The use of bioavailable strontium in different environments to provenance biological
materials has become increasingly common since its first applications in ecology and …

The purpose of modern industrial herbicides is to control weeds. The species of weeds that
plague crops today are a consequence of the historical past, being related to the history of …

Here is the monumental retelling of one of the most consequential chapters of human
history: the fall of the Roman Empire. The Fate of Rome is the first book to examine the …

From the# 1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story
of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world. For the last 100,000 years …

A systematic investigation of growth in nature and society, from tiny organisms to the
trajectories of empires and civilizations. Growth has been both an unspoken and an explicit …

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 …

Shopping in Ancient Rome provides the first comprehensive account of the retail network of
this ancient city, an area of commerce that has been largely neglected in previous studies …

The reliance of democracies on vital supplies of energy from distant and non-democratic
sources is probably the most pressing and dangerous problem of modern times, but it is not …

In The Open Sea, JG 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 …

In the first volume in this new series on Roman society and law, Saskia T. Roselaar traces
the social and economic history of the ager publicus, or public land. As the Romans …