Ancient history

This full-scale sequential reading of Thucydides' history of the Peloponnesian War will be invaluable to the specialist and also to those in search of an introduction and companion to the Histories.

Nearly all of us have studied poetry and been taught to look for the symbolic as well as literal meaning of the text.

This book offers a groundbreaking exploration of Galileo Galilei's engagement with the Almagest, Claudius Ptolemy's second-century scientific work on the motions of stars and planetary paths.

As a young boy Atilus Cindras had been taken from Britain to Rome as a slave, and trained in the gruesome arts of the gladiators.

A "e;vivid, absorbing, and chilling"e; true-life account of surviving nearly a year of captivity in Iraq (Lesley Stahl, 60 Minutes correspondent).

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India's history and culture is ancient and dynamic, spanning back to the beginning of human civilization.

Atlantis, the Great Flood and the Asteroid examines the evidence for an asteroid impact in early human prehistory which interrupted the progression of human development.

Theories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes investigates issues of the ontological status and perception of colours, such as: What is the nature of colours?

The 1830s forced removal of Cherokees from their southeastern homeland became the most famous event in the Indian history of the American South, an episode taken to exemplify a broader experience of injustice suffered by Native peoples.

"e;Lucid and lyricala vivid history of Japan's turbocharged (and painful) modernization.

The agricultural world of Old Testament Israel swarmed with animals-birds, insects, fish, pack animals, pets, animals for hunting, and domesticated herds of sheep, goats, and cattle.

This book is geared toward all ages and gives step-by-step instructions on scores of crafts and outdoor skills cultivated by various Native American tribes over the centuries.

The Pequot Indian intellectual, author, and itinerant preacher William Apess (17981839) was one the most important voices of the nineteenth century.

In 1855 in the South Puget Sound, war broke out between Washington settlers and Nisqually Indians.

In The Lives in Objects, Jessica Yirush Stern presents a thoroughly researched and engaging study of the deerskin trade in the colonial Southeast, equally attentive to British American and Southeastern Indian cultures of production, distribution, and consumption.

Constantine and the Council of Nicaea plunges students into the theological debates confronting early Christian church leaders.

African American and American Indian artist Richard Mayhew was a pivotal member of the movement, headed by Romare Bearden, of the most important black artists of the Abstract Expressionist era.

The Battle of the Little Big Horn was the decisive engagement of the Great Sioux War of 1876-1877.

This book, one of the first ever written on its subject, focuses on Russian America and American Alaska and their impact on the native population.

This book presents a comprehensive history of the seven Apache tribes, tracing them from their genetic origins in Asia and their migration through the continent to the Southwest.

With the arrival of Europeans in North America, the Cherokee were profoundly affected.

This book offers a concise survey of Western Civilization from the Stone Age through the fall of the last Western Roman Emperor in AD 476.

This is a thorough historiographic review of the Battle of Marathon.

This volume is a collection of papers originally delivered by an international group of researchers at a conference organized in April 2000 by Dr.

This book examines the writings of four ancient Greeks-Homer, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aristophanes.

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Since the earliest days of America, racist imagery has been used to create harmful stereotypes of the indigenous people.

Ajax, the archetypal Greek warrior, has over the years been trivialized as a peripheral character in the classics through Hollywood representations, and by the use of his name on household cleaning products.

The battle that unfolded at the Little Big Horn River on June 25, 1876, marked a watershed in the history of the Plains Indians.

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Since the arrival of European settlers, Native American cultural sovereignty has been under attack.

The story of the Apsaalooke (Crow) men who scouted for the Seventh United States Cavalry in 1876 has been told by historians, with details sometimes distorted or fabricated.

The Hellenistic Period (323-31 BCE) saw the Grecian phalanx--long dominant in Mediterranean warfare--challenged by legionary formations from the rising city-state of Rome.

This book is an exploration of the spiritual traditions of ancient Europe, focusing on the numinous presence of the divine feminine in Russia, Central Europe, France, Britain, Ireland and the northern regions.

Major Marcus Reno's actions at the Battle of Little Big Horn have been both criticized and lauded, often without in-depth analysis.

This book provides original essays that suggest ways to engage students in the classroom with the cultural factors of American literature.

Contrary to a prevalent belief of the Western world, that democracy, agriculture, theater and the arts were the attainments of Classical Greek civilization, these were actually a Bronze Age fusion of earlier European concepts and Hellenic ingenuity.

Traditional scholarship on how ancient civilizations emerged is outmoded and new insights call for revision.

Drawing on more than 22 years' research, this book presents an exhaustive chronology of the Great Sioux Campaign in three parts: the U.

Retelling 30 myths and legends of the Eastern Cherokee, this book presents the stories with important details providing a culturally authentic and historically accurate context.

In this captivating Western novel, a wagon train scout runs afoul of a band of Apaches, who are determined to hunt him down, no matter the cost.

This is the first extensive examination of the life of Ken Sumrall and his firm belief in the modern-day apostolic restoration movement.

On August 23, 1877, a scout named Jack Bean watched 600 Nez Perce Indians head into the new Yellowstone National Park.

A book of brief essays, illustrative art, and photography from often obscure historical and ethnological studies of Apache history, life, and culture in the last half of the nineteenth century.

**2022 Will Rogers Medallion Award Silver Winner for Western Biographies and Memoirs**Two Native American leaders who left a lasting legacy, Geronimo and Sitting Bull.

In 1861, war between the United States and the Chiricahua seemed inevitable.

A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance.

Judith tells the story of a beautiful Jewish woman who enters the tent of an invading general, gets him drunk, and then slices off his head, thus saving her village and Jerusalem.

A history of the Greek resistance in the Second World War discusses one of the most troubled and fascinating aspects of modern Greek and European history: the anti-axis resistance.