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Amazons: The Real Warrior Women of the Ancient World

Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive...

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In Praise of Forgetting: Historical Memory and Its Ironies

A leading contrarian thinker explores the ethical paradox at the heart of history's woundsThe conven...

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Leningrad 1941-42 : Morality in a City Under Siege

This book recounts one of the greatest tragedies of the twentieth century: the siege of Leningrad. I...

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Christian Novels from the Menologion

Created in the tenth century, most likely as an imperial commission, the Menologion is a collection...

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Global Crisis: War, Climate Change and Catastrophe in the Seventeenth Century

An accessible synthesis of the prescient best seller exploring seventeenth-century catastrophe and t...

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Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life

This is the first complete biography of Ernst Kantorowicz (1895–1963), an influential and controvers...

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The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History

From Greek and Roman times to the digital era, the library has remained central to knowledge, schola...

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Heirs to Forgotten Kingdoms: Journeys into the Disappearing Religions of the Middle East

Despite its reputation for religious intolerance, the Middle East has long sheltered many distinctiv...

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Sparta and War

Ten new essays from a distinguished international cast treat Sparta's most famous area of activity....

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Ataturk: An Intellectual Biography

When Mustafa Kemal Ataturk became the first president of Turkey in 1923, he set about transforming h...

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Visions of Empire: How Five Imperial Regimes Shaped the World

What the rulers of empire can teach us about navigating today's increasingly interconnected worldThe...

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History’s Spoiled Children: The Formation of the Modern Greek State

History’s Spoiled Children is the story of a small Ottoman province and its transformation into a mo...

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A Modern History of the Balkans: Nationalism and Identity in Southeast Europe

The history of the Balkans has been a distillation of the great and terrible themes of 20th century...

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Napoleon on War

This is the book on war that Napoleon never had the time or the will to complete.In exile on the isl...

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Jewish History : A Very Short Introduction

How have the Jews survived? For millennia, they have defied odds by overcoming the travails of exile...