How did a single village in Italy grow to become a world-class imperial power? This introduction, a new and shorter version of the authors' "The Romans: From Village to Empire", is an inviting guide to the stages of Rome's remarkable political and military evolution over 1,500 years - through monarc[...]
This fascinating volume brings together leading specialists who have analyzed the thoughts and records documenting the worldviews of a wide range of pre-modern societies. The book presents evidence from across the ages; from antiquity through to the Age of Discovery.[...]
"Highways, Byways, and Road Systems in the Pre-Modern World" reveals the significance and interconnectedness of early civilizations' pathways. This international collection of readings providing a description and comparative analysis of several sophisticated systems of transport and communication ac[...]
A long-overdue reinterpretation and appreciation of the Peutinger Map as a masterpiece both of mapmaking and imperial Roman ideology.[...]