British Academy Review, Issue 14, November 2009

This issue of the British Academy Review displays a wide range of scholarship supported by the British Academy.

The opening articles illustrate the stronger role that the British Academy is playing in public debates and policy-making – through its Forums, through the research it funds, and now through its recently launched Policy Centre. Then there are articles offering different perceptions of late 20th-century history – including the dramatic events that changed Eastern Europe twenty years ago. The remaining articles reflect the work that the Academy supports in the study of different aspects of culture, whether of another time and place, or closer to home.

The whole issue may be downloaded in PDF format (5.4MB). The articles listed below in blue are also available separately in PDF format.

Rising to the Challenge, Professor Sir Adam Roberts

Two Decades of Military Interventions: Questions of Law, Morality, and Effectiveness, Dr Dominik Zaum

The Global Financial Crisis – Why Didn’t Anybody Notice? Professor Tim Besley FBA and Professor Peter Hennessy FBA

Towards Polarised Differentiation: Changing Configurations of European Integration, Professor Kenneth Dyson FBA

Reassessing the seventies: the benighted decade, Dr Lawrence Black and Dr Hugh Pemberton

Explaining the Fall of European Communism in 1989, Professor Archie Brown FBA

A Humanist’s Conversation with the 20th Century (Isaiah Berlin, 1909–1997), Dr James H. Billington

Scientific Approaches to the Study of Roman Ports, Professor Simon Keay

New Greek Texts From Oxyrhynchus, Professor Peter Parsons FBA

Ancient Ethiopian Churches in Historical Perspective , Professor David W. Phillipson FBA

Islam, Trade and Politics across the Indian Ocean, Dr Ismail Halli Kadi, Dr Annabel Teh Gallop and Dr Andrew Peacock

Celebrating excellence

The Marriage of Philology and Informatics, Sir Brian Vickers FBA

Darwinism, Creative Evolution, and Popular Narratives of ‘Life’s Splendid Drama’ , Professor Peter Bowler FBA

Borderline Citizens: Women, Gender, and Political Culture in Britain, 1815–1867, Dr Kathryn Gleadle

Liter8 Lrnrs: Is Txting Valuable or Vandalism?, Dr Clare Wood