam: Religious Activism and Political Utopias
Zielgruppe
Scholars and students of politics, economics, literature and history.
Autoren/Hrsg.
Fachgebiete
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtswissenschaft Allgemein
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftswissenschaften: Allgemeines
- Wirtschaftswissenschaften Volkswirtschaftslehre Volkswirtschaftslehre Allgemein
- Interdisziplinäres Wissenschaften Wissenschaften Interdisziplinär