Daily Life in Late Antiquity is the first comprehensive study of lived experience in the Late Roman Empire, from ca. 250 to 600 CE. Each of the six topical chapters highlights historical "everyday" people, along with spaces and objects, whose lives operate as windows into the la…
"Radical Transformation is a story about industrial civilization's impending collapse, and about the possibilities of averting this fate. Human communities first emerged as egalitarian, democratic groups that existed in symbiotic relationship with their environments. Increasing …
"This groundbreaking collection brings the Middle Ages to life, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period."--Back cover.
At the heart of this volume are three trials held in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The defendants were all women and in each case the charges involved a combination of ritual activities. Two were condemned to death. Because of the brevity of the ancient sources, and their la…
Profiles the revolutionary era 2,500 years ago that overturned old order and laid the foundations of today's world, tracing the common human heritage that spawned massive changes in trade, religion and ideology throughout Rome, China, Greece and India.
Iran has for many centuries been a nation forged from a diverse mix of influences, most of them non-sectarian and cosmopolitan. The author traces the evolution of this worldly culture from the eighteenth century to the present day, journeying through social and intellectual move…
by Marcuse, Herbert, Fraenkel, Boris, Nény, Jean-Guy
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