The Cambridge Ancient History: The imperial crisis and recovery, A.D. 193-324
Author : John Bagnell Bury
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1965
Category : History, Ancient
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Author : John Bagnell Bury
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Page : 924 pages
File Size : 40,36 MB
Release : 1965
Category : History, Ancient
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Author : John Bagnell Bury
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Page : 912 pages
File Size : 29,87 MB
Release : 1939
Category : History, Ancient
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Page : 916 pages
File Size : 42,80 MB
Release : 1939
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Release : 1965
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Author : I. E. S. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 37,85 MB
Release : 1971-10-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521077910
Part II of volume I deals with the history of the Near East from about 3000 to 1750 B.C. In Egypt, a long period of political unification and stability enabled the kings of the Old Kingdom to develop and exploit natural resources, to mobilize both the manpower and the technical skill to build the pyramids, and to encourage sculptors in the production of works of superlative quality. After a period of anarchy and civil war at the end of the Sixth Dynasty the local rulers of Thebes established the so-called Middle Kingdom, restoring an age of political calm in which the arts could again flourish. In Western Asia, Babylonia was the main centre and source of civilisation, and her moral, though not always her military, hegemony was recognized and accepted by the surrounding countries of Anatolia, Syria, Palestine, Assyria and Elam. The history of the region is traced from the late Uruk and Jamdat Nasr periods up to the rise of Hammurabi, the most significant developments being the invention of writing in the Uruk period, the emergence of the Semites as a political factor under Sargon, and the success of the centralized bureaucracy under the Third Dynasty of Ur.
Author : Alan K. Bowman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1228 pages
File Size : 44,40 MB
Release : 1996-02-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521264303
The period described in Volume X of the second edition of The Cambridge Ancient History begins in the year after the death of Julius Caesar and ends in the year after the fall of Nero, the last of the Julio-Claudian emperors. Its main theme is the transformation of the political configuration of the state and the establishment of the Roman Empire. Chapters 16 supply a political narrative history of the period. In chapters 7-12 the institutions of government are described and analysed. Chapters 13-14 offer a survey of the Roman world in this period region by region, and chapters 15-21 deal with the most important social and cultural developments of the era (the city of Rome; the structure of society; art, literature and law). Central to the period is the achievement of the first emperor, Augustus.
Author : John Boardman
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 960 pages
File Size : 49,79 MB
Release : 1982
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521256032
This volume of 'The Cambridge Ancient History' embraces the wide range of approaches and scholarships which have in recent decades transformed our view of late antiquity.
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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 1092 pages
File Size : 47,15 MB
Release : 1970
Category : History, Ancient
ISBN : 9780521077910
Author : I. E. S. Edwards
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 846 pages
File Size : 39,4 MB
Release : 1970-12-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9780521070515
Provides an account of what is known about the remotest geological ages, comprising chapters on the different kinds of evidence concerning man and his physical environment.