Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times
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Food at Sea: Shipboard Cuisine from Ancient to Modern Times traces the preservation, preparation,...
The Horse in the Ancient World: From Bucephalus to the Hippodrome
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The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind's future....
Treasures of the Brooklyn Museum
Anne Pasternak and Kevin L. Stayton
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Located in the heart of King's County, the Brooklyn Museum is an anchor of New York City and a world...
Daoism and Anarchism: Critiques of State Autonomy in Ancient and Modern China
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This volume in the Contemporary Anarchist Studies series focuses on anti-statist critiques in...
The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History
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In 2008 for the first time the majority of the planet's inhabitants lived in cities and towns....
The Roman Garden: Space, Sense, and Society
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This innovative book is the first comprehensive study of ancient Roman gardens to combine literary...
Fragments
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Fragments of wisdom from the ancient world In the sixth century b.c.-twenty-five hundred years...
China's Transition to Modernity: The New Classical Vision of Dai Zhen
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The figure of Dai Zhen (17241777) looms large in modern Chinese intellectual history. Dai was a...
The Undelivered Mardle
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The morning on which John Rogers was due to deliver his 'mardle' (a talk of local interest) to the...
Cleopatra
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Cleopatra's palace shimmered with onyx and gold but was richer still in political and sexual...