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Casson: Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Paperback
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  • Ships and Seamanship in the Ancient World. Paperback
  • by Lionel Casson
  • xxviii, 470 pages, 197 illustrations. 1995. Traces the history of early ships and seamanship from pre-dynastic Egypt to the Roman empire. The book describes the ships themselves as well as the crews, weaponry, cargo storage, methods of navigation and harbour facilities.

Clarus: Opfer, Ritus, Wandlung. Eine Wanderung durch Kulturen und Mythen. Gebunden
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  • Opfer, Ritus, Wandlung. Eine Wanderung durch Kulturen und Mythen. Gebunden
  • Ingeborg Clarus
  • 198 Seiten, illustriert. 2000

Ahlstrom: Ancient Palestine: A Historical Introduction. Paperback
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  • Ancient Palestine: A Historical Introduction. Paperback
  • by Costa Ahlstrom
  • 90 pages. 2002

Akkermans: The Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000 - 300 BC). Paperback
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  • Archaeology of Syria. From Complex Hunter-Gatherers to Early Urban Societies (c.16,000–300 BC). Paperback
  • by Peter M. M. G. Akkermans, Glenn M. Schwartz. 486 pages, 112 line diagrams, 79 half-tones, 13 maps. 2004. This is the first book to present a comprehensive review of the archaeology of Syria from the end of the Paleolithic period to 300 BC.

Aksan, Goffman: The Early Modern Ottomans. Remapping the Empire. Paperback
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  • Early Modern Ottomans. Remapping the Empire. Paperback
    Edited by Virginia H. Aksan, Daniel Goffman
  • 376 pages. 2007. A groundbreaking reinterpretation of the middle years of the Ottoman Empire, from the conquest of Byzantium in 1453 to the establishment of the Tanzimat in 1839.

Algaze: Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization. The Evolution of an Urban Landscape. Cloth
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  • Ancient Mesopotamia at the Dawn of Civilization. The Evolution of an Urban Landscape. Cloth
  • Guillermo Algaze. 246 pages, 17 illustrations, 9 maps, 1 table. 2009. Algaze draws on the work of modern economic geographers to explore how the unique river-based ecology and geography of the Tigris-Euphrates alluvium impacted the development of urban civilization in southern Mesopotamia.

Algaze: The Uruk World System : The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Paperback
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  • The Uruk World System : The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization
  • Guillermo Alagaze. Second revised edition 2010
  • Paperback, 174 pages, Illustrations, maps, 278 x 218 mm
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Algaze: The Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Cloth
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  • Uruk World System: The Dynamics of Expansion of Early Mesopotamian Civilization. Cloth. By Guillermo Algaze
  • 169 pages, 25 halftones, 25 figures, 15 maps, references, index. 1993. Archaeologists and historians have long been keenly interested in the emergence of early cities and states in the ancient Near East, particularly in the growth of early Sumerian civilization in the lowlands of Mesopotamia during the second half of the fourth millennium B.C.

Allegro: The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth. Paperback
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  • Dead Sea Scrolls and the Christian Myth. Paperback
  • by John Marco Allegro
  • xxvi, 252 pages. 1992

Aruz: Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. Hardcover
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  • Beyond Babylon: Art, Trade, and Diplomacy in the Second Millennium B.C. Hardcover, 12.25x9.25 inches
  • edited by Aruz, Joan / Benzel, Kim / Evans, Jean M.
  • xxiii, 524 pages. 2008. This important volume describes the extraordinary art created in the second millennium B.C. for royal palaces, temples, and tombs from Mesopotamia, Syria, and Anatolia to Cyprus, Egypt, and the Aegean. Objects of the highest artistry reflect the development of a sophisticated trade network throughout the eastern Mediterranean region.

Ascalone: Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians. Paperback
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  • Mesopotamia: Assyrians, Sumerians, Babylonians. Dictionary of Civilization. Paperback
  • Enrico Ascalone
  • 368 pages, colour illustrations. 2007. This beautifully illustrated guide to the ancient civilization of Mesopotamia, the region between the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, is the perfect companion for travelers and armchair travelers alike.

