Archaeology books

This book provides a much needed synthesis of the material available on these monuments. Over the past few decades,...  Read More >>

Working Donkeys in 4th-3rd Millennium BC Mesopotamia: Insights from Modern Development Studies is a reassessment...  Read More >>

This study of the liberal response to McCarthyism is the first book to analyze the negative political consequences...  Read More >>

Uroscopy - the diagnosis of disease by visual examination of the urine - played a very prominent role in early modern...  Read More >>

This unique volume demonstrates that there are archaeological and anthropological ways of accessing the past in...  Read More >>

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The death penalty was unusual in medieval Europe until the twelfth century. From that moment on, it became a key...  Read More >>

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This volume presents a contrastive study of the overlapping careers of Shakespeare and Caravaggio through the comparison...  Read More >>

This book presents an innovative approach to public archaeology in a rural community, which has had powerful results...  Read More >>

The study of the family is one of the major lacunas in Byzantine Studies. Angeliki Laiou remarked in 1989 that ’the...  Read More >>

Reanimating Industrial Spaces explores the relationships between people and the places of former industry through...  Read More >>

This book builds on recent ground-breaking research on early modern Catholic missions which has shown that missionaries...  Read More >>

This book provides the first study of naval ideologies, the complex beliefs and mindsets that justified the creation...  Read More >>

Paulette F. C. Steeves presents evidence that archaeology sites, Paleo environments, landscapes, and mammalian and...  Read More >>

These concepts can deepen study of plasticity, disease, gender, violence, and race and ethnicity, as well as advance...  Read More >>

Indigenous peoples cancelled by a burgeoning empire. Devastating earthquakes level ancient monuments. Marauding...  Read More >>

Through case studies from a range of social millieux, contributors to this volume seek to 'bring class back in'...  Read More >>

The Crusades in the Modern World evaluates a broad range of contemporary uses of the crusades and crusading to answer...  Read More >>

This collection explores the history and usefulness of phenomenology for the study of virtual places. These essays...  Read More >>

This book examines the afterlife of Partition as imprinted on the memories and postmemories of Hindu and Sikh survivors...  Read More >>

This volume addresses various aspects of the long and tangled relationship between Jews and cosmopolitanism in East...  Read More >>

Inscribing Faith in Late Antiquity considers the Greek and Latin texts inscribed in churches and chapels in the...  Read More >>

This volume explores the complex and fascinating social, cultural and confessional relations in the Grand Duchy...  Read More >>

Perceptions of the Crusades from the Ninetenth to the Twenty-First Century explores the ways in which the crusades...  Read More >>