W.W. Norton & Company, 2007. — 896 p. — ISBN: 978-0-393-05974-8. 13 illustrations, 80 maps. This is the first volume in a bold new series that tells the stories of all peoples, connecting historical events from Europe to the Middle East to the far coast of China, while still giving weight to the characteristics of each country. Susan Wise Bauer provides both sweeping scope and...
М.: Альфа-книга, 2012. — 947 с.: ил. — ISBN: 978-5-9922-1300-3. В один том полностью вошла знаменитая "Древняя история" в пяти частях немецкого историка Карла Фридриха Беккера ( 1777-1806). Книга охватывает огромный временной период от зарождения цивилизации до Х века нашей эры. Автор в живой и увлекательной манере, лишенной академической сухости создает грандиозную панораму...
Windgather Press, 2016. — 304 p., 150 ill. A beautifully illustrated book tracing the beginning of gardening and garden history, from Ancient Egypt and Mesopotamia, to the Minoans and Mycenaeans, Greeks, Etruscans and Romans, through Byzantine, Islamic and Persian gardens right up to the Middle Ages. It shows how gardens in each period were designed and cultivated. Evidence for...
М.: АСТ: Астрель, 2011. — 996 с.: ил. — (Историческая библиотека). История Древнего мира - от самых ранних, научно документированных событий и до падения Римской империи. В этой книге Сьюзен Бауэр выдвигает и доказывает интереснейшую теорию взаимодействия и взаимопроникновения культур самых разных западных и восточных цивилизаций. Не просто сухие факты, но подробный и яркий...
Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2014. — 264 p. — ISBN: 978-0691140896. Winner of the 2014 Award for the Best Popular Book, American Schools of Oriental Research. One of The New York Post's Best Books of 2014. Honorable Mention for the 2015 PROSE Award in Archeology & Anthropology, Association of American Publishers. One of The Australian's Best Books of the Year in 2014,...
Thames & Hudson, 2014. — 240 p.— ISBN 9780500252048, 0500252041 An illuminating and evocatively illustrated tour of forty of the greatest cities that shaped the ancient world and its civilizations, from China and Mesoamerica to Europe and Ethiopia Today we take living in cities, with all their attractions and annoyances, for granted. But when did humans first come together to...
Pegasus Books, 2018. — 304 p. A deeply researched and sweeping history that redefines our understanding of the Amazons and their culture, tracking the ancient legend into the modern world and examining its significance today. Since the time of the ancient Greeks we have been fascinated by accounts of the Amazons, an elusive tribe of hard-fighting, horse-riding female warriors....
Oxford University Press, 1996. — 837 p. — ISBN10: 0198150032, 13 978-0198150039. Long sources of mystery, imagination, and inspiration, the myths and history of the ancient Mediterranean have given rise to artistic, religious, cultural, and intellectual traditions that span the centuries. In this unique and comprehensive introduction to the region's three major civilizations,...
Thames & Hudson, 2020. — 288 p. The ancient world saw the birth and collapse of great civilizations. In mainstream history the Classical world is dominated by Greece and Rome, and the Biblical world is centred on the Hebrews. Yet the roughly four-and-a-half thousand years (4000 bc ad 550) covered in this book saw many peoples come and go within the brawling, multi-cultural mass...
Пер. с англ. В. Гончарова, Н. Тартаковской. — Москва: АСТ, 2014. — 988, [4] с. — (Страницы истории). — ISBN 978-5-17-085809-5. История Древнего мира — от самых ранних, научно документированных событий и до падения Римской империи. В этой книге Сьюзен Бауэр выдвигает и доказывает интереснейшую теорию взаимодействия и взаимопроникновения культур самых разных западных и восточных...
Cambridge University Press, 2015. — 700 p. "The Cambridge Prehistory of the Bronze and Iron Age Mediterranean" offers new insights into the material and social practices of many different Mediterranean peoples during the Bronze and Iron Ages, presenting in particular those features that both connect and distinguish them. Contributors discuss in depth a range of topics that...
Thames & Hudson Ltd., 2013. — 672 p. The Mediterranean has been for millennia one of the global cockpits of human endeavor. World-class interpretations exist of its Classical and subsequent history, but there has been remarkably little holistic exploration of how its societies, culture and economies first came into being, despite the fact that almost all the fundamental...
