Kategoria BISAC: History >> Reference

The Atlas of Ancient Rome provides a comprehensive archaeological survey of the city of Rome from prehistory to the early medieval period. Lavishly illustrated throughout with full-color maps, drawings, photos, and 3D reconstructions, this magnificent two-volume slipcased edition features the latest discoveries and scholarship, with new descriptions of more than 500 monuments, including the Sanctuary of Vesta, the domus Augusti, and the Mausoleum of Augustus. It is destined to become the standard reference for scholars, students, and anyone interested in the history of the...

Gebaude zur schutzenden Unterstellung von Wasserfahrzeugen, die noch heute in groer Zahl in Skandinavien und im Nordatlantik gebrauchlich sind, stehen in einer Jahrhunderte alten, archaologisch nachweisbaren Tradition. Die Arbeit wendet sich erstmals in uberblicksartiger Form den bis zu 40 m langen Grobootshausern zu, die im Zeitraum vom 1.-15. Jh. insbesondere in Norwegen weit verbreitet waren. Drei Aspekte stehen im Mittelpunkt der Betrachtungen: die zusammenfassende Erorterung der Ausgrabungen von Grobootshausern, die Nutzung der Grobootshauser zur Ermittlung kustennaher...

Der Band uber das Kanonissenstift Geseke gehort in den Zusammenhang eines der Schwerpunkte der Germania Sacra, der sich dem Kanoniker- und Kanonissenstift widmet. Mit Geseke, einer Adelsstiftung des 10. Jahrhunderts, wird ein weiterer Band aus diesem Komplex vorgelegt. Geseke gehort zu den fruhmittelalterlichen sachsisch-westfalischen Kanonissenstiften und kann und soll in Beziehung mit den bisher erschienen Buchern uber die Kanonissenstifte wie Gandersheim (GS NF 7), Freckenhorst (GS NF 10), Herzebrock (GS NF 21), Liesborn (GS NF 23) und Nottuln (GS NF 44) gesehen werden. Der Autor Ulrich...

In recent years, the intersection of religion and the American Civil War has been the focus of a growing area of scholarship. However, primary sources on this subject are housed in many different archives and libraries scattered across the U.S., and are often difficult to find. The Routledge Sourcebook of Religion and the American Civil War collects these sources into a single convenient volume, the most comprehensive collection of primary source material on religion and the Civil War ever brought together.

With chapters organized both chronologically and thematically, and highlighting...

"Inventing America: An Encyclopedia of Inventions, Inventors, and Technological Innovation in American History" surveys the history of technology, documenting the chronological and thematic connections between specific inventions, technological systems, individuals, and events that have contributed to the history of science and technology in the United States. Covering eras from colonial times to the present day in three chronological volumes, the entries include innovations in fields such as architecture, civil engineering, transportation, energy, mining and oil industries, chemical...

Asia was the principle focus of empire-builders from Alexander and Akbar to Chinggis Khan and Qianlong and yet, until now, there has been no attempt to provide a comprehensive history of empire in the region. The History of Empire in Asia addresses the need for a thorough survey of the topic.

Volume I traces the evolution of a constellation of competing empires in Asia from the 13th through to the 18th centuries. It describes the history and characteristic features of imperial regimes in each major sub-region of Asia, from the Ottomans and Safavids in the West, Romanovs in the...

The 70th birthday of Heiko Steuer, Professor of Pre- and Protohistory at Freiburg University from 1984 to 2005, andfor many years one of the editors of the Reallexikon der Germanischen Altertumskunde, has been the occasion for the presentation of this collection of 35 papers. The six sections cover Steuer s research fields: 1. Prehistory, 2. Antiquity, 3. The Early Middle Ages in West and South Europe, 4. The Early Middle Ages in Northern Europe, 5. The High and Late Middle Ages, 6. The history of scholarship and matters of method.