History - Civilization

"Eminently readable as well as being a work of tremendous erudition and scholarship." - Rt. Rev. Arild Str msv虍, Ph.D. This unique look at history elaborately recounts the birth of human civilization through the vehicle of ancient Egyptian deities, albeit in light of the...

In The Antonine Constitution, Alex Imrie approaches the famous edict of AD 212 from numerous angles, offering an assessment of its rationale that is rooted in the dynamic period of the early third century. Controversial since its discovery, it is depicted here as a...

Your money has been stolen and your freedom is being stolen from you as you read this.What, you didn't know? That's okay, neither do most people.In 2020 the money is digital and big government is everywhere. Government so big that they say you need...

About the book: An adventurous journey from the stone circle of Almendes in Portugal to the temples of Malta becomes a journey through a new hologram of history. Every event, every temple visit and also every difficulty is guided and thereby unexpected and unpredictable....

This book gives a brief, readable description of our common Western heritage. It covers the minimum historical information that educated adults should know within a tightly-focused narrative and interpretive structure. The joined terms "supremacies and diversities" develop major themes of conflict and creativity. "Supremacies"...

Herodotus was the first prose writer of History, beginning his masterpiece with the founding of the Lydian empire in 680 BC and ending with the defeat of the Persian expeditionary force in Greece in 479 BC.This concise version follows the sequence of the original,...

Christopher Dawson (1889-1970) was an English Catholic historian who devoted a lifetime of learning to exploring the relationship between religion and culture-and in particular between Christianity and Western culture.Author: Karl SchmudeISBN-10: 0645599328ISBN-13: 9780645599329Publisher: Christopher Dawson PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/01/2022Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.21lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.25w...

Private property in Rome effectively measures the suitability of each individual to serve in the army and to compete in the political arena. What happens then, when a Roman citizen is deprived of his property? Financial penalties played a crucial role in either discouraging...

Understand where we came from.Whether you're an avid student of the Bible or a skeptic of its relevance, The Book That Made Your World will transform your perception of its influence on virtually every facet of Western civilization.Indian philosopher Vishal Mangalwadi reveals the personal...

Bill Bryson's The Body meets Mary Roach's Gulp (with a dash of What's Your Poo Telling You?) in this rollicking and delightfully educational tour of our bodily emissions--from mucus to sweat to poop--revealing them to be as fascinating as they are embarrassing and proving...

ANCIENT INDIA'S HINDU ORIGINThe reprimand of Lord Shiva by Brahma for harboring sexual feelings for his own daughter, Sandhya, led him to consult Daksha and his other sons about what to do. Due to his high status as a yogi and his lack of...

Rome engaged in military and diplomatic expansionistic state behavior, which we now describe as 'imperialism, ' since well before the appearance of ancient sources describing this activity. Over the course of at least 800 years, the Romans established and maintained a Mediterranean-wide empire from...

Author: B蚌d Borch MichalsenISBN-10: 1529326710ISBN-13: 9781529326710Publisher: SceptreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/28/2022Pages: 176Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.30lbsSize: 7.70h x 5.00w x 0.50d

EMBARK ON A JOURNEY THROUGH HISTORY Keeping track of the people, events, and dates that shaped history can be difficult. With this fun, comprehensive, and engaging timeline that employs an easy to follow format and vibrant illustrations, students will have the help they need...

Macbeth is arguably the world's most famous monarch. Both the historical king and the literary character have fascinated writers and audiences for centuries, beginning with the poets who recited their verses at the medieval monarch's court. Macbeth's legend began almost immediately after his death...

The first early modern women Latinists lived in mid-fourteenth century Italy, and were educated as diplomats. By the fifteenth century, other upper-class women were educated in order to perform as prodigies on behalf of their city. Both strands of education for women spread to...

A new foreword to the second edition explains how Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 demonstrated an age-old pattern of unjustified brutality exhibited by one brother to another, one group to another, one nation to another. It marked a return to the...

Hell Bent (with dramatic illustrations) reveals how the very biology that led to our common Ancestor coming down from the trees on to the top of the food chain, is the very biology that will send our civilization spiraling toward extinction within the next...

Professor Larissa Bonfante's great gift was the ability to evoke, in a fresh, immediate, and convincing way, the experiences, beliefs, and thoughts of people living more than two thousand years ago. Her final publication, Images and Translations: The Etruscans Abroad, communicates the sensations of...

"A delightful compendium of the kind of facts you immediately want to share with anyone you encounter . . . . Simon Winchester has firmly earned his place in history . . . as a promulgator of knowledge of every variety, perhaps the last...

All the signs are here: the modern Western world order dominated by the United States of America will not survive the 21st century. The "End of History" proclaimed after the Cold War has proven to be a dangerous illusion, leaving many unprepared for the...

A panoramic narrative that places ancient Africa on the stage of world history This book brings together archaeological and linguistic evidence to provide a sweeping global history of ancient Africa, tracing how the continent played an important role in the technological, agricultural, and economic...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed...

About eighty million people today can trace their descent back to the occupants of Ireland. But where did the occupants of the island themselves come from and what do we even mean by "Irish" in the first place?This is the first major attempt to...

The Book of Chilam Balam contains the myths, legends and folklore of the Mayan civilization, as well as abundant insights into the religious ceremonies and cultural heritage of the Maya.Centuries of lore, written as hieroglyphics upon stone, allowed archaeologists and historians to reconstruct the...

