Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 121: 2002 Lectures

by British Academy

• ISBN13: 9780197263037
• ISBN10: 0197263038
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-02-12
• Publisher: British Academy

Summary

Volume 121 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.

Table of Contents

Notes on Lecturers	vi
Cultural Interaction between China and Central Asia during the Bronze Age	1	(40)
Jianjun Mei
The Origins of the Civilisation of Angkor	41	(50)
Charles F. W. Higham
Yorkshire Writers	91	(20)
Ralph Hanna
Shakespeare and the Anagram	111	(36)
Christopher Ricks
The Quest for the Industrial Revolution	147	(24)
E. A. Wrigley
`This Small Island': Britain, Size and Empire	171	(20)
Linda Colley
Robert Burns and British Poetry	191	(22)
Murray G. H. Pittock
Special Paths or Main Roads? Making Sense of German History	213	(22)
Peter Pulzer
Overestimating Culture: A German Problem	235	(22)
Wolf Lepenies
Elegies of Form in Bishop, Plath, Stevenson	257	(20)
Angela Leighton
Development as a Process of Change: Toward a Dynamic Public Economics	277	(24)
Nicholas Stern
Human Rights: Have the Public Benefited?	301
Lord Woolf