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Phoenicians among others

why migrants mattered in the ancient Mediterranean

Phoenicians among Others provides the first history of Phoenician immigrants in the ancient Mediterranean from the fourth to the first centuries BCE. Through an examination of inscriptions, many bilingual in Phoenician and Greek or Egyptian, Phoenicians among Others demonstrates how mobility and migration challenged migrants ...

Uncommon wrath

how Caesar and Cato's deadly rivalry destroyed the Roman republic

A dual biography of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger that offers a dire warning: republics collapse when personal pride overrides the common good. /b In Uncommon Wrath, historian Josiah Osgood tells the story of how the political rivalry between Julius Caesar and Marcus Cato ...

Sexuality in premodern Europe

a social and cultural history from Antiquity to the Early Modern Age

How did sexual relationships work before, in and outside of marriage in the pre-modern era? What problems did contraception and sexually transmitted diseases pose? How did people deal with prostitution and pornography back then? What were the possibilities for same-sex and queer desire and practice ...

Reconciliation and resistance in early modern Spain

Hernando de Baeza and the Catholic monarchs

This book offers an original perspective on the emergence of early modern Spain from multi-faith Iberia. It uses the eventful career of Hernando de Baeza - an interpreter, intermediary, and author positioned at the intersection of the so-called 'three cultures' of medieval Iberia (Judaism, Islam and ...

Aspar and the struggle for the eastern Roman Empire (A.D. 421-471)

The first full-length biography in English of Aspar, the eastern Roman general and statesman, this book explores his central role in the history and politics of the fragmenting Roman Empire in the fifth century. It also considers what his life and career may suggest as ...

Living and cursing in the Roman West

curse tablets and society

Focusing on the Roman west, this book examines the rituals of cursing, their cultural contexts, and their impact on the lives of those who practised them. A huge number of Roman curse tablets have been discovered, showing their importance for helping ancient people to cope ...

Modern historiography in the making

the German sense of the past, 1700-1900

At the end of the 19th century, German historical scholarship had grown to great prominence. Academics around the world imitated their German colleagues. Intellectuals described historical scholarship as a foundation of the modern worldview. To many, the modern age was an 'age of history'. This ...

Future fame in the Iliad

epic time and Homeric studies

When Homeric heroes think about the meaning of their actions, they expect this to take the form of kleos, 'fame', in a future song. This volume explores the consequences of this mode of thinking in the Iliad in particular, and argues that the form of ...

Knossos

myth, history and archaeology

Knossos is one of the most important sites in the ancient Mediterranean. It remained amongst the largest settlements on the island of Crete from the Neolithic until the late Roman times, but aside from its size it held a place of particular significance in the ...

Foucault's seminars on antiquity

learning to speak the truth

In 1980, Michel Foucault's work makes two decisive turns. On the one hand, as announced at the start of his course at the Collège de France for that year, Le Gouvernement des vivants, his topic will be the modalities through which power constitutes itself ...

Music

antiquity and its legacy

This book explores the pivotal role played by ancient mousike-in all its facets-in the development of musical practices and ideas throughout history. Since antiquity, music has consistently played a significant role in social and cultural life, and although the terms in which it is expressed ...

The personality of Paris

landscape and society in the long-nineteenth century

What was the personality of 19th-century Paris? To answer that question, this book eschews the conventional narrative and chronological route taken by most histories of Paris. Instead, it thematically analyses the complex personality traits of Paris from the onset of the Revolution of 1789 to ...

The parallel philosophies of Sartre and Nietzsche

ethics, ontology and the self

How did Nietzsche and Sartre come to represent alternative modes of philosophy as antithetical thinkers? What exactly is their philosophical connection and how far does it extend? Tracing the connections between the existentialist philosophies of Nietzsche and Sartre, Nik Farrell Fox provides new readings attuned ...

Catherine the Great and the culture of celebrity in the eighteenth century

This highly original study provides a detailed analysis of Catherine the Great's celebrity avant la lettre and how gender, power, and scandal made it commercially successful. In 1762, when Catherine II overthrew her husband to seize the throne of the Russian Empire, her instant ...

The Jesuits

a history

The most comprehensive and up-to-date exploration of one of the most important religious orders in the modern world Since its founding by Ignatius of Loyola in 1540, the Society of Jesus-more commonly known as the Jesuits-has played a critical role in the events of modern ...

Shadow empires

an alternative imperial history

An original study of empire creation and its consequences, from ancient through early modern times The world's first great empires established by the ancient Persians, Chinese, and Romans are well known, but not the empires that emerged on their margins in response to them ...

Contraofensiva

Actuar y resistir la complejidad

Occidente forjó tres siglos de un modo de actuar marcado por el esquema binario cartesiano, por el cual toda situación debe abordarse como problema/solución. La fe en el progreso ilimitado y el cientificismo llevó al Antropoceno, una mutación provocada por el humano sobre el ...

Russia's war against Ukraine

On 24 February 2022, Russia launched a full-scale invasion of Ukraine, giving rise to the deadliest conflict on European soil since the Second World War. How could this happen in twenty-first-century Europe? Why did Putin decide to escalate Russia's war against Ukraine, a war ...

Attention hacking

the power of social media selling in insurance and finance

A guide for insurance and other industries to staying on customers' radars Attention Hacking: The Power of Social Media Selling in Insurance and Finance shows how you can make insurance go viral on social media. It might sound too good to be true, but think ...

Just price in the markets

a history

A concise history of "just price," from Aristotle to the present day The question of what constitutes a fair price has been at the center of market interactions since the time of Aristotle. Should a seller sell to the highest bidder, or is there some ...