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The Race for Paradise: An Islamic History of the Crusades

In 1099, when the first crusaders arrived triumphant and bloody before the walls of Jerusalem, they...

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The Invention of Greek Ethnography

Greek knowledge of and interest in foreign peoples is commonly believed to have developed in conjunc...

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Rome's Economic Revolution

In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the Second Punic War a...

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Danube

In this fascinating journey Claudio Magris, whose knowledge is encyclopaedic and whose curiosity lim...

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Anna Komnene: The Life and Work of a Medieval Historian

Byzantine princess Anna Komnene is known for two things: plotting to murder her brother to usurp the...

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Dashing for the Post: The Letters of Patrick Leigh Fermor

Handsome, spirited and erudite, Patrick Leigh Fermor was a war hero and one the greatest travel writ...

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The Rhetorical Exercises of Nikephoros Basilakes: "Progymnasmata" from Twelfth-Century Byzantium

Progymnasmata, preliminary exercises in the study of declamation, were the cornerstone of elite educ...

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Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome : Ancient Ideas for Modern Times

Twelve Voices from Greece and Rome is a book for all readers who want to know more about the literat...

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Ancient Greek Civilization

The third edition of Ancient Greek Civilization is a concise, engaging introduction to the history a...

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The French Revolution 1787-1804

P. M. Jones’ The French Revolution, now in its third edition, is an authoritative survey of events i...

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Why Did Ancient Civilizations Fail?

Ideas abound as to why certain complex societies collapsed in the past, including environmental chan...

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Hitler

Now available in a single, abridged paperback, Ian Kershaw's Hitler is the definitive biography of t...

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Insanity and Sanctity in Byzantium: The Ambiguity of Religious Experience

In the Roman and Byzantine Near East, the holy fool emerged in Christianity as a way of describing i...

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Operation Neptune: The D-Day Landings and the Allied Invasion of Europe

Seventy years ago, more than six thousand Allied ships carried more than a million soldiers across t...

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The First Victory: The Second World War and the East Africa Campaign

A riveting new account of the long-overlooked achievement of British-led forces who, against all odd...

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