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Are We Rome?: The Fall of an Empire and the Fate of America
Cullen Murphy
Mariner Books
Mariner Books
The rise and fall of ancient Rome has been on American minds from the beginning of our republic.Today we focus less on the Roman Republic than on the empire that took its place. Depending on who's doing the talking, the history of Rome serves as...
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The Last Days of the Incas
Kim MacQuarrie
Simon & Schuster
Simon & Schuster
In 1532, the fifty-four-year-old Spanish conquistador Francisco Pizarro led a force of 167 men, including his four brothers, to the shores of Peru. Unbeknownst to the Spaniards, the Inca rulers of Peru had just fought a bloody civil war in which the...
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The Broken Spears: The Aztec Account of the Conquest of Mexico
Miguel Leon-Portillo
Beacon Press
Beacon Press
A new expanded version of the classic account of the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as told by Aztec voicesâwith a new Postscript by the editor For hundreds of years, the history of the conquest of Mexico and the defeat of the Aztecs has been told...
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The Complete Dead Sea Scrolls in English (Penguin Classics)
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
It's been 50 years since a Bedouin youth named Muhammed edh-Dhub went looking for a stray sheep and instead found the Dead Sea Scrolls. In the intervening decades, the scrolls have been enveloped in a storm of controversy and bitter conflict: the...
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The Ruin of the Roman Empire: A New History
James J. O'Donnell
Ecco
Ecco
The dream Alexander the Great and Julius Caesar shared of uniting Europe, the Mediterranean, and the Middle East in a single community shuddered and then collapsed in the wars and disasters of the sixth century. It was a looking-glass world, where...
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Caesar: Life of a Colossus
Adrian Goldsworthy
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
As Adrian Goldsworthy writes in the introduction to this book, “in his fifty-six years, Caesar was at times many things, including a fugitive, prisoner, rising politician, army leader, legal advocate, rebel, dictator . . . as well as husband,...
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The Search for Modern China
Jonathan D. Spence
W. W. Norton & Company
W. W. Norton & Company
In this Second Edition of his widely acclaimed history of modern China, Jonathan Spence achieves a fine blend of narrative richness and efficiency. The text is tighter throughout and up-to-date on the most important scholarship in the field. The new...
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The History of the Church: From Christ to Constantine (Penguin Classics)
Eusebius
Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics
Beginning with persecution at the beginning of the fourth century and ending with the conversion of the Emperor Constantine, the author demonstrates the purity and continuity of the doctrinal tradition of Christianity in its struggle against...
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