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Hadrian and the City of Rome
How Hadrian left an enduring mark on the architecture and urban topography of ancient RomeThe Pantheon, the Temple of Venus and Roma, Hadrian's Mausoleum transformed into Castel …
Contact and Conflict in Frankish Greece and the Aegean, 1204-1453
The conquest of Constantinople by the Fourth Crusade shattered irreversibly the political and cultural unity of the Byzantine world in the Greek peninsula, the Aegean and western …
Herodotus in Context
Herodotus called his work an enquiry and wrote before ‘history’ was a separate discipline. Coming from Halicarnassus, at the crossroads between the Persian and Athenian spheres of …
Philippi 42 BC
Forever immortalised by Shakespeare's play "Julius Caesar", the battle of Philippi was the final battle between the forces of Mark Antony and Octavian against the armies of …
Greek City States
Political activity and political thinking began in the cities and other states of ancient Greece, and terms such as tyranny, aristocracy, oligarchy, democracy and politics itself …
More People, Fewer States
The long-term development of political systems over extended time periods has been somewhat neglected. More People, Fewer States examines world history through population explosion …
History of the British West Indies
History of the British West Indies (1954) examines the history of the islands of the Caribbean from their first discovery, through the periods of colonisation and slavery, and up …
The Imperial History Wars
The history of the British Empire, a subject that had slipped into obscurity when the empire came to an end, has since made a stunning comeback, generating a series of heated …
Exploring the New Testament World
The timeless message of the New Testament applies to people of every culture and generation. Yet there is great value in understanding the world in which that message was first …
The End of Empires and a World Remade
A capacious history of decolonization from the decline of empires to the era of globalizationEmpires, until recently, were everywhere. They shaped borders, stirred conflicts, and …
The Cambridge Ancient History
The fifth century BC was not only the first Classic age of European civilisation. It was the first and last period before the Romans in which great political and military power was …
Imperial Boredom
Imperial Boredom offers a radical reconsideration of the British Empire during its heyday in the nineteenth century. Challenging the long-established view that the Empire was about …