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  • A Cultural History of Slavery and Human Trafficking in the Ancient World

    Edited by Prof. Grant Parker, David Cohen ...
    Series series The Cultural Histories Series
    The study of enslavement and human trafficking in Ancient World cultures (10,000 BCE-500 CE) brings special difficulties. This includes the inequality of available sources, whereby enslavers' perspectives outweigh narratives of the enslaved. Another is the relative overrepresentation of Greece, Rome, and Egypt in comparison with other societies, regardless of ample archaeological records. While ... Read more

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  • Savage Anxieties

    The Invention of Western Civilization

    by Robert A. Williams ...
    This review of Western history's disdain for "savage" tribes across three millennia is "a provocative contribution to multicultural studies" ( Publishers Weekly).From one of the world's leading experts on Native American law and indigenous peoples' human rights comes an original and striking intellectual history of the tribe and Western civilization that sheds new light on how we understand ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • The Bias of Communication

    by Harold A. Innis ...
    One of the most influential books ever published in Canada, Harold A. Innis's The Bias of Communication has played a major part in reshaping our understanding of history, communication, and media theory. First published in 1951, this masterful collection of essays explores the relationship between a society's communication media and that community's ability to maintain control over its development ... Read more

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  • The Rise and Fall of Classical Greece

    by Josiah Ober ...
    Series series The Princeton History of the Ancient World
    A major new history of classical Greece—how it rose, how it fell, and what we can learn from itLord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era, Greece was densely populated and highly urbanized. Many surprisingly healthy Greeks lived in remarkably big houses and worked ... Read more

    $15.09 USD

  • 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

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  • Radical Antiquity

    Free Love Zoroastrians, Farming Pirates, and Ancient Uprisings

    by Christopher B. Zeichmann ...
    “Unearthing the ancient world’s anarchist cultures, Zeichmann presents a compelling argument that authority may itself have always been the real aberration. Highly recommended” Alan Moore, writer, activist, performer“An inspirational masterpiece … Will transform the way you think about history, and the possibilities for human liberty” William Arnal, Professor, University of Regina“Wonderfully ... Read more

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  • Democracy

    A Life

    by Paul Cartledge ...
    Ancient Greece first coined the concept of "democracy", yet almost every major ancient Greek thinker-from Plato and Aristotle onwards- was ambivalent towards or even hostile to democracy in any form. The explanation for this is quite simple: the elite perceived majority power as tantamount to a dictatorship of the proletariat. In ancient Greece there can be traced not only the rudiments of modern ... Read more

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  • Men of Bronze

    Hoplite Warfare in Ancient Greece

    Edited by Donald Kagan, Gregory F. Viggiano ...
    Men of Bronze takes up one of the most important and fiercely debated subjects in ancient history and classics: how did archaic Greek hoplites fight, and what role, if any, did hoplite warfare play in shaping the Greek polis? In the nineteenth century, George Grote argued that the phalanx battle formation of the hoplite farmer citizen-soldier was the driving force behind a revolution in Greek ... Read more

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  • Peoples and Empires

    A Short History of European Migration, Exploration, and Conquest, from Greece to the Present

    by Anthony Pagden ...
    Series series Modern Library Chronicles
    Written by one of the world’s foremost historians of human migration, Peoples and Empires is the story of the great European empires—the Roman, the Spanish, the French, the British—and their colonies, and the back-and-forth between “us” and “them,” culture and nature, civilization and barbarism, the center and the periphery. It’s the history of how conquerors justified conquest, and how colonists ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

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  • The Dynamics of Ancient Empires

    State Power from Assyria to Byzantium

    by Ian Morris, Walter Scheidel ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Early Empires
    The world's first known empires took shape in Mesopotamia between the eastern shores of the Mediterranean Sea and the Persian Gulf, beginning around 2350 BCE. The next 2,500 years witnessed sustained imperial growth, bringing a growing share of humanity under the control of ever-fewer states. Two thousand years ago, just four major powers--the Roman, Parthian, Kushan, and Han empires--ruled ... Read more

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  • Polis

    A New History of the Ancient Greek City-State from the Early Iron Age to the End of Antiquity

    by John Ma ...
    "This is history-writing at its very best."—Times Literary SupplementA definitive new history of the origins, evolution, and scope of the ancient Greek city-stateThe Greek polis, or city-state, was a resilient and adaptable political institution founded on the principles of citizenship, freedom, and equality. Emerging around 650 BCE and enduring to 350 CE, it offered a means for collaboration ... Read more

    $21.59 USD

  • Civil Wars

    A History in Ideas

    by David Armitage ...
    A highly original history, tracing the least understood and most intractable form of organized human aggression from Ancient Rome through the centuries to the present day.We think we know civil war when we see it. Yet ideas of what it is, and what it isn't, have a long and contested history, from its fraught origins in republican Rome to debates in early modern Europe to our present day. Defining ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

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