The Empire of the East 9781355832300, 9781138919686, 9781315687728

An Empire of the East 9781780600505

Norman Lewis was eighty-three years old when he embarked on a series of three arduous journeys into the most contentious

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The Assyrians: The History of the Most Prominent Empire of the Ancient Near East

*Includes pictures *Discusses Assyrian military tactics, religious practices, and more *Includes ancient Assyrian accoun

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New Rome: The Empire in the East 9780674269460

Modern states have ever looked to antiquity for lessons, coveting Rome’s power and fearing its decline. So why did Rome

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The Deluge: A Personal View of the End of Empire in the Middle East 9781838600891, 9781784538279

Sir Kennedy Trevaskis was the last High Commissioner of South Arabia - a role he held from 1963–1965, which provided the

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The limits of empire: the Roman army in the East 9780198149521

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Empire of Influence: The East India Company and the Making of Indirect Rule 1009311735, 9781009311731

Indirect rule is widely considered as a defining feature of the nineteenth and twentieth century British Empire but its

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Our Indian Army: Military History of the British Empire in the East

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Erdogan’s Empire: Turkey and the Politics of the Middle East 9781788317399, 9781838603465, 9781786735973

Gradually since 2002, Turkey's autocratic leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan has sought to make Turkey a great power – in

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Lady Anne Blunt in the Middle East: Politics, Travel and the Idea of Empire 9781350987005, 9781786739711

Lady Anne Blunt was a woman ahead of her time. After marrying the poet Wilfrid Scawen Blunt in 1869, the pair travelled

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Rome in the East: the transformation of an empire [Reprinted] 0415113768, 0203023226, 0203142020, 9780415113762, 9780415243575, 0415243572

In this lavishly illustrated and arresting study, Warwick Ball presents the story of Rome's overwhelming fascinatio

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