Rome, Babylon, Mughal, Aztec, Inka... the names of these early empires evoke potent
images of monumental ambition, grandeur, and decay. Empires are geographically and …

Despite what history has taught us about imperialism's destructive effects on colonial
societies, many classicists continue to emphasize disproportionately the civilizing and …

In this volume, Philip Kay examines economic change in Rome and Italy between the
Second Punic War and the middle of the first century BC. He argues that increased inflows of …

Like other volumes in this series, Ancient History from Coins demystifies a specialism,
introducing students (from first year upwards) to the techniques, methods, problems and …

This book is about historical archaeologies all over the world; about their history, their
methods, and their raison d'etre. The focus is on an existential question for archaeology …

The papyri of Egypt offer a rich and complex picture of this important Roman province and
provide an unparalleled insight into how a Roman province actually worked. They also …

Although the study of frontiers is of fundamental importance to a variety of academic fields
and subdisciplines, few researchers have proposed terminology, models or conceptual …

This book started life as a thesis that was submitted for a D. Phil. at the University of Oxford
in 2016 and has been revised during my time as a research associate at the University of …

" This is the first book to undertake a comprehensive analysis of the impact of money on the
economy, society and culture of the Greek and Roman worlds. It uses new approaches in …

After almost three centuries of investigations into the question of what it means to be human
and the historical processes of becoming human, archaeologists have amassed a huge …