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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death; history to 54 BC.…

Peter Brown explores a revolutionary shift in thinking about the fate of the soul between 250 and 650 CE, showing how…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman…

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

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The main aim of Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BC, was to reconcile Greeks to Roman rule. Of the twenty books…

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

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Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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Pliny the Elder produced in his Natural History a vast compendium of Roman knowledge. Topics included are the mathematics…

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\nHow did the United States appoint itself as the world\'s supreme military power? Stephen Wertheim delves into the archives…

\nThe American working class didn\'t disappear with the manufacturing economy. It transformed. Instead of unionized…

\nGenerations of Russians have pursued wealth and power in the East, colonizing Pacific regions and spreading political…

\nIn antebellum New Orleans, whites and Blacks died in droves from yellow fever. But the fortunes of survivors were less…

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A leading public intellectual gives his authoritative and personal account of the tragic postcolonial fate of Uganda, his…

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The threat of cyberwar can feel very Hollywood: nuclear codes hacked, power plants melting down, cities burning. In reality,…

The Tang dynasty is often called China's golden age, a period of commercial, religious, and cultural connections from Korea…

Odessa was founded by Empress Catherine II in 1794 on the northern shore of the Black Sea. Settled close to the fertile…

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Livy (Titus Livius), the great Roman historian, was born at Patavium (Padua) in 64 or 59 BC where after years in Rome he…

Of the Greek lyric poets, Pindar (c.519-438 BC) was "by far the greatest for the magnificence of his inspiration" in…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman…

Statius published his "Thebaid" in the last decade of the first century. This epic recounting the struggle between the two…

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How have major civilizations of the last two millennia treated people who were attracted to their own sex? Presenting the…

Since 1955, moving from early work in psychopharmacology to studies of clinical method and the psychiatric schools, Leston…

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The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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The only extant work by Livy is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9 BC. Of its 142 books 1-10,…

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Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. AD 150-235, was born in Bithynia. Dio's work is a vital source for the last years of the…

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The latter tells of Odysseus'…

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The Iliad and the Odyssey of Homer (eighth century BC) are the two oldest European epic poems. The former tells of Achilles'…

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The Peloponnesian War was really three conflicts (431-421, 415-413, and 413-404 BC) that Thucydides was still unifying into…

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The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…

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Library of History is in three parts: mythical history to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BC); history to…

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The fall of France in 1940 panicked US leaders, leading to their fateful decision to recognize the pro-Nazi Vichy…

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Branko Milanovic charts 200 years of the fascinating history of the discourse on inequality through portraits of six key…

Offers a vision of how Islam first evolved. This title argues that the origins of Islam lie in what we may call the…

A modernist as well as a neo-Confucianist, Chiang was a man of war who led the most ancient and populous country in the…

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On the centennial of the founding of the Chinese Communist Party, Tony Saich offers the definitive history of the CCP's rise…

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The catastrophe of the First World War, and the destruction, revolution, and enduring hostilities it wrought, make the issue…

Shows how the collective purposes and meanings that had framed social debate became unhinged and uncertain. This title…

\nRenowned historian Anthony Grafton invites us to see the scholars of early modern Europe as laborers. Bookish but hardly…

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The scale and depth of Nazi brutality seem to defy understanding. What could drive people to fight, kill, and destroy with…

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Directed toward a synthesis of the history of the religion of Israel, the essays in this volume address key aspects of…

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Breaking the Vicious Circle is a tour de force that should be read by everyone who is interested in improving our regulatory…

The poignant story of Holocaust survivors who returned to their hometown in Poland and tried to pick up the pieces of a…

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By means of a series of personal anecdotes, protocols, fables, and plays, the eminent family therapist probes and assesses…

This book tells the exciting story of the ice ages--what they were like, why they occurred, and when the next one is due.…

In the spring of 1832, when the Indian warrior Black Hawk and a thousand followers marched into Illinois to reoccupy lands…

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The forgotten story of 200,000 Polish Jews who escaped the Holocaust as refugees stranded in remote corners of the…

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Quintus Curtius wrote a history of Alexander the Great. The first two of ten books have not survived and material is missing…

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The major works by Josephus are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BC to his own time, and Jewish Antiquities, from…