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  • Alexandria, Real and Imagined

    by Anthony Hirst, Michael Silk ...
    Series series Publications of the Centre for Hellenic Studies, King's College London
    Alexandria, Real and Imagined offers a complex portrait of an extraordinary city, from its foundation in the fourth century BC up to the present day: a city notable for its history of ethnic diversity, for the legacies of its past imperial grandeur - Ottoman and Arab, Byzantine, Roman and Greek - and, not least, for the memorable images of 'Alexandria' constructed both by outsiders and by ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Istanbul

    A Tale of Three Cities

    by Bettany Hughes ...
    Istanbul has long been a place where stories and histories collide, where perception is as potent as fact.From the Koran to Shakespeare, this city with three names--Byzantium, Constantinople, Istanbul -- resonates as an idea and a place, real and imagined. Standing as the gateway between East and West, North and South, it has been the capital city of the Roman, Byzantine, and Ottoman Empires. For ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

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  • The Mediterranean in the Ancient World

    by Fernand Braudel ...
    This general reader's history of the ancient mediterranean combines a thorough grasp of the scholarship of the day with an great historian's gift for imaginative reconstruction and inspired analogy. Extensive notes allow the reader to appreciate thestate of scholarship at the time of writing, the scale and breadth of Braudel's learning and the points where orthodoxy has changed, sometimes ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • Travelling Heroes

    Greeks and their myths in the epic age of Homer

    by Robin Lane Fox ...
    This remarkable and daringly original book proposes a new way of thinking about the Greeks and their myths in the age of the great Homeric hymns. It combines a lifetime's familiarity with Greek literature and history with the latest archeological discoveries and the author's own journeys to the main sites in the story to describe how particular Greeks of the eighth century BC travelled east and ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD

  • The Greeks

    A Global History

    by Roderick Beaton ...
    A sweeping history of the Greeks, from the Bronze Age to today.**“With suave latitude and dependable detail, Beaton takes his readers from a bright prehistoric ‘dawn’ in the Aegean to the heavy skies of contemporary geo-politics.” —**The New CriterionMore than two thousand years ago, the Greek city-states, led by Athens and Sparta, laid the foundation for much of modern science, the arts, politics ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

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    Also available as: Audiobook

  • The Muslim Discovery of Europe

    by Bernard Lewis, Ph.D. ...
    "Full of rare and exact information…A distinguished work." —New York Review of BooksThe eleventh-century Muslim world was a great civilization while Europe lay slumbering in the Dark Ages. Slowly, inevitably, Europe and Islam came together, through trade and war, crusade and diplomacy. The ebb and flow between these two worlds for seven hundred years, illuminated here by a brilliant historian, is ... Read more

    $15.99 CAD

  • The End of Byzantium

    by Jonathan Harris ...

    $45.99 CAD

  • In Search of the Phoenicians

    by Josephine Quinn ...
    Series series Miriam S. Balmuth Lectures in Ancient History and Archaeology
    Who were the ancient Phoenicians, and did they actually exist?The Phoenicians traveled the Mediterranean long before the Greeks and Romans, trading, establishing settlements, and refining the art of navigation. But who these legendary sailors really were has long remained a mystery. In Search of the Phoenicians makes the startling claim that the “Phoenicians” never actually existed. Taking readers ... Read more

    $30.99 CAD

  • Alexander the Great

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Hugh Bowden ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    Alexander the Great became king of Macedon in 336 BC, when he was only 20 years old, and died at the age of 32, twelve years later. During his reign he conquered the Achaemenid Persian Empire, the largest empire that had ever existed, leading his army from Greece to Pakistan, and from the Libyan desert to the steppes of Central Asia. His meteoric career, as leader of an alliance of Greek cities, ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • Empire and Communications

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    Series Book 4 - Voyageur Classics
    It’s been said that without Harold A. Innis there could have been no Marshall McLuhan. Empire and Communications is one of Innis’s most important contributions to the debate about how media influence the development of consciousness and societies. In this seminal text, he traces humanity’s movement from the oral tradition of preliterate cultures to the electronic media of recent times. Along the ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Throne of Adulis: Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    Red Sea Wars on the Eve of Islam

    by G.W. Bowersock ...
    Series series Emblems of Antiquity
    Just prior to the rise of Islam in the sixth century AD, southern Arabia was embroiled in a violent conflict between Christian Ethiopians and Jewish Arabs. Though little known today, this was an international war that involved both the Byzantine Empire, which had established Christian churches in Ethiopia, and the Sasanian Empire in Persia, which supported the Jews in what became a proxy war ... Read more

    $38.99 CAD

  • The Eunuch in Byzantine History and Society

    by Shaun Tougher ...
    Series series Routledge Monographs in Classical Studies
    The existence of eunuchs was one of the defining features of the Byzantine Empire. Covering the whole span of the history of the empire, from the fourth to the fifteenth centuries AD, Shaun Tougher presents a comprehensive survey of the history and roles of eunuchs, making use of extensive comparative material, such as from China, Persia and the Ottoman Empire, as well as about castrato singers of ... Read more

    $94.99 CAD