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A Short History of Ancient Greece by P. J. Rhodes
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Classical Greece and its legacy have long inspired a powerful and passionate fascination. The civilization that bequeathed to later ages drama and democracy, Homer and heroism, myth and Mycenae and the Delphic Oracle and the Olympic Games has, perhaps more than any other, helped shape the intellectual c ...Show more
A Short History of Florence and the Florentine Republic by Brian Jeffrey Maxson
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
The innovative city culture of Florence was the crucible within which Renaissance ideas first caught fire. With its soaring cathedral dome and its classically-inspired palaces and piazzas, it is perhaps the finest single expression of a society that is still at its heart an urban one. For, as Brian Jeff ...Show more
A Short History of Imperial Egypt by Robert Morkot
Category: General Fiction | Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories
New Kingdom Egypt represented the zenith of Egyptian power and imperial prestige. Between the sixteenth and eleventh centuries BCE the civilization straddling the Nile articulated its renewed self-confidence and self-assertiveness in a quest for fresh dominions in Canaan and Syria; in the colossal statu ...Show more
A Short History of The Troubles by Brian Feeney
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
From the first symptoms of serious unrest - the Divis Street riots of 1964 - to the tortuous political manoeuvrings culminating in the 2003 Assembly elections, the book traces the reality of life in Northern Ireland during the Troubles.It details the motivation behind the IRA ''armed struggle'', the Civ ...Show more
A Short History of the Normans by Leonie V. Hicks
Category: History | Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories
A Short History of the Phoenicians - Revised Edition by Mark Woolmer
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Offering new insights based on recent archaeological discoveries in their heartland of modern-day Lebanon, Mark Woolmer presents a fresh appraisal of this fascinating, yet elusive, Semitic people. Discussing material culture, language and alphabet, religion (including sacred prostitution of women and bo ...Show more
A Short History of the Tudors by Richard Rex
Category: History | Series: Short Histories Ser.
Combining an expertise on the Tudor dynasty with an authoritative understanding of its religious and political make-up, A Short History of the Tudors provides a fresh and accessible perspective of one of the most formative periods of British history.Rex considers the ways in which the Tudors shaped the ...Show more
Antiquity Imagined: The Remarkable Legacy of Egypt and the Ancient Near East by Robin Derricourt
Category: No Category | Series: I.B. Tauris Short Histories
Outsiders have long attributed to the Middle East, and especially to ancient Egypt, meanings that go way beyond the rational and observable. The region has been seen as the source of civilization, religion, the sciences and the arts; but also of mystical knowledge and outlandish theories, whether about ...Show more
Corruption - A Short History by Carlo Alberto Brioschi
Category: World History | Series: The\Short Histories Ser.
From ancient times to modern, corruption has been ingrained in human society and is still a powerful issue in the contemporary world. In Corruption: A Short History, Carlo Brioschi provides a thorough and entertaining look at how corruption was born and has evolved over time, without ever being stamped ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
Category: History | Series: Short Histories
In this insightful analysis, highly-respected expert John Robertson canvases the entirety of Iraq's rich history, from the seminal advances of its Neolithic inhabitants to the aftermath of the American-led invasion and Iraq today. Grounded in extensive research, this balanced account of a country and it ...Show more
Iraq: A History by John Robertson
Category: Popular History | Series: Short Histories
Cities, scripts, literature, the rule of law - all were born in Iraq. That so many see this ancient land as nothing more than a violent backwater steeped in chaos is a travesty. This is the place where, for the first 5,000 years of human history, all innovations of worth emerged. It was the cradle of ci ...Show more
Moustaches, Whiskers and Beards by Lucinda Hawksley
Category: Gifts | Series: NPG Short Histories
Taking as her starting point images from the holdings of the National Portrait Gallery, London, writer and art historian Lucinda Hawksley explores the history of facial hair, from prehistoric times to the present day. By way of introduction, she investigates how cave men shaved, the Pharaonic beard in a ...Show more