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Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2012
Physical Desc
xiii, 366 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
The very idea of empire was created in ancient Rome and even today traces of its monuments, literature, and institutions can be found across Europe, the Near East, and North Africa-and sometimes even further afield.
In Rome, historian Greg Woolf expertly recounts how this mammoth empire was created, how it was sustained in crisis, and how it shaped the world of its rulers and subjects-a story spanning a millennium and a half of history. The personalities...
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First US edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 645 pages, 16 pages of unnumbered plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Our world was made on and by the Silk Roads. For millennia it was here that East and West encountered each other through trade and conquest, leading to the spread of ideas and cultures, the birth of the world's great religions, the appetites for foreign goods that drove economies and the growth of nations. From the first cities in Mesopotamia to the growth of Greece and Rome to the depredations by the Mongols and the Black Death to the Great Game...
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