Ancient history

In Australia, a tribe of white, middle-class, progressive professionals is actively working to improve the lives of Indigenous people.

The 1970s saw the Aboriginal people of Australia struggle for recognition of their postcolonial rights.

In an age of heightened awareness of the threat that western industrialized societies pose to the environment, hunters and gatherers attract particularly strong interest because they occupy the ecological niches that are constantly eroded.

Research on Indigenous participation in sport offers many opportunities to better understand the political issues of equality, empowerment, self-determination and protection of culture and identity.

"e;Warrior Women"e; makes visible the ongoing intergenerational narrative reverberations (Young, 2003; 2005) shaped through Canada's residential school era which denied the communal and cultural, economic, educational, human, familial, linguistic, and spiritual rights of Aboriginal people.

'An erudite and fascinating work' Jan Morris, New York Times'An artful combination of history, archaeology and the imagination' Mary Beard, New York Review of Books'Riley manages to bring multi-faceted, polygot and multi-cultural Roman Britain to vibrant life for specialists and generalists' Country LifeIt is AD 130.

Otto Hofler (1901-1987) was an Austrian Germanist and Scandinavist.

An "e;extraordinary"e; account of the wars conducted by and against the Maccabean family of rulers in Palestine in the second and first centuries BC (Midwest Book Review).

In Florence cathedral hangs a remarkable portrait by Uccello of Sir John Hawkwood, the English soldier of fortune who commanded the Florentine army at the age of 70 and earned a formidable reputation as one of the foremost mercenaries of the late middle ages.

The story of how two eruptions of Thera led to the birth to the god of Judaism, Islam and Christianity.

In the years between 31 BC and AD 500 the Romans carved out a mighty empire stretching from Britain to the deserts of North Africa.

The Emperors of Rome charts the rise and fall of the Roman Empire through profiles of the greatest and most notorious of the emperors, from the autocratic Augustus to the feeble Claudius, the vicious Nero to the beneficent Marcus Aurelius, through to the maniac Commodus and beyond.

Discover the engrossing story of Ancient Egypt's longest-reigning female pharaoh and her audacious rise to power in a man's world ';Hatshepsut's story provides all the ingredients required of a modern bestseller well-researched hugely enjoyable.

A fresh look at the origins and development of Islam, this is a fascinating reconstruction of the era of the first three generations of Muslims.

No other political entity has shaped the modern world like the Roman Empire.

Widely revered as the father of Western literature, Homer was the author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, the epic poems which immortalised such names as Achilles, Cyclops, Menelaus, and Helen of Troy.

Mysterious Scotland presents an extraordinary array of the weird and wonderful heritage of the country.

Conozca la civilización que dominó el mediterráneo durante la Edad del Bronce, creando rutas comerciales desde oriente hasta la Península Ibérica.

First Published in 1985, the aim of this book is to define an aspect of Orwell's literary identity which underlies and informs the sociopolitical content of his novels, and which may account for his being 'more widely read' than perhaps any other serious writer in the twentieth century.

The history of Ancient Rome has been passed down to us through official accounts, personal letters, annotated words of great orators and the considered histories of powerful men.

How an ancient rubbish dump has given us a unique view of life 2,000 years agoIn 1897 two Oxford archaeologists began digging a mound south of Cairo.

A visceral history of Pompeii - the living city brought back to life.

The struggle between Rome and Carthage in the Punic Wars was arguably the greatest and most desperate conflict of antiquity.

In describing the triangular relationship among the Jews, the Romans and the Greeks, Michael Grant treats one of the most significant themes in world history.

A study of one of the ancient world's most fascinating figures.

Myths of the Greeks and Romans is an essential guide to ancient literatureThe myths told by the Greeks and Romans are as important as their history for our understanding of what they believed, thought and felt, and of what they expressed in writing and visual art.

The story of the Athenian Golden Age by one of the world's pre-eminent classical historians.

The definitve guide to the history of ancient Israel.

The definitive study of Rome by one of the 20th century's finest ancient historians.

A fascinating and detailed guide to ancient Greece.

An informative and accessible guide to the Roman world.

For four centuries Britain was an integral part of the Roman Empire, a political system stretching from Turkey to Portugal and from the Red Sea to the Tyne and beyond.

Here in one book are the four classic accounts of the trial and death of Socrates.

This book investigates the complex reception of Terence in Ovid and a number of allusions to the Terentian comedies in the love elegies and the exilic elegiac epistle Tristia 2.

Splendid and important.

Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community.

Leaside is a most comprehensive look at the people, significant events and built heritage, all of which contributed to the creation of this distinctive community.

This study of Constantinople's monasteries within their urban framework during the last decades of Byzantium (1394-1453) explores the activity of monks, nuns, and affiliated laypeople such as patrons just before the city's Ottoman conquest and transformation into the capital of an Islamic Empire.

NORSE MYTHOLOGYThis book serves as a comprehensive guide to Norse Mythology.

GREEK MYTHOLOGYGreek mythology can be identified as the body of myths that were initially shared by the ancient Greeks in an era of folklore; the tales told at this time often revolve themselves around the origin and the very structure of our world, the adventures and tribulations of heroes, gods, and mythological beings, and are the initial focal point of a lot of ancient Greece's rituals and religious practices.

CELTIC MYTHOLOGY?

EGYPTIAN MYTHOLOGYAncient pyramids.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY?

GREEK MYTHOLOGYFor centuries, humankind has looked to legends and myths to make sense of the world.

GREEK MYTHOLOGYStories of Ancient Greece have survived thousands of years, and are known all over the world.

GREEK MYTHOLOGY Stories from Ancient Greece have been passed down for thousands of centuries, and have been the inspiration for many books, movies, and television shows that we enjoy today.