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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Bond break-up clash
Peter McGill reports from Tokyo on the controversial financial operations of Japanese politician Toshio Yamaguchi. Two troubled universities - one in the United States that was never built and...
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Tongue twisting and yod-dropping
The Cambridge History of the English Language
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Close encounters with far pavilions
Orientalism
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Bosses and boffins pact
Ronald Amann welcomes the unique opportunities the new funding culture creates for research, particularly in the social sciences. In 1852, Sir Lyon Playfair, then a lecturer in chemistry in the newly...
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A prize for admittance
After 1989, the year we were quick enough to call the annus mirabilis of European history, the fall of communism produced a paradox: we all became Marxists, sharing the belief that it would suffice...
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War cancelled due to lack of interest
The Fifty Years War:
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Great theories, complicated world
Capital Mobility - Towards a New Bretton Woods
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Loaves, fishes and cereal yields
Tim Dyson argues that despite the explosion in world population, it will not outpace food production. Newspapers and television often give considerable coverage to those who argue that the world's...
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Guerrillas in the mists of time
War in the Shadows
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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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All the European world's a stage
The World Encyclopedia of Contemporary Theatre Volume One:
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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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East is a cultural Eden
Oh, East is East, and West is West, and never the twain shall meet." Rudyard Kipling was thinking of Europe and Asia when he wrote these verses. I quote them not just in continued amazement at what...