Aubet: The Phoenicians and the West. Politics, Colonies, and Trade. Second edition. Paperback
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  • Phoenicians and the West: Politics, Colonies, and Trade. Second edition. Paperback
  • by Maria Eugenia Aubet
  • 432 pages, 106 figures, 3 tables. 2001. Between the eighth and sixth centuries BC, the Phoenicians established the first trading system in the Mediterranean basin, from their homeland, in what is now Lebanon, to colonies in Cyprus, Tunisia, Sicily, Sardinia and southern Spain

Bagnall: Early Christian Books in Egypt. Hardcover
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  • Early Christian Books in Egypt. Hardcover
  • by Roger S. Bagnall. xv, 110 pages, illustrations. 2009
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Bagnall: Egypt in Late Antiquity. Paperback
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  • Egypt in Late Antiquity. Paperback
  • by Roger S. Bagnall
  • 370 pages, 11 illustrations, 1 map. 1996, 4th printing, with corrections. Focusing on Egypt from the accession of Diocletian in 284 to the middle of the fifth century, this book brings together information pertaining to the society, economy and culture of a province important to understanding the entire eastern part of the later Roman Empire

Bahrani: The Graven Image. Representation in Babylonia and Assyria. Hardcover
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  • Graven Image. Representation in Babylonia and Assyria. Hardcover
  • by Zainab Bahrani
  • x, 242 pages, 26 illustrations. 2003. Instead of imitating the natural world, representation, was thought to participate in the world and to have an effect upon it in natural, magical, and supernatural ways. The Graven Image is the first book to explore this tradition, which developed prior to, and apart from, the Greek understanding of representation.

Bahrani: Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. Cloth
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  • Women of Babylon: Gender and Representation in Mesopotamia. Cloth
  • by Zainab Bahrani
  • 212 pages, 44 plates, notes, references, bibliography, index. 2001. This historical study examines the concept of femininity in Assyro-Babylonian society. The author analyzes how the ancient culture of Mesopotamia defined gender and sexuality through visual representation

Ball: Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire. Paperback
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  • Rome in the East: The Transformation of an Empire. Paperback
  • by W. Ball
  • 524 pages, almost 300 photographs. 2000. This work provides an illustrated study of the influence of Near Eastern culture on the Roman world, which argues against received wisdom about Rome as the bastion of European culture.

Barnett: Tharros. A Catalogue of Material in the British Museum from Phoenician and other Tombs at Tharros, Sardinia. Cloth
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  • Tharros: A Catalogue of Material in the British Museum from Phoenician and other Tombs at Tharros, Sardinia. Cloth. 22x29cm
  • edited by R.D. Barnett and C. Mendleson
  • 270 pages, plus 154 plates, maps, index. 1987

Barta, Mayer-Maly: Lebend(ig)e Rechtsgeschichte. Beispiele antiker Rechtskulturen: Ägypten, Mesopotamien und Griechenland. Reihe: Recht und Kultur Band 1
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  • Lebend(ig)e Rechtsgeschichte. Beispiele antiker Rechtskulturen: Ägypten, Mesopotamien und Griechenland. Reihe: Recht und Kultur Band 1
  • Heinz Barta, Theo Mayer-Maly, Fritz Raber (Hg.)
  • 2005, 296 Seiten. Der erste Band will über das römische Recht hinaus auch das vernachlässigte griechische Recht einbeziehen und mit diesem das Recht des Vorderen und Alten Orients. Dazu soll die Rechtsentwicklung als Teil der Wissenschaftsgeschichte in Erinnerung gerufen werden. Interdisziplinarität soll dabei mehr sein, als ein Lippenbekenntnis.

Barton: The Biblical World. In 2 volumes. Paperback
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  • Biblical World. In 2 volumes. Paperback
  • edited by John Barton
  • 1152 pages, 65 photos and 16 line drawings. 2004. The Biblical World is a comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings and social context of the Bible. It presents the fruits of years of specialist study in an accessible form, and is essential reading for anyone who reads the Bible and would like to know more about how and why it came to be.

