History

Madness and Civilization

by Michel Foucault

1988

Michel Foucault examines the archeology of madness in the West from 1500 to 1800 - from the late Middle Ages, when insanity was still considered part of everyday life and fools and lunatics walked the streets freely, to the time when such p…

Russia and the Russians

by Geoffrey A. Hosking

2001

Chronicles the history of the Russian Empire from the Mongol Invasion, through the Bolshevik Revolution, to the aftereffects of the Cold War.…

The Discarded Image

by C. S. Lewis

1994

Hailed as "the final memorial to the work of a great scholar and teacher and a wise and noble mind," this work paints a lucid picture of the medieval world view, as historical and cultural background to the literature of the Middl…

A Concise History of Greece

by Richard Clogg

2002

This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, with a new final chapter about Greek history and politics to the present day. 56 illustrations. 10 maps.…

The Politics of Planting

by Shaul Ephraim Cohen

1993

On the open landscape of Israel and the West Bank, where pine and cypress forests grow alongside olive groves, tree planting has become symbolic of conflicting claims to the land. Palestinians cultivate olive groves as a vital agricultural …

Alexander the Great

by Philip Freeman

2011

In the first authoritative biography of Alexander the Great written for a general audience in a generation, classicist and historian Philip Freeman tells the remarkable life of the great conqueror. The celebrated Macedonian king has been on…

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Cultural Politics in Polybius’s Histories

by Craige B. Champion

2004

"Smart and sophisticated. A work that is simultaneously a sensitive study of a major Greek historian and a probing analysis of the Greco-Roman society in which his history was produced."—John Marincola, author of Authority and Tra…

A Cabinet of Byzantine Curiosities

by Anthony Kaldellis

2017

Weird, decadent, degenerate, racially mixed, superstitious, theocratic, effeminate, and even hyper-literate, Byzantium has long been regarded by many as one big curiosity. According to Voltaire, it represented "a worthless collection o…

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Damascus

by Ross Burns

2005

This is the first book in English to relate the history of Damascus, bringing out the crucial role the city has played at many points in the region's past. Damascus traces the history of this colourful, significant and complex city thro…

The Mandaeans

by Jorunn Jacobsen Buckley

2002

The Mandaeans were a gnostic sect that arose in the Middle East around the same time as Christianity. This text examines the lives and religion of contemporary Mandaeans and provides an introduction to the religion, showing how its ancient …

The Roman Imperial Army of the First and Second Centuries A.D.

by Graham Webster

1979

Modernity and Secession

by Michel Huysseune

2006

The author provides a new, systematic and interdisciplinary approach that reinterprets the premises behind Italy's imagined geography or modernity."--Jacket.…