Researching Forced Labour in the Global Economy provides an overview of research methods that academics and... Læs mere
The book is a scholarly edition of a manuscript written in about 1706 which has not previously been published. The main text considers England's economic potential, and puts forward ways in which that potential could be maximized.
Based on a lecture given to celebrate the centenary of the British Academy's Schweich Lectures, the volume provides both a glimpse into Jewish philanthropy... Læs mere
The vanished civilization of the Nasca is famous for its enigmatic giant ritual pathways through the desert pampa of... Læs mere
This volume explains to ancient historians the value of the surviving rabbinic material from late-antiquity as evidence for the history of... Læs mere
This volume explores the extent to which forced migration has become a feature of life in the Middle East and North... Læs mere
This is an ethnographic study of kinship and the nature and behaviour of ownership amongst the much-studied Sepik River Iatmul people. Written from the viewpoint of a Melanesian scholar, this book seeks to re-think anthropology's central assumptions about social relations.
Volume 154 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 17 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2007. From commemoration of the... Læs mere
Seventeen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Shackleton Bailey; James Barr; William... Læs mere
Volume 151 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 15 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2006. From consideration of Einstein, to discussions of coercion and consent in Nazi Germany, and judicial independence.
Sixteen obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy: Peter Birks; Lord Dacre of Glanton; William... Læs mere
This volume brings the theories and methods of a range of disciplines to bear on the imaginative workings of the human mind. The distinguished contributors demonstrate their own... Læs mere