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War and Society in the Roman World

By John Rich, Graham Shipley

Living Together, Living Apart: Rethinking Jewish-Christian Relations in the Middle Ages

By Jonathan Elukin

Politics in the Ancient World

By M. I. Finley (University of Cambridge)

Big Caesars and Little Caesars: How They Rise and How They Fall - From Julius Caesar to Boris Johnson

By Ferdinand Mount

Three New Deals

By Wolfgang Schivelbusch

Alternatives to Athens: Varieties of Political Organization and Community in Ancient Greece

By Roger Brock (, Lecturer in Classics, University of Leeds), Stephen Hodkinson (, Lecturer in Ancient History, University of Manchester)

Why Europe Grew Rich and Asia Did Not: Global Economic Divergence, 1600-1850

By Prasannan Parthasarathi (Boston College, Massachusetts)

Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning

By Nigel Biggar

The Minutes of the Rainbow Circle

By Michael Freeden

A Pest in the Land: New World Epidemics in a Global Perspective

By Suzanne Austin Alchon

Between Anarchy and Society: Trusteeship and the Obligations of Power

By William Bain (, Lecturer in International Relations Theory, University of Wales, Aberystwyth)

War Child: Children Caught in Conflict

By Martin Parsons

The Unreasonable Virtue of Fly Fishing

By Mark Kurlansky

Battle-axe Division: From Africa to Italy with the 78 Division 1942-45

By Ken Ford

Other Pasts, Different Presents, Alternative Futures

By Jeremy Black

Celebrations: The Cult of Anniversaries in Europe and the United States Today

By William M. Johnston

The Struggle for Power

By alentina Vilkova

Victory at Stalingrad: The Battle That Changed History

By Geoffrey Roberts

What is History? And Other Essays: Selected Writings

By Luke O'Sullivan, Michael Oakeshott

Ideology and International Relations in the Modern World

By Alan Cassels

Space Race: The Untold Story of Two Rivals and Their Struggle for the Moon

By Deborah Cadbury

The Hellenistic World

By F. W. Walbank

The Penguin History of Greece

By A.R. Burn

The Greek City: From Homer to Alexander

By Oswyn Murray (University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow, University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow, Balliol College, Oxford), Simon Price (University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fellow, University Lecturer in Ancient History and Fel...

The Rights of War and Peace: Political Thought and the International Order from Grotius to Kant

By Richard Tuck (Professor of Government, Professor of Government, Harvard University)

War and Society in the Greek World

By John Rich, Graham Shipley

On Justice, Power, and Human Nature: Selections from The History of the Peloponnesian War

By Thucydides, Paul Woodruff

Nationalism and Popular Protest in Ireland

By Charles H. E. Philpin

Unholy Wars: Afghanistan, America and International Terrorism

By John K. Cooley

The Making of Modern Irish History: Revisionism and the Revisionist Controversy

By D. George Boyce, Alan O'Day (Greyfriars, University of Oxford, UK)