Agrippina: Sex, Power, and Politics in the Early Empire, Paperback - Anthony A. Barrett

Reducere. Agrippina the Younger attained a level of power in first-century Rome unprecedented for a woman. According to ancient sources, she achieved her suc...

Reducere. DescriptionIn scandals and power struggles obscured by time and legend, the wives, mistresses, mothers, sisters, and daughters of the Caesars have ...

DescriptionNero's reign (AD 54-68) witnessed some of the most memorable events in Roman history, such as the rebellion of Boudica and the first per...

A wide-ranging collection of essays on plants as market forces.

The story of the Confederate States of America, the proslavery, antidemocratic nation created by white Southern slaveholders to protect their prope...

Reducere. The Seneca Falls Convention is typically seen as the beginning of the first women's rights movement in the United States. Revolutionary Backlash ar...

Essays on the six monarchies of the Gulf: Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, and UAE.

The River Nile fascinated the Romans and appeared in maps, written descriptions, philosophical texts, poems and landscape paintings. This book exam...

Publisher: Princeton University PressAuthor(s): Anthony A. BarrettIllustration(s): 51 b/w illus. 1 table. 1 map.Number of pages: 368Collection: Tur...

This book explores the series of cartoons of China and the Chinese that were published in the popular British satirical magazine Punch over a sixty...

This book identifies water as a crucial new topic of literary and cultural analysis at a critical moment for the world's water resources, focusing ...

Reducere. Deepens and refreshes our view of early Christianity while casting a disturbing light on the evolution of the attitudes passed down to us. How did ...

Based on extensive original research at the local level, this book explores the relationship between Russian Orthodoxy and politics in contemporary...

The Archaeology of Power and Politics in Eurasia: Regimes and Revolutions - Dr Charles W. Hartley, Dr G. Bike Yazicioglu, Dr Adam T. Smith

Anthony Dawson looks at some of the iconic, trailblazing locomotives that helped shape British railway history.

A richly illustrated and accessible guide to the politically engaged art of the 21st century, exploring some of the most daring and ambitious art p...

WINNER OF THE POLITICAL BOOK AWARDS POLITICAL HISTORY BOOK OF THE YEAR 2014. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the Profumo sca...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdNumber of pages: 823Collection: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe SeriesPublication date: 2017Dimensi...

'An absolutely masterly work' Stephen Fry Alex Ross, renowned author of the international bestseller The Rest Is Noise, reveals how Richard Wagner ...

Reducere. Drawing on new archaeological evidence, an authoritative history of Rome's Great Fire--and how it inflicted lasting harm on the Roman Empire Accord...

A journey through the uncomputable remains of computer historyPublisher: Verso BooksAuthor(s): Alexander GallowayNumber of pages: 288Publication da...

We're Still Here provides powerful, on the ground evidence of the remaking of working-class identity and politics. Drawing on years of fieldwork an...

Reducere. NAMED ONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR BY THEKANSAS CITY STAR From Anthony Everitt, the bestselling author of acclaimed biographies of Cicero, Aug...

Improve your understanding of the AQA A-level Politics specification with this brand-new course companion from our experienced team of teachers.

Publisher: Fernwood Publishing Co LtdNumber of pages: 352Publication date: 2021Dimensions: 153 x 229 x 23Cover type: Paperback / softbackEditor(s):...

DescriptionAn NPR Book Concierge Best Book of 2018 A Sunday Times of London Pick of the Paperbacks A stunning story about how power works in the mo...

During the Second Empire, from 1854 until 1870, the state had power over the Opera in ways that were without precedent. The Opera effectively becam...

DescriptionWhere there are dictators, there are novels about dictators. But "dictator novels" do not simply respond to the reality of dictatorship....

In her famous speech to rouse the English troops staking out Tilbury at the mouth of the Thames during the Spanish Armada's campaign, Queen Elizabe...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Ruth BarrettFemale Erasure is a dynamic collection of diverse voices speaking out against gender identity politics, exposin...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

This book is an ethnographic study of grassroots activists in the English Defence League. Setting the findings within contemporary debates on race ...

The threat of violence is never far away in Anthony Anaxagorou's breakthrough collection After the Formalities. Technically achieved, emotionally t...

Featuring a new foreword by Robin E. Kelley, this updated edition of the classic exploration of the economic inequality that fuels systematic racis...