This volume in the ‘Schlager Anthologies’ series offers an essential starting point for historical research. It covers nearly 100 primary documents from the Ancient World, taking a global perspective that includes Egypt and Early Africa, the Hittite Empire in Anatolia, the Ancient Near East (Mesopotamia, Sumer, Assyria and Levant), Persia, India, East Asia (China and Japan), Archaic and Early Classical Greece, Late Classical and Hellenistic Greece, the Roman Republic, and the Roman Empire. The volume is organized into broad subject areas, each accompanied by a helpful introductory article and detailed list of Further Reading sources. The entries within each area include the primary document, an Overview section, and Questions for Further Study.
About the author
Eric Cunningham is a Professor of History at Gonzaga University. His research interests include Japanese intellectual history, Zen Buddhism, Anthroposophy, religion, psychedelia, and postmodernism. He is the author of Hallucinating the End of History: Nishida, Zen, and the Psychedelic Eschaton (Academica Press, 2007), and Zen Past and Present (Association for American Studies, 2011). Cunningham lectures and writes on a wide range of topics, including Japanese history, film, Anthroposophy, and spirituality in the age of digital information.
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