Bantam Press, 2019. — 336 p. — ISBN: 978-1-787632-05-9. 'Man does for the reader that most difficult of tasks: he conjures up an ancient people in an alien landscape in such a way as to make them live.' Guardian. The people of the first nomadic empire left no written records, but from 200 BC they dominated the heart of Asia for 400 years. They changed the world. The Mongols,...
Пер. с англ. А.Б. Давыдовой. — М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 191 с. — (Загадки Древнего Египта) — ISBN: 978-5-9524-4997-8. Известный английский востоковед и археолог, сотрудник Британского музея в течение многих лет Уоллис Бадж всю свою жизнь посвятил изучению Древнего Египта, о чем свидетельствуют около ста тридцати написанных им исследовательских работ. В этой книге Бадж...
Fourteenth Edition. — Routledge, 2016. — 560 p. — ISBN: 978-0-205-96655-4. Understand major developments of human prehistory People of the Earth: An Introduction to World Prehistory 14/e, provides an exciting journey though the 7-million-year-old panorama of humankind's past. This internationally renowned text provides the only truly global account of human prehistory from the...
Учебное издание. — М.: Просвещение, 1997. — 320 с.: ил. — (Учебники дореволюционной России по истории). — ISBN 5-09-007031-8. Перед вами "Учебная книга древней истории" известного ученого, профессора Варшавского, а затем Петербургского университета, члена-корреспондента Краковской и Российской Академий наук, почетного члена АН СССР Н.И. Кареева. Авторский текст напечатан по...
М.: Центрполиграф, 2012. — 384 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5000-4. Крупнейший специалист по древней истории профессор Гордон Чайлд в этой наиболее значительной своей работе предлагает оригинальную концепцию ранней истории человечества. Она основана на европейской точке зрения, согласно которой «главная традиция», оказавшая влияние на эллинистическое Средиземноморье, связана с Египтом...
Париж: Евразийское книгоиздательство. — 1928. — 106 с.; 4 л. карт. &Серия: Опыт истории Евразии,Вып.1) Сборник содержит две работы: "Скифы и гунны"Н. П. Толля и "О задачах кочевниковедения"П. Н. Савицкого В течение ряда веков по широким степям России-Евразии с востока на запад проходили один за другим кочевые народы, создавали громадные кочевые державы,'громили своих'оседлых...
Pen and Sword History, 2019. — 376 p. — ISBN-13 978-1526746757. Ancient Dynasties is a unique study of the ruling families of the ancient world known to the Greeks and Romans. The book is in two parts. The first offers analysis and discussion of various features of the ruling dynasties (including the leading families of republican Rome). It examines patterns, similarities and...
Windmill Books, 2017. — 432 p. — ISBN: 9781473506794. Acclaimed historian and TV presenter Michael Scott guides us through an epic story spanning ten centuries to create a bold new reading of the classical era for our globalised world. Scott challenges our traditionally western-focused perception of the past, connecting Greco-Roman civilisation to the great rulers and empires...
Dorling Kindersley Limited, 2023. — 202 р. — ISBN 978-0-7440-7726-1 Illustrated guide to where and how the first great civilizations lived, shown on maps. From the first cities of Sumer to the empire of the Incas, travel around the world and through 5,000 years of history to see where and how ancient peoples lived. What was it like to live in the crowded city of Rome? Why did...
I.B.Tauris, 2016. — 304 p. The domestication of the horse in the fourth millennium BC altered the course of mankind’s future. Formerly a source only of meat, horses now became the prime mode of fast transport as well as a versatile weapon of war. Carolyn Willekes traces the early history of the horse through a combination of equine iconography, literary representations, fieldwork...
М: Центрполиграф, 2017. — 320 с. — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5277-0. Известный американский ученый, специалист по античной истории, античному искусству и археологии, Честер Дж. Старр предлагает свою версию истории Древней Евразии от возникновения человечества до падения Римской империи. В своем исследовании автор не ограничивается историей Греции и Рима: учитывая ближневосточные истоки...
