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Athenian Revolution
Where did "e;democracy"e; come from, and what was its original form and meaning? Here Josiah Ober shows that this "e;power of the people"e; crystallized in a …
Organization of Ancient Economies
In this book, Kenneth Hirth provides a comparative view of the organization of ancient and premodern society and economy. Hirth establishes that humans adapted to their …
Short-term Empires in World History
The volume will focus on a comparative level on a specific group of states that are commonly labelled as "e;empires"e; and that we encounter through all historical periods. …
Patrons, Clients, and Empire
Patrons, Clients, and Empire challenges the stereotypes of despotic imperial power in Asian, African, and Pacific colonies by analysing the relationship between rulers and rulers …
Temps et aspect en egyptien
This volume deals with the complex question of time and aspect in ancient Egyptian. The first part presents an original theoretical model which challenges some well-established …
Private Orations of Themistius
Themistius was a philosopher, a prominent Constantinopolitan senator, and an adviser to Roman emperors during the fourth century A.D. In this first translation of Themistius's …
Armenian Events Of Adana In 1909
The purpose of the book is twofold: first, to give an accurate and reasonably complete narrative account of the Armenian events of 1909 and their aftermath in the province of Adana …
Comical Modernity
Though long associated with a small group of coffeehouse elites around the turn of the twentieth century, Viennese “modernist” culture had roots that reached much further back …
Gudea's Temple Building
Gudea of Lagash, who ruled at the end of the third millennium B.C., wanted to be remembered as a temple builder. An extensive narrative inscribed on two huge clay cylinders, one of …
Vasco da Gama and his Successors, 1460-1580
Vasco da Gama and His Successors (1970) looks at a range of Portuguese explorers of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, the most important being Vasco da Gama, whose first …
Christianity and Roman Society
Early Christianity in the context of Roman society raises important questions for historians, sociologists of religion and theologians alike. This work explores the differing …