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29 produkter
Rome's Revolution
Death of the Republic & Birth of the Empire
Inbunden, 2015
313 kr
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Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the past about the unsustainability of empires; …
Rome's Revolution
Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
E-bok, 2015
139 kr
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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome''s Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and …
Rome's Revolution
Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
E-bok, 2015
139 kr
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On March 15th, 44 BC a group of senators stabbed Julius Caesar, the dictator of Rome. By his death, they hoped to restore Rome''s Republic. Instead, they unleashed a revolution. By December of that year, Rome was plunged into a violent civil war. Three men--Mark Antony, Lepidus, and …
Rome's Revolution
Death of the Republic and Birth of the Empire
Häftad, 2017
300 kr
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Novelized, televised, and endlessly scrutinized by scholars, the fall of the Roman Republic marks one of history's great turning points. Historians have studied the descent of the Republic into civil war as a great political tragedy, a warning from the past about the unsustainability of empires; …
Ancient Slavery and Abolition
From Hobbes to Hollywood
Av Justine McConnell, Richard Alston m. fl.
E-bok, 2011
1834 kr
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A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the …
Ancient Slavery and Abolition
From Hobbes to Hollywood
Av Justine McConnell, Edith Hall m. fl.
Inbunden, 2011
2863 kr
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A pathbreaking study of the role played by ancient Greek and Roman sources and voices in the struggle to abolish transatlantic slavery and in representations of that struggle in the twentieth century. Thirteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from three continents, led by the …
Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt
A Social History
Inbunden, 1995
2586 kr
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The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier …
Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt
A Social History
Häftad, 1998
667 kr
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The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier …
City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Inbunden, 2001
2586 kr
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For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history …
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
Inbunden, 2013
2586 kr
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This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the …
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
Häftad, 2013
712 kr
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This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the …
City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
Häftad, 2013
937 kr
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For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history …
Reading Ancient Slavery
Av Edith Hall, Laura Proffitt m. fl.
Häftad, 2011
633 kr
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Evidence relating to the 'real world' of antiquity - inscriptions, historiography and legal speeches - has dominated studies of ancient Greek and Roman slavery, although providing few direct accounts by slaves of their subjective experiences. Yet the imaginative fictions produced by the ancient …
Reflections of Romanity
Discourses of Subjectivity in Imperial Rome
Av Richard Alston, Efrossini Spentzou
Häftad, 2017
775 kr
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City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
E-bok, 2002
1106 kr
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For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history …
City in Roman and Byzantine Egypt
E-bok, 2002
1082 kr
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For those wishing to study the Roman city in Egypt, the archaeological record is poorer than that of many other provinces. Yet the large number of surviving texts allows us to reconstruct the social lives of Egyptians to an extent undreamt of elsewhere. We are not, therefore, limited to a history …
Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt
A Social History
E-bok, 2002
768 kr
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The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier …
Soldier and Society in Roman Egypt
A Social History
E-bok, 2002
768 kr
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The province of Egypt provides unique archaeological and documentary evidence for the study of the Roman army. In this fascinating social history Richard Alston examines the economic, cultural, social and legal aspects of a military career, illuminating the life and role of the individual soldier …
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
E-bok, 2013
838 kr
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This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the …
Aspects of Roman History 31 BC-AD 117
E-bok, 2013
838 kr
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This new edition of Aspects of Roman History 31 BC- AD 117 provides an easily accessible guide to the history of the early Roman Empire. Taking the reader through the major political events of the crucial first 150 years of Roman imperial history, from the Empire’s foundation under Augustus to the …
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities
London, Athens and Rome in the Nineteenth Century
Inbunden, 2025
1244 kr
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Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations. Politicians and architects …
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities
London, Athens and Rome in the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2025
1364 kr
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Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations. Politicians and architects …
Classicism and the Construction of Capital Cities
London, Athens and Rome in the Nineteenth Century
E-bok, 2025
1364 kr
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Exploring the intriguing interplay between tradition and modernity in the 19th-century capitals of London, Athens and Rome, Richard Alston delves into the political and architectural choices that shaped these cities as representations of self-consciously modern nations. Politicians and architects …
