The Economy of the Roman World
David Potter, Jean Andreau, Corina Kesler and Ellen Bauerle
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The ancient economy has long been a hotly debated topic. Did citizens of the ancient world...
The Making of an Economic Superpower: Unlocking China's Secret of Rapid Industrialization
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The rise of China is no doubt one of the most important events in world economic history since the...
Uzbek: An Intermediate Textbook
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Designed to help adult professional and higher education learners deepen their understanding of the...
Anger, Mercy, Revenge
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Robert A. Kaster and Martha C. Nussbaum
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Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 BCE - 65 CE) was a Roman Stoic philosopher, dramatist, statesman, and...
Ctesias' Persica in its Near Eastern Context
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The Persica is an extensive history of Assyria and Persia written by the Greek historian Ctesias,...
Ficino in Spain
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As the first translator of Plato's complete works into Latin, the Florentine writer Marsilio Ficino...
Petrarch: Everywhere a Wanderer
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Born in Tuscany in 1304, Italian poet Francesco Petrarca is widely considered one of the fathers of...
Son of Classics and Comics
C.W. Marshall and George Kovacs
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Wonder Woman, Amazon Princess; Asterix, indefatigable Gaul; Ozymandias, like Alexander looking for...
The Old English Poems of Cynewulf
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The Old English poems attributed to Cynewulf, who flourished some time between the eighth and tenth...
The Psalms and Medieval English Literature: From the Conversion to the Reformation
Tamara Atkin and Francis Leneghan
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The Book of Psalms had a profound impact on English literature from the Anglo-Saxon to the late...