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Law and Crime in the Roman World
What was crime in ancient Rome? Was it defined by law or social attitudes? How did damage to the individual differ from offences against the...
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Technology and Culture in Greek and Roman Antiquity
The technological achievements of the Greeks and Romans continue to fascinate and excite admiration. But what was the place of technology in their...
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Trade in Classical Antiquity
Historians have long argued about the place of trade in classical antiquity: was it the life-blood of a complex, Mediterranean-wide economic system,...
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Neorealism, States, and the Modern Mass Army
Examines why countries imitate the military systems of one another. A book of theory and history, it builds on and extends the most influential...
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The New York Concert Saloon
In this book Brooks McNamara explores the world of the concert saloon in New York from the Civil War to the early years of the twentieth century. A...
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Herodotus: Histories Book VIII
The Battle of Salamis was the first great (and unexpected) victory of the Greeks over the Persian forces under Xerxes, whose defeat had important...
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The Culture of Slander in Early Modern England
Slander constitutes a central social, legal and literary concern of early modern England. A category of discourse which transgresses the law, it...
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The Technology of Journalism
From the printing press to the telegraph to the camera and beyond, technology has always been tied closely to journalism. In The Technology of...
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The Yellow Journalism
When a case containing dismembered human remains surfaced in New York's East River in June of 1897, the publisher of the New York Journal--a...
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An Historical Commentary on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia
Commentaries on the Hellenica Oxyrhynchia, an anonymous history of events in the Greek world in the late fifth and early fourth centuries BC, have...
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Landssviksaken som den norske stat anla mot Kirsten Flagstad og hennes mann, industrieieren og trelasthandleren Henry Johansen, i sin tid omtalt som...
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The Character of Credit
Personal credit relations were ubiquitous in English consumer markets, binding family members, friends, neighbours, customers and tradesmen in...
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The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period
During the four centuries when printed paper was the only means by which texts could be carried across time and distance, everyone engaged in...
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Tertullian and the Church
Was Tertullian of Carthage a schismatic? How did he view the Church and its bishops? How did he understand the exercise of authority within the...
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Pappus of Alexandria and the Mathematics of Late Antiquity
This book is at once an analytical study of one of the most important mathematical texts of antiquity, the Mathematical Collection of the...
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Tacitus: Histories Book II
The Histories is the first historical work by Rome’s most accomplished and challenging historian, Tacitus. It narrates the brutal civil wars which...
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Treason and the State
This study traces the transition of treason from a personal crime against the monarch to a modern crime against the impersonal state. It consists of...
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Literate Education in the Hellenistic and Roman Worlds
This book offers an assessment of the content, structures and significance of education in Greek and Roman society. Drawing on a wide range of...
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Fashioning Adultery
This book provides a major survey of representations of adultery in later seventeenth- and early eighteenth-century England. Bringing together a wide...
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Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece
From the sixth through the fourth centuries BCE, the landmark developments of Greek culture and the critical works of Greek thought and literature...
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Images and Cultures of Law in Early Modern England
This book offers an interesting interpretation of the hidden culture of the early modern legal profession and its influence on the development of the...
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Postwar Migration in Southern Europe, 1950–2000
Managing migration promises to be one of the most difficult challenges of the twenty-first century. It will be even more difficult for south European...
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Tredje riket från uppgång till fall
Tredje riket från uppgång till fall är en uppslagsbok med lättillgängliga och informativa artiklar...
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Anglo-Saxon England
This volume mostly deals with manuscripts, directly or indirectly. Of outstanding importance is the first ever attempt to list all the surviving...
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