From its foundation in the fourth century to its fall to the Ottoman Turks in the fifteenth, the city of Constantinople…

Greek and Roman history has largely been reconstructed from the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Livy, Tacitus, and other…

• Rok vydání 1913

Aristarchus of Samos was the first astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system. This 1913 Greek edition…

Merthyr Tydfil postmaster and local history enthusiast Charles Wilkins (1831-1913) examines the rise of a large-scale iron…

The fourth volume of Thomas Pinney's acclaimed edition of Macaulay's letters covers the period between September 1841 and…

Christopher Newall's book tells the story of the rise and fall of a gallery which was the most progressive exhibition space…

The empire of the Qara Khitai, one of the least known dynasties in the history of Central Asia, existed for nearly a century…

Described by the The Examiner as a 'store of welcome gossip' on Henry VII, Gairdner's 1858 study, for the Rolls Series, of…

\nA major new reference volume presenting innovative recent scholarship on Japan\'s modern history, including its imperial…

The first 'total' history of one of the most important cities in medieval Europe, integrating socio-economic, political and…

Ancestral fault was a central concept in ancient Greece and also figured prominently in the Western reception of Greek…

An expert account of war in the medieval period world-wide, showing how war is ubiquitous yet ever changing across space and…

\nThe Art and Archaeology of the Aegean Bronze Age offers a comprehensive chronological and geographical overview of one of…

Richard of Cirencester (c.1335-1400) was a Benedictine monk at Westminster whose Latin history narrates the story of England…

The work details the emergence, in the post-Napoleonic War period, of a growing popular interest in the critical…

Since their publication, the four volumes of the Cambridge History of American Foreign Relations have served as the…

In the century between 1806 and 1914 tsarist Russia was drawn into five wars due to its deep involvement, based on treaty…

Originally published in 1940 as the first part of a two-volume study, this book examines the Romantic Movement in Spain from…

The Theatre of Medieval Europe brings together the work of thirteen internationally recognized scholars of early drama to…

The Despotate of Epiros illuminates part of Byzantine history and of the history of Greece in the Middle Ages.…

Through innovative readings of plays including The Famous Victories of Henry V and Richard III, this book examines the…

Dr Saller's book, the first major study of patronage in the early Empire, shows that the patron-client relationship outlived…

• Rok vydání 1968

In this 1968 study, Michael Grant examines how Rome used currency to inform direct or deceive public opinion and considers…

Film is increasingly engaging the attention of students of history at all levels. In its manifold forms from the newsreel to…

Sir William Woodthorpe Tarn (1869-1957) was a British ancient historian who wrote numerous works on the Hellenistic world.…

A much older genre than is often thought, the historical novel has played a vital role in the development of the novel…

The First World War is usually believed to have had a catastrophic effect on British art, killing artists and movements, and…

First published in 1954, this volume was intended to present a complete and consecutive a history of the tribes which…

The first volume of The Cambridge History of Capitalism delves deep into the historical roots of capitalism to provide a…

Under the Yi dynasty in Korea a remarkable series of astronomical instruments, star-charts and clocks was created. In this…

• Rok vydání 1700

This is the first comprehensive historical and technological study of the pianoforte. It begins with the earliest manuscript…

The slave and freed slave classes are of the first importance for any study of the social structure of the Roman world in…

Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis.…

Howard Marchitello's 1997 study of narrative techniques in Renaissance discourse analyses imaginative conjunctions of…

Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis.…

Scrutiny was first issued quarterly from Cambridge between 1932 and 1953, the principal editor throughout being Dr Leavis.…

In The Archaeology of Lydia, from Gyges to Alexander, Christopher Roosevelt provides the first overview of the regional…

This exciting 2001 collection investigates the historical archaeology of urban slums. Excavations yield evidence of…

George Augustus Selwyn (1809-1878) was the first Anglican Bishop of New Zealand. This volume, first published in 1844,…

Edited by German philologist and Byzantine expert Gottlieb Lukas Friedrich Tafel (1787-1860), this 1832 work comprises the…

This 1980 text was the first biography of William Wilkins, the regency architect whose reputation once rivalled that of Nash…

Originally published in 1991, the first volume of the three-volume Cambridge Biography of D. H. Lawrence draws on a wide…

The complete extant correspondence of Ireland's most famous philosopher, George Berkeley. A useful resource for scholarly…

This book examines the effects of the Peloponnesian War on the arts of Athens and the historical and artistic contexts in…

This 1912 work argues that the 'Amorian epoch' of the ninth century should not be overshadowed by the better-known periods…

In this major 'state of the art' survey, a highly distinguished team of contributors addresses the complex and crucial role…