Beckmann: Hittite Birth Rituals. Paperback
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  • Hittite Birth Rituals. Paperback
  • Gary M. Beckmann
  • xvi, 333 Seiten, 2., überarbeitete Auflage 1983

Begrich: Gilgamesch: König und Vagant. Gebunden
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  • Gilgamesch: König und Vagant. Gebunden. Das Epos Nacherzählt und kommentiert von Gerhard Begrich
  • 93 Seiten. 2003

Bienkowski: Dictionary of the Ancient Near East. Hardcover
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  • Dictionary of the Ancient Near East. Hardcover
  • edited by Piotr Bienkowski and Alan Millard
  • 352 pages, 285 illustrations, 65 line drawings. 2000. More than 500 comprehensively indexed entries provide clear explanations and descriptions of the major ideas, sites, institutions, people and personalities that shaped the cradle of civilization. Architecture, literature, economics, labour, religion and society are all covered

Black, Cunningham, Robson, Zolyomi: The Literature of Ancient Sumer. Paperback
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  • Literature of Ancient Sumer. Paperback
  • edited by Black, Jeremy  / Cunningham, Graham  / Robson, Eleanor  / Zolyomi, Gabor
  • lxiii, 372 pages, with 39 illustrations. 2006

Black: Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Paperback
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  • Gods, Demons and Symbols of Ancient Mesopotamia: An Illustrated Dictionary. Paperback
  • by Jeremy A. Black, Anthony Green,  Tessa Rickards
  • 192 pages, 159 illustrations, 1 map

Boardman: Persia and the West. Cloth
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  • Persia and the West. Cloth
  • John Boardman
  • 255 pages, with 295 illustrations and maps, notes, index. 2000. In the 6th century BC, the early kings of the Achaemenid Persian empire, Cyrus the Great and Darius, sought a new style of monumental architecture and sculpture with which to distinguish their capital cities.

Bolman: Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Anthony at the Red Sea. Cloth
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  • Monastic Visions: Wall Paintings in the Monastery of St. Anthony at the Red Sea. Cloth. Ca.31x26cm
  • edited by Elizabeth S. Bolman
  • xxvii, 307 pages, 210 colour plates, 85 bw illustrations. An ancient church in the Coptic Monastery of St Antony at the Red Sea contains a unique cycle of 13th-century wall paintings. Reproducing the cleaned paintings, this volume describes and analyzes their amalgam of Coptic, Byzantine and Arab styles, and the religious culture to which they belong

Booth, Colomb, Williams: The Craft of Research. 3rd edition. Paperback
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  • Craft of Research. Paperback.
  • Wayne C. Booth, Gregory G. Colomb, Joseph M. Williams
  • xvii, 317 pages. 3rd edition 2008

Borger: Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. 3 Bände. Gebunden
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  • Handbuch der Keilschriftliteratur. 3 Bände. Gebunden
  • Rykle Borger. Band I: Repertorium der Sumerischen und Akkadischen Texte. 684 Seiten. Band II: Supplement zu Band I. Anhang: Zur Kuyunjik Sammlung. 427 Seiten. Band III: Inhaltliche Ordnung der Sumerischen und Akkadischen Texte. Anhang: Sekundärliteratur  in Auswahl. 176 Seiten. Zusammen 1287 Seiten. Berlin 1975

Bottéro: Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Cloth
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  • Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Cloth
  • Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Foreword François Zabbal
  • 208 pages, bibliography, index, 12 halftones. 2000. With Ancestor of the West, three distinguished French historians reveal the story of the birth of writing and reason, demonstrating how the logical religious structures of Near Eastern and Mesopotamian cultures served as precursors to those of the West

Bottéro: Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Paperback
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  • Ancestor of the West: Writing, Reasoning, and Religion in Mesopotamia, Elam, and Greece. Paperback
  • Jean Bottéro, Clarisse Herrenschmidt, Jean-Pierre Vernant. Foreword François Zabbal
  • 208 pages, bibliography, index, 12 halftones. 2000. With Ancestor of the West, three distinguished French historians reveal the story of the birth of writing and reason, demonstrating how the logical religious structures of Near Eastern and Mesopotamian cultures served as precursors to those of the West

