City and Empire in the Age of the Successors: Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms [1 ed.] 9780520969223, 9780520296923

City and Empire in the Age of the Successors: Urbanization and Social Response in the Making of the Hellenistic Kingdoms 9780520969223

In the chaotic decades after the death of Alexander the Great, the world of the Greek city-state became deeply embroiled

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The world and the West: the European challenge and the overseas response in the age of empire 9780521771351, 9781316047811, 9780521890540

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Handbook of Religion and the Asian City: Aspiration and Urbanization in the Twenty-First Century 9780520961081

Handbook of Religion and the Asian City highlights the creative and innovative role of urban aspirations in Asian world

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The Making of a Christian Aristocracy: Social and Religious Change in the Western Roman Empire 9780674043046

What did it take to cause the Roman aristocracy to turn to Christianity, changing centuries-old beliefs and religious tr

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The Diadochi: The History of Alexander the Great’s Successors and the Wars that Divided His Empire

*Includes pictures *Includes ancient accounts *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Include

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Tuscany in the Age of Empire 9780674258761

The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure overseas c

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A Capital City at the Margins: Quezon City and Urbanization in the Twentieth-Century Philippines 9789715509237

Quezon City served as the Philippines’s capital for almost three decades (1948–1976), yet Filipinos today barely remembe

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The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz 9780292730755

Mexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio

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Tuscany in the age of empire

"The Renaissance was also the beginning of the Age of Empires, yet the Grand Duchy of Tuscany failed to secure over

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The Urbanization of People: The Politics of Development, Labor Markets, and Schooling in the Chinese City 9780231555838

Eli Friedman reveals how cities in China have granted public goods to the privileged while condemning poor and working-c

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