М.: Астрель, Транзиткнига, 2003. — 576 с. — (Классическая мысль). — ISBN 5-17-018173-6, 5-271-07249-5, 5-9578-0330-8. Что такое библейские страны? Согласно мнению большинства современных ученых, это так называемый Сиро-Палестинский регион, то есть пространство между Малой Азией и Египтом, Средиземным морем и Месопотамией. Временами к ним примыкали часть Верхней Месопотамии и...
Princeton University Press, 1995. — 264 p. The Bronze Age came to a close early in the twelfth century B.C. with one of the worst calamities in history: over a period of several decades, destruction descended upon key cities throughout the Eastern Mediterranean, bringing to an end the Levantine, Hittite, Trojan, and Mycenaean kingdoms and plunging some lands into a dark age that...
Oxford University Press, 2021. — 1232 p. The cultures of Nubia built the earliest cities, states, and empires of inner Africa, but they remain relatively poorly known outside their modern descendants and the community of archaeologists, historians, and art historians researching them. The earliest archaeological work in Nubia was motivated by the region's role as neighbor,...
Thames & Hudson, 2023. — 288 p. The ruins of ancient Athens, Luxor, and Rome are familiar cornerstones of world history, visited by travelers from across the globe. But what about the cities that have dropped off the map? That have been submerged under water, or swallowed up by the sands of time? Where are they, and what can they tell us about our past? In this compendium of...
Yale University Press, 2017. — 336 p. An account of all the new and surprising evidence now available for the beginnings of the earliest civilizations that contradict the standard narrative. Why did humans abandon hunting and gathering for sedentary communities dependent on livestock and cereal grains, and governed by precursors of today’s states? Most people believe that plant...
Laterza, 2021. — 248 p. Tra Oriente e Occidente sembra che sia sempre esistito un vero e proprio scontro di civiltà. Nel nostro immaginario, le guerre persiane per secoli hanno simboleggiato proprio questo: la lotta perenne tra il dispotismo orientale e la libertà dell'Occidente. Basti pensare ai 300 delle Termopili che resistono eroicamente all'invasione delle sterminate masse...
Lockwood Press, 2023. — 386 p. This volume offers a groundbreaking reassessment of the destructions that allegedly occurred at sites across the eastern Mediterranean at the end of the Late Bronze Age, and challenges the numerous grand theories that have been put forward to account for them. The author demonstrates that earthquakes, warfare, and destruction all played a much...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 256 p. Transcending ethnic, linguistic, and religious boundaries, early empires shaped thousands of years of world history. Yet despite the global prominence of empire, individual cases are often studied in isolation. This series seeks to change the terms of the debate by promoting cross-cultural, comparative, and transdisciplinary perspectives...
New York University Press, 2021. — 392 p. Ancient Taxation is a collection of studies that explores the extractive systems of eleven ancient states and societies from across the ancient world, ranging from Bronze Age China to Anglo-Saxon Britain. The contributors discuss the inherent challenges of taxation in predominantly agro-pastoral societies, including basic tax strategy...
Oxford University Press, 2010. — 216 p. Our attachment to ancient Mesopotamia (Iraq) and Egypt as the 'birthplace of civilization', where the foundations of our own societies were laid, is as strong today as it has ever been. When the Iraq Museum in Baghdad was looted in 2003, our newspapers proclaimed 'the death of history'. Yet the ancient Near East also remains a source of...
М.: Наука, 1970. — 204 с. На огромном археологическом материале прослеживается неуклонный рост производительных сил, приведших на рубеже IV и III тысячелетий до н. э. к началу выделения ремесла и расширения внутреннего обмена, что в свою очередь способствовало разложению первобытнообщинного строя и возникновению в Восточном Средиземноморье классового общества и государства....
With contribution by Marissa A. Stevens. — University of Washington Press, 2021. — 352 p. Although they existed more than a millennium apart, the great civilizations of New Kingdom Egypt (ca. 1548–1086 BCE) and Han dynasty China (206 BCE–220 CE) shared intriguing similarities. Both were centered around major, flood-prone rivers - the Nile and the Yellow River - and established...
Cambridge University Press, 2018. — 316 p. The Silk Roads are the symbol of the interconnectedness of ancient Eurasian civilizations. Using challenging land and maritime routes, merchants and adventurers, diplomats and missionaries, sailors and soldiers, and camels, horses and ships, carried their commodities, ideas, languages and pathogens enormous distances across Eurasia....
