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Forgotten Empire: The World of Ancient Persia
University of California Press
University of California Press
This sumptuous book traces the rise and fall of one of the ancient world's largest and richest empires. Encompassing a rich diversity of different peoples and cultures, Persia's Achaeminid Empire flourished between 550 and 331 B.C. The empire...
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A Brief History of the Romans
Mary T. Boatwright, Daniel J. Gargola, Richard J. A. Talbert
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
How did a single village community in the Italian peninsula eventually become one of the mightiest imperial powers the world has ever known? This question is the focus of A Brief History of the Romans, an abbreviated version of the highly acclaimed...
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Paris, Capital of Modernity
David Harvey
Routledge
Routledge
David Harvey's historical work on 19th century Paris is universally regarded as brilliant. As much as Benjamin and Marx, he has demonstrated the absolute centrality of capital in creating the modern city--its class relations, culture, urban form,...
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Western Civilization
Jackson J. Spielvogel
Wadsworth Publishing
Wadsworth Publishing
Best-selling text, WESTERN CIVILIZATION has helped over one million students learn about the present by exploring the past. Jack Spielvogel's engaging, chronological narrative weaves the political, economic, social, religious, intellectual,...
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War in Human Civilization
Azar Gat
Oxford University Press, USA
Oxford University Press, USA
Why do people go to war? Is it rooted in human nature or is it a late cultural invention? How does war relate to the other fundamental developments in the history of human civilization? And what of war today--is it a declining phenomenon or simply...
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