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Trade in Classical Antiquity by Neville Morley
Booksplease Price: $43.22Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an... -
Classics: Why It Matters by Neville Morley 9781509517930
RRP: $19.34Booksplease Price: $14.27For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals;... -
Trade in Classical Antiquity by Neville Morley 9780521632799
Booksplease Price: $74.95Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system, or a thin veneer on the surface of an... -
Writing Ancient History by Neville Morley 9780715628805
Booksplease Price: $33.05How do ancient historians "do" ancient history? This book, aimed at undergraduate and postgraduate students, discusses key debates in the theory and philosophy of history in relation to the practice... -
The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism by Neville Morley 9780745328706
RRP: $109.65Booksplease Price: $85.20Over a millennium after the end of its unrivalled dominance, the spectre of Rome figures highly in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has... -
Antiquity and Modernity Neville Morley (University of Bristol) 9781405131391
RRP: $41.22Booksplease Price: $39.10Antiquity and Modernity The nature, faults and future of modern civilization and how these connect to the past are tackled in this broad-reaching volume. Modernity is typically represented as a... -
The Roman Empire: Roots of Imperialism Neville Morley 9780745328690
RRP: $36.11Booksplease Price: $31.01Over a millennium after the end of its unrivalled dominance, the spectre of Rome figures highly in western culture. This book explores what the empire meant to its subjects. The idea of Rome has... -
Classics: Why It Matters Neville Morley (University of Bristol) 9781509517923
RRP: $45.15Booksplease Price: $41.34For generations, the study of Greek and Latin was used to train the elites of the western world. Knowledge of classical culture, it was believed, produced more cultivated, creative individuals;... -
Theories, Models and Concepts in Ancient History by Neville Morley 9780415248778
RRP: $52.88Booksplease Price: $50.09Morley's book offers the first accessible guide for students to show how theories, models and concepts have been applied to ancient history.Showing readers how they can use theory to interpret... -
Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200 by Neville Morley 9780521560061
Booksplease Price: $128.26Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it... -
Metropolis and Hinterland: The City of Rome and the Italian Economy, 200 BC-AD 200 by Neville Morley 9780521893312
Booksplease Price: $55.91Ancient Rome was one of the greatest cities of the pre-industrial era. Like other such great cities, it has often been deemed parasitic, a drain on the resources of the society that supported it... -
Socrates by William J. Prior 9781509529735
RRP: $70.95Booksplease Price: $63.27Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his thought is understood primarily through the work of... -
Socrates William J. Prior 9781509529742
RRP: $23.21Booksplease Price: $21.97Socrates is one the most important thinkers in western philosophy, yet he remains enigmatic, having left behind no works of his own. Instead, his thought is understood primarily through the work of... -
Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity: A Sourcebook A. D. Lee 9781138020320
RRP: $68.36Booksplease Price: $61.07In Pagans and Christians in Late Antiquity, A.D. Lee documents the transformation of the religious landscape of the Roman world from one of enormous diversity of religious practices and creeds in the... -
The Classical Foundations of Population Thought: From Plato to Quesnay by Yves Charbit 9789048192977
Booksplease Price: $118.91Whereas the history of demography as a social science has been amply explored, that of the construction of the concept of population has been neglected. Specialists systematically ignore a noteworthy... -
Ancient States and Infrastructural Power: Europe, Asia, and America by Clifford Ando
RRP: $87.72Booksplease Price: $70.95While ancient states are often characterized in terms of the powers that they claimed to possess, the contributors to this book argue that they were in fact fundamentally weak, both in the exercise... -
The Roman Market Economy by Peter Temin 9780691177946
RRP: $38.70Booksplease Price: $32.52The quality of life for ordinary Roman citizens at the height of the Roman Empire probably was better than that of any other large group of people living before the Industrial Revolution. The Roman... -
Investment, Profit and Tenancy: The Jurists and the Roman Agrarian Economy by Dennis P. Kehoe 9780472108022
Booksplease Price: $92.30The economy of the Roman Empire was dominated by the business of agriculture. It employed the vast majority of the Empire's labor force and provided the wealth on which the upper classes depended for... -
Thucydides on Politics: Back to the Present by Geoffrey Hawthorn
Booksplease Price: $39.41Thucydides famously declared his work to be 'a possession for all time', and so it has proved to be, as each age and generation has seen new things to admire in it and take from it. In the last... -
Thucydides on the Outbreak of War: Character and Contest by S.N. Jaffe 9780198716280
Booksplease Price: $148.20The cause of great power war is a perennial issue for the student of politics. Some 2,400 years ago, in his monumental History of the Peloponnesian War, Thucydides wrote that it was the growth of... -
The Roman Empire: Economy, Society and Culture by Peter Garnsey 9781472524027
RRP: $37.40Booksplease Price: $29.66During the Principate (roughly from 27 BC to AD 235), when the empire reached its maximum extent, Roman society and culture were radically transformed. But how was the vast territory of the empire... -
Old Age in the Roman World: A Cultural and Social History by Tim G. Parkin
Booksplease Price: $37.89Classical authors such as Cicero and Plutarch would have us believe that the elderly were revered, active citizens of ancient Rome. But upon closer inspection, it appears that older people may not... -
Thucydides and Political Order: Lessons of Governance and the History of the Peloponnesian War by Christian R. Thauer 9781137527745
Booksplease Price: $59.70This book, the second of two monographs, consists of contributions by world-class scholars on Thucydides' legacy to the political process. It also includes a careful examination of the usefulness and...