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Product Description: This book traces the history and culture of Persia, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, from pre-history down to the present time.  
By British Academy (editor)
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9780415613354 | 1 edition (Routledge, April 8, 2011), cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This book traces the history and culture of Persia, one of the world’s oldest civilisations, from pre-history down to the present time.

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By British Academy (corporate author), Brian Howard Harrison (editor) and H. C. G. Matthew (editor)
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9780198613510 | Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 2004, cover price $55.01

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Product Description: Volume 120 of the Proceedings contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.
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9780197263020 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 26, 2004, cover price $195.00 | About this edition: Volume 120 of the Proceedings contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.

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Product Description: Volume 121 of the Proceedings contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.
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9780197263037 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 12, 2004, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: Volume 121 of the Proceedings contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.

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Product Description: Prosopography is the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period. With the advent of computer technology it is now possible to gather and store such information in increasingly sophisticated and searchable databases, which can bring a new dimension to traditional historical research...read more
By British Academy (corporate author) and Averil Cameron (editor)
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9780197262924 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 25, 2003, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: Prosopography is the collection of all known information about individuals within a given period.

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Product Description: Volume 115 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 20 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy and an essay on James Bryce (President of the Academy, 1913-1917). Memoirs of Fellows have previously been published in the same annual Proceedings volume as that containing the British Academy's Lectures...read more
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9780197262788 | Oxford Univ Pr, September 11, 2003, cover price $140.00 | About this edition: Volume 115 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 20 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy and an essay on James Bryce (President of the Academy, 1913-1917).

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Product Description: This is the first edition to provide the complete text of both the fifth-century Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine and Abbo of Fleury's Commentary on it (written 980/5). These two works shed light on the early history of mathematics, before the introduction of Arabic numerals...read more
By British Academy (corporate author) and A. M. Peden (editor)
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9780197262603 | British Academy, May 8, 2003, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: This is the first edition to provide the complete text of both the fifth-century Calculus of Victorius of Aquitaine and Abbo of Fleury's Commentary on it (written 980/5).

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By British Academy (corporate author) and Michael Lapidge (editor)
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9780197262771 | British Academy, April 3, 2003, cover price $100.00

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Product Description: The exciting recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists. In the last few years the materials available for the study of the older Indo-Iranian languages have increased dramatically: there have been sensational discoveries of texts in the ancient languages of northwest India and northern Afghanistan...read more
By Bailey H. W. (editor), British Academy (corporate author) and Nicholas Sims-Williams (editor)
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9780197262856 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 27, 2003, cover price $99.00 | About this edition: The exciting recent developments in our understanding of the history of the Indo-Iranian languages and their speakers are surveyed and assessed by a group of internationally renowned linguists and archaeologists.

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Product Description: The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books. In complicated networks of acquisition and exchange, books were bought, borrowed, copied, and bequeathed. Colleges came to own collections of books for the use of their fellows, and in the late middle ages many colleges built library-rooms to house their books...read more
By British Academy (corporate author), British Library (corporate author), Peter D. Clarke (editor) and Roger Lovatt (editor)
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9780712347730 | British Library Board, February 25, 2003, cover price $293.00 | About this edition: The medieval university at Cambridge was a centre for the circulation of books.

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Product Description: The highly topical problems associated with public policy and risk are analysed in ten essays looking at the public understanding of risk, the policy-making process, and recent case studies. They will be of interest to general political scientists, sociologists and specialists in public policy, as well as those specifically working in the field of risk analysis...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author) and Albert Weale (editor)
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9780197262832 | Oxford Univ Pr, February 6, 2003, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: The highly topical problems associated with public policy and risk are analysed in ten essays looking at the public understanding of risk, the policy-making process, and recent case studies.

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Product Description: These essays offer the first comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries. The contributors, all leading urban historians, examine the physical growth of the cities, economic and social trends, governance, and cultural significance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author), Peter Clark (editor) and Raymond Gillespie (editor)
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9780197262474 | British Academy, December 26, 2002, cover price $108.00 | About this edition: These essays offer the first comparative analysis of the two great cities, London and Dublin, and their rise between the sixteenth and early nineteenth centuries.

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A guide to Latin during the Middle Ages.
By British Academy (corporate author), D. R. Howlett and R. E. Latham
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9780197262665 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 2002, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: A guide to Latin during the Middle Ages.

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A guide to Latin during the Middle Ages.
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9780197262405 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 21, 2002, cover price $114.99 | About this edition: A guide to Latin during the Middle Ages.

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Product Description: Between 1500 and 1800 the development of England and Ireland became closely intertwined, and the urban systems of both countries underwent changes of great long-term significance. This volume brings together historians and geographers from both Britain and Ireland to examine the common themes affecting provincial towns...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Peter Borsay (editor), British Academy (corporate author) and Lindsay J. Proudfoot (editor)
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9780197262481 | British Academy, July 18, 2002, cover price $96.00 | About this edition: Between 1500 and 1800 the development of England and Ireland became closely intertwined, and the urban systems of both countries underwent changes of great long-term significance.

