British Academy Lectures, 2015-16

Informationen zum Autor Janet Carsten is Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Edinburgh. Simon Frith is Tovey Professor of Music at the University of Edinburgh. Klappentext For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. The lectures are available in the open access Journal of the British Academy, but are also printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes the 2015 and 2016 lectures. Zusammenfassung For over 100 years, the British Academy's public lectures have communicated the best scholarship in the humanities and social sciences to both specialists and general audiences. The lectures are available in the open access Journal of the British Academy, but are also printed in an annual volume. This volume publishes the 2015 and 2016 lectures. Inhaltsverzeichnis Rival jihads: Islam and the Great War in the Middle East, 1914-18 Economic impossibilities for our grandchildren? Reinventing the corporation Food globalisation in prehistory: The agrarian foundations of an interconnected continent Social class mobility in modern Britain: Changing structure, constant process Thomas Hobbes: Liberal illiberal The Shakespearean Unscene: Sexual phantasies in A Midsummer Night's Dream Cúchulain in the General Post Office: Gaelic revival, Irish rising Why No Religion is the new religion Passionate, eloquent, and determined: Heroines' tales and feminine poetics The Inner Eye: Journeys around the museum Modernist perambulations through time and space: From enlightened walking to crawling, stalking, modelling, and street-walking

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• Authors: Janet (Professor of Social and Cultural A Carsten
• Assisted by: Janet Carsten (Editor), Janet (Professor of Social and Cultural Anthropology Carsten (Editor), Carsten Janet (Editor), Simon Frith (Editor), Simon (Tovey Professor of Music Frith (Editor)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 26.01.2017
• EAN: 9780197266045
• ISBN: 978-0-19-726604-5
• No. of pages: 262
• Series: British Academy Lectures Series; Journal of the British Academy
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History; European History, HISTORY / Middle East / General, REFERENCE / Yearbooks & Annuals, REFERENCE / Almanacs, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / European, HISTORY / Europe / Great Britain / 21st Century, Politics & government, British & Irish history, United Kingdom, Great Britain, Politics and government, Middle Eastern history, British Isles, c 2010 to c 2020, c 2010 to c 2019, Yearbooks, annuals, almanacs