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This sharp and authoritative account of American foreign relations analyzes the last fifteen years of foreign policy in relation to the last forty yea…

A Companion to American Indian History captures the thematic breadth of Native American history over the last forty years. Twenty-five original essays…

A Companion to the American West is a rigorous, illuminating introduction to the history of the American West. Twenty-five essays by expert scholars s…

A Companion to the Roman Empire provides readers with a guide both to Roman imperial history and to the field of Roman studies, taking account of the …

Based on original research, this book marks an important advance in our understanding not only of the fiscal resources available to the English crown …

In a major revision of this popular text, Dr. Justus Doenecke integrates scholarly research conducted in the 1990s to offer readers a fresh picture of…

A Companion to Nineteenth-Century Britain presents 33 essays by expert scholars on all the major aspects of the political, social, economic and cultur…

A Companion to African American History is a collection of original and authoritative essays arranged thematically and topically, covering a wide rang…

This widely respected study of social conflicts between the patrician elite and the plebeians in the first centuries of the Roman republic has now bee…

The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II offers a transnational perspective on the age of King Ramesses II of Egypt during the centuries of…

In this book, Professor Christopher Coker presents an original and controversial thesis about the future of war. Argues that the biotechnology revolut…

A Companion to the Civil War and Reconstruction addresses the key topics and themes of the Civil War era, with 23 original essays by top scholars in t…

A Companion to Post-1945 America is an original collection of 34 essays by key scholars on the history and historiography of Post-1945 America. Covers…

A comprehensive review of the development, geographic spread, and cultural influence of religion in Late Antiquity A Companion to Religion in Late Ant…

Scholarship on African American history has changed dramatically since the publication of George Washington Williams’ pioneering A History of the Negr…

In this book Toner offers a new way of looking at Roman society at all levels, not just among the elite, by examining the imperial games and the baths…

This book provides students and general readers with an introduction to revolutionary France whilst also presenting a clear argument to explain the ev…

This is an authoritative volume of historiographical essays that survey the state of U.S. diplomatic history. The essays cover the entire range of the…

For more than a millennium, the ancient Olympics captured the imaginations of the Greeks, until a Christianized Rome terminated the competitions in th…

From despots to powerless figureheads, and from the Neolithic era to the present, this book traces the history of kingship around the world and the te…

The first book to focus on the social impact of warfare and the Roman army in Late Antiquity. Explores the implications of war and the army in a broad…

This volume brings together 29 new essays by leading international scholars, to provide an inclusive overview of recent work in Reformation history. P…

In America and the Great War, 1914-1920, the accomplished writing team of D. Clayton James and Anne Sharp Wells provides a succinct account of the pri…

This book is the first to focus on war and peace in the ancient world from a global perspective. The first book to focus on war and peace in the ancie…

Roman Disasters looks at how the Romans coped with, thought about, and used disasters for their own ends. Rome has been famous throughout history for …

By examining his military and political career, home life and relationships with women, Always I Am Caesar provides a vivid portrait of Caesar’s life …

In this history of Florence, distinguished historian John Najemy discusses all the major developments in Florentine history from 1200 to 1575. Capture…

This broad survey introduces readers to the major themes, figures, traditions and theories in Western historical thought, tracing its evolution from b…

Exploiting the abundant primary sources available, this book examines the diverse ways in which war shaped the Hellenistic world. An overview of war a…

There were eighty of them. They were young, clever and cultivated; they were barely in their thirties when Adolf Hitler came to power. Their universit…

This is the first biography in English of King Hammurabi, who ruled Babylon from 1792 to 1750 BC and presents a rounded view of his accomplishments. D…

This authoritative survey of Britain in the later Middle Ages comprises 28 chapters written by leading figures in the field. Covers social, economic, …

This volume examines the period from Rome's earliest involvement in the eastern Mediterranean to the establishment of Roman geopolitical dominance ove…

The first book to explore the religious dimensions of the family and the household in ancient Mediterranean and West Asian antiquity. Advances our und…

A newly updated, lavishly illustrated account of the ANZACs involvement in the Western Front—complete with walking and driving tours of 28 battlefield…

This collection of twenty-four original essays by leading scholars in American women's history highlights the most recent important scholarship on the…

A comprehensive history that focuses on the crises of Spain in the late middle ages and the early transformations that underpinned the later successes…

This Companion provides an authoritative and up-to-date overview of Roman Republican history as it is currently practiced. Highlights recent developme…

Original and comprehensive, Magic in the Ancient Greek World takes the reader inside both the social imagination and the ritual reality that made magi…

A Deep Exploration of the Rise, Reign, and Legacy of the Third Reich For its brief existence, National Socialist Germany was one of the most destructi…

This concise overview of the history and historiography of the American South puts the major problems and issues of that region into clear, accessible…

A Companion to the History of the Middle East offers a fresh account of the multifaceted and multi-layered history of this region. A fresh account of …

Covering the period from the death of Alexander the Great to the celebrated defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the hands of Augustus, this authoritativ…

A comprehensive overview of the most important international events, movements, and controversies of the 20th century. Written by distinguished schola…

It is the translation of the famous book written by an officer of Julius Caesar that tells us about the war in Alexandria of 47 BC. and other episodes…