2008 lectures
Series: Proceedings of the British Academy -- 162; Proceedings of the British Academy -- 162.
Publisher: Published for The British Academy by Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 387
ISBN-13: 9780197264584
Other titles: Proceedings of the British Academy, 2008 lectures.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Was Shakespeare an Essex man? / Jonathan Bate (Shakespeare Lecture); title: Ending the Russian Revolution: reflections on Soviet history and its interpreters / Sheila Fitzpatrick (Elie Kedourie Memorial Lecture); title: Deities, devils, and dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour and the family of love / David Wootton (Raleigh Lecture on History); title: Auden unparadized / Seamus Perry (Chatterton Lecture on Poetry); title: The Alfredian project and its aftermath: rethinking the literary history of the ninth and tenth centuries / Malcol Godden (Sir Israel Gollancz Memorial Lecture); title: Instruments of development: randomisation in the tropics, and the search for the elusive keys to economic development / Angus Deaton (Keynes Lecture in Economics); title: Continuity and change in a Wessex landscape / Barry Cunliffe (Albert Reckitt Archaeological Lecture); title: Wordsworth and the Druids / Matthew Campbell (Warton Lecture on English Poetry); title: Living apart, living together? The role of intergroup contact in social integration / Miles Hewstone (2006 British Academy/British Psychological Society Lecture); title: Reason and identity / Bhikhu Parekh (Isaiah Berlin Lecture); title: A genealogy og the modern state / Quentin Skinner (British Academy Lecture); title: Abstracts and notes on lectures; title: Lecture series published in the Proceedings of the British Academy.