Bottero: Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia. Paperback
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  • Everyday Life in Ancient Mesopotamia
  • Jean Bottéro 2001
  • Paperback, 288 pages, maps, 234 x 156 mm
  • The civilization of Ancient Mesopotamia flourished between 3300 BC and 2000 BC in the southern half of the lands between and to either side of the Tigris and Euphrates, where a vast grain harvest (about equal to Canada's today) supported a large and well-ordered population. The early development of cuneiform writing, the world's first phonetic script, means that for the first time in the history of humanity it is possible to learn something of how people thought and felt. This book aims to do just that and, as the reader soon finds out, succeeds triumphantly. Jean Bottero and his colleagues take the reader on a voyage of discovery into the public and private realms of the lives of our first civilized ancestors -- their cooking and eating, feasts and festivals, wine and drinking, love and sex, what women could do and what they couldn't, magic and medicine, trial by ordeal, life in a palace above and below stairs, astrology and divination, gods and religion, and literature and myth.
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Bottéro: Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods. Paperback
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  • Mesopotamia: Writing, Reasoning, and the Gods. Paperback
  • Jean Bottéro. Translated by Zainab Bahrani and Marc Van De Mieroop
  • 326 pages, illustrations, map, chronology, index, glossary. 1995. Our ancestors, the Mesopotamians, invented writing and with it a new way of looking at the world. In this collection of essays, the French scholar Jean Bottero attempts to go back to the moment which marks the very beginning of history.

Bottéro: Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. Paperback
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  • Religion in Ancient Mesopotamia. Paperback
  • by J. Bottéro
  • x, 246 pages, bibliography, index, map. 2004. Bottéro shows how ancient Mesopotamian religion was practiced both in the public and private spheres, how it developed over the three millennia of its active existence, and how it profoundly influenced Western civilization, including the Hebrew Bible.

Bourke: The Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization Revealed. Hardback
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  • Middle East: The Cradle of Civilization Revealed. Hardback, 30x23cm
  • Edited by Stephen Bourke
  • 368 pages, 500 illustrations, 450 in colour. 2008.  Here is an authoritative, detailed and accessible view of the history and peoples' of the ancient Middle East. The text is illustrated with detailed maps and photographs, enabling readers to visualize the ancient places and peoples described

Boyce: Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Paperback
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  • Zoroastrians: Their Religious Beliefs and Practices. Paperback
    by Mary Boyce. 252 pages. 2000. Zoroastrianism is of enormous importance in the history of religions. It became the state religion of the three great Iranian empires and influenced other world faiths: northern Buddhism and Judaism, Christianity and Islam.

Brock: Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. New edition. Paperback
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  • Holy Women of the Syrian Orient. Paperback
  • translated with an introduction by Sebastian P. Brock & Susan Ashbrook Harvey
  • xix, 198 pages, 1 illustration, 1 map, bibliography, index. 1998. The 15 hagiographies of holy women of the Syrian Orient collected here include stories of martyrs' passions and saints' lives, pious romances and personal reminiscences. Dating from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, they are translated from Syriac into accessible prose

Brooklyn Museum: Late Egyptian and Coptic Art. Hardcover
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  • Late Egyptian and Coptic Art. An Introduction to the Collection in the Brooklyn Museum. Hardcover, ca. 20 x 28 cm
  • Brooklyn Museum, with an introduction by John D. Cooney
  • 24 pages with text, 54 plates with photographs. 1943, reprint 1974

Brosius: The Persians. Paperback
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  • Persians. Paperback
  • Maria Brosius
  • 240 pages. 2006. The only book of its kind to cover both the Achaemenid period and the thousand years following Alexander's conquest, Persians explores the period from the seventh century BC, to the seventh century AD, and presents a comprehensive introduction to ancient Persia.

