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Empires & historical states

Paperback. Contains 57 documents that introduce many of the major topics of Roman history, from the period of the Twelve Tables (451 BC) to the later Roman empire, including: the structure of Roman society, slavery, the position of women and the nature of family life, farm-management and agricultural practices, and scientific and medical knowledge. Editor(s): Cherry, David. Num Pages: 280 pages, 10. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 244 x 174 x 15. Weight in Grams: 470.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
SKU
V9780631217848
ISBN
9780631217848
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 55.34

paperback. Suetonius has often been used as if he were an historian, and at the same time criticised for not being one. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 224 pages, p. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; BGH; HBAH; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 15. .
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1994
Publisher
Liverpool University Press United Kingdom
Edition
Revised ed.
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
SKU
V9780856685385
ISBN
9780856685385
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 31.36

Paperback. This text was the first edited collection on the burgeoning history of the early modern Atlantic world and has had a huge impact on the many fields of Atlantic Studies. This second edition features two new essays on science and global history respectively, as well as a revised Introduction and updated guides to further reading. Editor(s): Armitage, Professor David; Braddick, M.J. Num Pages: 416 pages, 3 maps, 5 black & white tables. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBLH; HBLL. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 217 x 140 x 23. Weight in Grams: 520.
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Number of pages
416
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Edition
2nd Edition
Condition
New
SKU
V9780230202351
ISBN
9780230202351
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 46.46

Hardback. Series: New Approaches to Byzantine History and Culture. Num Pages: 228 pages, 10 colour illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; HBJD; HBLC; HBW; JWT. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 157 x 218 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2016
Edition
1st ed. 2017
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137562036
ISBN
9781137562036
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 149.63

Hardcover. In this text, the authors show how the Roman-Jewish wars were precipitated partly by Jewish demographic and religious expansion and by conflict with the Greeks and their culture. They argue that the trauma and humiliation of defeat, stimulated Jewish cultural growth, particularly in Hebrew. Num Pages: 190 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDA; HBJF; HBLA; HBTB; JFC; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 137 x 227 x 17. Weight in Grams: 396.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
192
Condition
New
SKU
V9780333764589
ISBN
9780333764589
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 66.40

Hardcover. Johnson provides an historically rich examination of the intersection of early twentieth-century imperial culture, imperial politics, and imperial economics as reflected in the colonial built environment at New Delhi, a remarkably ambitious imperial capital built by the British between 1911 and 1931. Series: Britain and the World. Num Pages: 280 pages, 7 colour tables, 3 maps, 5 black & white halftones, 2 colour illustrations. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDB; HBJD1; HBJF; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 225 x 147 x 21. Weight in Grams: 464.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137469861
ISBN
9781137469861
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.12

Paperback. .
Publisher
Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
Number of pages
512
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2002
Condition
New
SKU
V9780140262520
ISBN
9780140262520
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 23.99
€ 17.77

DVD. Series: Drive Thru History. BIC Classification: 1QDAL; HBJF1; HRCG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 141 x 14. Weight in Grams: 52.
Format
DVD
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Zondervan United States
Edition
DVD
Condition
New
SKU
V9780310396864
ISBN
9780310396864
DVD
Condition: New

€ 21.99
€ 18.69

Paperback. Explains how philosophers like Socrates and Pythagoras influenced Plato's thought. This book provides an account of Plato's puzzling theory of knowledge, and explains how this theory then directed his provocative views on politics, ethics and individual liberty. Illustrator(s): Groves, Judy. Series: Introducing.. Num Pages: 176 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPCA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 167 x 119 x 13. Weight in Grams: 160.
Publisher
Icon Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
176
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9781848311770
ISBN
9781848311770
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 9.15

hardcover. Num Pages: 340 pages, 18 illus, 21 b/w figs, 69 b/w plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3B; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 284 x 218 x 20. Weight in Grams: 1308.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory) United States
Number of pages
340
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931534635
ISBN
9781931534635
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 127.61

Editor(s): Shaw, Maria C.; Shaw, Joseph W. Num Pages: 350 pages, 86 tables, 56 b/w figs, 29 b/w plates, 4 color plates. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; 3B; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 286 x 220 x 22. Weight in Grams: 1434.
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Institute for Aegean Prehistory United States
Number of pages
350
Condition
New
SKU
V9781931534642
ISBN
9781931534642
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 141.45

