BCE period Protohistory Books

c 10 000 to c 4000 BCE
c 1000 BCE to start of CE period
c 20 000 to c 10 000 BCE
c 2000 BCE to c 300 CE Ancient Korean period
c 2000 to c 1000 BCE
c 2686 to c 323 BCE Ancient Egyptian period
c 3000 to c 2000 BCE
c 4000 to c 3000 BCE
c 50 000 to c 20 000 BCE
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  • First Inventors
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    First Inventors

    This is what a history of Australia looks like when it has Indigenous perspectives at its heart. For over 65,000 years, people have made this continent their own through language, song, water and...
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  • Time Travel Twins: The Pharaoh's Tomb
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    Time Travel Twins: The Pharaoh's Tomb

    In the second book in the thrilling series, the Church twins head back in time to Ancient Egypt on the trail of family secrets and their nemesis. Adventure, mystery, history, and humour collide in...
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  • Apothecary Diaries 13 (Manga)
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    Apothecary Diaries 13 (Manga)

    After breaking a "curse" on the imperial heirs, a palace servant with training in herbal medicine is promoted up the ranks to food taster...and right into the thick of palace intrigue in this lushly...
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  • Rise And Fall of Athens
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    Rise And Fall of Athens

    Plutarch traces the fortunes of Athens through nine lives - from Theseus, its founder, to Lysander, its Spartan conqueror - in this seminal work What makes a leader? How does their character affect...
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  • Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific
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    Voyagers: The Settlement of the Pacific

    The extraordinary sixty-thousand-year history of how the Pacific islands were settled. 'Takes readers on a narrative odyssey' Wall Street Journal, Books of the Year 'Highlights a dizzying burst of...
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  • The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt
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    The Rise and Fall of Ancient Egypt

    This is a story studded with extraordinary achievements and historic moments, from the building of the pyramids and the conquest of Nubia, through Akhenaten's religious revolution, the power and...
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  • A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity
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    A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity

    In this volume, tragedy in antiquity is examined synoptically, from its misty origins in archaic Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across...
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  • Symposium
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    Symposium

    In the course of a lively drinking party, a group of Athenian intellectuals exchange views on eros, or desire. From their conversation emerge a series of subtle reflections on gender roles, sex in...
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  • Early History of Rome
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    Early History of Rome

    Livy's brilliant history of the founding and early years of Rome Livy (c. 59 BC-AD 17) dedicated most of his life to writing some 142 volumes of history, the first five of which comprise The Early...
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    Republic

    One of the greatest works of philosophy, political theory, and literature ever produced, Plato's Republic has shaped Western thought for thousands of years, and remains as relevant today as when it...
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  • Conquest of Gaul
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    Conquest of Gaul

    Penguin Classics relaunch Between 58 and 50BC Caesar conquered most of the area now covered by France, Belgium and Switzerland, and twice invaded Britain. This is the record of his campaigns...
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    Histories

    One of the masterpieces of classical literature, the Histories describes how a small and quarrelsome band of Greek city states united to repel the might of the Persian empire. But while this epic...
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  • Persian Expedition
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    Persian Expedition

    Xenophon's account of the Greek war with Persia through the eyes of a young Athenian searching for his destiny abroad In The Persian Expedition, Xenophon, a young Athenian noble who sought his...
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  • Age of Alexander
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    Age of Alexander

    Vivid biographies of famous characters from the Ancient Greek world, in a revised edition of Ian Scott-Kilvert's seminal translation The Parallel Lives of Plutarch are cornerstones of Western...
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  • Money in the Pre-Industrial World
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    Money in the Pre-Industrial World

    The papers in this edited volume discuss key elements of monetarism, including coin denominations, the role of bullion and case studies of substitute moneys.
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  • Childhood in Ancient Athens
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    Childhood in Ancient Athens

    Childhood in Ancient Athens offers an in-depth study of children during the heyday of the Athenian city state, thereby illuminating a significant social group largely ignored by most ancient and...
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  • Writing the Bible
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    Writing the Bible

