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Feminism: Ideas in Profile by Deborah Cameron
Category: Politics | Series: Ideas in Profile Ser.
'Feminism' wrote Marie Shear in 1986, 'is the radical notion that women are people'. But, simple and powerful though this definition is, feminism is not a single, clear narrative. It doesn't begin with a specific event at a particular moment in time, it can't be identified with any one political organiz ...Show more
Gilgamesh: A new English version by Stephen Mitchell
Category: Biography | Series: Profile Ser.
The poet and translator Stephen Mitchell makes the oldest epic poem in the world accessible.
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 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
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