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

Just over a thousand years ago, the Song dynasty emerged as the most advanced civilization on earth. This title gives a…

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

In 1896 a massive Ethiopian army routed an invading Italian force and brought Italy's conquest of Africa to an end. In…

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

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After the collapse of the Han dynasty in the third century CE, China divided along a north-south line. Mark Lewis traces the…

The attempt to repress a majority of its own population backfired on the Confederate States of America as the…

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\nIn 1932 Sigmund Freud and diplomat William Bullitt completed a well-informed psychobiography of Woodrow Wilson, inspired…

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

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Thucydides of Athens, one of the greatest of historians, was born about 471 BCE. He saw the rise of Athens to greatness…

In his most influential work, the Metamorphoses, Ovid (43 BCE 17 CE) weaves a hexametric whole from a huge range of myths,…

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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

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

\nWritings on Body and Soul includes a selection of the theological, historical, and devotional works of Aelred, the…

This volume contains the poetic fragments of the two illustrious singers of early sixth-century Lesbos: Sappho, the most…

In Secret History the Byzantine historian Procopius (late fifth century to after 558 CE) attacks the sixth century CE…

Three works concerning the campaigns engaged in by the great Roman statesman Juluis Caesar.…

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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…

From the vantage point of the United States or Western Europe, the 1970s was a time of troubles: economic 'stagflation,'…

Dara Shukoh was the heir-apparent to the Mughal throne in 1659, when he was executed by his brother Aurangzeb. Today Dara is…

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

Retells the standard history of the end of World War II in the Pacific. By integrating the three key actors in the story -…

Presents the grand strategy of the eastern Roman empire we know as Byzantine, which lasted more than twice as long as the…

Koonz's latest work reveals how racial popularizers developed the infrastructure and rationale for genocide during the…

Daniel Immerwahr tells how the United States sought to rescue the world from poverty through small-scale, community-based…

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The sheer magnitude of the Holocaust has commanded our attention. The extent of atrocities, however, has overshadowed the…

\nIn 1961 South Korea was mired in poverty. By 1979, it had a powerful industrial economy and a vibrant civil society that…

Describes a series of dinner parties at which the guests quote extensively from Greek literature.…

The main aim of Dionysius of Halicarnassus Roman Antiquities, which began to appear in 7 BCE, was to reconcile Greeks to…

The only extant work by Livy (64 or 59 BCE 12 or 17 CE) is part of his history of Rome from the foundation of the city to 9…

\nThe prolific scholar-poet Callimachus of Cyrene spent his career at the royal court and great Library at Alexandria.…

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Polybius's theme is how and why the Romans spread their power as they did. The main part of his history covers the years…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

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Livy (Titus Livius, 64 or 59 BC-AD 12 or 17), the great Roman historian, presents a vivid narrative of Rome's rise from the…

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

Diodorus Library of History, written in the first century BCE, is the most extensively preserved history by an ancient Greek…

Dionysius of Halicarnassus, born c. 60 BCE, aimed in his critical essays to reassert the primacy of Greek as the literary…

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History of the Wars by Procopius (late fifth century to after AD 558) consists largely of sixth-century military history,…

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Appian (ca. AD 95-161) is a principal source for the history of the Roman Republic. His theme is the process by which Rome…

The major works of Josephus (c. 37 after 97 CE) are History of the Jewish War, from 170 BCE to his own time, and Jewish…

\nJustin’s artfully condensed version of the lost Philippic History of Trogus, a contemporary of Livy, is a universal…

Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), c. 150 235 CE, was born in Bithynia. Little of his Roman History survives, but missing portions…

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His extant works other than the Parallel Lives are varied, about sixty in…

The main part of Polybius' history covers the years 264--146 BCE, describing the rise of Rome, her destruction of Carthage,…

Plutarch (c. 45 120 CE) wrote on many subjects. His forty-six Parallel Lives are biographies planned to be ethical examples…