BCE period Protohistory Books

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  • Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)
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    Torture and Truth (Routledge Revivals)

    Page duBois

    First published in 1991, this book — through the examination of ancient Greek literary, philosophical and legal texts — analyses how the Athenian torture of slaves emerged from and reinforced the...
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  • Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions
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    Wisdom in Early Confucian and Israelite Traditions

    Xinzhong Yao

    Wisdom is an integratal part of all philosophical and religious traditions in the world. Focusing on the concept of wisdom, this book examines the difficulties and problems facing comparative studies...
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  • History
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    History

    John Higham

    This book, originally published in 1977, is a survey of European historiography from its origins in the historians of Greece and Rome, through the annalists and chroniclers of the middle ages, to the...
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  • Vergiliana
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    Vergiliana

    Egil Kraggerud

    In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid. Through these and in his...
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  • History That Breathes
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    History That Breathes

    Saroj Kumar Rath

    The book examines the profound historical roots and expansive potential of computation and artificial intelligence. Bridging ancient mathematical traditions—like India’s Sulva Sutras and the ideas of...
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  • Peasant Wars in Feudal Society
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    Peasant Wars in Feudal Society

    Ma Keyao

    This book offers a wide-ranging, comparative study of peasant uprisings and wars in feudal societies, with a focus on China and Western and Eastern Europe from antiquity to the early modern period...
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  • Quest of Reality
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    Quest of Reality

    The Right Rev. Monsignor Walshe

    First published in 1933, The Quest of Reality offers a comprehensive exploration of Western philosophy. Spanning from Pre-Socratic thinkers to modern philosophical systems, the book delves into the...
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  • Mauryan Public Finance
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    Mauryan Public Finance

    M. H. Gopal

    First published in 1935, Mauryan Public Finance by M.H. Gopal explores the economic administration of the Mauryan Empire through the lens of modern economics. Drawing primarily from Kautilya’s...
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  • Peripatetic Ethics in Theophrastus and After
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    Peripatetic Ethics in Theophrastus and After

    Arnaud Zucker

    This volume presents up-to-date insights into the ethical theories of Aristotle’s followers, beginning with his colleagues Theophrastus and Eudemus and covering a broad range of figures, topics and...
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  • Rethinking Diodorus’ Library of History
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    Rethinking Diodorus’ Library of History

    Andrzej Dudziński

    The book offers a reassessment of Diodorus Siculus' historiographical principles and their application in the Bibliotheke Historike, approached through systematic analysis of the text rather than...
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  • Correlative Worldviews
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    Correlative Worldviews

    Per-Johan Norelius

    This book explores the topic of correlative worldviews from a comparative and cognitive perspective. Correlative worldviews are premodern cosmologies that posit linkages between different planes of...
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  • Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking
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    Ziran in Early Daoist Thinking

    Jing Liu

    This book offers a different understanding of nature by investigating the concept of ziran 自然 in the early Daoist texts that lay a metaphysical foundation for Daoism, Daoist environmentalism, and...
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  • Brief History of Chinese Philosophy
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    Brief History of Chinese Philosophy

    Guo Qiyong

    This book presents the essential ideas of influential Chinese philosophical traditions that have shaped the Chinese nation, explaining the core propositions of major thinkers in a clear and...
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  • Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis
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    Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis

    Kyriakos Savvopoulos

    This is the first book dedicated to Alexandria’s religious world, reconstructing its sacred topography, material culture, and ritual life across seven centuries from the establishment of the...
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  • Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis
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    Alexandria of Egypt, The Divine Cosmopolis

    Kyriakos Savvopoulos

    This is the first book dedicated to Alexandria’s religious world, reconstructing its sacred topography, material culture, and ritual life across seven centuries from the establishment of the...
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  • On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics
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    On the Greek Origins of Biopolitics

    Mika Ojakangas

    This book explores the origins of western biopolitics in ancient Greek political thought. Ojakangas’s argues that the conception of politics as the regulation of the quantity and quality of...
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  • Challenging the Mandate of Heaven
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    Challenging the Mandate of Heaven

    Elizabeth J. Perry

    Social science theories of contentious politics have been based almost exclusively on evidence drawn from the European and American experience, and classic texts in the field make no mention of...
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  • Aristotle, Emotions, and Education
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    Aristotle, Emotions, and Education

    Kristján Kristjánsson

    What can Aristotle teach us that is relevant to contemporary moral and educational concerns? What can we learn from him about the nature of moral development, the justifiability and educability of...
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  • Vergiliana
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    Vergiliana

    Egil Kraggerud

    In Vergiliana Egil Kraggerud collects together over 100 new, revised, and previously published discussions of textual issues in Vergil’s Eclogues, Georgics, and the Aeneid. Through these and in his...
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  • Text, Translation, Theology
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    Text, Translation, Theology

    Bertil Albrektson

    Text, translation, theology - the three nouns in the title indicate the main fields of Old Testament study which are covered in this collection of essays. Text refers both to the history of biblical...
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  • Phenomenology of Love and Hate
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    Phenomenology of Love and Hate

    Peter Hadreas

    Using phenomenology to uncover the implicit logic in personal love, sexual love, and hatred, Peter Hadreas provides new insights into the uniqueness of the beloved and offers fresh explanations for...
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  • Plato's Gods
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    Plato's Gods

