\nLong before Greeks dominated the ancient Mediterranean, Phoenicians were the lords of the sea. Setting out from their…

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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Die erste umfassende Darstellung der Islampolitik des NS-Regimes. Zeigt die Instrumentalisierung des Islam durch die…

\nModern Japan is not only responding to threats from North Korea and China but is also reevaluating its dependence on the…

Once sidelined from public memory, World War II is now a historical touchstone in China. Rana Mitter links reassessment of…

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The historian Polybius (ca 200-118 BCE) was born into a leading family of Megalopolis in the Peloponnese (Morea) and served…

Volume V of the nine-volume Loeb edition of Early Greek Philosophy includes the western Greek thinkers Parmenides, Zeno,…

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

In Tetrabiblos, a core text in the history of astrology, the preeminent ancient astronomer Ptolemy treats the practical use…

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

Bacevich reconsiders the assumptions and purposes governing the exercise of American global power. Examining the…

In dialogue about genetically modified crops, visions of the triumph of biotechnology vie with dire views of medical and…

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\nJames Hankins challenges the view that the Renaissance was the seedbed of modern republicanism, with Machiavelli as…

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

\nWhen a young woman killed herself in the office she shared with her employer in 1920s Shanghai, the city reeled in shock.…

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\nEugene McCarraher challenges the conventional view of capitalism as a force for disenchantment. From Puritan and…

John W. O'Malley gives us the most comprehensive account ever written of the Society of Jesus in its founding years, one…

Studies of collaboration have changed how the history of World War II in Europe is written, but for China and Japan this…

The Apocalypse informed medieval expectations of the end of the world, responses to strange and exotic invaders, and the…

The Old English History of the World, produced around the year 900, is an anonymous translation and adaptation of Paulus…

In 1039 Byzantium was the most powerful empire in Europe and the Near East. By 1079 it was a politically unstable state half…

With Commonwealth, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri conclude the trilogy begun with Empire and continued in Multitude,…

Mount Athos was the most famous center of Byzantine monasticism and remains the spiritual heart of the Orthodox Church…

Between 1608 and 1610 the canopy of the night sky was ripped open by an object created almost by accident: a cylinder with…

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The people of Smolensk survived both of the twentieth century’s most brutal dictatorships. Michael David-Fox probes their…

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\nDuring Guatemala’s decades-long civil war, tens of thousands of children, many of them Indigenous Maya, were coerced or…

This bold, innovative book promises to radically alter our understanding of the Atlantic slave trade, and the depths of its…

\nUnder Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to…

The 25 years after World War II were a fertile period for the American novel and an era of transformation in American…

From the Bronze Age to the twenty-first century, vying armies have clashed over the territory stretching from the Upper Nile…

Joyce Malcolm illuminates the historical facts underlying the current passionate debate in America about gun-related…

Michel Winock situates Flaubert in France's century of great democratic transition. Wary of the masses, Flaubert rejected…

On the bicentennial of his death, this beautifully illustrated volume pays tribute to the Scot who became the father of…

In 1898 the American Regular Army was a small frontier constabulary engaged in skirmishes with Indians and protesting…

Miller culls sources as varied as soldiers' memoirs, heroic and romantic literature, and philosophical discussions to get to…

Based on the careful examination of more than 500,000 applications to fourteen elite colleges and hundreds of interviews…

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\nIn 1739 Bordeaux\'s Royal Academy of Sciences held an essay contest seeking answers to a pressing question: What was the…