Bloomsbury Academic, 2020. — 328 p. This volume looks at how the issues of textiles and gender intertwine across three millennia in antiquity and examines continuities and differences across time and space - with surprising resonances for the modern world. The interplay of gender, identity, textile production and use is notable on many levels, from the question of who was...
Thames & Hudson, 2022. — 256 p. In this highly appealing collection, a distinguished team of internationally renowned scholars survey the great empires from 1600 BCE to 500 CE. In ten comprehensive chapters, from the ancient Mediterranean to China, these experts guide readers through the empires of New Kingdom Egypt, the Hittites, Assyria and Babylonia, Achaemenid Persia,...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2020. — 736 p. — (Blackwell Companions to the Ancient World). A Companion to Ancient Agriculture is an authoritative overview of the history and development of agriculture in the ancient world. Focusing primarily on the Near East and Mediterranean regions, this unique text explores the cultivation of the soil and rearing of animals through centuries of human...
New York: Walker Books, 2007. — 336 p. — ISBN10: 0802715567; ISBN13: 978-0802715562. Vicki Leon, the popular author of the Uppity Women series (more than 335,000 in print), has turned her impressive writing and research skills to the entertaining and unusual array of the peculiar jobs, prized careers and passionate pursuits of ancient Greece and Rome. From Architect to Vicarius...
Princeton University Press, 2016. — 824 p. This monumental book provides the first comprehensive history of Asia Minor from prehistory to the Roman imperial period. In this English-language edition of the critically acclaimed German book, Christian Marek masterfully employs ancient sources to illuminate civic institutions, urban and rural society, agriculture, trade and money,...
State University of New York Press, 2005. — 232 p. Enemies of Civilization is a work of comparative history and cultural consciousness that discusses how ''others'' were perceived in three ancient civilizations: Mesopotamia, Egypt, and China. Each civilization was the dominant culture in its part of the world, and each developed a mind-set that regarded itself as culturally...
Walter de Gruyter, 2019. — 1118 p. The modern history of Egypt and Sudan has radically intervened in the Nubian world several times and continues to do so to this day: After the great dam construction of the 20th century, new dam, construction and prospecting projects are also the reason for the 21st century enormous time pressure to explore large-scale Nubian terrain. As a...
Independently published, 2023. — 327 p. — ISBN 978-1-4051-8645-2. Certain foreign policy decisions led to continuing enmity between Carthage and the burgeoning power of Rome, and what followed was a series of wars which turned from a battle for Mediterranean hegemony into an all-out struggle for survival. Although the Romans gained the upper hand in the wake of the First Punic...
Yale University Press, 1991. — 352 p. For many centuries it was accepted that civilization began with the Greeks and Romans. During the last two hundred years, however, archaeological discoveries in Egypt, Mesopotamia, Crete, Syria, Anatolia, Iran, and the Indus Valley have revealed that rich cultures existed in these regions some two thousand years before the Greco-Roman era....
2nd Edition. — Inner Traditions, 2021. — 560 p. — ISBN 978-1-64411-293-9. Забытая цивилизация: новые открытия в темную эпоху, вызванную солнечными лучами In this newly revised and expanded edition, updated throughout with recent developments, geologist Robert Schoch builds upon his revolutionary theory that the origins of the Sphinx date back much further than 2500 BCE and...
Basic Books, 2016. — 448 p. Twenty-five-hundred years ago, civilizations around the world entered a revolutionary new era that overturned old order and laid the foundation for our world today. In the face of massive social changes across three continents, radical new forms of government emerged; mighty wars were fought over trade, religion, and ideology; and new faiths were...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 456 p. Mercury's Wings: Exploring Modes of Communication in the Ancient World is the first-ever volume of essays devoted to ancient communications. Comparable previous work has been mainly confined to articles on aspects of communication in the Roman empire. This set of 18 essays with an introduction by the co-editors marks a milestone, therefore,...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 756 p. Arising independently in various parts of the world, early civilizations--the first class-based societies in human history--are of importance to social scientists interested in the development of complexity, while their cultural productions fascinate both humanists and the general public. This book offers the first detailed comparative...
Routledge, 2017. — 298 p. Violence and community were intimately linked in the ancient world. While various aspects of violence have been long studied on their own (warfare, revolution, murder, theft, piracy), there has been little effort so far to study violence as a unified field and explore its role in community formation. This volume aims to construct such an agenda by...
