Empires & historical states
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Empires & historical states
Hardback. Num Pages: 530 pages, 117 tbls, 137 b/w figs, 70 b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 1QDAG; 3B; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 285 x 225 x 38. Weight in Grams: 2188.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Institute for Aegean Prehistory United States
- Number of pages
- 530
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931534581
- ISBN
- 9781931534581
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 118.66
€ 118.66
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- The American University in Cairo Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9789774167164
- ISBN
- 9789774167164
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 24.37
€ 24.37
hardcover.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- INSTAP Academic Press (Institute for Aegean Prehistory)
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931534789
- ISBN
- 9781931534789
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 115.49
€ 115.49
Hardback. Editor(s): Davaras, Costis; Soles, Jeffrey S. Num Pages: 320 pages, 82 illus, 60 b/w figs, 35 b/w pls. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 1QDAG; 3B; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 287 x 223 x 25. Weight in Grams: 1444.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Publisher
- Institute for Aegean Prehistory United States
- Number of pages
- 320
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781931534604
- ISBN
- 9781931534604
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 120.00
€ 120.00
Mobility and Ancient Society in Asia and the Americas
. Ed(S): Frachetti, Michael David; Spengler, ...
Hardback. Editor(s): Frachetti, Michael David; Spengler, Robert N., III. Num Pages: 215 pages, 28 black & white illustrations, 30 colour illustrations, 9 black & white tables, biograph. BIC Classification: 1QDA; 3B; JFFN; JHM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 254 x 178 x 18. Weight in Grams: 654.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland
- Number of pages
- 215
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319151373
- ISBN
- 9783319151373
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 126.21
€ 126.21
Paperback. Mithridates the Great was one of the dominant figures of the first century BC and the Romans' most persistent enemy, going to war with them three times. Num Pages: 208 pages, 8pp black and white photos. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; BGH; HBJD; HBLA1; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 234 x 156. .
- Publisher
- Pen & Sword Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 208
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781473828902
- ISBN
- 9781473828902
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.99€ 14.15
€ 17.99
€ 14.15
Paperback. The widespread idea that Christian missions went hand in hand with Imperialism and colonial conquest is challenged here by a group of eminent historians. By showing the variety of missions and the vital role played by indigenous men and women, they place missions in a long historical perspective. Editor(s): Etherington, Norman. Series: Oxford History of the British Empire Companion Series. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBG; HBJD1; HBLL; HRCX7. Category: (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 231 x 159 x 19. Weight in Grams: 500.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199253487
- ISBN
- 9780199253487
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 76.83
€ 76.83
Hardcover. Missionary Discourse examines missionary writings from India and southern Africa to explore colonial discourses about race, religion, gender and culture. The book is organised around three themes: family, sickness and violence, which were key areas of missionary concern, and important axes around which colonial difference was forged. Series: Cambridge Imperial and Post-Colonial Studies Series. Num Pages: 254 pages, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDB; 3JH; HBLL; HBTQ; HRCX7. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 221 x 136 x 19. Weight in Grams: 430.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Publisher
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Number of pages
- 256
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780230296800
- ISBN
- 9780230296800
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 62.56
€ 62.56
Hardcover. Presents fresh insights into the relationships between missions and indigenous peoples, and the outcomes of mission activities in the processes of imperial conquest and colonisation. This book focuses on missions across the British Empire (including India, Africa, Asia, the Pacific), within transnational and comparative perspectives. Editor(s): Grimshaw, Patricia; May, Andrew. Num Pages: 207 pages, illus. BIC Classification: 1QDB; HBTQ; HRCX7; JFSL9. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 252 x 176 x 17. Weight in Grams: 538.
- Publisher
- Sussex Academic Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 207
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781845193089
- ISBN
- 9781845193089
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 128.16
€ 128.16
Paperback. Series: Carsten Niebuhr Institute Publications. Num Pages: 95 pages, ill. BIC Classification: 1FBXS; 1QDA; HBJF1; HBLA; HDD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 240 x 172 x 7. Weight in Grams: 242.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- Museum Tusculanum Press Denmark
- Number of pages
- 95
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9788772890685
- ISBN
- 9788772890685
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 27.95
€ 38.99
€ 27.95
Hardback. Examines the ways in which Christian monks justified occupying the Sinai through creating associations between Biblical narratives and Sinai sites while assigning uncivilized, negative, and oppositional traits to the indigenous nomadic population, whom the Christians pejoratively called Saracens. Series: Transformation of the Classical Heritage. Num Pages: 224 pages, 3 figures, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 1QDAE; 3D; HBJF1; HBLA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 237 x 151 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
- Publisher
- University of California Press
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780520283770
- ISBN
- 9780520283770
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 65.00€ 49.96
€ 65.00
€ 49.96
Hardback. Miracles occupied a unique place in medieval and Byzantine life and thought. This volume makes available three collections of miracle tales never before translated into English. They deepen our understanding of attitudes toward miracles and display the remarkable range of registers in which Greek could be written during the Byzantine period. Translator(s): Talbot, Alice-Mary; Johnson, Dr. Scott Fitzgerald. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 480 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAZ; 3F; 3H; DSBB; HRCC2; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 210 x 28. Weight in Grams: 596.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 480
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2012
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674059030
- ISBN
- 9780674059030
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 40.99€ 33.27
€ 40.99
€ 33.27
Paperback. As we approach the centenary of Sir Arthur Evans' rediscovery of the Minoans, the author questions whether the work of subsequent archaeologists in Crete support the defined cultural traits that make the Minoan personality. This book examines recent research and offers a new vision of Minoan Crete. Num Pages: 236 pages, 1. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HBG; HBLA; HDDK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 232 x 156 x 18. Weight in Grams: 372.
- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 240
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1992
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780415088336
- ISBN
- 9780415088336
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 50.77
€ 50.77
Hardback. Delivers a comprehensive reading of Minoan art as a system of thought. Num Pages: 280 pages, 137 line drawings, 24 b&w photographs, 3 tables, 1 map. BIC Classification: 1DVGSC; 1QDAG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 243 x 166 x 23. Weight in Grams: 626.
- Publisher
- University of Illinois Press United States
- Number of pages
- 296
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780252033926
- ISBN
- 9780252033926
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 125.71
€ 125.71
Paperback. Collects some of John McDowell's papers, written at various times in the 1980s and 1990s. Issues dealt with include: the interpretation of the ethical writings of Aristotle and Plato; and treatments of questions in moral philosophy that arise naturally out of reflection on the Greek tradition. Num Pages: 416 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAG; HPC; HPQ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 225 x 146 x 24. Weight in Grams: 526.
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press United States
- Number of pages
- 416
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780674007130
- ISBN
- 9780674007130
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 46.99€ 38.64
€ 46.99
€ 38.64
Hardcover. This volume considers the phenomenon of mimetic contagion, whereby works of art draw viewers into direct imitation of themselves, and how it operates within specific historical contexts. Terence's Eunuch is used as a case study, situating the motif within the peculiarities of mid-second-century BC Rome and its anxieties about the power of art. Series: Oxford Studies in Ancient Culture Representation. Num Pages: 224 pages. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 2ADL; 3D; DSBB; DSG; HBJD; HBLA1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 200 x 254 x 19. Weight in Grams: 602.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780198738732
- ISBN
- 9780198738732
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 149.99
€ 149.99
Paperback. Seventeen hundred years ago, the emperor Constantine marched on Rome to free Italy from the tyrant Maxentius and reunify the complete Roman Empire. The defining moment of the campaign was the battle of the Milvian Bridge. This illustrated book examines how Maxentius' poor choice of battleground was to ultimately doom his army to defeat. Illustrator(s): O'Brogain, Sean. Series: Campaign. Num Pages: 96 pages, 35 b/w; 47 col. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; 3D; HBJD; HBLA; HBW. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 251 x 185 x 8. Weight in Grams: 310.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781472813817
- ISBN
- 9781472813817
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 23.99€ 20.51
€ 23.99
€ 20.51
Hardcover. Migration in the Southern Balkans Editor(s): Vermeulen, Hans; Baldwin-Edwards, Martin; Boeschoten, Riki van. Series: IMISCOE Research Series. Num Pages: 211 pages, 5 black & white illustrations, 1 colour illustrations, 8 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: 1QDT; JFFN; JFFS; JHBD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 165 x 243 x 17. Weight in Grams: 480.
- Format
- Hardback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Springer
- Edition
- 2015th Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9783319137186
- ISBN
- 9783319137186
Hardback
Condition: New
€ 67.96
€ 67.96
Paperback. .
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781107456075
- ISBN
- 9781107456075
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 41.99€ 39.68
€ 41.99
€ 39.68
Paperback. Buried under a meter of volcanic ash deposited by the eruption of Vesuvius, the remarkable preservation of this Early Bronze Age village in Southern Italy is unmatched in Europe. Here, micromorphology is used to identify the type and range of human activities, the function of features and buildings, and the intensity of site occupation. Num Pages: 210 pages, Illustrated throughout in colour and black & white. BIC Classification: 1QDAR; HDDA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly. Dimension: 300 x 210 x 18. Weight in Grams: 810.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2015
- Publisher
- Archaeopress United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 210
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781784912116
- ISBN
- 9781784912116
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 94.57
€ 94.57