Alexander The Great

the story of an ancient life

Everything we know about Alexander comes from ancient sources, which agree unanimously that he was extraordinary and greater than everyday mortals. From his birth into a hypercompetitive world of royal women through his training under the eyes and fists of stern soldiers and the piercing ...

The Cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world

In 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 directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic ...

Slaves to Rome

paradigms of Empire in roman culture

This study in the language of Roman imperialism provides a provocative new perspective on the Roman imperial project. It highlights the prominence of the language of mastery and slavery in Roman descriptions of the conquest and subjection of the provinces. More broadly, it explores how ...

Libertas and the practice of politics in the Late Roman Republic

This is a comprehensive analysis of the idea of libertas and its conflicting uses in the political struggles of the late Roman Republic. By reconstructing Roman political thinking about liberty against the background of Classical and Hellenistic thought, it excavates two distinct intellectual traditions on ...

The Cambridge economic history of the greco-roman world

In 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 directions for research. The approach taken is both thematic, with chapters on the underlying determinants of economic ...

Documentary culture and the Laity in the Early Middle Ages

Many more documents survive from the early Middle Ages than from the Roman Empire. Although ecclesiastical archives may account for the dramatic increase in the number of surviving documents, this new investigation reveals the scale and spread of documentary culture beyond the Church. The contributors ...

Military Saints in Byzantium and Rus, 900-1200

The rulers of the Byzantine Empire and its commonwealth were protected both by their own soldiers and by a heavenly army: the military saints. The transformation of Saints George, Demetrios, Theodore and others into the patrons of imperial armies was one of the defining developments ...

The medieval discovery of nature

This book examines the relationship between humans and nature that evolved in medieval Europe over the course of a millennium. From the beginning, people lived in nature and discovered things about it. Ancient societies bequeathed to the Middle Ages both the Bible and a pagan ...

Early Modern Europe

1450-1789

The second edition of this best-selling textbook is thoroughly updated to include expanded coverage of the late eighteenth century and the Enlightenment, and incorporates recent advances in gender history, global connections and cultural analysis. It features summaries, timelines, maps, illustrations and discussion questions to support ...

The Enlightenment

Debate over the meaning of 'Enlightenment' began in the eighteenth century and still continues to this day. This period saw the opening of arguments on the nature of man, truth, the place of God and the international circulation of ideas, people and gold. But did ...

Waves of war

nationalism, State formation, and ethnic exclusion in the Modern world

Why did the nation-state emerge and proliferate across the globe? How is this process related to the wars fought in the modern era? Analyzing datasets that cover the entire world over long stretches of time, Andreas Wimmer focuses on changing configurations of power and legitimacy ...

El dinero

Carl Menger, un economista desconocido para la mayoría de los iniciados que han oído hablar de Keynes o Friedman, ha sido el único capaz de dar una explicación satisfactoria del origen de esa institución social que todos conocemos y manejamos, el dinero. Pero el olvido ...

Solvay

history of multinational family firm

Ernest Solvay, philanthropist and organizer of the world-famous Solvay conferences on physics, discovered a profitable way of making soda ash in 1861. Together with a handful of associates, he laid the foundations of the Solvay company, which successfully branched out into other chemicals, plastics and ...

Oriente desde Occidente

Vol.2: Los escritos de viajes judíos, cristianos y musulmanes sobre Siria-Palestina (ss. XII-XVII)

En estas páginas se pretende ofrecer a la comunidad académica una aproximación a la literatura de viajes producida por judíos, cristianos y mulsulmanes occidentales que se aventuraron hacia las tierras de Siria-Palestina entre los siglos XII y XVII. De sus escritos, que han pasado a ...

Diccionario de ateos

Sylvain Maréchal nació en París en 1750 y murió en 1803. Poco más de 50 años vividos en una época tumultuosa y fascinante: la de la Revolución Francesa. Fue periodista, escritor en diversos géneros (poesía, drama, libelo), filósofo, y también hombre de acción comprometido con ...

Los orígenes de los cultos revolucionarios (1789-1792)

¿Puede ser considerada la Revolución francesa como una forma de religión?, ¿son sus festejos ritos sagrados?, ¿son sus principios dogmas de fe?, ¿son sus héroes mártires? En este clásico relativamente olvidado de la historiografía francesa, Albert Mathiez trata de responder a estas y otras cuestiones ...

Compendio general e innecesario de Cosas que nunca pensó que le fueran a importar

Los diez animales más peligrosos, la historia del cartel de "Hollywood" (que originalmente decía Hollywoodland), las primeras mujeres astronautas, la extinción del pingüino auténtico, los diez mayores fracasos del cine, teoría y práctica del beso (el más largo de la historia duró 58 horas, 35 ...

From Perestroika to Rainbow Revolutions

reform and revolution after socialism

Twenty-five years after Gorbachev came to power and two decades after the collapse of the Soviet Union, the questions that were behind the reform efforts at the start of Perestroika are still relevant: how to modernise the economy, and how to recreate a basis for ...

Cultures of charity

women, politics, and the reform of poor relief in Renaissance Italy

Renaissance Italians pioneered radical changes in ways of helping the poor, including orphanages, workhouses, pawnshops, and women's shelters. Nicholas Terpstra shows that gender was the key factor driving innovation. Most of the recipients of charity were women. The most creative new plans focused on ...

La señora Simpson

las vidas secretas de la duquesa de Windsor, la mujer que estuvo a punto de arruinar la monarquía británica

Wallis Simpson, duquesa de Windsor, la mujer que puso en jaque a la monarquía británica, es con toda seguridad una de las figuras más enigmáticas de la historia contemporánea. Son muchos los interrogantes que rodean su vida y su figura, que alimentan su leyenda, y ...