С. С. Аверинцев, В. П. Алексеев, В. Г. Ардзинба и др. — М.: Мысль, 1989. — 478 с. — ISBN 5-244-00274-0. В файле отсутствуют иллюстрации из книги. В книге ведущих советских востоковедов и антиковедов повествуется о древних цивилизациях Египта и Месопотамии, Ирана и Средней Азии, Индии и Китая, Греции и Рима, Японии и Америки, об их материальном и духовном вкладе в сокровищницу...
М.: Наука, 1987. — 221 с. В книге рассматривается история древнего населения Северо-Восточой Европы со времен мезолита (VII ты. до н.э.) до первого тысячелетия нашей эры. Предисловие Введение Физико-географическая характеристика района Синдорского озера Природные условия Палеогеографический очерк Древние поселения в районе Синдорского озера и их раскопки О времени первого...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 470 с. — ISBN 5-02-016782-7. Коллективный труд в первой своей книге рассматривает возникновение и начальные этапы развития раннеклассовых обществ и государств в различных региона Западной Азии, долине Нила, Эгейском бассейне, Индии и Китае (IV–II тысячелетия до н. э.). Книга рассчитана на широкий круг читателей, как историков, так и интересующихся древней...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 408 с. — ISBN 5-02-016977-3. Заключительная часть коллективного труда рассматривает тенденции развития древних обществ, склоняющихся к упадку, а также историю возникновения на последнем этапе древности новых государств и племенных объединений. Книга рассчитана на историков, а также на широкий круг читателей, интересующихся древней историей.
М.: Центрполиграф, 2021. — 511 с. — (Всемирная история). — ISBN: 978-5-9524-5552-8. Уильям Монтгомери Макговерн – американский исследователь, профессор Северо-Западного университета, штат Иллинойс, антрополог, журналист и путешественник – представляет свой труд по истории Центральной Азии, отмечая ее значение в развитии цивилизаций Древнего мира. Макговерн обращает внимание на...
Харків: Фоліо, 2013. — 304 с. «Справжня історія Стародавнього світу» – це не просто книжка про події, що відбувалися тисячі років тому. На відміну від шкільних підручників, в ній йдеться не лише про історію окремих народів – шумерів, єгиптян, греків, римлян, а й про увесь Стародавній світ як цілісну систему. Чому перші міста з’явилися на Близькому Сході, а коня приручили в...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 160 p. The first contacts between Greece, the Aegean and India are generally thought to have occurred at the beginning of the sixth century BC. There is now, however, growing evidence of much earlier but indirect connections, reaching back into prehistory. These were initially between India and its Indus Civilization (Meluḫḫa) and the Near East and then...
Cambridge University Press, 2021. — 448 p. Situated on opposite flanks of Eurasia, ancient Mediterranean and Han-Chinese societies had a hazy understanding of each other's existence. But they had no grounded knowledge about one another, nor was there any form of direct interaction. In other words, their historical trajectories were independent. In recent years, however, many...
Michael O’Mara Books, 2024. — 268 р. — ISBN: 978-1-78929-657-0 Explore the fascinating world of Greek and Roman history in this new entry in the bestselling Bite-Sized Chunks series. Perhaps more than any other period in history, the era of classical antiquity shaped the Western world as we know it today. From the pioneering schools of Greek philosophy to the far-reaching...
Michael O’Mara Books, 2013. — 230 р. — ISBN: 978-1-78929-657-0 This authoritative and fascinating introduction to the legends of history will reintroduce readers to the cyclopes, Minotaur and centaurs of the Ancient Greeks, as well as shedding light on the wider world of mythology. The Midas Touch includes a stunning array of fascinating tales and gets to grips with the ancient...
3rd Edition. — Routledge, 2019. — 432 p. An Introduction to the Ancient World offers a thorough survey of the history of the ancient Near East, Greece and Rome. Covering the social, political, economic and cultural processes that have influenced later western and Near Eastern civilisations, this volume considers subjects such as the administrative structures, economies and...
Palgrave Macmillan, 2021. — 678 p. Climate change over the past thousands of years is undeniable, but debate has arisen about its impact on past human societies. This book explores the link between climate and society in ancient worlds, focusing on the ancient economies of western Eurasia and northern Africa from the fourth millennium BCE up to the end of the first millennium...