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Product Description: The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy). They exemplify the outstanding contribution of British scholars to Oriental scholarship, within the general trend in the West to understand and interpret the civilizations of the East sympathetically...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Clifford Edmund Bosworth (editor) and British Academy (corporate author)
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9780197262436 | Oxford Univ Pr, December 27, 2001, cover price $102.00 | About this edition: The evolution of Oriental Studies in Britain over the last century is traced in thirteen essays on key figures (twelve of them Fellows of the British Academy).

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Product Description: This is a critical edition of six twelfth-century surveys of the vast estates of Glastonbury Abbey, five of which are printed for the first time. They deal with both the monastic household and the Abbot's lordship as a tenant-in-chief...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author), N. E. Stacey (editor) and N. E. Stacy (editor)
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9780197262535 | British Academy, February 7, 2002, cover price $100.00 | About this edition: This is a critical edition of six twelfth-century surveys of the vast estates of Glastonbury Abbey, five of which are printed for the first time.

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Product Description: The correspondence from Greg & Cunningham, the most successful Irish-American trading company during the colonial period, is a remarkable archive for anyone interested in the eighteenth century. These letters cover the first nine months of trade, and present a vivid picture of the transatlantic economy...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author) and Thomas M. Truxes (editor)
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9780197262191 | British Academy, August 1, 2001, cover price $120.00 | About this edition: The correspondence from Greg & Cunningham, the most successful Irish-American trading company during the colonial period, is a remarkable archive for anyone interested in the eighteenth century.

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Product Description: This volume completes the publication of the charters associated with one of the wealthiest and most important monasteries of late Anglo-Saxon England. The documents in Volume 2 are crucial for understanding the abbey's role in the tenth-century reform of the Anglo-Saxon church.
By British Academy (corporate author) and S. E. Kelly (editor)
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9780197262214 | British Academy, May 1, 2001, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: This volume completes the publication of the charters associated with one of the wealthiest and most important monasteries of late Anglo-Saxon England.
9780197262177 | British Academy, April 1, 2001, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: A corpus of 149 pre-Conquest documents from the archive at Abingdon Abbey, many of which are Latin records of grants of lands and privileges.

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Product Description: Why did Plato place mathematics at the heart of education for the rulers of his ideal city? Why has mathematics played such a central role in Western philosophy? And how do we acquire knowledge of necessary truths? The answers to such questions offered by distinguished scholars M...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author) and Timothy J. Smiley (editor)
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9780197262153 | British Academy, March 1, 2001, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Why did Plato place mathematics at the heart of education for the rulers of his ideal city?

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Product Description: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a major project of the British Academy, offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world. The present volume, III.B, contains the onomastic material from Central Greece, comprising Phocis, Locris, Doris, Boeotia with Megara, and Thessaly...read more
By British Academy (corporate author), P. M. Fraser (editor) and E. Matthews (editor)
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9780198152934 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, February 15, 2001, cover price $250.00 | About this edition: The Lexicon of Greek Personal Names, a major project of the British Academy, offers scholars a fully documented listing of all known personal names from the ancient Greek world.

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Product Description: This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names. For the ancient Greeks, the assertion of origin was essential in defining their sense of who they were and how they distinguished themselves from neighbors and strangers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By British Academy (corporate author), P. M. Fraser (editor), Simon Hornblower (editor) and Elaine Matthews (editor)
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9780197262160 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, March 1, 2001, cover price $72.00 | About this edition: This volume offers dramatic illumination of the ways in which the ancient Greeks both created and interpreted their world through the specific language of personal names.

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Product Description: This is the final publication of excavations conducted by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem on the Crusader castle of Belmont (Suba) between 1986 and 1989. The account of the excavation is accompanied by specialist reports and concludes with a discussion of the castle's architecture, its military functions, and its economic role...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9780197270097 | British Academy, February 19, 2001, cover price $144.00 | About this edition: This is the final publication of excavations conducted by the British School of Archaeology in Jerusalem on the Crusader castle of Belmont (Suba) between 1986 and 1989.

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Product Description: These nine papers, by leading British, Irish and German scholars show how and why, in a crucial period of history, these countries preferred change that was gradual and consensual to radical and violent revolution. In the study of late eighteenth-century Europe the concept of reform, both in theory and in practice, has been neglected compared to the attention lavished on its more glamorous relation revolution...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By T. C. W. Blanning (editor), British Academy (corporate author), German Historical Institute in London (corporate author) and Peter Wende (editor)
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9780197262016 | British Academy, August 1, 1999, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: These nine papers, by leading British, Irish and German scholars show how and why, in a crucial period of history, these countries preferred change that was gradual and consensual to radical and violent revolution.

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Product Description: Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature. The language had traditional resources of high style, e.g...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By J. N. Adams (editor), British Academy (corporate author) and R. Mayer (editor)
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9780197261781 | British Academy, July 29, 1999, cover price $132.00 | About this edition: Of the peoples of ancient Italy, only the Romans committed newly composed poems to writing, and for about 250 years Latin-speakers developed an impressive verse literature.

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