    For many years it has been recognized that the key to explaining the production of the Bible lies in understanding the profession, the practice and the mentality of scribes in the ancient Near East,...
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  • Desire
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    Desire

    A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the ancient Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire—desire as...
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  • Desire
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    Desire

    A sweeping survey of sexuality in Europe from the ancient Greeks to the present, Desire: A History of European Sexuality follows changing attitudes to two major concepts of sexual desire—desire as...
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  • Cultural History of Physics
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    Cultural History of Physics

    While the physical sciences are a continuously evolving source of technology and of understanding about our world, they have become so specialized and rely on so much prerequisite knowledge that for...
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  • Immigrant Women in Athens
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    Immigrant Women in Athens

    Many of the women whose names are known to history from Classical Athens were metics or immigrants, linked in the literature with assumptions of being ‘sexually exploitable.’ Despite recent...
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  • Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered
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    Aristotle's Moral Realism Reconsidered

    This book elaborates a moral realism of phenomenological inspiration by introducing the idea that moral experience, primordially, constitutes a perceptual grasp of actions and of their solid traces...
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  • Division of Labor in Economics
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    Division of Labor in Economics

    This book provides, for the first time, a systematic and comprehensive narrative of the history of one central idea in economics, namely the division of labour, over the past two and a half...
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  • Data Empire
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    Data Empire

    This groundbreaking 11,000 year history argues that empire was never just about weapons or ships - it was built on collecting information on us, to rule us. Perfect for readers of Nexus and The Age...
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  • Sound Tracks
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    Sound Tracks

    A History of the World in 100 Objects meets Sapiens: the first archaeological history of humanity's musical heritage Wonderfully engaging, expansive and ambitious, Sound Tracks tells the history of...
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  • Agrippa
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    Agrippa

    Robert Harris returns to Ancient Rome in his latest thriller. Julius Caesar is dead, and the lives of two teenaged boys are about to be changed forever. One is Caesar's 17-year-old nephew, Octavius,...
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    Seleucid Armies 312-63 BC

    This colourful study describes and illustrates the troops of the Seleucid Empire in West Asia throughout its turbulent 250-year existence. Founded by the Macedonian general Seleucus I Nicator in 312...
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  • Europe
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    Europe

    The shared history of the European continent, from classical antiquity to today Whether as a battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on the history of the...
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  • Medea
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    Medea

    A Student Edition of Euripides' play, which accessibly unpacks Greek tragedy in its social context, issues of translation and adaptation, and performance approaches over the centuries. Euripides'...
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  • Barbarian
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    Barbarian

    Treacheries, betrayals and bloody battles during the desperate twilight years of Rome's once all-powerful empire - the latest action-packed, thrillingly authentic new Roman historical novel from a...
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  • Europe
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    Europe

    The shared history of the European continent, from classical antiquity to today Whether as a battleground or a cradle of civilizations, Europe has left an enduring imprint on the history of the...
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  • Book of Master Mo
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    Book of Master Mo

    A key work of ancient Chinese philosophy is brought back to life in Ian Johnston's compelling, definitive translation Very little is known about Master Mo, or the school he founded. However, the...
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  • Lacan's Return to Antiquity
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    Lacan's Return to Antiquity

    Chapters 1, 2, and 5 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www...
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  • Cities and Citadels
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    Cities and Citadels

    Cities and Citadels provides an urgent update of archaeology’s engagement with economic theory.Recent events have forced a major reassessment of economic thinking. In the wake of the 2008 Great...
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  • On the Public
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    On the Public

    The media often talk about public opinion, the 'American' or 'British' public, or the movie-going public. A public can hold an opinion and be divided. What is the public and where did it come from?...
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  • Ancient China
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    Ancient China

    Ancient China: A History surveys the East Asian Heartland Region – the geographical area that eventually became known as China – from the Neolithic period through the Bronze Age, to the early...
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