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A History of Ancient Egypt by Marc Van De Mieroop
Category: History | Series: Blackwell History of the Ancient World Ser.
Explore the entire history of the ancient Egyptian state from 3000 B.C. to 400 A.D. with this authoritative volume The newly revised Second Edition of A History of Ancient Egypt delivers an up-to-date survey of ancient Egypt's history from its origins to the Roman Empire's banning of hieroglyphics in th ...Show more
Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the ...Show more
Imperial Tragedy: From Constantine's Empire to the Destruction of Roman Italy AD 363-568 by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
For centuries, Rome was one of the world's largest imperial powers, its influence spread across Europe, North Africa, and the Middle-East, its military force successfully fighting off attacks by the Parthians, Germans, Persians and Goths. Then came the definitive split, the Vandal sack of Rome, and the ...Show more
Imperial Triumph: The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Imperial Triumph presents the history of Rome at the height of its imperial power. Beginning with the reign of Hadrian in Rome and ending with the death of Julian the Apostate on campaign in Persia, it offers an intimate account of the twists and often deadly turns of imperial politics in which successi ...Show more
New Rome: The Roman Empire in the East, AD 395 - 700 by Paul Stephenson
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Three hundred action-packed years of Roman history, encompassing the fall of Rome and the rise of a new empire in the East. Long before Rome fell to the Ostrogoths in AD 476, a new city had risen to take its place as the beating heart of a late antique empire, the glittering Constantinople: New Rome.In ...Show more
The Fate of Rome by Kyle Harper
Category: History | Series: The\Princeton History of the Ancient World Ser.
How climate change and disease helped to bring down the Roman Empire Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the catastrophic role that climate change and infectious diseases ...Show more
The Origin of Empire Rome from the Republic to Hadrian (264 BC - AD 138) by David Potter
Category: History | Series: The\Profile History of the Ancient World Ser.
Capturing the pivotal moment when Rome transformed from a republic to a world empire, spanning over three hundred action-packed years. In 264 BC, a Roman army was poised to cross from southern Italy into Sicily. They couldn't know that this crossing would be Rome's first step on its journey from local ...Show more
The Tragedy of Empire - From Constantine to the Destruction of Roman Italy by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: History of the Ancient World Ser.
A sweeping political history of the turbulent two centuries that led to the demise of the Roman Empire. The Tragedy of Empire begins in the late fourth century with the reign of Julian, the last non-Christian Roman emperor, and takes readers to the final years of the Western Roman Empire at the end of t ...Show more
The Triumph of Empire - The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: History of the Ancient World Ser.
"A genuinely bracing and innovative history of Rome." --Times Literary Supplement The Triumph of Empire takes us into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Roman politics could resemble a blood sport: rivals resorted to assassina ...Show more
The Triumph of Empire - The Roman World from Hadrian to Constantine by Michael Kulikowski
Category: History | Series: History of the Ancient World Ser.
"A genuinely bracing and innovative history of Rome." --Times Literary Supplement The Triumph of Empire takes us into the political heart of imperial Rome and recounts the extraordinary challenges overcome by a flourishing empire. Roman politics could resemble a blood sport: rivals resorted to assassina ...Show more
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