History
Ancient Ephesus: The History and Legacy of One of Antiquity's Greatest Cities
*Includes pictures *Chronicles the history of Ephesus and profiles its most famous buildings *Includes footnotes, online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents “We shall never know what magnificence is, until this imperial city is...
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Ancient Gaul: The History and Legacy of the Gauls and the Region in Antiquity
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading “Caesar, having stationed his army on both sides of the fortifications, in order that, if occasion should arise, each should hold and know his own post,...
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Ancient Greek Technology: The History and Legacy of the Technological Advances Made in Greece During Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“What I would prefer is that you should fix your eyes every day on the greatness of Athens as she really is, and should fall in love with her....
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Ancient Macedonia: The History and Legacy of Alexander the Great and the Macedonians in Antiquity
“There is nothing impossible to him that will but try.” - Alexander the Great The role of Macedonia and the Macedonians in the ancient world is apparent to those with even a cursory knowledge of the period. After all, Alexander...
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Ancient Palmyra: The History and Legacy of One of Antiquity's Greatest Cities
*Includes pictures*Profiles Palmyra's origins, its relationship with Rome, its culture, and more*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading*Includes a table of contents“At the end of twenty years, during which Solomon built the temple of the Lord and his...
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Ancient Pergamon: The History and Legacy of Asia Minor's Most Influential Greek Cultural Center in Antiquity
The Library of Alexandria was one of the few libraries in the ancient Greek world, which helped ensure that mathematicians, scientists, and other scholars from across the Mediterranean traveled to Egypt to study there, and it was so impressive in...
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Ancient Rhodes: The History and Legacy of the Famous Greek Island in Antiquity
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts of Rhodes *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents Modern perceptions of Classical Greece are almost invariably based on Athens and Sparta, but there are perhaps few areas...
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Ancient Rome's Provinces: The History of the Foreign Lands Ruled by the Roman Empire in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIronically, the Roman Republic’s development from a city state into a world power that controlled large swathes of modern Italy, Gaul and Spain, as well as other parts of...
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Ancient Sicily: The History and Legacy of the Mediterranean's Largest Island in Antiquity
*Includes pictures*Includes ancient accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further readingIt is hard to find an island on the map more central than Sicily. Located at the crossroads between Europe and Africa, and between the Eastern and Western Mediterranean,...
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Andersonville and Camp Douglas: The History of the Civil War's Deadliest Prison Camps
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“Wuld that I was an artist & had the material to paint this camp & all its horors or the tounge of some eloquent Statesman and had the privleage of...
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Andersonville Prison: The History of the Civil War's Most Notorious Prison Camp
Notorious, a hell on earth, a cesspool, a death camp, and infamous have all been used by prisoners and critics to describe Andersonville Prison, constructed to house Union prisoners of war in 1864, and all descriptions apply. Located in Andersonville,...
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Andrew Carnegie and Henry Clay Frick: The History of the Gilded Age's Most Controversial Business Partnership
The term robber baron has largely fallen into disuse in the 21st century but there was a time when it was a popular epithet that described the kind of man who, it was believed, built his fortune by taking things...
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Angel Island: The History and Legacy of the Immigration Center in San Francisco Bay
*Includes pictures*Includes accounts*Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading“The boat was launched and I set out to search for better anchorage for the ship. I went out toward the island I named de los Angeles [Angel Island], which...
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Angkor Wat: The History and Legacy of the World's Largest Hindu Temple
Hinduism is one of the world’s great religions, dominating the Indian subcontinent for most of the last millennium, and its largest temple is an unbelievably magnificent structure located in Angkor, Cambodia. Known in English as Angkor Wat ("City Temple"), the...
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Anne Bradstreet: The Life and Legacy of the Famous Puritan Poet in the American Colonies
"And when I could no longer look, I blest His grace that gave and took, That laid my goods now in the dust. Yea, so it was, and so 'twas just. It was his own; it was not mine. Far...
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Antigua Sicilia: La Historia Y El Legado De La Isla Más Grande Del Mediterráneo En La Antigüedad
Es difícil encontrar una isla en el mapa más central que Sicilia. Situada en la encrucijada entre Europa y África, y entre el Mediterráneo oriental y occidental, Sicilia rara vez ha sido gobernada como un Estado independiente y unificado. Sin...
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Antioch: The History and Legacy of the Ancient Syrian City Established by the Seleucid Empire
*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents On his deathbed, some historians claim that when he was pressed to name a successor, Alexander the Great muttered that his...
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Antiquity's Greatest Philosophers: Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle
*Analyzes the controversies and mysteries surrounding Socrates' life and death, including the debate over his portrayal in Plato's Socratic dialogues. *Discusses the philosophers' writings about knowledge, logic, metaphysics, science, reason, Forms, political science, rhetoric and more. *Includes busts and other...
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Antoine-Henri Jomini: The Life and Legacy of the Swiss General and His Famous Military Treatises about the Napoleonic Wars
*Includes pictures *Includes excerpts of Jomini's work *Includes a bibliography for further reading “War in its ensemble is NOT a science, but an art. Strategy, particularly, may indeed be regulated by fixed laws resembling those of the positive sciences, but...
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