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  1. Women in the Ancient Near East

    A Sourcebook

    Edited by Mark Chavalas

    Series: Routledge Sourcebooks for the Ancient World

    Women in the Ancient Near East provides a collection of primary sources from a broad range of Near Eastern civilizations, from the earliest historical and literary texts (c. 2700 BC) to the latest Hellenistic historians who comment on Near Eastern history (e.g., Berossus, c.205 BC). The book is a...

    To Be Published July 29th 2013 by Routledge

  2. Ancient Near East: The Basics

    By Daniel C. Snell

    Series: The Basics

    Ancient Near East: The Basics surveys the history of the ancient Middle East from the invention of writing to Alexander the Great’s conquest. The book introduces both the physical and intellectual environment of those times, the struggles of state-building and empire construction, and the dissent...

    To Be Published August 15th 2013 by Routledge

  3. A History of Market Performance

    From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World

    Edited by R.J. Van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden, E.S. van Leeuwen

    Series: Routledge Explorations in Economic History

    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,...

    To Be Published August 31st 2013 by Routledge

  4. Mesopotamia

    By L. Delaporte

    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  5. Macedonian Imperialism

    By Pierre Jouguet

    Originally published between 1920-70,The History of Civilization was a landmark in early twentieth century publishing. It was published at a formative time within the social sciences, and during a period of decisive historical discovery. The aim of the general editor, C.K. Ogden, was to summarize...

    To Be Published September 26th 2013 by Routledge

  6. The Ancient Near East

    History, Society and Economy

    By Mario Liverani

    The Ancient Near East reveals three millennia of history (3500-500 BC) in a single work. Using the latest research from the most recent archaeological finds, and thanks to his personal odyssey of over twenty-five years, Liverani has succeeded in retracing the history of the peoples of the...

    To Be Published October 30th 2013 by Routledge

  7. The Hebrew Bible

    A Brief Introduction

    By Brent Strawn

    To Be Published January 30th 2014 by Routledge

  8. Imagining Ancient Cities on Film

    From Babylon to Cinecittà

    Edited by Marta Morcillo, Pauline Hanesworth, Óscar Marchena

    Series: Routledge Studies in Ancient History

    In film imagery, urban spaces show up not only as spatial settings of a story, but also as projected ideas and forms that aim to recreate and capture the spirit of cultures, societies and epochs. Some cinematic cities have even managed to transcend fiction to become part of modern collective memory...

    To Be Published March 14th 2014 by Routledge

  9. Sex in Antiquity

    Gender and Sexuality in the Ancient World

    Edited by Nancy S Rabinowitz, James Robson, Mark Masterson

    Series: Rewriting Antiquity

    Looking at sex and sexuality from a variety of historical, sociological and theoretical perspectives, as represented in a variety of media, Sex in Antiquity represents a vibrant picture of the discipline of ancient gender and sexuality studies, showcasing the work of leading international scholars...

    To Be Published March 29th 2014 by Routledge

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