Books in the Clarendon Paperbacks series

This is a study of the effects of cross-cultural contact and confrontation on frontier societies, particularly those between England and Scotland, Wales and Ireland, Castille and Granada, and on the Elbe.

The dispute over 'who should pay' for the Great War poisoned international relations, destabilized world finance, and helped the rise of the Nazis in the 1920s and 1930s. This is the first comprehensive study and it makes an important contribution to our understanding of the politics and economics of the inter-war period.

This book follows the story of an argument which arose out of the performance of the British economy in the period of depression between the wars and provides an account of John Maynard Keynes's thinking in the years that led up to the General Theory, making it comprehensible to specialists and non-specialists alike.

A cultural history of walking in 19th-century England, assessing its importance in literature and in culture at large. Rereading Wordsworth in the context of changes in transport, agriculture, and aesthetics, Anne D. Wallace articulates an unacknowledged literary mode - pedestrianism.

This is a biography of Rainer Maria Rilke (1875-1926), the 20th-century lyric poet, whose works - "the New Poems", the "Duino Elegies", "the Sonnets to Orpheus", and in prose the "Cornet" and the "Malte Laurids Brigge", are of lasting importance to European literature.

Kennedy offers a new solution to the fascinating puzzle of how the tale of Lancelot's love for Guinevere came to be linked with the legend of the Grail. Based on extensive research, the book raises such issues as the interplay between feudal relationships and literary structures, intertextuality, and the development of a text through time.

The author attempts to apply developments in critical theory and practice to the entire canon of Conrad's works. Using a broadly structuralist approach, the book aims to further the reader's understanding of Conrad's fiction by analyzing his narrative method and focusing on its devices, functions, variations and thematic effects or implications.

A full scale account of Restoration drama, following the changing patterns of drama decade by decade from 1660 to 1710. The author explores the diversity of the plays, carrying out a detailed survey of some 500 of them.

Scholars in Medieval Europe divided human life into three, four, six or seven "ages of man" and so related it to the larger orders of nature and history. Burrows examines the expression and manifestation of these ideas in many medieval sources and considers the ways in which they entered into the medieval writer's assessment of human behaviour.

A study of those narratives which, although neglected by historians of the novel, provide us today with examples of highly successful commercial exploitations of enduring stereotypes such as the criminal, the traveller-merchant, the persecuted maiden and the aristocratic seducer.

Utilizing elements of critical theory, intellectual history and the sociology of knowledge, the author of this treatise traces recent developments and resulting controversies involved in the teaching of English.

`a remarkable book by any account ... Twenty-two leading authorities, British, American, Arab, and Israeli, have assembled what must be virtually all the relevant documentation ... and then assessed them in virtuoso essays that are a monument to their industry and objectivity.'Jewish Chronicle

From 1718 to 1775 British courts transported 50,000 convicts to America. This account of their transportation in the years preceding the settling of Australia combines analysis with narrative to provide insights into the origins of crime and the treatment of offenders on both sides of the Atlantic.

This book argues that expansion of trade between developed and developing countries is the main cause of rising economic inequality in the USA and of chronic unemployment in Europe. It explains how these problems could be tackled without raising barriers to trade or jeopardizing the progress of the Third World.

This volume brings together economists and political scientists to present an assessment of the new government policies known as "Thatcherism", which have dominated the 1980s. Contributors focus on the underlying political economy and the role and purpose of the state in the economy.

Colin Crouch presents a wide ranging survey of the relationship between trade unions, employers, and governments in western Europe. Employing rigorous economic and historical analysis, he presents powerful explanations of the diversity and significance of industrial relations in the twentieth century.

Professor A. H. Halsey examines the crisis currently afflicting British higher education.

Sir Edward Evans-Pritchard's writings on the Nuer of southern Sudan have made them one of the most famous peoples in ethnographic literature. When his writings were first published a half a century ago, they created a new agenda for social anthropology

The liberal theologian Ernst Troeltsch argued that the traditional belief in Jesus as the incarnation of God could no longer be held in the modern world. This study provides a close analysis of his argument.

This appraisal of the fundamental doctrines of British constitutional law examines the nature of the rule of law and the separation of powers. It refutes the traditional doctrine of unlimited parliamentary sovereignty, challenging the orthodox distinction between law and convention.

Do our conscious minds exert a non-physical influence on the workings of our brains, or are we just soft machines? Most scientists today opt for a mechanistic view of the human brain, but in this book - a fascinating blend of physics and philosophy - David Hodgson makes out a powerful case for the efficacy of the mind.

Plural values and conflicting values are often held to be conceptually problematic, threatening the very possibility of ethics, or at least of rational ethics. Arguing against this view, this treatise shows that plurality and conflict are commonplace features of everyday choice and action.

A study of the cultural achievements of the early Renaissance in their historical perspective. Dealing with both literary and visual art, the author describes the political, economic, cultural and religious circumstances in which innovations became possible.

Examining how and why Oxford University dominated Britain's imperial policies and administration through its network of graduates, this study describes the proconsuls, missionaries and teachers who graduated from the university and carried her traditions abroad.

For many centuries, the Western imagination has pictured the medieval period as a kind of odyssey. This text explores this false image, examining medieval reflection on the "numerical" explanation of musical beauty, and the relation between 14th-century innovations and contemporary science.

A wide-ranging survey of this musical device, which identifies and traces the development of the two main types of rubato in the history of music. Hudson quotes extensively from the writings of theorists, composers, and performers to build a complete picture of its use in music from C.P.E. Bach to jazz.

This contemporary view of Brahms, 150 years after his birth, concentrates on his music, with a brief discussion of his life in the Introduction. A list of works includes recent discoveries and a calendar outlines the pattern of his musical life.

The late Carl Dahlhaus combines interpretations of individual works and excursions into the musical aesthetics of the period around 1800 in order to reconstruct Beethoven's `musical thinking' from the evidence in the works themselves and their context in the history of ideas.

The public image of Elgar as patriotic country squire was established in his lifetime, but, in reality, it concealed a highly complex, sometimes baffling, private individual. This study of the composer's life uncovers a man who was prey to despair and neurotically mistrustful of his friends.

This edition includes commentary which provides an introduction to one of Euripides' less well-known plays. The notes interpret the play in a wide cultural setting, considering unorthodox aspects of the structure of the drama.