In 1935, with a doctorate in art history and no prospect of a job, the 26-year-old Ernst Gombrich was invited to attempt a history...
More than a million Britons emigrated to Australia between the 1940s and 1970s. They were the famous ‘ten pound Poms’ and this...
E. H. Gombrich's Little History of the World, though written in 1935, has become one of the treasures of historical writing since...
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that...
The Cold War and the New Imperialism is an account of global history since 1945, which brings massive changes in global politics,...
''A splendid collection of source materials, documentary and epigraphic as well as literary.''—Oxford History of the Classical...
This long-awaited new edition of Lattimore's Iliad is designed to bring the book into the twenty-first century—while leaving the...
This revised translation of Fritz Graf's highly acclaimed introduction to Greek mythology offers a chronological account of the...
A spirited and thought-provoking history of the vast changes that transformed Europe during the 1,000-year span of the Middle...
When it was first published last year, Harvey Mansfield and Delba Winthrop's new translation of Democracy in America was lauded...
For curious readers young and old, a rich and colorful history of religion from humanity’s earliest days to our own contentious...
The plague outbreak of 1636 in Newcastle-upon-Tyne was one of the most devastating in English history. This hugely moving study...
The houses of history is a clear, jargon-free introduction to the major theoretical approaches employed by historians. This innovative...
William R. Biers wrote The Archaeology of Greece to introduce students, teachers, and lay readers to the delights of exploring...
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