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  • What Happened in History

    by Gordon Childe ...
    ‘A masterpiece of popular scholarship … Childe gave European prehistory a coherence that made systematic progress possible’ Past and PresentArchaeologist and historian Gordon Childe charts the momentous shifts in early human history: from hunter-gathering to settled agriculture, the development of the first towns and cities in Mesopotamia, and the spectacular rise and fall of Graeco-Roman ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • The Dawn of European Civilization

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series The History of Civilization
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • New Light on the Most Ancient East

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    This book offers a detailed survey on major archaeological discoveries in the Near and Middle East. This classic account focuses on the findings in three great centers of ancient civilization: Egypt, Sumer, and the Indus valley.Professor Childe discusses the excavation of the three cities of Mohenjo-daro and Chanhu-daro on the Indus and Harappa on the Ravi, and what these sites have revealed about ... Read more

    $51.99 USD

  • The Aryans

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series The History of Civilization
    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize the most up to date findings and theories of historians, anthropologists, archaeologists and ... Read more

    $73.99 USD

  • Scotland Before the Scots

    Being the Rhind Lectures for 1944

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Scotland
    Originally published in 1946, this book presents in what can arguably be described as an unusual way, a slice of Scottish social life by applying to prehistory the principles of Marxism as practised by Soviet scholars of Russian prehistory. Using archaeological evidence, the author distinguishes 6 stages – from the earliest definable groups of immigrants to the Iron Age. There are 10 appendices, ... Read more

    $45.99 USD

  • The Prehistory Of Scotland

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    This volume, originally published in 1935, sought to reveal the significance of Scottish prehistory for the development of understanding of European prehistory. Written at a time of rapid accumulation of new relics and monuments and the insights from them, Professor Childe presented some important new data and made tentative conclusions for the future results from these finds. After an ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

  • Piecing Together the Past

    The Interpretation of Archaeological Data

    by V. Gordon Childe ...
    Series series Routledge Library Editions: Archaeology
    Originally published in 1956, this concise book brought together wisdom from V. Gordon Childe based upon 10 years of his lectures on the principles of archaeological classification, terminology and interpretive concepts. It examines meanings of technical terms and methodologies used in prehistoric archaeology, for those new to the area. ... Read more

    $76.99 USD

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  • Memory and the Mediterranean

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel–one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians–Memory and the Mediterraneanchronicles the Mediterranean’s immeasurably rich past during the foundational period from prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less than the bedrock of our civilization and the very origins of Western culture.Essential for historians, yet ... Read more

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  • The Scythians

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    by Barry Cunliffe ...
    Brilliant horsemen and great fighters, the Scythians were nomadic horsemen who ranged wide across the grasslands of the Asian steppe from the Altai mountains in the east to the Great Hungarian Plain in the first millennium BC. Their steppe homeland bordered on a number of sedentary states to the south - the Chinese, the Persians and the Greeks - and there were, inevitably, numerous interactions ... Read more

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  • Roman Shields

    by Hilary & John Travis ...
    The Roman military is an iconic, ancient institution; everybody is familiar with the image of fearsome Roman soldiers marching in their famous columns. In this book, Roman military experts John and Hilary Travis turn their attention to the shields used by the historic Roman stalwarts, drawing on their expertise, their wealth of illustrated material and the world of re-enactments. In its study of ... Read more

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