2000 lectures and memoirs
2001, First Edition. Oxford : Published for the British Academy by Oxford University Press. Near fine copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth boards, covers and edges very faintly dust-dulled. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Item #460710
ISBN: 0197262597
Series; Proceedings of the British Academy ; 111. Physical description; x, 716 pages : illustrations, 1 map, portraits ; 24 cm. Contents; Plato / M.F. Burnyeat -- Aksum: an African civilization in its world contexts / David W. Phillipson -- Beowulf and perception / Michael Lapidge -- Shakespeare's peculiarity / Graham Bradshaw -- Beginning in the middle / Peter Holland -- Waiting for God: John Milton's poems of 1671 / Margaret Kean -- The legend of the Great Game / Malcolm Yapp -- White masculinity: Jan Smuts, race and the South African War / Shula Marks -- Wallace Stevens: hypotheses and contradictions / Helen Vendler -- Rich trades, scarce capabilities: industrial development revisited / John Sutton -- The law: an engine for trade / The Right Honourable the Lord Irvine of Lairg -- Conceptual tools for a natural science of society and culture / Dan Sperber -- Other people / Amartya Sen -- Gerald Ernest Heal Abraham, 1904-1988 / Brian Trowell -- Terence Alan Martyn Bishop, 1907-1994 / David Ganz -- William Brass, 1921-1999 / John Blacker -- David Daube / Peter Stein -- Geoffrey Ernest Maurice de Ste. Croix, 1910-2000 / Robert Parker -- Carlo Dionisotti, 1908-198 / Giulio Lepschy -- John Niemeyer Findlay, 1903-1987 / Alasdair MacIntyre -- Herbert Paul Grice, 1913-1988 / P.F. Strawson & David Wiggins -- John Rigby Hale, 1923-1999 / Michael Mallett -- Harold Jenkins, 1909-2000 / E.A.J. Honigmann -- Mary Madge Lascelles, 1900-1995 / Claire Lamont -- Mary Dougas Leakey, 1913-1996 / J. Desmond Clark -- Margery Freda Perham, 1895-1982 / Patricia Pugh -- Leon Radzinowicz, 1906-1999 / Roger Hood -- Leighton Durham Reynolds, 1930-1999 / Michael Winterbottom -- Edward Arthur Thompson, 1914-1994 / R.A. Markus -- John Ellis Caerwyn Williams, 1912-1999 / D. Ellis Evans. Subjects; British Academy Biography. Speeches, addresses, etc., English. Obituaries Great Britain. Scholars Great Britain Biography. Learning and scholarship Great Britain. Great Britain Civilization.
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