Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire, Hardcover - Paul J. Kosmin

DescriptionIn this eye-opening book, Paul J. Kosmin explains how the Seleucid Empire's invention of a new kind of time--and the rebellions against ...

Under Seleucid rule, time no longer restarted with each new monarch. Instead, progressively numbered years, identical to the system we use today, b...

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This book by the renowned naturalist and writer Paul A. Johnsgard tells the complex biological and environmental story of the western Great Plains ...

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The books in the Florida and the Caribbean Open Books Series demonstrate the University Press of Florida's long history of publishing Latin America...

Mark Knights offers the first overview of Britain's history of corruption in office in the pre-modern era, 1600-1850. Drawing on extensive archival...

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