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The Roman Empire was a remarkable achievement. It had a population of sixty million people spread ac…

Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BCE) was one of the most influential figures in late republican Rome, …

A great deal of the world's history is the history of empires. Indeed it could be said that all hist…

By the mid-15th century the Byzantine Empire had collapsed and the various Crusades that had taken p…

What is Pakistan? The name refers to a seventy-year-old post-colonial product of the bloodiest parti…

The Second World War was the most destructive conflict in history. It left Europe in ruins, its econ…

This volume introduces the field of gender history—its origins, development, reception, recalibratio…

The Victorian period may have come to an end over 120 years ago, but the Victorians continue to be a…

International relations affects everyone's lives: their security, economic well-being, rights and fr…

The concept of habeas corpus—literally, to receive and hold the body—empowers courts to …

In the traditional narrative of American colonial history, early European settlements, as well as na…

The Cold War dominated international life from the end of World War II to the fall of the Berlin Wal…

The Maya forged one of the greatest societies in the history of the ancient Americas and in all of h…

The words, phrases, and stories of the New Testament permeate the English language. Indeed, this rel…

As ancient literature and a cornerstone of the Christian faith, the New Testament has exerted a powe…

From colonial empire-building in the nineteenth century to the postcolonial culture wars of the twen…

To many in the West, Orthodoxy remains shrouded in mystery, an exotic and foreign religion that surv…