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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 …
Envisioning Empire
Examining the pivotal period between the end of the Seven Years’ War and the dawn of the American Revolution, Envisioning Empire reinterprets the development of the British Empire …
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 …
Rethinking the Roman City
The spatial turn has brought forward new analytical imperatives about the importance of space in the relationship between physical and social networks of meaning. This volume …
Arithmetica of Diophantus
This volume offers an English translation of all ten extant books of Diophantus of Alexandria's Arithmetica, along with a comprehensive conceptual, historical, and mathematical …
Volume IV: The Twentieth Century
The Oxford History of the British Empire is a major new assessment of the Empire in the light of recent scholarship and the progressive opening of historical records. From the …
Spies for the Sultan
Translated into English for the first time, this is a fascinating history of intelligence practices and their impact on great power rivalries in the early modern eraIn the …
Prelude to Imperialism
In the half century preceding imperial control approximately eight hundred Britons lived and travelled in East and Central Africa. Prelude to Imperialism (1965) examines their …
Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis
The third volume of reports on the excavations of noblemen’s tombs from the Kushite PeriodThis is the third and final volume in the Tombs of the South Asasif Necropolis series …
In Blood and Ashes
From binding spells and incantations to curse-writing rituals, magic pervaded the ancient Greek world. In Blood and Ashes provides the first historical study of the development and …