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These essays trace the evolution of British geography as an academic discipline during the last hundred years, and stress how the study of the world is fundamental to an understanding of its problems and concerns. The principal themes covered are those of environment, place and space, and the applied geography of map-making and planning.

Demonstrates the power of using history to improve our understanding of the economic and social challenges. This work provides perspectives on the dynamics of economic growth, the challenges of economic and political transitions, and the relationships between economic growth and institutional development.

Why biography? Lives of writers, thinkers and artists, while unfailingly popular with readers, raise all kinds of theoretical problems. This volume explores the different faces and functions of the genre in a range of European settings from antiquity to the present.

These ten essays present a historical and critical overview of British historical thought and writing since 1900, focusing on selected periods, regions, disciplines, and themes. Do historians discover or invent, construct or reconstruct the objects they study?

The essays in this volume give an account of how the agenda for theology and religious studies was set and reset throughout the 20th century - by rapid and at times cataclysmic changes (wars, followed by social and academic upheavals in the 1960s), by new movements of thought, by a archaeological discoveries, and by archival research.

The evolution of oriental studies in Britain over the last century is traced in 13 essays on key figures. They exemplify the contribution of British scholars to oriental scholarship, to understand and interpret the civilizations of the east sympathetically.

Containing nine essays, this work addresses fundamental questions about time; in philosophy, physics, linguistics, and psychology. It poses questions such as: Are there facts about the future? Could we affect the past? It also discusses, how, in linguistics and psychology, our language represents time and our minds keep track of it.

Presents a survey of the British constitution in the twentieth century. This book is a product of interdisciplinary collaboration by a distinguished group of constitutional lawyers, historians, and political scientists, and draws where possible on primary sources.

The distinctive strength of political science in Britain is revealed in this guide to modern British scholarship in the field. As well as charting the development of the discipline, the essays examine the contributions to the study of nationalism, totalitarianism and authoritarianism and the influential British approach to international relations.

Describing the changes in British society, these essays seek to understand and explain what is happening. They consider the wide variety of mechanisms that underlie these changes, in particular processes of social interaction.

Presents a collection of essays by contemporary classicists, revealing different discoveries, interpretations and ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. The chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery.

A collection of essays exploring the questions of what counted as knowledge in Victorian Britain, who defined knowledge and the knowledgeable, by what means and by what criteria. During the Victorian period, the structure of knowledge took on a new and recognizably modern form, and the disciplines that we take for granted took shape.

This is an authoritative guide to the full range of medieval scholarship undertaken in twentieth-century Britain: history, archaeology, language, culture. Some of the twenty-nine essays focus on changes in research method or on the achievements of individual scholars, others are personal accounts of a lifetime's work.