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This volume contains 10 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008. From an exploration of the relationship between reason and identity, to an examination of social integration as the world becomes a more diverse place, to a consideration of the works of four great literary figures: King Alfred, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and W H Auden.

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Was Shakespeare an Essex Man? ; Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters ; Living Apart, Living Together? The Role of Intergroup Contact in Social Integration ; Deities, Deviles and Dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour and the Family of Love ; Wordsworth and the Druids ; Instruments of Development: Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development ; Continuity and Change in a Wessex Landscape: 1500BC - AD500 ; Auden Unparadised ; The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the 9th and 10th centuries

Proceedings of the British Academy Volume 162 2008 Lectures

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      Publisher: Oxford University Press
      Publication Date: 12/24/2009 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9780197264584, 978-0197264584
      ISBN10: 0197264581
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This volume contains 10 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2008. From an exploration of the relationship between reason and identity, to an examination of social integration as the world becomes a more diverse place, to a consideration of the works of four great literary figures: King Alfred, Shakespeare, Wordsworth and W H Auden.

      Table of Contents
      Was Shakespeare an Essex Man? ; Ending the Russian Revolution: Reflections on Soviet History and its Interpreters ; Living Apart, Living Together? The Role of Intergroup Contact in Social Integration ; Deities, Deviles and Dams: Elizabeth I, Dover Harbour and the Family of Love ; Wordsworth and the Druids ; Instruments of Development: Randomization in the Tropics, and the Search for the Elusive Keys to Economic Development ; Continuity and Change in a Wessex Landscape: 1500BC - AD500 ; Auden Unparadised ; The Alfredian Project and its Aftermath: Rethinking the Literary History of the 9th and 10th centuries

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