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2006 lectures

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.
Print Book, English, 2007
Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2007
Speeches, addresses, etc., English
vi, 481 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 25 cm.
9780197264249, 0197264247
166624931
The child in poetry : foundlings, lostlings, changelings / Margaret Reynolds
Coercion and consent in Nazi Germany / R.J. Evans
A.E. Housman's rejected addresses / Robert Douglas-Fairhurst
Condorcet and the meaning of Enlightenment / Lorraine Daston
The search for perfection : Atlantic dimensions / Bernard Bailyn
The origins of fair play / Ken Binmore
Judicial independence : who cares? / Neil MacCormick
Nation and covenant: the contribution of ancient Israel to modern nationalism / Anthony D. Smith
Bonjour Paresse : literary waste and recycling in book 4 of Gower's Confessio Amantis / James Simpson
Kinds of people: moving targets / Ian Hacking
Shakespeare, Jonson, and the invention of the author / Ian Donaldson
"Now shall I make my soul" : approaching death in Yeat's life and work / R.F. Foster
Recovering Maya civilisation / Norman Hammond
The devil in the holy water : political libel in eighteenth century France / Robert Darnton
Einstein / John Stachel