Lessons in citizenship
In the shadows of the German occupation, Marc Bloch (1886-1944), the greatest of medievalists and co-founder of the Annales school of history, posed the essential question for democratic...
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Sheer weight of numbers
Japan’s position at the top is being challenged by neighbours near and far intent on promoting and investing in their universities. Phil Baty reports. China is mounting a serious challenge to Japan’s...
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Pukka purveyors of martial arts
The Sepoy and the Raj - Fidelity and Honour - The Development of British Land Forces in South Asia, 1600-1947
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Colonial writers lost in the post
Postcolonial studies is drowning in a tidal wave of jargon, conceptual inanities and political exhibitionism argues Russell Jacoby. Just when poststructuralism, postmodernism and deconstructionism...
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No Incas in Hastings
Jared Diamond asks why Europeans came to dominate and colonise the world and not the peoples of Africa, Australia or America? Eurasians, especially peoples of Europe and eastern Asia, have spread...
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All the European world's a stage
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume One:
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Under-exploited assets
As we head for the "knowledge society" of the 21st century, British universities seem only half awake, argues Sir Geoffrey Holland. The National Advisory Council on Education and Training Targets is...
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Great theories, complicated world
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods
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Putting the bite on Africa
Karen Mac Gregor meets the dentist who is chair of South Africa's first National Education Commission Jairam Reddy trod the political tightrope that has become the lot of vice chancellors at...
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Vive la difference
John Gray argues for new ways of political thinking that address the deep cultural diversity of the age and replace the bankrupt ideologies, both Left and Right, of the past. The public cultures of...
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The ethical economist
Andrew Robinson and Michael Prest profile Amartya Sen, the economist whose concern for justice stands out in a profession often obsessed with efficiency. With nearly 20 books, innumerable public...
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Close encounters with far pavilions
Orientalism
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Total war totally covered
The Oxford Companion to the Second World War
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Common cause at Islamabad
On Sunday Commonwealth education ministers assemble in Islamabad for their 12th conference since Oxford in 1959. The gathering is a reaffirmation of the Commonwealth's continuing value to members. It...
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Flare for inspiration
Source: Science Photo Library Developing countries should select flagship universities to become ‘beacon’ institutions and support them to achieve world-class status, says Roger Chao, Jr. The...