The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his period, taking on numerous topics including poetic and sexual rivalry, visual art, violence, inability to control the elusive mistress, imperialism, colonialism, civil war, the radical new shape of the Roman state under the new monarch Augustus, and more.
The elegiac poet Propertius responds in his verse to the complex changes that Rome underwent in his period, taking on numerous topics including poetic and sexual rivalry, visual art, violence, inability to control the elusive mistress, imperialism, colonialism, civil war, the radical new shape of the Roman state under the new monarch Augustus, and more.
Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished.
Declamations were composed and orally delivered in the Roman Empire by sophists, or teachers of rhetoric, of whom the Greek-speaking Libanius was one of the most distinguished.
Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
How do we explain the persistent preoccupation with American Indians in Germany and the staggering numbers of Germans one encounters as visitors to Indian country?
Lutheran preacher and theologian Andreas Osiander (1498-1552) played a critical role in spreading the Lutheran Reformation in sixteenth-century Nuremberg.
The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America traces the reception and influence of Cato from his suicide at the fall of the Roman Republic to the twenty-first century.
At midcentury, two distinct Polish immigrant groups-those Polish Americans who were descendants of economic immigrants from the turn of the twentieth century and the Polish political refugees who chose exile after World War II and the communist takeover in Poland-faced an uneasy challenge to reconcile their concepts of responsibility toward the homeland.
The literature describing social conditions during the post-World War II Allied occupation of Germany has been divided between seemingly irreconcilable assertions of prolonged criminal chaos and narratives of strict martial rule that precluded crime.
Offering a window into the history of the modern legal profession in Western Europe, Stephen Jacobson presents a history of lawyers in the most industrialized city on the Mediterranean.
In this concise history of expropriation of land for the common good in Europe and North America from medieval times to 1800, Susan Reynolds contextualizes the history of an important legal doctrine regarding the relationship between government and the institution of private property.
The first study based on a large national sample of both urban and rural districts examines the Nazi constituency how it was formed, from which social groups, under what conditions, and with what promises.
In 1942, Bill Manbo (19081992) and his family were forced from their Hollywood home into the Japanese American internment camp at Heart Mountain in Wyoming.
Sunday Times Bestselling author Will Iredale tells the stirring heroic story of the ragtag fisherman fighting the Nazis to save Britain, for fans of James Holland, Max Hastings and Damien Lewis'SUPERB' James Holland'EXCITING AND IMPORTANT' Dan Snow'REVELATORY AND THRILLING' Saul David'THIS IS HISTORY AT FULL THROTTLE' Guy WaltersJust after midnight on Saturday, 2 September 1939, a German U-boat quietly slipped out of its berth and into the North Sea.
Is there a resemblance between the contemporary anorexic teenager counting every calorie in her single-minded pursuit of thinness, and an ascetic medieval saint examining her every desire?
Focusing on North Mull - north of Glen More, but excluding Craignure, Torosay and Brolas - this book is an anthology of the tales and traditions of Mull in the words of those who tell them.
In this study of voluntary charities in eighteenth-century London, Donna Andrew reconsiders the adequacy of humanitarianism as an explanation for the wave of charitable theorizing and experimentation that characterized this period.
The Lives of Cato the Younger from Ancient Rome to Modern America traces the reception and influence of Cato from his suicide at the fall of the Roman Republic to the twenty-first century.
The story of Roman Hellenism-defined as the imitation or adoption of something Greek by those subject to or operating under Roman power-begins not with Roman incursions into the Greek mainland, but in Italy, where our most plentiful and spectacular surviving evidence is concentrated.
For poets, priests, and politicians and especially ordinary Germans in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, the image of the loving nuclear family gathered around the Christmas tree symbolized the unity of the nation at large.
The history of Union Ireland is typically told through its best-known historical events and leaders - from the 1798 Rising, the Great Famine, and the Irish Revolution, to Parnell and De Valera -- and as moments of sectarian division and high parliamentary politics.
This is the first published study in English of Russian trade and commercial relations with China from the Treaty of Kiakhta (1727) to the early nineteenth century.
During World War II, as the United States called on its citizens to serve in unprecedented numbers, the presence of gay Americans in the armed forces increasingly conflicted with the expanding antihomosexual policies and procedures of the military.
For the 380,000 African American soldiers who fought in World War I, Woodrow Wilsons charge to make the world safe for democracy carried life-or-death meaning.
In this widely praised book, Vladislav Zubok argues that Western interpretations of the Cold War have erred by exaggerating either the Kremlins pragmatism or its aggressiveness.
Historians of the Cold War, argues William Hitchcock, have toooften overlooked the part that European nations played in shapingthe postWorld War II international system.
James Donovan takes a comprehensive approach to the history of the jury in modern France by investigating the legal, political, sociocultural, and intellectual aspects of jury trial from the Revolution through the twentieth century.
Historians have long asserted that during and after the Hannibalic War, the Roman Republics need to conscript men for long-term military service helped bring about the demise of Italys small farms and that the misery of impoverished citizens then became fuel for the social and political conflagrations of the late republic.
Robert Palmers pathbreaking study shows how the Black Death triggered massive changes in both governance and law in fourteenth-century England, establishing the mechanisms by which the law adapted to social needs for centuries thereafter.
In this classic analysis and refutation of Eric Williamss 1944 thesis, Seymour Drescher argues that Britains abolition of the slave trade in 1807 resulted not from the diminishing value of slavery for Great Britain but instead from the British publics mobilization against the slave trade, which forced London to commit what Drescher terms econocide.
It is generally accepted that Roman administrators, arriving in Egypt in the aftermath of Augustus' annexation of the province, confiscated en masse the land and other property belonging to the temples of Egypt-estimated at as much as one-third of the country.
Being Single in Georgian England is the first book-length exploration of what family life looked like, and how it was experienced, when viewed from the perspective of unmarried and childless family members.
This book explores the resilience of the Spanish Monarchy by uncovering the practices that sustained Philip IV's monarchy as a major diplomatic power between 1648 and 1660.
First published in 1984, Dinosaur & Co captures a critical moment in British economic history, when the nation was widely regarded as caught in a chronic process of decline, known as de-industrialisation'.
