Books in the British Academy Centenary Monographs series

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 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.

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.