Routledge, 2020. — 298 p. Geography, Religion, Gods, and Saints in the Eastern Mediterranean explores the influence of geography on religion and highlights a largely unknown story of religious history in the Eastern Mediterranean. In the Levant, agricultural communities of Jews, Christians, and Muslims jointly venerated and largely shared three important saints or holy figures:...
HarperCollins, 2023. — 514 р. — ISBN: 9780008356699 For two thousand years, the roads the Romans built have determined the flow of ideas and folktales, where battles were fought and where pilgrims trod. Almost everyone in Britain lives close to a Roman road, if only we knew where to look. In the beginning was Watling Street, the first road scored on the land when the invading...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 224 p. — (Ancient Textiles Series, Vol. 18). Textile and dress production, from raw materials to finished items, has had a significant impact on society from its earliest history. The essays in this volume offer a fresh insight into the emerging interdisciplinary research field of textile and dress studies by discussing archaeological, iconographical and...
Routledge, 2024. — 286 p. This book encapsulates a long period of history of human progress by highlighting crucial social, economic, and cultural dynamics. It presents recent historiography and new analytical tools used to analyse multi-dimensional themes involved in social formations in different parts of the world. This is a reader-friendly book with simple and lucid...
Princeton University Press, 2018. — 448 p. In The Open Sea , J. G. Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era and the beginning of Rome's imperial supremacy. Drawing on a wide range of ancient sources and the latest social theory, Manning suggests that a search for an...
Routledge, 2016. — 350 p. The ability to accumulate and store large amounts of goods is a key feature of complex societies in ancient times. Storage strategies reflect the broader economic and political organization of a society and changes in the development of control mechanisms in both administrative and non-administrative - often kinship based - sectors. This is the first...
The History Press, 2005. — 224 p. — ISBN 978-0-7524-9550-7. How high were the walls of Jericho? Where did Nebuchanezzar get hold of all the bitumen he needed for the millions of bricks required to build Babylon? Was the ancient Suez canal really 200km long, and did 120,000 Egyptians die in the course of its construction? The ancient historian Herodotus had answers to all these...
Wiley-Blackwell, 2016. — 200 p. Peace in the Ancient World: Concepts and Theories conducts a comparative investigation of why certain ancient societies produced explicit concepts and theories of peace and others did not. - Explores the idea that concepts of peace in antiquity occurred only in periods that experienced exceptional rates of warfare - Utilizes case studies of...
Routledge, 2002. — 288 p. Introducing students to contemporary controversies over the nature of the ancient economy, this volume brings together 12 studies in the field. In 1973, Moses Finlay unveiled a comprehensive model of the economic underpinnings of classical civilizations. Since then, scholars have turned the study of the ancient economy into "an academic battleground"....
Princeton University Press, 2025. — 328 p. It’s easy to think that ancient history is, well, ancient history—obsolete, irrelevant, unjustifiably focused on Greece and Rome, and at risk of extinction. In What Is Ancient History?, Walter Scheidel presents a compelling case for a new kind of ancient history—a global history that captures antiquity’s pivotal role as a decisive...
Reaktion Books, 2022. — 208 p. Drawing on the latest archaeological and textual discoveries, a revealing look at the rich and dynamic civilization of Nubia. Nubia, the often-overlooked southern neighbor of Egypt, has been home to groups of vibrant and adaptive peoples for millennia. This book explores the Nubians’ religious, social, economic, and cultural histories, from their...
Routledge, 2009. — 196 p. First published in 1996. This book is designed to provide a clear, up-to-date account of the past of Nubia (both in Egypt and the Sudan) from the earliest human activity known there in Old Stone Age times until the coming of Islam in the fourteenth– fifteenth centuries AD, based on over 45 years' experience of that country both as an archaeological...
Routledge, 2018. — 534 p. Travellers in Time re-evaluates the extent to which the earliest Mediterranean civilizations were affected by population movement. It critiques both traditional culture-history-grounded notions of movement in the region as straightforwardly transformative, and the processual, systemic models that have more recently replaced this view, arguing that...