Browne: Literary History of Persia. Hardcover. In 4 volumes. Cloth. i/p
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  • Literary History of Persia. Hardcover. In 4 volumes. Cloth. indian publication
  • Volume 1: From the Earliest Times until Firdawsi. xiv, 521 pages. Volume 2: From Firdawsi to Sadí. xiv, 568 pages. Volume 3: The Tartar Dominion (1265 - 1502). xi, 586 pages. Volume 4: Modern Times (1500 - 1924). xvi, 530 pages. All volumes with index and some illustrations
  • "Not so much a history of Persian Literature, as a history of the Persian people from a literary point of view"

Bryce: Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East. The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age. New edition. Hardcover
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  • Letters of the Great Kings of the Ancient Near East. The Royal Correspondence of the Late Bronze Age. New edition. Hardcover
  • Trevor Bryce
  • 272 pages, 3 maps, 4 figures. From the 17th to the 12th centuries BCE, the five Great Kings of Egypt, Babylon, Hatti (the kingdom of the Hittites), Mitanni and Assyria ruled over vast, complex territories. One of the secrets to their control was frequent communication by letter.

Bryce: Life and Society in the Hittite World. Paperback
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  • Life and Society in the Hittite World. Paperback
  • by Trevor Bryce
  • 328 pages, 2 maps, 14 figures. 2004. The Hittites were an ancient people of Asia Minor and Syria, who flourished from 1600 to 1200 BC. Trevor Bryce uses contemporary scholarship and archaeological discoveries to examine their society and civilization

Bryce: The Kingdom of the Hittites. New edition. Paperback
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  • Kingdom of the Hittites. New edition. Paperback.
  • by Trevor Bryce
  • xix, 554 pages, 5 maps, 8 figures. 2005. This text presents a history of the kingdom of the Hittites, and its role in the context of the ancient Near Eastern world. It begins with an account of the Hittites predecessors, then traces the development of the Hittite kingdom to end with the events which followed after the kingdoms collapse

Bryce: Trojans and Their Neighbours. New edition. Paperback
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  • Trojans and Their Neighbours. New edition. Paperback
  • Trevor R. Bryce
  • 240 pages, 18 halftones, 11 line figures. 2005. Beginning with an account of Troy's involvement in "The Iliad" and the question of the historicity of the Trojan War, this title reveals how the Hittite texts illuminate this question, which has fascinated scholars and travellers since the Renaissance.

Buck, Mout, Musterd, Talsma: Zoeken en schrijven. Handleiding bij het maken van een historisch werkstuk. 10e druk. Gebonden
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  • Zoeken en schrijven. Handleiding bij het maken van een historisch werkstuk. 10e druk. Gebonden
  • P. de Buck, M. Mout, C. Musterd en J. Talsma. 150 pagina's. 2002

Bugh: The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Paperback
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  • Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World. Paperback.
  • Edited by Glenn R. Bugh
  • 402 pages. 2006. This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt.

Burbank: Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference. Paperback
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  • Empires in World History: Power and the Politics of Difference
  • Jane Burbank, Frederic Cooper 2011
  • Paperback, 528 pages, 44 halftones. 34 line illus., 254 x 178 mm
  • Burbank and Cooper examine Rome and China from the third century BCE, empires that sustained state power for centuries. They delve into the militant monotheism of Byzantium, the Islamic Caliphates, and the short-lived Carolingians, as well as the pragmatically tolerant rule of the Mongols and Ottomans, who combined religious protection with the politics of loyalty. Burbank and Cooper discuss the influence of empire on capitalism and popular sovereignty, the limitations and instability of Europe's colonial projects, Russia's repertoire of exploitation and differentiation, as well as the "empire of liberty" - devised by American revolutionaries and later extended across a continent and beyond. With its investigation into the relationship between diversity and imperial states, "Empires in World History" offers a fresh approach to understanding the impact of empires on the past and present.
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Burke: History and Social Theory. 2nd edition. Paperback
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  • History and Social Theory. 2nd edition
  • Peter Burke 2005. Paperback, 198 pages, bibliography, index
  • Offers a reappraisal of the relations between history and the social sciences.

Burkert: Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Hardcover
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  • Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Hardcover
  • by Walter Burkert
  • 178 pages. 2004

Burkert: Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Paperback
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  • Babylon, Memphis, Persepolis: Eastern Contexts of Greek Culture. Paperback
  • by Walter Burkert
  • 178 pages. 2008