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Rhodes Besieged: A New History by Robert Douglas Smith Publisher Comments Retelling the historic sieges of Rhodes through the eyes of the soldiers, this study challenges and revises current thinking on siege warfare and the use of the cannon Using eyewitness accounts, surviving guns, and extant walls, this book... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper 
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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 1 by Martin Bernal Publisher Comments What is classical about Classical civilization? In one of the most audacious works of scholarship ever written, Martin Bernal challenges the whole basis of our thinking about this question. Classical civilization, he argues, has deep roots in Afroasiatic... (read more) List Price $37.95 Your price: $8.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The History of Greece (Greenwood Histories of the Modern Nations) by Elaine Thomopoulos Publisher Comments Modern Greece started as a monarchy in 1832, with just a fraction of the land it now encompasses. The nation of Greece finally forged its identity in the 19th and 20th centuries after emerging from 400 years of Ottoman domination. This book traces the... (read more) List Price $71.95 Your price: $38.86 New - Hardcover
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Byzantium : Church, Society, and Civilization Seen Through Contemporary Eyes (84 Edition) by Deno John Geanakoplos Publisher Comments Deno John Geanakoplos here offers a prodigious collection of source materials on the Byzantine church, society, and civilization (many translated for the first time into English), arranged chronologically and topically, and knit together with an... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $34.00 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Byzantium by Warren Treadgold Publisher Comments Between 285 AD, when Byzantium first separated from the Western Roman Empire, and 1461, when the last Byzantine splinter state disappeared, the Byzantine state and society underwent many crises, triumphs, declines, and recoveries. Spanning twelve... (read more) Your price: $44.50 New - Trade Paper
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Economy and Society in the Age of Justinian by Peter Sarris Synopsis Examines the social and economic context of the reign of the Emperor Justinian (527-65) and argues that, instead of the omnipotent autocrat of much imperial propaganda, there emerges an emperor desperately trying to reinforce the fiscal basis of the... (read more) Your price: $124.25 New - Hardcover
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Historical Dictionary of Modern Greece by Dimitris Keridis Publisher Comments Located on the southern-most tip of the Balkan peninsula in Europe's southeast, Greece is a small country of some 11 million people. And while few people have a longer history than the Greeks, Modern Greece is a fairly young country, having been founded... (read more) List Price $79.99 Your price: $76.99 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Echoes from the Cobblestones: A Memoir by Nicholas A. Kefalides Publisher Comments Nicholas A. Kefalides recalls a time when the heavy boots of invading armies echoed off the cobblestone streets of Greece, where he was born and spent his childhood and youth. Kefalides' memories begin with the 1930s as social and political events shaped... (read more) Your price: $22.50 New - Trade Paper
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The Greek World: Classical, Byzantine and Modern by Robert Browning Publisher Comments This book draws together many fragments to present the entire Greek experience. Under the direction of Robert Browning, Emeritus Professor of Classics at the University of London, twelve international specialists analyze every facet of Greek history... (read more) List Price $34.95 Your price: $7.95 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Greece (Cambridge Concise Histories) by Richard Clogg Publisher Comments This book provides a concise, illustrated introduction to the history of modern Greece, from the first stirrings of the national movement in the late eighteenth century to the present day. It is designed to provide a basic introduction for general and... (read more) List Price $27.99 Your price: $13.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Historical Dictionary of Greece by Thanos Veremēs Publisher Comments Includes information biographies, socioeconomic conditions, institutions, tourism, historic sites, statistics, and the arts. With historical and administrative maps.... (read more) List Price $71.50 Your price: $68.82 Google eBooks - Electronic
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The Emperor Romanus Lecapenus and His Reign: A Study of Tenth-Century Byzantium (Cambridge Paperback Library) by Steven Runciman Publisher Comments This study, centred around the reign of the usurping Emperor Romanus Lecapenus, was originally published in 1929, reissued in 1963, and has been out of print for several years. It contributed to the revival of interest in Byzantine studies at that time... (read more) Your price: $66.25 New - Trade Paper
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Eleftherios Venizelos: Greece: The Peace Conferences of 1919-23 and Their Aftermath (Makers of the Modern World) by Andrew Dalby Publisher Comments Eleftherios Venizelos is one of Greece's greatest—and most controversial—modern statesmen. Prime Minister seven times, he survived three assassination attempts and led three successful rebellions before helping to rebuild a Greece almost... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Hardcover
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Greece at the Crossroads by John O. Iatríds Publisher Comments A collection of essays by European, American, and Australian specialists offering new and authoritative analyses of the Greek civil war and its international dimension.... (read more) Your price: $14.95 Google eBooks - Electronic
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Cambridge Studies in Social and Cultural Anthropology #77: The Making of the Modern Greek Family: Marriage and Exchange in Nineteenth-Century Athens by Paul Sant Cassia Publisher Comments This study deals with a specific set of institutions in nineteenth-century Athens. Relying on matrimonial contracts, travellers' accounts, memoirs and popular literature, the authors show how distinctive forms of marriage, kinship and property... (read more) Your price: $74.95 New - Trade Paper
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Modern Greece (01 Edition) by Thomas Gallant Publisher Comments A concise history of the rich and varied experience of Greece and the Greeks over the past two centuries, this book focuses on the forces and events that have shaped the country and its people, including urbanization, economic development, modernization,... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Cambridge Companion to the Hellenistic World by Glenn Bugh Publisher Comments This Companion volume offers fifteen original essays on the Hellenistic world and is intended to complement and supplement general histories of the period from Alexander the Great to Kleopatra VII of Egypt. Each chapter treats a different aspect of the... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $21.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Athens: A History, from Ancient Ideal to Modern City by Robin Waterfield Publisher Comments In this engaging and readable narrative, noted classicist and author Robin Waterfield traces the life and history of the city of Athens, with an emphasis on the classical period when, in the space of a century, Athens reached the pinnacle of its power... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Greeks and the New: Novelty in Ancient Greek Imagination and Experience by Armand D'angour Publisher Comments The Greeks have long been regarded as innovators across a wide range of fields in literature, culture, philosophy, politics and science. However, little attention has been paid to how they thought and felt about novelty and innovation itself, and to... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought: The Political Hesychasm of John Romanides and Christos Yannaras by Daniel P. Payne Publisher Comments The Revival of Political Hesychasm in Contemporary Orthodox Thought focuses on the retrieval of the spiritual theology of the Orthodox Church and how it is being used in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries to develop a political ideology... (read more) Your price: $93.50 New - Hardcover
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