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  • Roman Conquests: Italy

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series series Roman Conquests
    The author of For the Glory of Rome details the conflicts ancient Rome endured to defeat its neighbors and take over the Italian Peninsula.The first of the exciting Roman Conquests series, this volume will look at how Rome went from just another Latin town under Etruscan rule, to a free republic that gradually conquered or dominated all her Italian neighbors. With hindsight we know that Rome, ... Read more

    $12.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Roman Legionary 109–58 BC

    The Age of Marius, Sulla and Pompey the Great

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 182 - Warrior
    The Roman centurion, holding the legionaries steady before the barbarian horde and then leading them forward to victory, was the heroic exemplar of the Roman world.This was thanks to the Marian reforms, which saw the centurion, although inferior in military rank and social class, superseding the tribune as the legion's most important officer. This period of reform in the Roman Army is often ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Roman Legionary AD 69–161

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 166 - Warrior
    Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed.Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong. They were highly competitive, jealous of their ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Milvian Bridge AD 312

    Constantine's battle for Empire and Faith

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 296 - Campaign
    A highly illustrated study of the battle of the Milvian Bridge, a pivotal moment that saw the triumph of Constantine, the first Christian Roman emperor, and the adoption of Christianity as the official state religion of Rome.In AD 312, the Roman world was divided between four emperors. The most ambitious was Constantine, who sought to eliminate his rivals and reunite the Empire. His first target ... Read more

    $21.99 CAD

  • Roman Legionary AD 284-337

    The age of Diocletian and Constantine the Great

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 175 - Warrior
    Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system. Under Constantine's successors the legions were reduced in size and increasingly sidelined in favour of new units of elite auxilia, but between AD 284 and 337 the legions reigned supreme. The legionaries defeated all-comers and spearheaded a stunning Roman revival that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Roman Legionary AD 69–161

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 166 - Warrior
    Between AD 69 and 161 the composition of the Roman legions was transformed. Italians were almost entirely replaced by provincial recruits, men for whom Latin was at best a second language, and yet the 'Roman-ness' of these Germans, Pannonians, Spaniards, Africans and Syrians, fostered in isolated fortresses on the frontiers, was incredibly strong. They were highly competitive, jealous of their ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Roman Legionary AD 284-337

    The age of Diocletian and Constantine the Great

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 175 - Warrior
    Diocletian and Constantine were the greatest of the Late Roman emperors, and their era marks the climax of the legionary system.Under Constantine's successors the legions were reduced in size and increasingly sidelined in favour of new units of elite auxilia, but between AD 284 and 337 the legions reigned supreme. The legionaries defeated all-comers and spearheaded a stunning Roman revival that ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Roman Guardsman 62 BC–AD 324

    by Ross Cowan ...
    Series Book 170 - Warrior
    From the civil wars of the Late Republic to Constantine's bloody reunification of the Empire, elite corps of guardsmen were at the heart of every Roman army. Whether as bodyguards or as shock troops in battle, the fighting skills of praetorians, speculatores, singulares and protectores determined the course of Roman history. Modern scholars tend to present the praetorians as pampered, disloyal and ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Museum Objects, Health and Healing

    The Relationship between Exhibitions and Wellness

    by Brenda Cowan, Ross Laird, Jason McKeown ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Museum Studies
    Museum Objects, Health and Healing provides an innovative and interdisciplinary study of the relationship between objects, health and healing. Shedding light on the primacy of the human need for relationships with objects, the book explores what kind of implications these relationships might have on the exhibition experience.Merging museum and object studies, as well as psychotherapy and the ... Read more

    $91.99 CAD

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  • Carthage's Other Wars

    Carthaginian Warfare Outside the 'Punic Wars' Against Rome

    by Dexter Hoyos ...
    "A very good read . . . and a reminder that the Romans were hardly the only imperialist warmongers of the ancient world." — StrategyPageCarthage was the western Mediterranean's first superpower, long before Rome, and her military history was powerful, eventful, and checkered even before her "Punic Wars" against Rome. Although characterized in the surviving sources and modern studies as a ... Read more

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  • Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation

    by Philip Matyszak ...
    The author of Sparta: Rise of a Warrior Nation continues his revealing history of the Ancient Greek city-state in this chronicle of its decline and defeat.Universally admired in 479 BC, the Spartans became masters of the Greek world by 402 BC, only for their state to collapse in the next generation. What went wrong? Was the fall of Sparta inevitable? In Sparta: Fall of a Warrior Nation, Philip ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sparta's Kings

    by John Carr ...
    In ancient Greece, Sparta was unique in having a dual kingship two kings from different clans, the Agiads and the Eurypontids, reigning simultaneously. The institution was already well-developed by the 8th century BC, when Theopompos of the Eurypontid clan emerges as the first recorded Spartan king. At least fifty-seven men held office as Spartan king between Theopompos and the Agiad Kleomenes III ... Read more

    $9.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus