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Bananbältet: Resor i Östafrika och Cuba
Bananbältet - resor i Östafrika och Cuba handlar om sex länder i Östafrika - Kenya, Uganda, Tanzania, Malawi, Zambia och Zimbabwe - samt om Cuba. Författarna Ann Lindvall Arika och …
Julio-Claudian Emperors
'The dark, unrelenting Tiberius, the furious Caligula, the feeble Claudius, the profligate and cruel Nero..are condemned to everlasting Infamy', wrote Gibbon. This 'infamy' has …
How the World Made the West
A BOOK OF THE YEAR FOR: The Times/Sunday Times, Observer, Economist, Guardian, BBC History Magazine, i-paper, Novara Media and History Today'Quinn has done a lot more than reinvent …
Guarding the Frontier
The seventeenth-century Ottoman-Habsburg frontier was the scene of chronic conflict. The defences of both empires were based on a line of fortresses, spanning the border. Mark …
Plutarch and his Roman Readers
Plutarch's focus on the great leaders of the classical world, his anecdotal style, and his self-presentation as a good-natured friend and wise counsellor have appealed over the …
Byzantine Hellene
This book tells the extraordinary story of Theodore II Laskaris, an emperor who ruled over the Byzantine state of Nicaea established in Asia Minor after the fall of Constantinople …
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid contributes to our understanding of the Roman poet Ovid, the Renaissance writer Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of …
Ancient Urban Planning in the Mediterranean
New Directions in Urban Planning in the Ancient Mediterranean assembles the most up-to-date research on the design and construction of ancient cities in the wider Mediterranean. In …
Making of Selim
The father of the legendary Ottoman sultan Suleyman the Magnificent, Selim I ("e;The Grim"e;) set the stage for centuries of Ottoman supremacy by doubling the size of the …
Hebrew Popular Journalism
The book examines the birth, development, and mode of operation of the Hebrew popular press that progressed in Ottoman Palestine between 1884 and the eruption of World War I in …
The Life of Flavius Josephus
The Life of Flavius Josephus By Flavius Josephus1. The family from which I am derived is not an ignoble one, but hath descended all along from the priests and as nobility among …
Marcus Aurelius in Love
In 1815 a manuscript containing one of the long-lost treasures of antiquity was discovered-the letters of Marcus Cornelius Fronto, reputed to have been one of the greatest Roman …