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The Ancient Economy by Walter Scheidel 9780415941891
Booksplease Price: $111.56The Ancient Economy introduces readers to the nature of economic life in the ancient world, and provides a valuable guide to scholarly debates on the subject. The book describes and examines the... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $193.05Booksplease Price: $175.48This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic... -
What Is Ancient History? Walter Scheidel 9780691236650
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $45.81From one of today's most innovative ancient historians, a provocative new vision of why ancient history matters-and why it needs to be told in a radically different, global wayIt's easy to think that... -
State Power in Ancient China and Rome by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $66.28Booksplease Price: $63.02Two thousand years ago, the Qin/Han and Roman empires were the largest political entities of the ancient world, developing simultaneously yet independently at opposite ends of Eurasia. Although their... -
The Cambridge Companion to the Roman Economy by Walter Scheidel 9780521726887
RRP: $70.20Booksplease Price: $63.22This book offers readers a comprehensive and innovative introduction to the economy of the Roman Empire. Focusing on the principal determinants, features and consequences of Roman economic... -
State Power in Ancient China and Rome by Walter Scheidel 9780190202248
RRP: $204.75Booksplease Price: $159.94The Chinese and the Romans created the largest empires of the ancient world. Separated by thousands of miles of steppe, mountains and sea, these powerful states developed independently and with very... -
The Cambridge Economic History of the Greco-Roman World by Walter Scheidel 9781107673076
Booksplease Price: $107.17In this, the first comprehensive one-volume survey of the economies of classical antiquity, twenty-eight chapters summarise the current state of scholarship in their specialised fields and sketch new... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $39.00Booksplease Price: $32.92The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this... -
The Science of Roman History: Biology, Climate, and the Future of the Past by Walter Scheidel
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $41.44How the latest cutting-edge science offers a fuller picture of life in Rome and antiquityThis groundbreaking book provides the first comprehensive look at how the latest advances in the sciences are... -
Escape from Rome: The Failure of Empire and the Road to Prosperity by Walter Scheidel 9780691172187
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $50.47The gripping story of how the end of the Roman Empire was the beginning of the modern worldThe fall of the Roman Empire has long been considered one of the greatest disasters in history. But in this... -
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel 9780195336900
RRP: $209.63Booksplease Price: $157.19Two thousand years ago, up to one-half of the human species was contained within two political systems, the Roman empire in western Eurasia (centered on the Mediterranean Sea) and the Han empire in... -
Rome and China: Comparative Perspectives on Ancient World Empires by Walter Scheidel 9780199758357
RRP: $87.73Booksplease Price: $57.62Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in... -
The Great Leveler: Violence and the History of Inequality from the Stone Age to the Twenty-First Century Walter Scheidel 9780691271842
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $25.97How only violence and catastrophes have consistently reduced inequality throughout world historyAre mass violence and catastrophes the only forces that can seriously decrease economic inequality? To... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta 9780691247632
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $48.91How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and... -
Divine Institutions: Religions and Community in the Middle Roman Republic by Dan-el Padilla Peralta
Booksplease Price: $119.87How religious ritual united a growing and diversifying Roman RepublicMany narrative histories of Rome's transformation from an Italian city-state to a Mediterranean superpower focus on political and... -
Explorations in World History: The Knowing of Globalization by Niv Horesh 9789819944262
RRP: $77.98Booksplease Price: $71.06This book provides an analysis of the latest research findings in the field of world history, and includes terse articulations of modernity vis-à-vis empire. In doing so, the author brings together... -
The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies by Alessandro Barchiesi 9780198856009
RRP: $84.81Booksplease Price: $82.60The Oxford Handbook of Roman Studies is an indispensable guide to the latest scholarship in this area. Over fifty distinguished scholars elucidate the contribution of material as well as literary... -
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium by Ian Morris 9780195371581
RRP: $238.88Booksplease Price: $165.24The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained... -
War, Food, and Politics in Early Hellenistic Athens by G.J. Oliver 9780199283507
Booksplease Price: $191.88G. J. Oliver provides a new assessment of the economic history of Athens in the Hellenistic era, when the city was no longer an imperial power and struggled to maintain its territory, both at home in... -
The Dynamics of Ancient Empires: State Power from Assyria to Byzantium by Ian Morris 9780199758340
RRP: $92.61Booksplease Price: $58.21Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in... -
Liberties Journal of Culture and Politics: Volume I, Issue 2 by Leon Wieseltier