The Second Edition includes a new foreword on Putin's Cain-like invasion of Ukraine, which demonstrates anew the pattern of evil that has been the bane of humanity. However, when viewed through the lens of Divine Providence, the right response to predatory aggression becomes clear....

Author: Joseph Pearce, Raymond BurkeISBN-10: 1587310678ISBN-13: 9781587310676Publisher: St. Augustine's PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/15/2014Pages: 343Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.36lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.40w x 1.00d

Do you want to read Heart of Darkness? If so then keep reading...Heart of Darkness centers around Marlow, an introspective sailor, and his journey up the Congo River to meet Kurtz, reputed to be an idealistic man of great abilities. Marlow takes a job...

This volume continues P. G. Walsh's admired translation with commentary of Augustine's City of God. Books I-XIV which have been published in eight earlier volumes between 2003 and 2016, and this ninth volume in the collection looks at books XV and XVI. After completing...

Do you want to learn about sumerians?Thiѕ bооk is intеndеd fоr students, аnd еѕресiаllу for ѕtudеntѕ bеginning tо ѕtudу thе аrсhаеоlоgу аnd hiѕtоrу оf thе аnсiеnt nеаr eаѕt.The changes which took рlасе on the mesopotamian рlаin bеtwееn the tigris аnd euрhrаtеѕ rivers in thе...

Ancient CivilizationsThree Books in One + Free Bonus- Ancient Rome: A History From Beginning to End- Ancient Greece: A History From Beginning to End- Ancient Egypt: A History From Beginning to End- FREE BONUS Ancient RomeRome is a city of myth and legend. The...

An investigation of identity formation in children's literature, this book brings together children's literature and recent critical concerns with posthuman identity to argue that children's fiction offers sophisticated interventions into debates about what it means to be human, and in particular about humanity's relationship...

With the ruins of the Artemis temple almost non-existent today, it is perhaps notsurprising that little interest is generally accorded this 6th Wonder of the World. Yet wecan still gain an idea of it and of the legendary statue of Artemis, from reconstructiondrawings and...

Confronting the dilemmas of modernist and postmodernist thought, Roger Kimball in this new collection of his work explores the literary and philosophical underpinnings of modernity as well as the state of our culture today. Experiments Against Reality displays the sophistication, breadth of knowledge, and...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it.This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States,...

Crete was inhabited by Neolithic cave dwellers around 7000 BC. Aside from their wood, stone, and bone tools, they also wore simple cloth, and their clothing was made from wood, stone, and bone. There is a good chance they came from Asia Minor, Syria,...

The Medes were an ancient group who established the Median Dynasty in Iran (from around 700 BC to 550 BC), which then merged into the Achaemenid Dynasty, a Persian dynasty by origin that lasted till around 330 BC. But the Medes did not leave...

The Medes were an ancient group who established the Median Dynasty in Iran (from around 700 BC to 550 BC), which then merged into the Achaemenid Dynasty, a Persian dynasty by origin that lasted till around 330 BC. But the Medes did not leave...

Accompanying the British Library's exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age...

Accompanying the British Library's exhibit, the first ever exhibition on the storytelling around Alexander the Great, the King of Macedon, this book charts the evolution of a legend that continues to captivate audiences today. Alexander the Great acceded to the throne at the age...

An interdisciplinary consideration of how eastern Mediterranean cultures in the first millennium BCE were meaningfully connected. The early first millennium BCE marks one of the most culturally diverse periods in the history of the eastern Mediterranean. Surveying the region from Greece to Iraq, one...

Different people feel different emotions when they are diagnosed with cancer. Both today and a century ago, fear and hope, shame and disgust, sadness and joy are and were the emotions experienced by many cancer patients and their loved ones. But these emotions do...

Love, Hate, and the Law in Tudor England reconstructs the life of Ralph Rishton, a member of the sixteenth-century Lancashire gentry who was a child bridegroom and a serial wife-discarder, who bribed church officials to obtain a forged annulment, defrauded a kinsman out of...

Designs on Democracy examines a pivotal period in the formation of the modern profession of architecture in Britain. It shows how architects sought to meet the newly articulated demands of a mass democracy in the wake of the First World War. It does so...

How much do you know about the "cradle of civilization?" Come explore the legacy of the brilliant ancient Mesopotamians who transformed the world. Ancient Mesopotamia's legacy was truly revolutionary. Childlike pictures scratched into wet clay evolved into the first written language. The Mesopotamians wrote...

A sweeping narrative history of Athens, telling the three-thousand-year story of the birthplace of Western civilization. Even on the most smog-bound of days, the rocky outcrop on which the Acropolis stands is visible above the sprawling roof-scape of the Greek capital. Athens presents one...

Explores the duality between humans and Earth through a focus on the economic system changes that began with grain agriculture and has now reached its apogee in global capitalism.Author: Lisi KrallISBN-10: 1438489919ISBN-13: 9781438489919Publisher: State University of New York PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/01/2022Pages: 196Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.02lbsSize:...

"Mr. Cartledge's command of the historical material is effortless and exhaustive, and his appreciation of Thebes is persuasive." --Wall Street Journal "An incisive, inspiring and vitally illuminating account . . . A masterful book written by a master historian." --Bettany Hughes, bestselling author, Istanbul...

Sum and Substance leads you on a personal journey to a richer comprehension of your life; our universe, as revealed by science; and civilization, from the first humans to modern times. Richly illustrated and using language understandable by anyone who will try, the book...