Oxford University Press, 2022. — 296 p. In his Debt: The First 5000 Years , the anthropologist David Graeber put forward a new grand narrative of world history. From the Late Bronze Age onwards, all across the Near East and Mediterranean, relationships of mutual obligation were transformed into quantifiable and legally enforceable debts. Graeber suggests that this...
Москва: АСТ, 2018. — 464 с. — ISBN 978-5-17-099860-9. Это книга о жизни, культах и быте народов древности - Египта, Греции и Рима. Очерки о материальном мире отдаленных эпох соседствуют в книге с зарисовками, в которых лаконично и увлекательно рассказано о нравах людей древнего мира, о том, во что они верили, чему поклонялись, какими были их интеллектуальные и материальные...
М.: Наука, 1989. — 576 с. — ISBN 5-02-016781-9. Вторая книга коллективного труда ведущих советских историков рассматривает социально-экономическую, политическую и культурную историю древних классовых обществ периода их расцвета (I тысячелетие до н.э.) — Книга рассчитана как на специалистов, так и на широкий круг читателей, интересующихся древней историей.
М.: АСТ-Пресс книга, 2002. — 352 с.: ил. — (Историческое расследование). — ISBN 5-7805-0806-2. Автор рассказывает об одном из самых интересных периодов истории человечества — от его происхождения до возникновения первых цивилизаций. Увлекательно написанная книга позволит любителям истории погрузиться в романтичный мир археологических поисков, почувствовать дыхание далекого...
University Press of Colorado, 2015. — 400 p. Animals and Inequality in the Ancient World explores the current trends in the social archaeology of human-animal relationships, focusing on the ways in which animals are used to structure, create, support, and even deconstruct social inequalities. The authors provide a global range of case studies from both New and Old World...
Bloomsbury Publishing, 2024. — 305 p. Money, Warfare and Power in the Ancient World offers tweleven papers analysing the processes, consequences and problems involved in the monetization of warfare and its connection to political power in antiquity. The contributions explore not only how powerful men and states used money and coinage to achieve their aims, but how these aims...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 340 p. Environment and human habitation have become principal topics of research with the growing interest in the Black Sea region in antiquity. This book highlights their interaction around all the coasts of the region, from different perspectives and disciplines. Here, archaeological excavation and survey combine with studies of classical texts, cults,...
2nd Edition. — Routledge, 1993. — 356 p. The agenda and significance of women in antiquity has gained considerable attention in recent years. In this book diverse roles for and attitudes to women in ancient societies are explored: women as witches, as courtesans, as mothers, as priestesses, as nuns, as heiresses and typically as eranged. The shifting focus is variously...
Routledge, 2020. — 556 p. This volume offers the first comprehensive look at the role of women in the monarchies of the ancient Mediterranean. It consistently addresses certain issues across all dynasties: title; role in succession; the situation of mothers, wives, and daughters of kings; regnant and co-regnant women; role in cult and in dynastic image; and examines a sampling...
Pen and Sword Maritime, 2021. — 408 p. World-wide maritime trade has been the essential driver of wealth-creation, economic progress and global human contact. Trade and exchange of ideas have been at the heart of economic, social, political, cultural and religious life and maritime international law. These claims are borne out by the history of maritime trade beginning in the...
University of Michigan Press, 2022. — 240 p. It is generally accepted that Roman administrators, arriving in Egypt in the aftermath of Augustus’ annexation of the province, confiscated en masse the land and other property belonging to the temples of Egypt - estimated at as much as one-third of the country. It is further accepted that this confiscation doomed the temples by...
Oxford University Press, 2019. — 320 p. This volume sets out to re-examine what ancient people - primarily those in ancient Greek and Roman communities, but also Mesopotamian and Chinese cultures - thought they were doing through divination, and what this can tell us about the religions and cultures in which divination was practised. The chapters, authored by a range of...
Routledge, 2020. — 296 p. This book focuses on conflict, diplomacy and religion as factors in the relationship between Rome and Sasanian Persia in the third and fourth centuries AD. During this period, military conflict between Rome and Sasanian Persia was at a level and depth not seen mostly during the Parthian period. At the same time, contact between the two empires...
