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Black Athena the Afroasiatic Roots Volume 2 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 $34.95 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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The Fall of Constantinople 1453 by Steven Runciman Publisher Comments While their victory ensured the Turks' survival, the conquest of Constantinople marked the end of Byzantine civilization for the Greeks, by triggering the scholarly exodus that caused an influx of Classical studies into the European Renaissance.... (read more) List Price $23.75 Your price: $12.95 Used - 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 $29.95 Your price: $15.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Written on the Knee: A Diary from the Greek-Italian Front of WWII by Theodore Electris, Dr. Publisher Comments During the Greek-Italian conflict of World War II, Dr. Theodore Electris, newly married and idealistic, was called up to the Greek-Italian front in the remote mountains of Albania. Homesick, hungry and desperately missing his young wife, Chrysoula, he... (read more) Your price: $16.95 New - 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: $45.75 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) List Price $97.00 Your price: $95.50 New - Hardcover
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Readings in Greek History : Sources and Interpretations (07 Edition) by D. Brendan Nagle Publisher Comments An ideal reader for courses in Greek history, Greek civilization, and Western civilization, this comprehensive collection of more than 180 historical source documents covers major aspects of Greek civilization from the Archaic Age through the end of the... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $38.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Bosnia by Noel Malcolm Publisher Comments Discusses the different ethnic and religious groups that inhabit Bosnia, and looks at the political and cultural upheaval that have been a continuing part of the region's... (read more) Your price: $40.95 New - Prebind
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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: $5.95 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) Your price: $25.50 New - Trade Paper
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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, centered 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: $58.95 New - Trade Paper
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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) List Price $68.50 Your price: $50.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Greece (Brief Histories) by Thomas Gallant Publisher Comments This book is a concise history of the rich and varied experience of Greece and the Greeks over the past two centuries. It focuses on the forces and events that have shaped the country and its people, including urbanization, economic development... (read more) Your price: $61.75 New - Trade Paper
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Macedonia and the Macedonians: A History by Andrew Rossos Book News Annotation In a succinct history of his native Macedonia, Rossos (history, U. of Toronto) theoretically begins with the Argead Kingdom about 600 BC, but in fact barely skims the centuries before 1800; indeed the one Macedonian everyone knows about rates a mere... (read more) Your price: $40.00 New - Hardcover
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The Cyprus Referendum: A Divided Island and the Challenge of the Annan Plan (International Library of Twentieth Centruy History) by Chrysostomos Pericleous Publisher Comments The Cyprus referendum of 2004 was a definitive moment in the recent history of Cyprus. The island's future hung in the balance -- specifically the fate of the controversial Annan Plan, which proposed the creation of a single United Cyprus Republic with... (read more) List Price $98.50 Your price: $96.75 New - Hardcover
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Studies in Sexual Inversion Embodying a Study in Greek Ethics and a Study in Modern Ethics by John Addington Symonds Publisher Comments Homosexuality and pederasty in Greece and the modern age, an ethical reconsideration. Part one, a problem in Greek ethics, contains, among other chapters, Homer had no knowledge of pederasty - Achilles - treatment of Homer by the later Greeks; Romance of... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Trade Paper
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The Byzantine Empire (World History) by James A. Corrick Publisher Comments The Byzantine Empire -- the surviving eastern portion of the Roman Empire -- spanned the Middle Ages, during much of which time it was the dominant European power. The empire was both a storehouse of ancient classical writing and a defender of Europe... (read more) List Price $37.50 Your price: $35.75 New - Library
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Tormented by History: Nationalism in Greece and Turkey by Umut Ozkirimli Publisher Comments Tormented by History traces the emergence and development of the Greek and Turkish nationalist projects over the past two hundred years. Grounded in an extensive critical review of the historiography and literature on Greek and Turkish nationalisms, this... (read more) Your price: $53.50 New - Hardcover
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Greek Tyranny (Bristol Phoenix Press - Greece and Rome Live) by Sian Lewis Publisher Comments As well as introducing the reader to individual Greek tyrants, Greek Tyranny situates the phenomenon of tyranny within Mediterranean society as a whole, rather than treating it as an isolated episode. The title ‘tyrant’ became gradually less... (read more) List Price $92.50 Your price: $86.95 New - Hardcover
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