Oxford University Press

The Irish Establishment examines who the most powerful men and women were in Ireland between the Land War and the beginning of the Great War, and considers how the composition of elite society changed during this period....

P.R. Cavill offers a major reinterpretation of early Tudor constitutional history. Parliament was not a fading institution - it was a key force in legitimating Henry VII's rule, and an important medium for subjects to communicate with government. Henry's reign emerges from this study as a constitutionally innovative period....

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This volume showcases an interplay between leading philosophical and linguistic semanticists on the one side, and leading cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other side. The topic is a class of outstanding questions in the semanticists on the one side, and leading cognitive and developmental psychologists on the other side. The topic...

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Michael Forster explores the historical roots of philosophy of language, which he traces to German thinkers of the 18th century, among whom J. G. Herder is the key figure. Herder established fundamental principles concerning thought, meaning, and language, founded the disciplines of anthropology and linguistics, and has much still to teach us....