Archaeology

This book offers a global perspective on the role food has played in shaping human societies and identities.

This book explains how Baroque antiquarians distorted images of Roman monuments and sacrificed archaeological truth to accommodate popes and princes.

A detailed consideration of the ways in which human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic of northern Europe.

A new examination of the many contradictions of contemporary China, a society at once capitalist and socialist, free and authoritarian.

A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia''s ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

A detailed consideration of the ways in which human-environment relations altered with the beginnings of agriculture in the Neolithic of northern Europe.

A new examination of the many contradictions of contemporary China, a society at once capitalist and socialist, free and authoritarian.

A social history of cosmopolitanism in Southeast Asia''s ethnically diverse port cities, seen within the global context of the interwar era.

A new reading of the portrayal of Greek myths in Roman art, revealing important shifts in Roman values and identities.

This book offers a new, theoretically informed framework for the interpretation of ancient visual culture.

An archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the years after the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.

An archaeological and historical study of Mexico City and Xaltocan, focusing on the years after the 1521 Spanish conquest of the Aztecs.

This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history.

This book offers approaches to the study of Byzantine dress of elites and non-elites, in sacred and secular modes, from the beginning of the Empire in the fourth century until the fifteenth century.

This is the first urban history of Rome to span its entire three-thousand-year history.

A major new account of the Battle of Jutland based on contemporary sources, examining the influence of technology, tactics and leadership.

A major new account of the Battle of Jutland based on contemporary sources, examining the influence of technology, tactics and leadership.

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

A comprehensive history of martial law, outlining how it was a vital component of England''s domestic and imperial legal order.

The first discussion of Aztec economy to include cross-cultural comparisons with other ancient and premodern societies around the world.

A comprehensive history of martial law, outlining how it was a vital component of England''s domestic and imperial legal order.

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam''s many identities through both archaeological and written evidence.

This book examines the formation and transformation of Elam''s many identities through both archaeological and written evidence.

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE.

A ground-breaking account of popular protest in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.

This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

Major account of the fourteenth-century crisis which saw a series of famines, revolts and epidemics transform the medieval world.

This book provides a benchmark study of southern African landscape evolution during the Quaternary, for researchers, professionals and policymakers.

The first economic history of ancient Egypt employing a New Institutional Economics approach and covering the entire pharaonic period, 3000–30 BCE.

A ground-breaking account of popular protest in the Middle East and North Africa from the eighteenth century to the present.

Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

Compares ancient Southwest Arabia with the American West to illustrate revealing similarities and contrasts surrounding water usage.

An authoritative synthesis of early medieval British and Irish coinage, supported by the catalogue of a world-class collection.

An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.

This book offers a new narrative of the great ancient city Antioch''s origins, growth, and significance.

An introduction to medievalism offering a balance of accessibility and sophistication, with comprehensive overviews as well as detailed case studies.

This book offers a new narrative of the great ancient city Antioch''s origins, growth, and significance.

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

This book recounts the transformation of American poor relief in the decades spanning the New Deal and the War on Poverty.

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

This book contributes to a new economic history of late antiquity, with tightly argued, stimulating studies of class, money and exchange.

The use of natural mineral and synthetic blue pigments in antiquity for wall paintings and illuminated manuscript historiation evolved into the most suitable blue pigments for the decoration of glazed and enamelled wares (ceramics, glass and metal)  which required a stability at the high temperatures of the kilns used for glazing and firing.

This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.

This book examines how Cuba''s revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth century.

This volume unpacks the long history and varied meanings of the emancipation of American slaves.

This book examines how Cuba''s revolutions of 1933 and 1959 became touchstones for border-crossing endeavors of radical politics and cultural experimentation over the mid-twentieth century.

Using multinational sources, the book explores how Latin American leaders influenced US policy in the context of asymmetrical power relations.