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Avner Ben-Zaken reconsiders the fundamental question of how early modern scientific thought traveled between Western and Eastern cultures in the age of the so-called Scientific …
Originally published in 1965. This book is about the association between Britain and Africa. The book begins with the British entry into Africa and the Indian Ocean and the …
Selected by Choice Magazine as an Outstanding Academic TitleIn From Slave to Pharaoh, noted Egyptologist Donald B. Redford examines over two millennia of complex social and …
In the late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries the Barbary States captured and held for ransom nearly five hundred American sailors. The attacks on Americans abroad-and the …
Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates …
This provocative study of Jerusalem's Temple Mount unravels popular scholarly paradigms about the origins of this contested sacred site and its significance in Jewish and Christian …
Originally published in 1962. This book is a study of relations between Britain and China. The first section surveys historical relations between the two nations and culminates …
The remarkable story of how a large public-private partnership worked to control and defeat riverblindness—a scourge which had devastated rural communities and impeded …
A sweeping narrative of America's imperial history and its long entanglement with China.In Terminus, Stuart Rollo examines the origins and trajectory of American empire in the …
Lionel Casson offers a comprehensive introduction to the people of ancient Egypt. He describes the structure of Egyptian society-the levels from peasant to pharaoh, the nature of …