Continuity and Rupture in Roman Mediterranean Gaul. An Archaeology of Colonial Transformations at Ancient Lattara, Hardback - Benjamin P. Luley

Examines the ipact of Roman rule on the city of Lattara, Gaul 500-200 BCE, the development of new social and economic relationships and identity.

A collection of papers from leading researchers on the role of textiles in the ancient Mediterranean.Publisher: Oxbow BooksIllustration(s): Colour ...

Examines the ideological debates and didactic exercises in subject formation during the centenary era of independence (the 1910s), and proposes a n...

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A philosophical examination of the theoretical terrain of contemporary Maoism premised on the counter-intuitive assumption that Maoism did not emer...

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Publisher: Helion & CompanyAuthor(s): Andrew AbramIllustration(s): 43 b/w ills, 4 b/w photos, 9 maps, 53 tables; 43 b/w ills, 4 b/w photos, 9 maps,...

Contributor(s): Author: Walter BenjaminTranslator: Howard EilandTranslator: Kevin McLaughlin"To great writers, " Walter Benjamin once wrote, "finis...

Perspectives on and approaches to problems of early writing in the ancient Mediterranean.Publisher: Oxbow BooksNumber of pages: 320Collection: Cont...

This book explores the impact of indigenous ideology and thought on everyday life in Northeast Africa. It shows that for millennia complex indigeno...

Reducere. Join Carole P. Roman and travel through time to visit the most interesting civilizations throughout history in the first four books of her new seri...

Publisher: Pen & Sword Books LtdAuthor(s): Michael SageIllustration(s): 8pp colour plates, and 6 b/w mapsNumber of pages: 208Publication date: 2011...

Reducere. What is the best framework for reading the Bible? The question of how to relate the Old and New Testaments is as old as the Bible itself. While mos...

Reducere. The Mediterranean is the maritime crossroads where Europe, Asia, and Africa meet. More major naval actions were fought there than in the Atlantic o...

Publisher: Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, U.S.Illustration(s): 181 color photos, 15 illus., 19 color illus., 1 map, 5 color maps, 30 ta...

The Duterte administration is often considered a rupture in Philippines' politics. Yet, how different is Duterte's programme of change from the pas...

Comprehensive overview of the system of measure found in Neolithic, Bronze, and Iron age Europe from the world's leading authority on ancient metro...

This volume features a group of select peer-reviewed papers by an international group of authors, both younger and senior academics and researchers...

The first volume to show the different ways in which surviving linguistic evidence can be used to track movements of people in the ancient world. D...

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCNumber of pages: 272Collection: Education, Literary Culture, and Religious Practice in the Ancient WorldPublica...

The Lives of Sumerian Sculpture: An Archaeology of the Early Dynastic Temple - Jean M. Evans

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This book places the Manchester School in the vanguard of modern social anthropology. Werbner reveals not only the cosmopolitan distinctiveness but...

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Spend a year in the company of the ancient Egyptians, during the twenty-sixth and final year of the reign of Amenhotep II (c.1400 BC), which saw a ...

Uncovering the insect logic that informs contemporary media technologies and the network society.

A critical examination and exploration of developments in archaeology inspired by John Barrett.Illustrations: B/wEditor(s): Roger C.P. Doonan

DescriptionEgypt, Greece, and Rome is regarded as one of the best general histories of the ancient world. It is written for the general reader and ...

Reducere. This book is a continuation of Giorgio Agamben's investigation of political theory, which began with the highly influential volume Homo Sacer: Sove...

"Examines the philosophic-historical conditions of literary theory"--

Reaching back to early experiments with digital writing in the mainframe era and then moving through the personal computer and Internet revolutions...

For the first time ever, this book offers a much-needed comprehensive and introductory overview of the tumultuous era of the Crusades.Publisher: Pe...

Explores the deep connection between music and memory in Graeco-Roman culture, and how this connection was understood and experienced by ancient au...

A lavishly illustrated overview of the history of Greek warfare by historian and broadcaster Simon Elliott.Publisher: Casemate PublishersAuthor(s):...

This book introduces both specialists and non-specialists to the lives of ordinary people in Roman Egypt. It explores the life course of these indi...

History is recorded in many ways. According toauthor James Deetz, the past can be seen most fullyby studying the small things so often forgotten.Ob...

A powerful and innovative argument that explores the complexity of the human relationship with material things, demonstrating how humans and societ...

Formative Britain presents an account of the peoples occupying the island of Britain between 400 and 1100 AD, whose ideas continue to set the polit...

The aim of this volume is to adopt an original analytical approach in explaining various dynamics at work behind the Arab Spring, through giving vo...

A fresh interpretation of Julius Caesar's Gallic War that focuses on Caesar's construction of national identity and his self-presentation.

Dangerous Ground examines how white squatters in the American West came to occupy a central and destabilizing position in US political culture in t...

Beneath modern offices and shops at Spitalfields MOLA archaeologists discovered a burial place for the town's Roman dead. In the 4th century AD the...

An exciting, readable new account of the Alesia campaign, incorporating the latest research, to illuminate the tactics of both Caesar and the Celts...

This volume is an archaeological exploration of the conflict landscapes encountered by volunteers of the International Brigades in the Spanish Civi...

This book takes a thematic approach that analyses a broad range of military and social aspects of Greek warfare in the period from the Late Bronze ...

Mistress, Mother, Muse: An Exploration of the Female in Modern and Contemporary Mediterranean Literature fills a vacuum in comparative literary stu...

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What changes in the material culture can we observe, when a state is overwhelming a local population with soldiers, katoikoi, and civil officials o...

Provides the first comprehensive study of the architecture and architectural sculpture of Southern Peru in the late colonial period (1660s-1820s), ...