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  • Military Diasporas

    Building of Empire in the Middle East and Europe (550 BCE-1500 CE)

    Edited by Georg Christ, Patrick Sänger, Mike Carr ...
    Military Diasporas proposes a new research approach to analyse the role of foreign military personnel as composite and partly imagined para-ethnic groups.These groups not only buttressed a state or empire’s military might but crucially connected, policed, and administered (parts of) realms as a transcultural and transimperial class while representing the polity’s universal or at least cosmopolitan ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

  • History and Economic Life

    A Student’s Guide to Approaching Economic and Social History Sources

    Edited by Georg Christ, Philipp R. Rössner ...
    Series series Routledge Guides to Using Historical Sources
    History and Economic Life offers students a wide-ranging introduction to both quantitative and qualitative approaches to interpreting economic history sources from the Middle Ages to the Twentieth Century.Having identified an ever-widening gap between the use of qualitative sources by cultural historians and quantitative sources by economic historians, the book aims to bridge the divide by making ... Read more

    $54.99 USD

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  • Medieval Europe

    by Chris Wickham ...
    A spirited history of the changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle Ages: "A dazzling race through a complex millennium."— Publishers WeeklyThe millennium between the breakup of the western Roman Empire and the Reformation was a long and hugely transformative period—one not easily chronicled within the scope of a few hundred pages. Yet distinguished historian Chris ... Read more

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • 428 AD

    An Ordinary Year at the End of the Roman Empire

    by Giusto Traina, Averil Cameron ...
    This is a sweeping tour of the Mediterranean world from the Atlantic to Persia during the last half-century of the Roman Empire. By focusing on a single year not overshadowed by an epochal event, 428 AD provides a truly fresh look at a civilization in the midst of enormous change--as Christianity takes hold in rural areas across the empire, as western Roman provinces fall away from those in the ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Europe and the Islamic World

    A History

    by John Tolan, Henry Laurens, Gilles Veinstein ...
    A sweeping history of Islam and the West from the seventh century to todayEurope and the Islamic World sheds much-needed light on the shared roots of Islamic and Western cultures and on the richness of their inextricably intertwined histories, refuting once and for all the misguided notion of a "clash of civilizations" between the Muslim world and Europe. In this landmark book, three eminent ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Framing the Early Middle Ages:Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

    Europe and the Mediterranean, 400-800

    by Chris Wickham ...
    The Roman empire tends to be seen as a whole whereas the early middle ages tends to be seen as a collection of regional histories, roughly corresponding to the land-areas of modern nation states. As a result, early medieval history is much more fragmented, and there have been few convincing syntheses of socio-economic change in the post-Roman world since the 1930s. In recent decades, the rise of ... Read more

    $62.09 USD

  • Unfabling the East

    The Enlightenment's Encounter with Asia

    by Jürgen Osterhammel ...
    Translated by Robert Savage ...
    How Enlightenment Europe rediscovered its identity by measuring itself against the great civilizations of AsiaDuring the long eighteenth century, Europe's travelers, scholars, and intellectuals looked to Asia in a spirit of puzzlement, irony, and openness. In this panoramic and colorful book, Jürgen Osterhammel tells the story of the European Enlightenment's nuanced encounter with the great ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

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  • The Ottoman Empire and the World Around it

    by Suraiya Faroqhi ...
    In Islamic law the world was made up of the 'House of Islam' and the 'House of War' with the Ottoman Sultan - successor to the early Caliphs - as supreme ruler of the Islamic world. However, in this ground-breaking study of the Ottoman Empire in the early modern period, Suraiya Faroqhi demonstrates that there was no 'iron curtain' between the Ottoman and 'other' worlds but rather a long ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Pantheon

    A New History of Roman Religion

    Translated by David M. B. Richardson ...
    by Jörg Rüpke ...
    From one of the world's leading authorities on the subject, an innovative and comprehensive account of religion in the ancient Roman and Mediterranean worldIn this ambitious and authoritative book, Jörg Rüpke provides a comprehensive and strikingly original narrative history of ancient Roman and Mediterranean religion over more than a millennium—from the late Bronze Age through the Roman imperial ... Read more

    $26.99 USD

  • The Roman Empire in Context

    Historical and Comparative Perspectives

    Edited by Johann P. Arnason, Kurt A. Raaflaub ...
    Series series Ancient World: Comparative Histories
    Through a series of original essays by leading international scholars, The Roman Empire in Context: Historical and Comparative Perspectives offers a comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievement and, more broadly, establishes Rome’s significance within comparative studies.Fills a gap in comparative historical analysis of the Roman empire’s role and achievementFeatures ... Read more

    $158.00 USD

  • On the Origins of Global History

    Inaugural Lecture delivered on Thursday 28 November 2013

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Series series Leçons inaugurales
    How does one think of history on a world scale? Should one turn to the intellectuals of the past or the historians of the present? Universal history as it was practised from Antiquity started to change from the sixteenth century in varied contexts, from East Asia to Spanish America. Applying his extensive knowledge of archives across the world and his command of languages and historiographic ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Alexander the Great

    A New History

    Edited by Waldemar Heckel, Lawrence A. Tritle ...
    Alexander the Great: A New History combines traditional scholarship with contemporary research to offer an innovative treatment of one of history's most famous figures.Written by leading experts in the fieldLooks at a wide range of diverse topics including Alexander's religious views, his entourage during his campaign East, his sexuality, the influence of his legacy, and his representations in art ... Read more

    $43.00 USD