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  • Dariali: The 'Caspian Gates' in the Caucasus from Antiquity to the Age of the Huns and the Middle Ages

    The Joint Georgian-British Dariali Gorge Excavations and Surveys of 2013–2016

    by Eberhard Sauer ...
    Series Book 6 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    The Huns, invading through Dariali Gorge on the modern-day border between Russia and Georgia in AD 395 and 515, spread terror across the late antique world. Was this the prelude to the apocalypse? Prophecies foresaw a future Hunnic onslaught, via the same mountain pass, bringing about the end of the world. Humanity’s fate depended on a gated barrier deep in Europe’s highest and most forbidding ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Archaeology and Ancient History

    Breaking Down the Boundaries

    Edited by Eberhard W. Sauer ...
    Challenging both traditional and fashionable theories, this collection of pieces from an international range of contributors explores the separation of the human past into history, archaeology and their related sub-disciplines.Each case study challenges the validity of this separation and asks how we can move to a more holistic approach in the study of the relationship between history and ... Read more

    $83.81 CAD

  • Sasanian Persia

    Between Rome and the Steppes of Eurasia

    Edited by Eberhard W. Sauer ...
    Series series Edinburgh Studies in Ancient Persia

    $132.99 CAD

  • Ancient Arms Race: Antiquity's Largest Fortresses and Sasanian Military Networks of Northern Iran

    A joint fieldwork project by the Iranian Center for Archaeological Research, The Research Institute of Cultural Heritage and Tourism and the University of Edinburgh (2014-2016)

    Edited by Eberhard Sauer, Jebrael Nokandeh, Hamid Omrani Rekavandi ...
    Series Book 7 - British Institute of Persian Studies, Archaeological Monograph Series
    Which ancient army boasted the largest fortifications, and how did the competitive build-up of military capabilities shape world history? Few realise that imperial Rome had a serious competitor in Late Antiquity. Late Roman legionary bases, normally no larger than 5ha, were dwarfed by Sasanian fortresses, often covering 40ha, sometimes even 125-175ha. The latter did not necessarily house permanent ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

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  • The houses of history

    A critical reader in history and theory, second edition

    by Anna Green, Kathleen Troup ...
    The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative critical reader provides accessible introductions to fourteen schools of thought, from the empiricist to the postcolonial, including chapters on Marxist history, Freud and psychohistory, the Annales, historical sociology, narrative, gender, public history and the ... Read more

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  • A History of Archaeological Thought

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  • Classical Archaeology

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    Series Book 18 - Wiley Blackwell Studies in Global Archaeology
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  • What is the History of Knowledge?

    by Peter Burke ...
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    Continuity and Change Between the Twelfth and Eighth Centuries BC

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  • A Companion to Ancient History

    Edited by Andrew Erskine ...
    Series Book 199 - Wiley Companions to the Ancient World
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