British Academy: The UK's National Academy for the Humanities and Social Sciences

Proceedings of the British Academy, Volume 122

The Promotion of Knowledge

Lectures to mark the Centenary of the British Academy, 1902–2002

edited by John Morrill

Published 2004
for the British Academy by Oxford University Press

234 × 156 mm; 224 pages; 13 figures
hardback, ISBN 978-0-19-726312-9
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This is an intriguing collection of highly personal reflections on the stability and instability of the ways in which we organise knowledge, and on how far the academic community can and should be involved in the shaping of public policy. To mark its centenary in 2002 the British Academy, the national academy for the humanities and social sciences, organised a programme of lectures on the current state of various disciplines and their future prospects. The authors of the eight essays and four commentaries are drawn from Britain, Europe and the United States.

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