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Overview of US-American History from Colonization to the First World War.

A sweeping, revisionist history of the Roman Empire from one of our foremost classicists.

A reexamination of the most extraordinary of ancient ceremonies, this book explores the magnificence of the Roman Triumph-but also its darker side, as it prompted the Romans to question as well as celebrate military glory. This...

Conducts readers through the storied past and towering presence of the most famous building in the world. This title includes the story of a museum opened in 2009 to display the sculptures from the building that remain in Greece...

We still live in the shadow of Ancient Rome a city at the heart of a vast Empire that stretched from Scotland to Afghanistan, dominating the West for over 700 years. In this series, Professor Mary...

Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using...

Mary Beard's famous blog 'A Don's Life' has been running on the TLS website for nearly five years. Through it she made her name as a wickedly subversive commentator on the world in which we live.