Christopher Gill & Tim Whitmarsh 
Galen and the World of Knowledge [EPUB ebook] 

Originally published in 1939, this book examined how to finance the war, including chapters on the methods of industrial mobilisation and government borrowing and the growth of money income. During t …

On August 10, 1632, five leading Jesuits convened in a sombre Roman palazzo to pass judgment on a simple idea: that a continuous line is composed of distinct and limitlessly tiny parts. The doctrine …

This new edition of Byzantium and the Crusades provides a fully-revised and updated version of Jonathan Harris”s landmark text in the field of Byzantine and crusader history. The book offers a chron …

Idle Hands is the first major social history of unemployment in Britain covering the last 200 years. It focuses on the experiences of working people in becoming unemployed, coping with unemployment a …

As history”s first democracy, classical Athens invited political discourse. The Athenians, however could not completely separate the politicals from the private sphere; indeed father-son conflict, f …

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, such songs as ‘We Shall Overcome, ‘ ‘Keep Your Eyes on the Prize, ‘ and ‘Do What the Spirit Says Do’ were sung at virtually every mass meeting, demonstration, and p …

In the early twentieth century, the new technology of flight changed warfare irrevocably, not only on the battlefield, but also on the home front. As prophesied before 1914, Britain in the First Worl …

Providing a model of how to ”do” biblical theology, this book also explores important emerging trends over the last five years including: reception-history as a means to grasping the theology of th …

While pre-modern Europe is often seen as having an ”enchanted” or ”magical” worldview, the full implications of such labels remain inconsistently explored. Witchcraft, demonology, and debates ove …