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Scholars in diverse academic disciplines discuss the ways in which evidence is conceived, used, and manipulated in their own fields. They explore the possibilities for cross-disciplinary fertilisation and ask if it is possible or desirable to develop general multidisciplinary criteria and methods for studying and handling evidence.

Business involvement in human rights violations has been part of the past, the present, and will likely continue in the future. A legacy of impunity has prevailed globally. Using case studies and original datasets, this volume seeks to understand how corporate accountability for human rights violations has been achieved and what barriers persist.

This volume brings together two of the most popular, innovative, and controversial fields of historical study: cultural history, and the history of nationalism. Eleven lively chapters discuss the public sphere, music, the visual arts, political culture, literature, the role of the state, and national languages of Europe.

In this volume, 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.

This book explores the potential of the Anglosphere - a transnational imagined community of the English-speaking peoples - which came to international prominence in the wake of Brexit. The volume considers how the Anglosphere is redefining global politics in the 21st century and shaping the United Kingdom's future outside of the European Union.

Under the Skin examines contemporary women's art from the Middle East and North Africa, introducing the latest scholarship on art production, histories and methods in approaching modern and contemporary visual culture.

This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.

The spread of Islam across maritime Southeast Asia was one of the great transformations that shaped today's world. Links with the Middle East were crucial, but ties with the Ottoman empire have received little attention from historians. This book uses original archival research to focus on the relationship, from the 16th century to the present day.

What do China and India have in common and where do they differ in their pathways to economic and social development over the last two decades? This volume examines each country in paired chapters covering social and environmental impacts, economic development, labour and demography.

Ancient Anatolia was a region where indigenous peoples mixed with conquerors and incomers: Persians, Greeks, Gauls, Romans, Jews. Names from all these sources intermingled, and it is by studying them that the cultural interactions and changes and resistances that occurred can be illuminated.

The usual division of philosophy into 'medieval' and 'modern' may obscure very real continuities in the ideas of thinkers in the western and Islamic traditions. This book examines three areas where these continuities are particularly clear: knowledge, the mind, and language.

Volume 139 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 13 Lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2005. Topics range from archaeological perspectives on the essence of being human to discussions of the UK's Monetary Policy Committee and the role of judges.

The first major cross-national study of ethnic minority disadvantage in the labour market. Standard analyses, using the most authoritative datasets, enable the reader to make precise comparisons. The study reveals that most groups of non-European ancestry continue to experience substantial ethnic penalties in the second and later generations.

These essays explore philosopher Henry Sidgwick's solutions to issues that are still relevant a century later. For example, how does moral philosophy fit in with the use of practical reason? And how can the moral thought of the academic be related to thought and practice in the everyday world?

The largest source of new information about Graeco-Roman antiquity is from newly discovered inscriptions. Epigraphic information gained through use of new techniques and technologies is helping to reshape and extend our knowledge of the religious life, languages, populations, governmental systems, and economies of the Greek and Roman world.

This volume presents studies of military commemorative practices in Western culture, from 5th-century BC Greece, through two World Wars, to the Vietnam Veterans Memorial. This new comparative approach reveals that the distant past has had a lasting influence on commemorative practice in modern times.

Volume 117 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 16 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2001.

Urban life as we know it in the Mediterranean began in the early Iron Age: settlements of great size and internal diversity appear in the archaeological record. This collection of essays offers a discussion of the beginnings of urbanization across the Mediterranean, from Cyprus through Greece and Italy to France and Spain.

Since Darwin, scholars have noted that cultural entities such as languages, laws, firms, and theories seem to 'evolve' through sequences of variation, selection, and replication, in many ways just like living organisms. These essays consider whether modern evolutionary theory can help us to understand the dynamics of different cultural domains.

In popular presentation, some treat the Bible as a reliable source for the history of Israel, while others suggest that archaeology has shown that it cannot be trusted at all. This volume debates the issue of how such widely divergent views have arisen and will become an essential source of reference for the future.

Features twenty essays that examine continuity and change in the language of Latin prose, from its emergence to the twelfth century AD. Issues debated include traditional distinctions between primitive archaic and sophisticated classical Latin, and between superior classical and inferior Silver Latin.

Volume 121 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 12 lectures delivered at the British Academy in 2002.

Volume 120 of the Proceedings of the British Academy contains 25 obituaries of recently deceased Fellows of the British Academy.

These fourteen essays present fresh and original writing on the history of Czechoslovakia - a state created in 1918 but a victim of both Hitler and Stalin. This highly accessible volume, containing many new insights, provides major case study material for researchers and students of nationalism, fascism and international relations.

Traces the relationship between Scotland and England following the unifying reign of Queen Victoria, through the debates over devolution. This collection of essays investigates the personal, social, financial and constitutional tensions between the Scots and the English, both before and after devolution.

The volume is both an important study of late Victorian historiography and a significant reassessment of the early history of English law.

Sensory substitution and augmentation devices are used to replace or enhance one sense by using another. Fiona Macpherson brings together neuroscientists, psychologists and philosophers to focus on the nature of the perceptual experiences, the sensory interactions, and the changes that occur in the mind and brain while using these technologies.

This book explores how conflicts between secular worldviews and religions shaped the history of the 20th century.

Features lectures that include: M Hart: The SERC Experiment in Science-Based Archaeology; M Woods: Plato's Division of the Soul; Lord Carver: Strategy in the Twentieth Century; C J Becker: Farms and Villages in Denmark from the Late Bronze Age to the Viking Period; E M Jope - Celtic Art: Expressiveness and Communication; and others.

This is the first survey of village institutions in Egypt during this period and includes associations, local officials, banks record-offices, legal procedures, festivals and monasteries. The continuing and changing elements in the power relationships between central and regional authorities and the rural population contribute to village studies.