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  • The Indigenous and the Foreign in Christian Ethiopian Art

    On Portuguese-Ethiopian Contacts in the 16th–17th Centuries

    Edited by Manuel João Ramos, Isabel Boavida ...
    In the rural plateaux of northern Ethiopia, one can still find scattered ruins of monumental buildings that are evidently alien to the country's ancient architectural tradition. This little-known and rarely studied architectural heritage is a silent witness to a fascinating if equivocal cultural encounter that took place in the 16th-17th centuries between Catholic Europeans and Orthodox Ethiopians ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

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  • The Secret Lives of Buildings

    From the Ruins of the Parthenon to the Vegas Strip in Thirteen Stories

    by Edward Hollis ...
    A strikingly original, beautifully narrated history of Western architecture and the cultural transformations that it represents.Concrete, marble, steel, brick: little else made by human hands seems as stable, as immutable, as a building. Yet the life of any structure is neither fixed nor timeless. Outliving their original contexts and purposes, buildings are forced to adapt to each succeeding age. ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Alhambra

    by Robert Irwin ...
    The Alhambra, the 'red fort' on its rocky hill above Granada with its fountained courts and gardens and intricate decoration has long been a byword for exotic and melancholy beauty. In a stimulating new book in the 'Wonders of the World' series Robert Irwin, Arabist and novelist, examines its engrossing and often mysterious history.Built by a bloody and threatened dynasty of Muslim Spain, the ... Read more

    $9.89 USD

  • The End of Byzantium

    by Jonathan Harris ...

    $32.79 USD

  • The Great Sea

    A Human History of the Mediterranean

    by David Abulafia ...
    Connecting Europe, Asia, and Africa, the Mediterranean Sea has been for millennia the place where religions, economies, and political systems met, clashed, influenced and absorbed one another. In this brilliant and expansive book, David Abulafia offers a fresh perspective by focusing on the sea itself: its practical importance for transport and sustenance; its dynamic role in the rise and fall of ... Read more

    $22.79 USD

  • Scholars, Travellers and Trade

    The Pioneer Years of the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden, 1818-1840

    by R. B. Halbertsma ...
    Today, the National Museum of Antiquities in Leiden is internationally known for its outstanding archaeological collections. Yet its origins lie in an insignificant assortment of artefacts used for study by Leiden University. How did this transformation come about? Ruurd Halbertsma has delved into the archives to show that the appointment of Caspar Reuvens as Professor of Archaeology in 1818 was ... Read more

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  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $39.59 USD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

    $31.69 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Roman Egypt

    Edited by Christina Riggs ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Roman Egypt is a critical area of interdisciplinary research, which has steadily expanded since the 1970s and continues to grow. Egypt played a pivotal role in the Roman empire, not only in terms of political, economic, and military strategies, but also as part of an intricate cultural discourse involving themes that resonate today - east and west, old world and new, acculturation and shifting ... Read more

    $41.39 USD

  • Three Ways to Be Alien

    Travails and Encounters in the Early Modern World

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    Series series The Menahem Stern Jerusalem Lectures
    Sanjay Subrahmanyam’s Three Ways to Be Alien draws on the lives and writings of a trio of marginal and liminal figures cast adrift from their traditional moorings into an unknown world. The subjects include the aggrieved and lost Meale, a “Persian” prince of Bijapur (in central India, no less) held hostage by the Portuguese at Goa; English traveler and global schemer Anthony Sherley, whose ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Infidels

    A History of the Conflict Between Christendom and Islam

    by Andrew Wheatcroft ...
    Here is the first panoptic history of the long struggle between the Christian West and Islam.In this dazzlingly written, acutely nuanced account, Andrew Wheatcroft tracks a deep fault line of animosity between civilizations. He begins with a stunning account of the Battle of Lepanto in 1571, then turns to the main zones of conflict: Spain, from which the descendants of the Moors were eventually ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

  • Courtly Encounters

    Translating Courtliness and Violence in Early Modern Eurasia

    by Sanjay Subrahmanyam ...
    In the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries the court was the crucial site where expanding Eurasian states and empires met and made sense of one another. Richly illustrated, Courtly Encounters provides a fresh cross-cultural perspective on early modern Islam, Counter-Reformation Catholicism, Protestantism, and a newly emergent Hindu sphere. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD