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  • A Short History of the Phoenicians

    Revised Edition

    by Mark Woolmer ...
    Series series Short Histories
    Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and boys to the goddess Astarte), funerary custom and trade and expansion into the Punic west, he ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • The Ancient Greek Economy

    Markets, Households and City-States

    Edited by Edward M. Harris, David M. Lewis, Mark Woolmer ...
    The Ancient Greek Economy: Markets, Households and City-States brings together sixteen essays by leading scholars of the ancient Greek economy specialising in history, economics, archaeology and numismatics. Marshalling a wide array of evidence, these essays investigate and analyse the role of market-exchange in the economy of the ancient Greek world, demonstrating the central importance of ... Read more

    $47.99 USD

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  • Babylon

    Mesopotamia and the Birth of Civilization

    by Paul Kriwaczek ...
    Civilization was born eight thousand years ago, between the floodplains of the Tigris and Euphrates rivers, when migrants from the surrounding mountains and deserts began to create increasingly sophisticated urban societies. In the cities that they built, half of human history took place.In Babylon, Paul Kriwaczek tells the story of Mesopotamia from the earliest settlements seven thousand years ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

    Also available as: Audiobook

    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt

    by Ian Shaw ...
    The Oxford History of Ancient Egypt uniquely covers 700,000 years of ancient Egypt from the stone age to the Roman conquest. The story of the ancient Egyptians, from their prehistoric origins to their conquest by the Persians, Greeks, and Romans makes for fascinating reading, with subjects ranging from the changing nature of life and death in the Nile valley to some of the earliest masterpieces of ... Read more

    $17.09 USD

  • Mesopotamia

    The Invention of the City

    by Gwendolyn Leick ...
    Situated in an area roughly corresponding to present-day Iraq, Mesopotamia is one of the great, ancient civilizations, though it is still relatively unknown. Yet, over 7,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, the very first cities were created. This is the first book to reveal how life was lived in ten Mesopotamian cities: from Eridu, the Mesopotamian Eden, to that potent symbol of decadence, Babylon - the ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • The Nabataeans, Builders of Petra

    by Dan Gibson ...
    A fascinating look at the ancient Nabataean Kingdom! During the time of the Greek and Roman Empires, this small Arabian empire built spectacular cities in the Arabian Desert. Their ships and camel caravans traveled to far off exotic places to bring luxury goods to European markets. Since they held a monopoly on almost all eastern goods, they slowly raised their prices, until they almost brought ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Memory and the Mediterranean

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    A grand sweep of history by the late Fernand Braudel–one of the twentieth century’s most influential historians–Memory and the Mediterraneanchronicles the Mediterranean’s immeasurably rich past during the foundational period from prehistory to classical antiquity, illuminating nothing less than the bedrock of our civilization and the very origins of Western culture.Essential for historians, yet ... Read more

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  • Ancient Assyria

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Karen Radner ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Assyria was one of the most influential kingdoms of the Ancient Near East. In this Very Short Introduction, Karen Radner sketches the history of Assyria from city state to empire, from the early 2nd millennium BC to the end of the 7th century BC. Since the archaeological rediscovery of Assyria in the mid-19th century, its cities have been excavated extensively in Iraq, Syria, Turkey and Israel, ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

  • The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon: An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    An Elusive World Wonder Traced

    by Stephanie Dalley ...
    The Mystery of the Hanging Garden of Babylon is an exciting story of detection involving legends, expert decipherment of ancient texts, and a vivid description of a little-known civilization. Recognised in ancient times as one of the Seven Wonders of the World, the legendary Hanging Garden of Babylon and its location still remains a mystery steeped in shadow and puzzling myths. In this remarkable ... Read more

    $18.99 USD

  • Persians

    The Age of the Great Kings

    by Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones ...
    A stunning portrait of the magnificent splendor of ancient Persia and its enduring legacies for today's Iran.“A brilliant feat of resurrection.” -Tom Holland, author of DominionThe Achaemenid Persian kings ruled over the largest empire of antiquity, stretching from Libya to the steppes of Asia and from Ethiopia to Pakistan. From the palace-city of Persepolis, Cyrus the Great, Darius, Xerxes, and ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Roman Empire

    Fall of the West; Survival of the East

    by James F Morgan ...
    The Western Roman Empire collapsed more than 1500 years ago, while the Eastern Roman Empire survived for almost a thousand more years. When the west collapsed, no one questioned why. It was simply the way things were. Than about 500 years ago scholars begin to question just why the west should fail and the east survive. A long list of reasons have been presented, but they are seen as contributors ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Greater Ethiopia

    The Evolution of a Multiethnic Society

    by Donald N. Levine ...
    Greater Ethiopia combines history, anthropology, and sociology to answer two major questions. Why did Ethiopia remain independent under the onslaught of European expansionism while other African political entities were colonized? And why must Ethiopia be considered a single cultural region despite its political, religious, and linguistic diversity?Donald Levine's interdisciplinary study makes a ... Read more

    $24.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus