Thonemann, Peter (associate Professor in Ancient History, University of Oxford)

The three centuries which followed the conquests of Alexander are perhaps the most thrilling of all periods of ancient history. This was an age of cu

The word is nearly ubiquitous: at the grocery store we shop for "sustainable foods" that were produced from "sustainable agriculture"; groups ranging

The corpus of Greek lyric holds a twofold attraction. It provides glimpses of the song culture of early Greece in which lyric performance had a centra

The City: A World History tells the story of the rise and development of urban centers from ancient times to the twenty-first century. It begins with

There were tens of thousands of different local law-courts in late-medieval England, providing the most common forums for the working out of disputes

This Very Short Introduction provides an analytical narrative of the main events and developments in Soviet Russia between 1917 and 1936. It examines

In November 1519, Hernando Cortes walked along a causeway leading to the capital of the Aztec kingdom and came face to face with Moctezuma. That story

The later twelfth and thirteenth centuries were a pivotal period for the development of European government and governance. A mentality emerged that t

Diaspora: A Very Short Introduction examines the origins of diaspora as a concept, its changing meanings over time, its current popularity, and its ut

How women increasingly became economic agents in early modern Europe is the focus of this stimulating book, which highlights how female agency was cru

A timely overview of populism, one of the most contested concepts in political journalism and the social sciences.

Tracing the rich story of Bulgaria from pre-history to the political upheavals of the twentieth century. This edition includes the years from 1995 to

For thousands of years bloodlines have been held as virtually unassailable credentials for leadership, with supreme political power perceived as a fam

In Figuring Racism in Medieval Christianity, M. Lindsay Kaplan expands the study of the history of racism through an analysis of the Christian concept

In Demons, Virginia Berridge explores the factors that have affected social attitudes to tobacco, alcohol, and a variety of drugs, through history. Ge

Histories you can trust. In 14 original essays, The Oxford History of the Book reveals the history of books in all their various forms, from the an

Late antiquity: decline or transformation, conflict or interaction? Late antiquity is the period (c.300 - c.800) in which barbarian invasions ended

Emperors and Ancestors analyses the different ways in which imperial lineage was represented, looking at the various 'media' through which images of e

This is the first-ever historical analysis of the origins and development of the legend of Remus and Romulus and the foundation of Rome, offering impo

In the decade after 1945, as the Cold War freeze set in, a new Europe slowly began to emerge from the ruins of the Second World War, based on a broad