    Gerd Van Riel

    This book presents a comprehensive study into Plato's theological doctrines, offering an important re-valuation of the status of Plato's gods and the relation between metaphysics and theology...
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  • Greek Philosophers as Theologians
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    Greek Philosophers as Theologians

    Adam Drozdek

    Concepts of God presented by Greek philosophers were significantly different from the image of the divine of popular religion and indicate a fairly sophisticated theological reflection from the very...
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  • Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity
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    Biblical Interpretation Beyond Historicity

    Ingrid Hjelm

    Biblical Interpretation beyond Historicity evaluates the new perspectives that have emerged since the crisis over historicity in the 1970s and 80s in the field of biblical scholarship. Several new...
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  • Marketing, Rhetoric and Control
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    Marketing, Rhetoric and Control

    Christopher Miles

    Marketing, Rhetoric and Control investigates the tensions that surround the place of persuasion (and, more broadly, control) in marketing. Persuasion has variously been seen as an embarrassment to...
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  • Culture, Institution, and Development in China
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    Culture, Institution, and Development in China

    C. Simon Fan

    How does culture shape history, and history shape culture? This book answers this question by bringing readers on a fascinating journey through the evolution of Chinese culture, political and legal...
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  • Excavations At Ur
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    Excavations At Ur

    Sir Leonard Woolley

    First published in 2010. Sir Leonard Woolley was an archaeologist and this book is about his dig at Ur, which is the subject of this classic work, inspired Agatha Christie's Murder in Mesopotamia...
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  • Egyptian Art
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    Egyptian Art

    Maspero

    First published in 2005. Gaston Maspero, the leading expert on Egyptian art, writes here with authority and style on a very significant aspect of ancient Egypt. By compiling and publishing this...
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  • Human Agency and Divine Will
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    Human Agency and Divine Will

    Charlotte Katzoff

    This book explores the conjuncture of human agency and divine volition in the biblical narrative – sometimes referred to as "double causality." A commonly held view has it that the biblical narrative...
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  • What is the Bible?
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    What is the Bible?

    J.A. Ruth

    First published in 1904, this volume questioned whether the Bible is in its entirety the literal Word of God. The author’s strong background in evangelical Christianity led them to question numerous...
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  • Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine
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    Hearing Voices, Demonic and Divine

    Christopher C. H. Cook

    The Open Access version of this book, available at www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781472453983, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivative 4.0 license...
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  • Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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    Israel and the Dead Sea Scrolls

    Edmund Wilson

    The Dead Sea Scrolls, a collection of 972 documents discovered between 1946 and 1956, are of immeasurable religious and historical significance. They include the oldest known surviving copies of...
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  • Theophrastus
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    Theophrastus

    Johannes M. van Ophuijsen

    Theophrastus was Aristotle's pupil and second head of the Peripatetic School. Apart from two botanical works, a collection of character sketches, and several scientific opuscula, his works survive...
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  • Thucydides
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    Thucydides

    G.F. Abbott

    First published in 1925, this thoughtful volume constitutes an excellent English introduction to one of the great ancient historians. Originating from its author’s re-reading of Thucydides during...
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  • Complex Integral Realist Perspective
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    Complex Integral Realist Perspective

    Paul Marshall

    This book sketches the contours of a vision that moves beyond the dominant paradigm or worldview that underlies and governs modernity (and postmodernity). It does so by drawing on the remarkable leap...
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  • Women and Dionysus
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    Women and Dionysus

    Maggy Anthony

    Women and Dionysus links repression of the Dionysian spirit in Western culture with the rise of the patriarchy over the course of two millennia. It effectively draws aconnection between Dionysus and...
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  • Early Mesopotamia
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    Early Mesopotamia

    Nicholas Postgate

    The roots of our modern world lie in the civilization of Mesopotamia, which saw the development of the first urban society and the invention of writing. The cuneiform texts reveal the technological...
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  • Reimagining Arab Political Identity
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    Reimagining Arab Political Identity

    Salam Hawa

    This book discusses the idea that Arab cultural and political identity has been suppressed by centuries of dominance by imperial outsiders and by religious and nationalist ideologies with the result...
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  • Homicide in the Attic Orators
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    Homicide in the Attic Orators

    Christine Plastow

    This study identifies specific features in the legal procedure and social perception of homicide in Athens in the time of the orators and examines how these features affected and were represented and...
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  • Jeremiah in History and Tradition
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    Jeremiah in History and Tradition

    Jim West

    Jeremiah in History and Tradition examines aspects of the Book of Jeremiah from a variety of perspectives including historical, textual, redaction, and feminist criticism, as well as the history of...
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  • Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being
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    Portraiture and Critical Reflections on Being

    Euripides Altintzoglou

    This book analyzes the philosophical origins of dualism in portraiture in Western culture during the Classical period, through to contemporary modes of portraiture. Dualism – the separation of mind...
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  • Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics
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    Multiverse and Participatory Metaphysics

    Jamie Boulding

    This book offers a new theological approach to the multiverse hypothesis. With a distinctive methodology, it shows that participatory metaphysics from ancient and medieval sources represents a...
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  • Humanism
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    Humanism

    Moses Hadas

    Originally published in the UK in 1961 this was an unconventional book when first published but a powerful interpretation of Greek individualism. The author examines the influence of the Greeks on...
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