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![Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41zL7Rw1cAL._SL160_.jpg)
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Conquering the Ocean: The Roman Invasion of Britain
“Why should a distant island beyond the north-western edge of the Roman Empire have become the target of Roman ambitions for conquest?" (1). With this question, historian Richard Hingley encourages us to contemplate the answer in considerably...
![Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41GZpSVP0jL._SL160_.jpg)
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Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian
Ian Worthington’s Athens After Empire: A History from Alexander the Great to the Emperor Hadrian shows how there has been a tendency to fixate on the heyday of famous ancient cities while the events before or after have been unfairly and...
![Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51zZ+-+8qfS._SL160_.jpg)
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Empire of Salons: Conquest and Community in Early Modern Ottoman Lands
Empire of Salons came from Helen Pfeifer's PhD thesis, which she completed at Princeton University, thus this book is largely targeted to the academic audience, both lecturers and students. It, however, has a concise and organized structure...
![India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51+I9uUmbRL._SL160_.jpg)
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India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765
Richard Eaton’s India in the Persianate Age: 1000-1765 represents a paradigm shift in the study of Indian history. It debunks the stereotypical interpretation of the middle period of Indian history, first championed by the British and later...
![The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51eHbVeHg2S._SL160_.jpg)
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The Currency of Empire: Money and Power in Seventeenth-Century English America
Jonathan Barth argues that England expanded its empire overseas throughout the 1600s in order to collect precious metals and wealth. Barth’s thesis is that colonists tolerated economic subordination to England as long as they had political...
![Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/51OSHhtu5eL._SL160_.jpg)
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Gentry Rhetoric: Literacies, Letters, and Writing in an Elizabethan Community
European rhetoric and language usage have experienced many changes and modifications ever since ancient Greece and Roman orator Cicero's famous diction. Language, in history, has been used not just for functional communication but also as...
![Information: A Historical Companion](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41quSn3jitL._SL160_.jpg)
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Information: A Historical Companion
The internet only changes how people process information instead of creating the idea of 'information.' As soon as humans developed writing around 3400 BCE, we found many ways to record information from tax records to poetry and from legal...
![The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41Tpa025eiL._SL160_.jpg)
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The Eternal Decline and Fall of Rome: The History of a Dangerous Idea
In the book's Introduction, Edward Watts sets out his premise clearly. Roman politicians grew their power by destabilizing the present conditions of their society. As Watts points out, when trying to restore Rome, politicians often violated...
![Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/41+maSIEkEL._SL160_.jpg)
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Empress: The Astonishing Reign of Nur Jahan
The story of the Mughal Empire is a fascinating one. It has most of the historical elements that one might expect out of an empire: powerful male rulers, wars of succession, magnificent buildings, conflicts between religious and non-religious...
![Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/31J8zHZORcL._SL160_.jpg)
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Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse
Although it was published in 1995, Richard R. John's Spreading the News: The American Postal System from Franklin to Morse remains a must-read in the media history academia. This book practically shaped today's academic research in this genre...