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Provides an exploration of Ancient Egyptian civilization. This book covers seven themes, with each section allowing specialists to focus on a particular topic. It helps readers gain an understanding of ancient Egyptian society.

A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation.

This volume provides a solid grounding in the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies and in archaeology, history, literature and art.

The Medieval World brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Forty-four scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This new edition includes five new chapters on, peasants, trade and economy, Jews and Jewish society, Byzantium and the Islamic Near East and slavery. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Packed full of original scholarship, this book is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition has six new chapters and is essential reading for all students of the subject.

This new companion to the Sumerian civilization of third millennium BC southern Mesopotamia is a mine of information, with 32 chapters exploring a vast array of topics.

Orthodox Christianity is the main historical inheritor of the Byzantine tradition of Christianity, and is practised around the world. This book offers an overview of the Orthodox World, covering the main regional traditions and the ways in which the tradition has become global.

The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today.

An exceptionally detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts, drawing together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe, and including contributions from US, European and British scholars.

A collection of essays that deals with the world of the American West, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse region. It incorporates the research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn 'Cowboys and Indians' stereotype right up to the discussions of water rights and the presence of the defense industry.

A guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. It elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions. It covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life.

Part of the "Routledge Worlds" series, this book offers a survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid foundations for many aspects of the world. It begins with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ends with its lasting influence.

Explores Ancient Egyptian civilization. This book covers seven broad themes.

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this title offers a survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment.

The most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet attempted, this book is beautifully illustrated throughout. The strength of this work is its breadth and originality, covering the Church, art, Calvinism and Luther.

With contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses the key questions of how Ottoman authority was maintained over such a diverse empire, how the provinces related to the imperial centre, what impact Ottoman rule had on its subjects, and whether there was in fact such a thing as an "Ottoman world".

This beautifully illustrated book is the most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation world yet attempted.

Now back in print with a new preface by the author and a new jacket, this book is still the most comprehensive survey of the Roman World available.

A survey of Pompeii, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also the buried surrounding cities of Campania. It includes the understanding of the region, based on the findings of archaeological work. It is accompanied by a CD with the detailed map of Pompeii.

This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia.

With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope.