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Foote's comprehensive history of the Civil War includes three compelling volumes: Fort Sumter to Perryville, Fredericksburg to Meridian, and Red River to Appomattox. Collected ...
Acknowledged as one of the greatest achievements of modern scholarship, Arnold Toynbee's A Study of History is a ten-volume analysis of the rise and ...
This volume completes the immensely learned three-volume A History of Religious Ideas. Eliade examines the movement of Jewish thought out of ancient Eurasia, the Christian ...
The bestselling, classic text on one anthropologist's incredible experience living among the African Mbuti Pygmies, and what he learned from their culture, customs, and ...
Augustus Caesar, the first emperor of Rome (27 BC-AD 14), brought peace and prosperity to his city after decades of savage civil war. This selection ...
The historical account of the end of the Roman Empire
Ammianus Marcellinus was the last great Roman historian, and his writings rank alongside those of ...
A compelling narrative of the life of the greatest conqueror of all time- Alexander the Great.
Alexander the Great (356-323 BC), who led the Macedonian ...
In volume 2 of this monumental work, Mircea Eliade continues his magisterial progress through the history of religious ideas. The religions of ancient China, Brahmanism ...
Still used as a guide to classical Greece even today this remains one of the most influential travel books ever written.
Written in the second ...
In 1537 Francesco Guicciardini, adviser and confidant to three popes, governor of several central Italian states, ambassador, administrator, military captain--and persona non grata with the ...
'The enemy were overpowered and took to flight. The Romans pursued as far as their strength enabled them to run.'Between 58 and 50 BC ...
Edited with a facing-page English translation from the Latin text by: Chibnall, Marjorie;
Books VI - X of Livy's monumental History of Rome
Books VI-X of Livy's monumental work trace Rome's fortunes from its near collapse ...
Geraldus de Barri, called Cambrensis from Cambris (Wales), the country of his birth, was a member of one of the leading Norman families involved in ...