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Postdoctoral Fellowship Monographs
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Vulcan's Forge in Venus' City: The Story of Bronze in Venice 1350-1650 by Victoria Avery
526 pages, including 174 pages of plate illustrations
978-0-19-726496-6 hbk 2011 available from OUP £125.00
Women, Language and Grammar in Italy, 1500-1900 by Helena Sanson
432 pages
978-0-19-726483-6 hbk 2011 available from OUP £85.00
The Lost Woodlands of Ancient Nasca: A Case-Study in Ecological and Cultural Collapse by David Beresford-Jones
280 pages + 1 plate
978-0-19-726476-8 hbk 2011 available from OUP £55.00
Harnessing Fortune: Personhood, Memory, and Place in Mongolia by Rebecca M Empson
424 pages + 1 plate
978-0-19-726473-7 hbk 2011 available from OUP £65.00
The Lombard League, 1167-1225 by Gianluca Raccagni
246 pages + 1 plate
978-0-19-726471-3 hbk 2010 available from OUP £55.00
Beyond Elegy: Classical Arabic Women's Poetry in Context by Marlé Hammond
224 pages
978-0-19-726472-0 hbk 2010 available from OUP £45.00
The Claims of Culture at Empire's End: Syria and Lebanon under French Rule by Jennifer M Dueck
286 pages
978-0-19726447-8 hbk 2010, repr 2010 available from OUP £50.00
'The Horrid Popish Plot': Roger L'Estrange and the Circulation of Political Discourse in Late Seventeenth-Century London by Peter Hinds
472 pages
978-0-19726443-0 hbk 2010 available from OUP £65.00
Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815-1867 by Kathryn Gleadle
332 pages
978-0-19-726449-2 hbk 2009 available from OUP £60.00
Credit in Village Society in Fourteenth-Century England by Chris Briggs
268 pages
978-0-19-726441-6 hbk 2009 (from 2011, manufactured on demand) available from OUP £50.00
A World Upturned: Commentary on and Analysis of The Dialogue of Ipuwer and the Lord of All by Roland Enmarch
304 pages
978-0-19-726433-0 hbk 2008 available from OUP £60.00
Becoming Muslim in Mainland Tanzania, 1890-2000 by Felicitas Becker
376 pages
978-0-19-726427-0 hbk 2008 available from OUP £65.00
Embedded Cosmopolitanism: Duties to Strangers and Enemies in a World of 'Dislocated Communities' by Toni Erskine
292 pages
978-0-19-726437-9 hbk 2008 available from OUP £55.00
The Invention of Altruism: Making Moral Meanings in Victorian Britain by Thomas Dixon
436 pages
978-0-19-726426-3 hbk 2008 (from 2011, manufactured on demand) available from OUP £80.00
Rulers, Warriors, Traders, Clerics: The Central Sahel and the North Sea, 800–1500 by Anne Haour
196 pages + 1 plate
978-0-19-726411-9 hbk 2007 available from OUP £40.00
Delivering Justice in Qing China: Civil Trials in the Magistrate's Court by Linxia Liang
300 pages
978-0-19-726399-0 hbk 2007 available from OUP £60.00
Socialism, Sex, and the Culture of Aestheticism in Britain, 1880–1914 by Ruth Livesey
246 pages
978-0-19-726398-3 hbk 2007 (from 2009, manufactured on demand) available from OUP £50.00
anthropological knowledge, secrecy, and Bolivip, Papua New Guinea: exchanging skin by Tony Crook
276 pages
978-0-19-726400-3 hbk 2007 available from OUP £55.00
The Life and Travels of Xavier Marmier (1808-1892): Bringing World Literature to France by Wendy S Mercer
368 pages
978-0-19-726388-4 hbk 2007 available from OUP £70.00
About this series
Since 1998 this series has provided an excellent publishing opportunity and showcase for British Academy Postdoctoral Fellows. The Academy operates a scheme of Postdoctoral Fellowships, designed to enable outstanding younger scholars to obtain experience of research and teaching in the university environment. Publication in the Monographs series is seen as a further mark of excellence.
Volumes are published by Oxford University Press.
Some older volumes are available from Oxbow Books.