The Dead Sea

a 10.000 year history

A human history of one of the planet's most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly ...

The return of Russia

from Yeltsin to Putin, the story of a vengeful Kremlin

An incisive and engaging account of post-Soviet Russia-showing how and why the country has come into confrontation with the West The escalation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 triggered the most violent conflict seen on European soil for decades. Millions of people ...

The life and death of states

Central Europe and the transformation of modern sovereignty

An intellectual history of sovereignty that reveals how the Habsburg Empire became a crucible for our contemporary world order Sprawled across the heartlands of Europe, the Habsburg Empire resisted all the standard theories of singular sovereignty. The 1848 revolutions sparked decades of heady constitutional experimentation ...

Native America

the story of the first peoples

An epic deep history of the Indigenous peoples of North America, covering more than 20,000 years of astonishing diversity, adaptation, resilience, and continuity Native America presents an infinitely surprising and fascinating deep history of the continent's Indigenous peoples. Kenneth Feder, a leading expert ...

The price of collapse

the little ice age and the fall of Ming China

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is ...

Love, war, and diplomacy

the discovery of the Amarna letters and the Bronze Age world they revealed

From the acclaimed author of 1177 B.C., a spellbinding account of the archaeological find that opened a window onto the vibrant diplomatic world of the ancient Near East In 1887, an Egyptian woman made an astonishing discovery among the ruins of the heretic king ...

The importance of being gorgeous

gender and Christian imperial rule in late antiquity

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. In this book, Susanna Elm radically changes our understanding of imperial rule in the later Roman Empire. As ...

Ancient Mediterranean incarceration

A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. This book examines spaces, practices, and ideologies of incarceration in the ancient Mediterranean basin from 300 BCE to ...

Julio Mangas Manjarrés

Opera electa

Julio Mangas Manjarrés, nacio el 3 de diciembre de 1940 en Alaejos-Valladolid y falleció el 21 de octubre de 2022 en Salamanca, fue uno de los más destacados historiadores de la Antigüedad. Su dedicación e intensa labor a la universidad española abarca más de medio ...

The folds of Olympus

mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role ...

Ancient wisdom for polarized times

why humanity needs Herodotus, the man who invented history

How the wisdom of Herodotus can fortify us against political falsehoods and violent extremism Nearly 2,500 years ago, the Greek writer Herodotus introduced the concept of objective truth derived from factual investigation and empirical deduction. Writing just before the start of the catastrophic Peloponnesian ...

Gladiadores, bestias y condenados

Las crónicas brutales del Coliseo

Los testimonios de los espectáculos que durante siete siglos estremecieron a Roma. Salimos del cine de ver Gladiator 2 y la duda nos asalta a todos ¿eran realmente así los espectáculos del Coliseo? El único modo que tenemos de saberlo es leyendo las crónicas de ...

Las Aras del César

Homenaje a Santiago Montero

Concebido como humilde tributo a la trayectoria investigadora del profesor Santiago Montero Herrero, el presente volumen recopila una selección de sus mejores trabajos, aquellos que, en opinión de quienes coordinan el volumen tuvieron una mayor repercusión en su área de conocimiento. Si bien su obra ...

Intellectual property

learned slaves and educated freedmen in republican Rome

The first in-depth account of the lives and careers of educated slaves and freedmen in ancient Rome Slaves and freedmen played an important yet understudied role in the literary culture of the Roman Republic. Though their work went largely uncredited, they fulfilled vital roles as ...

Pox romana

the plague that shook the Roman world

A wide-ranging and dramatic account of the Antonine plague, the mysterious disease that struck the Roman Empire at its pinnacle In the middle of the second century AD, Rome was at its prosperous and powerful apex. The emperor Marcus Aurelius reigned over a vast territory ...

The folds of Olympus

mountains in ancient Greek and Roman culture

A cultural and literary history of mountains in classical antiquity The mountainous character of the Mediterranean was a crucial factor in the history of the ancient Greek and Roman world. The Folds of Olympus is a cultural and literary history that explores the important role ...

The price of collapse

the little ice age and the fall of Ming China

How climate change ushered in the collapse of one of history's mighty empires In 1644, after close to three centuries of relative stability and prosperity, the Ming dynasty collapsed. Many historians attribute its demise to the Manchu invasion of China, but the truth is ...

The first King of England

Aethelstan and the the birth of a kingdom

From one of today's leading historians of the early medieval period, an enthralling chronicle of Aethelstan, England's founder king whose achievements of 927 rival the Norman Conquest of 1066 in shaping Britain as we know it The First King of England is a ...

The emperor and the elephant

Christians and Muslims in the age of Charlemagne

A new history of Christian-Muslim relations in the Carolingian period that provides a fresh account of events by drawing on Arabic as well as western sources In the year 802, an elephant arrived at the court of the Emperor Charlemagne in Aachen, sent as a ...

Becoming Arab

the formation of Arab identity in the medieval Middle East

How late medieval Middle Eastern peasants adopted Arab cultural identities and formed village clans During the later Middle Ages, peasants in Egypt and Greater Syria came to view themselves as members of Arab clans that had originated in the Arabian Peninsula. They expressed their Arab ...