Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators...

The manuscript Kiel, University Library S.H. 8 A. 8o, which contains the earliest copy of the so-called "Roskilde Chronicle" as well as the complet...

Celebrated for its own clarity and sublime style, this classic work of literary theory draws on the writings of Demosthenes, Plato, Sappho, Thucydi...

Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a C...

Perhaps the clearest and most influential statement of the principles driving the early Protestant reformers, Martin Luther's On the Freedom of a C...

The book is an edition of an ancient Egyptian cosmology for which there is no known parallel. The cosmology was written in the demotic script and p...

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections t...

Designed for students with little or no background in ancient Greek language, history, and culture, this new abridgment presents those selections t...

The First New Zealand Himalayan Expedition, in 1951, was initiated by Earle Riddiford, who with Ed Cotter and Pasang Dawa Lama made the first ascen...

Opening of the Civil War is a complete account of the division of the Union from Lincoln's Election Day in November of 1860 to mid-June of 1861. Be...

Meineck's translation is faithful and supple; the language employed is modern without betraying the grandeur and complexity--particularly the image...

In his two volumes on the Revolution, Bernhard Knollenberg provides a basic narrative of events with extensive citations to the sources and a thoro...

In his two volumes on the Revolution, Bernhard Knollenberg provides a basic narrative of events with extensive citations to the sources and a thoro...

Origin of the American Revolution is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and ...

Origin of the American Revolution is the first of Bernhard Knollenberg's two-part history concerning the basis of the conflict between England and ...

In the first half of the twentieth century, foreign visitors were witnesses to Austria's dramatic history. Political and social issues often oversh...

"When war broke out between the British Empire and the Boer republics in 1899, New Zealand was among Britain’s most enthusiastic supporters. Many w...

"The Pacificus-Helvidius Debates of 1793-1794" matched Hamilton and Madison in the first chapter of an enduring discussion about the proper roles o...

It all began in 1821 with the finding of the Kingittorsuaq stone, the first evidence of runic writing in Norse Greenland. For the first time, resea...

The book studies developments in education and in agricultural productivity, the impact of self-help movements and of the expansion of transportati...

Text in Danish. Bogen handler om mønternes funktion i Norge fra Harald Hårfagers tid (1047-1066) til Svartedauen (pestepidemi i Norge 1349-1350). B...

John Bach McMaster, a professor of American history, and Frederick D Stone, librarian of the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, assembled newspape...

Cold War history research of the recent years suggests that the East-West détente process of the 1970s was a more significant element than previous...

This book discusses the political and economic history of the port of Bushehr, which by the end of the eighteenth century had become the gateway to...

An essential volume for anyone attempting to understand Persia's past and present, this new edition features an introduction by Abbas Amanat, Brown...

First published in Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's Sophocles: Four Tragedies , this riveting translation by Peter Meineck of Sophocles' Philoctet...

"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bia...

"This volume represents a sea change in educational resources for the history of piracy. In a single, readable, and affordable volume, Lane and Bia...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all th...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

Little remains today of the writings of the archaic Greek poet Sappho (fl. late 7th and early 6th centuries B.C.E.), whose work is said to have fil...

This book deals with Alexander’s the Great (Μέγας Ἀλέξανδρος; 356-323 B.C.) campaign in Asia and measures his revenues and expenses during these wa...