Hardcover. Helps you discover the rich heritage of the Indus Valley and the Mughal Empire, with 15 step-by-step projects and 340 pictures. This title features 15 easy-to-do projects inspired by traditional arts and crafts actively involve the reader in understanding the past - sculpt an Aryan offering cup, tie a sari, and cook a delicious chickpea curry. Num Pages: 64 pages, over 340 pictures. BIC Classification: 1FKA; 1QDA; YNH; YNPH. Category: (JC) Children's (6-12). Dimension: 304 x 236 x 13. Weight in Grams: 692.
Publisher
Anness Publishing United Kingdom
Number of pages
64
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Condition
New
SKU
V9781843228233
ISBN
9781843228233
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Examining the tools and methods that the Romans employed for their investigations of nature, as well as their cultural, intellectual, political, and religious contexts, the author shows that the Romans had sophisticated and novel approaches to nature, approaches that were empirically rigorous, philosophically rich, and epistemologically complex. Num Pages: 288 pages, 5 halftones, 3 line drawings, 2 tables. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HPCA; PDX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 232 x 161 x 16. Weight in Grams: 448.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University Of Chicago Press
Edition
Reprint
Condition
New
SKU
V9780226143217
ISBN
9780226143217
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 34.99
€ 28.00

Paperback. Written with the perfect combination of scholarship and accessibility, HADRIAN's EMPIRE is an intimate social history of a crucial era in the history of Rome, Britain and the world. Num Pages: 320 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 198 x 129 x 56. Weight in Grams: 260.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2006
Publisher
Hodder & Stoughton United Kingdom
Edition
0th Edition
Number of pages
291
Condition
New
SKU
V9780340833612
ISBN
9780340833612
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 17.99
€ 13.51

Paperback. Series: First Facts: Ancient Greece. Num Pages: 24 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; YQH. Category: (E) Primary & Secondary Education. Dimension: 204 x 271 x 6. Weight in Grams: 88.
Publisher
Capstone Global Library Ltd
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2017
Edition
UK ed.
Condition
New
SKU
V9781474717502
ISBN
9781474717502
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 10.99
€ 10.03

Paperback. Shows that punishment gave the community an opportunity to establish a shining myth of harmony and cleanliness: that the city of Athens could be purified of anger and social struggle, and perfect order achieved. This book shows that anger, honor, reciprocity, spectacle, and social memory constantly prevailed in Athenian law and politics. Num Pages: 464 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; JHMC; JKVP; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 23. Weight in Grams: 628.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2003
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
464
Condition
New
SKU
V9780691094892
ISBN
9780691094892
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 54.99
€ 39.95

Hardcover. This much-needed study of the British Empire Exhibition reveals durable, persistent connections between empire and domestic society in Britain during the interwar years. It demonstrates that the Exhibition was a marker of how by 1924, imperial relations were increasingly likely to be shaped by forces located on the colonial periphery. Num Pages: 205 pages, 6 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: 1DBK; 1QDB; 3JJG; HBJD1; HBLW; HBTB; HBTQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 219 x 142 x 17. Weight in Grams: 368.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
208
Condition
New
SKU
V9781137325112
ISBN
9781137325112
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 67.24

Hardback. Presenting the Second Temple era as an age of transition between a territorial past and an exilic and religious future, Judeans and Jews sharpens our understanding of this important era. Series: The Kenneth Michael Tanenbaum Series in Jewish Studies. Num Pages: 192 pages, 6. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3D; HBLA; HBTB; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 164 x 237 x 21. Weight in Grams: 434.
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
University of Toronto Press
Condition
New
SKU
V9781442648395
ISBN
9781442648395
Hardback
Condition: New

€ 55.40

Paperback. In this book, for the first time, the 500-year story of the evolution of the Roman legionary, his armor and equipment is told in vivid color photographs of museum-quality reconstructions. The Roman soldier is reconstructed by actors authentically armored and equipped. Europa Militaria Special 2. Series: Europa Militaria Special. Num Pages: 96 pages, 200col.ill. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; JW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 258 x 189 x 8. Weight in Grams: 340. Series: Europa Militaria Special. 96 pages, 200col.ill. In this book, for the first time, the 500-year story of the evolution of the Roman legionary, his armor and equipment is told in vivid color photographs of museum-quality reconstructions. The Roman soldier is reconstructed by actors authentically armored and equipped. Europa Militaria Special 2. Cateogry: (G) General (US: Trade). BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HBJD; HBLA; JW. Dimension: 258 x 189 x 8. Weight: 346.
Publisher
Crowood
Number of pages
96
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Edition
Later Printing
Condition
New
SKU
V9781861262646
ISBN
9781861262646
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 19.99
€ 18.64

Paperback. A Companion to Greek Religion covers all aspects of religion in the ancient Greek world from the archaic, through the classical, and into the hellenistic period. Each of the volume's 27 essays is written by an international expert and provides a survey of a particular area that reflects contemporary scholarship. Editor(s): Ogden, Daniel. Series: Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World. Num Pages: 520 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HRKP. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 245 x 176 x 31. Weight in Grams: 890.
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2010
Publisher
John Wiley and Sons Ltd United Kingdom
Edition
1st Edition
Number of pages
520
Condition
New
SKU
V9781444334173
ISBN
9781444334173
Paperback
Condition: New

€ 58.06

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