Routledge, 2019. — 260 p. Piracy, Pillage, and Plunder in Antiquity explores appropriation in its broadest terns in the ancient world, from brigands, mercenaries and state-sponsored "piracy", to literary appropriation and the modern plundering of antiquities. The chronological extent of the studies in this volume, written by an international group of experts, ranges from about...
16th Edition. — Routledge, 2023. — 484 p. People of the Earth is a narrative account of the prehistory of humankind from our origins over 6 million years ago to the first pre-industrial states, beginning about 5,000 years ago. This is a global prehistory, which covers prehistoric times in every corner of the world in a jargon-free style for newcomers to archaeology. Many world...
Oxbow Books, 2015. — 320 p. Twenty chapters present the range of current research into the study of textiles and dress in classical antiquity, stressing the need for cross and interdisciplinary study in order to gain the fullest picture of surviving material. Issues addressed include: the importance of studying textiles to understand economy and landscape in the past; different...
Routledge, 2010. — 184 p. Today's politicians argue that the more 'connected' societies are the less danger they pose to global stability. But is this a 'new' idea or one as old as history itself? Trade routes as far back as prehistory were responsible for the exchange of ideas as well as goods, leading to the rapid expansion of states and empires. 'Connectivity in Antiquity'...
De Gruyter, 2021. — 296 p. From basic needs, such as lighting, heating or cooking, to symbolic or ritual engagement, hearths in indoor contexts serve as a focal point. This is especially evident, both spatially and architecturally, in structures containing central hearths. In assessing any gathering around a hearth, the types of social groups involved need to be determined and...
Routledge, 2013. — 256 p. First published 1926. In his foreword, Mr. Henri Berr emphasises the importance of the social factor in history, and points out that in the early volumes of this series, which deals with the evolution of humanity, it has been necessary repeatedly to refer to the problem to which it gives rise. This volume thus marks a critical point in the general...
Lexington Books, 2017. — 304 p. In The Roots of Western Finance: Power, Ethics, and Social Capital in the Ancient World , Thomas K. Park and James B. Greenberg take an anthropological approach to credit. They suggest that financial activities occur in a complex milieu, in which specific parties, with particular motives, achieve their goals using a form of social, cultural, or...
Oxford University Press, 2017. — 328 p. Scholars have long been divided on the question of whether the Amazons of Greek legend actually existed. Notably, Soviet archaeologists' discoveries of the bodies of women warriors in the 1980s appeared to directly contradict western classicists' denial of the veracity of the Amazon myth, and there have been few concessions between the...
Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, 2017. — 692 S. — (Schriften des Historischen Kollegs 94). Monarchical rule was omnipresent in the ancient world, but until now, there has been no comparative study of the phenomenon across epochs and cultures. The volume fills this gap, examining autarchy in the ancient Near East, across Greco-Roman antiquity, and up to the early Middle...
Oxford University Press, 2023. — 200 p. Imperial Cults: Religion and Politics in the Early Han and Roman Empires is a comparative study of the transformation of imperial cult and imperial authority in the early Han and Roman empires. The book begins with a simple observation: that during the reigns of the Emperor Wu of Han and Octavian Augustus of Rome, the rulers undertook...
Routledge, 2019. — 1812 p. — ISBN 978-0-415-63544-8. This exciting new volume examines the development of market performance from Antiquity until the dawn of the Industrial Revolution. Efficient market structures are agreed by most economists to serve as evidence of economic prosperity, and to be prerequisites for further economic growth. However, this is the first study to...
Oxbow Books, 2022. — 272 p. — (Contexts of and Relations between Early Writing Systems 6). Writing in the ancient Mediterranean existed against a backdrop of very high levels of interaction and contact. In the societies around its shores, writing was a dynamic practice that could serve many purposes – from a tool used by elites to control resources and establish their power...
Routledge, 2023. — 256 p. — (Routledge Explorations in Economic History). Drawing on modern economic theory, this book provides new insights into the economic development of ancient economies and the sustainability of their development. The book pays particular attention to the economics of hunting and gathering societies and their diversity. New ideas are presented about...
De Gruyter, 2023. — 682 p. The Handbook of Ancient Afro-Eurasian Economies offers in three volumes the first comprehensive discussion of economic development in the empires of the Afro-Eurasian world region to elucidate the conditions under which large quantities of goods and people moved across continents and between empires. Volume 3: Frontier-Zone Processes and Transimperial...
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