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  • A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire

    by Bruno Jacobs, Robert Rollinger ...
    Series series Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World
    A COMPANION TO THE ACHAEMENID PERSIAN EMPIREA comprehensive review of the political, cultural, social, economic and religious history of the Achaemenid EmpireOften called the first world empire, the Achaemenid Empire is rooted in older Near Eastern traditions. A Companion to the Achaemenid Persian Empire offers a perspective in which the history of the empire is embedded in the preceding and ... Read more

    $374.00 USD

  • The End of Empires

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger, Philipp Strobl ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The articles of this comprehensive edited volume offer a multidisciplinary, global and comparative approach to the history of empires. They analyze their ends over a long spectrum of humankind’s history, ranging from Ancient History through Modern Times. As the main guiding question, every author of this volume scrutinizes the reasons for the decline, the erosion, and the implosion of individual ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

  • Empires to be remembered

    Ancient Worlds through Modern Times

    Edited by Michael Gehler, Robert Rollinger ...
    Series series History (R0)
    By applying a comparative approach the volume focuses on a select group of „empires“ which are generally not in the focus of empires studies. They are studied in detail and analyzed due to a strict concept that takes into account real history and reception history as well. Reception history becomes more and more an important element in empire studies although this topic is still often more or less ... Read more

    $80.99 USD

  • Short-term Empires in World History

    Edited by Robert Rollinger, Julian Degen, Michael Gehler ...
    Series series History (R0)
    The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as “empires” and that we encounter through all historical periods. Although they are very successful at the very beginning, like most empires are, this success is very ephemeral and transient. The era of conquest is never followed by a period of consolidation. Collapse and/or reduction to much ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

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  • 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

    $21.99 USD

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  • Palmyra

    A History

    by Michael Sommer ...
    Series series Cities of the Ancient World
    Palmyra: A History examines Palmyra, the city in the Syrian oasis of Tadmur, from its beginnings in the Bronze Age, through the classical period and its discovery and excavation, to the present day. It aims at reconstructing Palmyra’s past from literary accounts – classical and post-classical – as well as material evidence of all kinds: inscriptions, coins, art and of course the remains of Palmyra ... Read more

    $63.99 USD

  • Ottoman Empire and European Theatre Vol. II

    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Mahmud II (r.1730-1839)

    Edited by Michael Hüttler, Hans Ernst Weidinger ...
    Series Book 3 - Ottomania
    The Time of Joseph Haydn: From Sultan Mahmud I to Sultan Mahmud II (r.1730-1839), the second volume of Ottoman Empire and European Theatre, explores the relationship between Western playwrights, composers and visual artists of the eighteenth-century and Turkish-Ottoman culture, as well as the interest of Ottoman artists in European culture. Twenty-seven contributions by renowned experts shed light ... Read more

    $52.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Greek History: Hellenistic: Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guide

    by Angelos Chaniotis ...
    Series series Oxford Bibliographies Online Research Guides
    This ebook is a selective guide designed to help scholars and students of the ancient world find reliable sources of information by directing them to the best available scholarly materials in whatever form or format they appear from books, chapters, and journal articles to online archives, electronic data sets, and blogs. Written by a leading international authority on the subject, the ebook ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • Constructing a German Diaspora

    The "Greater German Empire", 1871-1914

    by Stefan Manz ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Modern European History
    This book takes on a global perspective to unravel the complex relationship between Imperial Germany and its diaspora. Around 1900, German-speakers living abroad were tied into global power-political aspirations. They were represented as outposts of a "Greater German Empire" whose ethnic links had to be preserved for their own and the fatherland’s benefits. Did these ideas fall on fertile ground ... Read more

    $89.99 USD

  • Comparative Studies in Modern European History

    Nation, Nationalism, Social Change

    by Miroslav Hroch ...
    Series series Variorum Collected Studies
    The two main themes of this selection of articles by Professor Hroch are the process of nation formation during the 19th century, especially in the case of 'smaller' European nations, i.e. those without statehood, and the social and political aspects of the transition from a pre-modern, feudal and traditional society to a modern capitalist one and the uneven pace of this change in the West and ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • German Orientalism

    The Study of the Middle East and Islam from 1800 to 1945

    by Ursula Wokoeck ...
    Series series Culture and Civilization in the Middle East
    During the nineteenth century and the first half of the twentieth, German universities were at the forefront of scholarship in Oriental studies. Drawing upon a comprehensive survey of thousands of German publications on the Middle East from this period, this book presents a detailed history of the development of Orientalism.Offering an alternative to the view of Orientalism as a purely ... Read more

    $79.99 USD

  • The Germans in India

    Elite European migrants in the British Empire

    by Panikos Panayi ...
    Series Book 151 - Studies in Imperialism
    Based on years of research in libraries and archives in England, Germany, India and Switzerland, this book offers a new interpretation of global migration from the early nineteenth until the early twentieth century. Rather than focusing upon the mass transatlantic migration or the movement of Britons towards British colonies, it examines the elite German migrants who progressed to India, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD