Fritz Graf 
Roman Festivals in the Greek East [EPUB ebook] 
From the Early Empire to the Middle Byzantine Era

Based on a three-year ethnographic study of a steadily growing suburban Muslim immigrant congregation in Midwest America, this book examines the micro-processes through which a group of Muslim immigr …

Critically examines the usefulness of the ”household; concept within the historically and culturally diverse context of Indonesia, exploring in detail the position of women within and beyond domesti …

The history of the present King of Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all having in direct object the establishment of an absolute tyranny over these states. (from The D …

The ‘forgotten offensive’ of the title is RAF Coastal Command”s offensive against German sea-trade between 1940 and 1945. The fortunes of the campaign are followed throughout the war, and its succes …

This impressive study of the life of William Pitt, Earl of Chatham, was first published in 1913 when it achieved instant recognition as a brilliant appraisal of Pitt”s career. It is a book with many …

Why did the US make a commitment to an independent South Vietnam? Could a major war have been averted? Fredrik Logevall provides a concise, comprehensive and accessible introduction to the origins of …

The Grand Tour has become a subject of major interest to scholars and general readers interested in exploring the historic connections between nations and their intellectual and artistic production. …

This book examines how the British people came to terms with the massive trauma of the First World War. Although the literary memory of the war has often been discussed, little has been written on th …

In this new paperback edition of Early Civilizations of the Old World, Charles Keith Maisels traces the development of some of the earliest and key civilizations in history. In each case the ecologic …

Beginning in China in the search for the secret of immortality, and appearing independently in Egypt as an attempt to produce gold through the arts of smelting and alloying metals, alchemy received a …