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.40Liberties - A Journal of Culture and Politics features original essays and poetry from some of today's best writers and artists to inspire and impact the intellectual and creative lifeblood of... -
Tributary Empires in Global History by Peter Fibiger Bang 9780230294721
Booksplease Price: $215.40A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating... -
The Roman Empire and World History Peter Fibiger Bang 9781316516102
RRP: $156.00Booksplease Price: $142.08How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire... -
Tributary Empires in Global History by Peter Fibiger Bang 9780230308411
Booksplease Price: $218.63A pioneering volume comparing the great historical empires, such as the Roman, Mughal and Ottoman. Leading interdisciplinary thinkers study tributary empires from diverse perspectives, illuminating... -
The Roman Empire and World History Peter Fibiger Bang 9781009013727
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $44.69How do we fit the Roman Empire into world history? Too often the empire has simply been conceived of in terms of the West. But Rome was too big to be squeezed into a purely European model; her empire... -
The Dragon and the Eagle: The Rise and Fall of the Chinese and Roman Empires Sunny Auyang 9780765643704
RRP: $115.03Booksplease Price: $103.82This stimulating, uniquely organized, and wonderfully readable comparison of ancient Rome and China offers provocative insights to students and general readers of world history. The book's narrative... -
On Human Bondage: After Slavery and Social Death John Bodel (Brown University, USA) 9781119162483
RRP: $169.55Booksplease Price: $168.58On Human Bondage-a critical reexamination of Orlando Patterson's groundbreaking Slavery and Social Death-assesses how his theories have stood the test of time and applies them to new case studies... -
Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States by Andrew Monson 9781107460966
RRP: $95.55Booksplease Price: $89.13Inspired by the new fiscal history, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with... -
Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States by Andrew Monson 9781107089204
RRP: $253.50Booksplease Price: $233.77Inspired by the new fiscal history, this book represents the first global survey of taxation in the premodern world. What emerges is a rich variety of institutions, including experiments with... -
Ancient Taxation: The Mechanics of Extraction in Comparative Perspective by Jonathan Valk
RRP: $122.85Booksplease Price: $101.22A collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world Ancient Taxation is a collection of studies that explores the... -
Helots and Their Masters in Messenia and Laconia: Histories, Ideologies, Structures by Nino Luraghi 9780674012233
RRP: $48.65Booksplease Price: $42.04The name "Helots" evokes one of the most famous peculiarities of ancient Sparta, the system of dependent labor that guaranteed the livelihood of the free citizens. The Helots fulfilled all the... -
Imperial Cults: Religion and Empire in Early China and Rome by Rebecca Robinson 9780197666043
RRP: $111.15Booksplease Price: $103.06Imperial Cults is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial religion and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires. During the reigns of the Emperor Wu of Han and Octavian... -
Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History by Peter Fibiger Bang 9781107527478
RRP: $74.10Booksplease Price: $69.56The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity,... -
Universal Empire: A Comparative Approach to Imperial Culture and Representation in Eurasian History by Peter Fibiger Bang
RRP: $212.55Booksplease Price: $192.74The claim by certain rulers to universal empire has a long history stretching as far back as the Assyrian and Achaemenid Empires. This book traces its various manifestations in classical antiquity,... -
Rome, China, and the Barbarians: Ethnographic Traditions and the Transformation of Empires by Randolph B. Ford
RRP: $56.55Booksplease Price: $49.14This book addresses a largely untouched historical problem: the fourth to fifth centuries AD witnessed remarkably similar patterns of foreign invasion, conquest, and political fragmentation in Rome... -
Simulating Roman Economies: Theories, Methods, and Computational Models by Tom Brughmans 9780192857828
RRP: $238.88Booksplease Price: $220.62The use of formal modelling and computational simulation in studies of the Roman economy has become more common over the last decade. But detailed critical evaluations of this innovative approach are... -
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint Professor Peter Sarris 9781529365405
RRP: $29.23Booksplease Price: $20.48WINNER OF THE LONDON HELLENIC PRIZESHORTLISTED FOR THE RUNCIMAN AWARDA Sunday Times, BBC History Magazine, and Evening Standard Book of the Year'Majestic, sparkling' Peter Frankopan'Superb and... -
The Weirdest People in the World: How the West Became Psychologically Peculiar and Particularly Prosperous by Joseph Henrich
RRP: $33.13Booksplease Price: $25.66'A landmark in social thought. Henrich may go down as the most influential social scientist of the first half of the twenty-first century' MATTHEW SYEDDo you identify yourself by your profession or... -
Justinian: Emperor, Soldier, Saint by Professor Peter Sarris 9781529365382
RRP: $58.50Booksplease Price: $40.37A SUNDAY TIMES, BBC HISTORY MAGAZINE AND EVENING STANDARD BOOK OF THE YEAR'A majestic, sparkling account of one of the most important rulers in history . . . this is modern history writing at its... -
Goliath’s Curse: A Deep History of Societal Collapse and What it Means for Our Future by Luke Kemp 9780241741238
RRP: $48.75Booksplease Price: $38.55A radical retelling of human history through collapse, and what it means for our uncertain future A radical retelling of human history through collapse - from the dawn of our species to the urgent...