Information and Frontiers: Roman Foreign Relations in Late Antiquity By A. D. Lee
Publisher: Cambridge University Press 1993-08-27 | 236 Pages | ISBN: 052139256X | PDF | 11 MB
During late antiquity the Roman empire faced serious threats from the peoples to the east and to the north. This book is concerned with the role played by information and intelligence in the empire's relations with these peoples, how well-informed about them the empire was, and how such information was acquired...

Kretschmer, M.T., "Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages (Mittellateinische Studien Und Texte)"
Publisher: BRILL | 2007 | ISBN 9004157107 | PDF | 441 pages | 10.8 MB
The Bamberg version of the Historia Romana represents a fascinating witness to the transition from Latin to vernacular literature, which the author relates to the intellectual and ideological milieu of the Ottonians. This book presents the first edition of the paraphrase contained in the manuscript Bamberg, Hist. 3.

Simon R. Doubleday, "The Lara Family: Crown and Nobility in Medieval Spain (Harvard Historical Studies)"
Harvard University Press | 2001-09-14 | ISBN: 0674006062 | 208 pages | PDF | 1.97 MB

Dio Cassius, "Roman History, IV: Books 41-45 (Loeb Classical Library)"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1916 | ISBN 0674990730 | PDF | 524 pages | 21.7 MB
Dio Cassius (Cassius Dio), ca. 150– 235 CE, was born at Nicaea in Bithynia in Asia Minor. On the death of his father (Roman governor of Cilicia) he went in 180 to Rome, entered the Senate, and under the emperor Commodus was an advocate. He held high offices, becoming a close friend of several emperors. He was made governor of Pergamum and Smyrna; consul in 220; proconsul of Africa; governor of Dalmatia and then of Pannonia; and consul again in 229.
Of the eighty books of Dio's great work Roman History, covering the era from the legendary landing of Aeneas in Italy to the reign of Alexander Severus (222–235 CE), we possess Books 36–60 (36 and 55–60 have gaps), which cover the years 68 BCE–47 CE. The missing portions are partly supplied, for the earlier gaps by Zonaras, who relies closely on Dio, and for some later gaps (Book 35 onwards) by John Xiphilinus (of the eleventh century). There are also many excerpts. The facilities for research afforded by Dio's official duties and his own industry make him a very vital source for Roman history of the last years of the republic and the first four emperors.

Richard Alston, "Aspects Of Roman History AD 14 - 117"
Publisher: Routledge | 1998 | ISBN 0415132363 | PDF | 285 pages | 10.5 MB
Aspects of Roman History charts the history of the Roman Imperial period, from the establishment of the Augustan principate to the reign of Trajan, providing a basic chronological framework of the main events and introductory outlines of the major issues of the period. The book details the development of the Roman Imperial rule, emperor by emperor, and discusses the important themes in the period, including the political, military, religious, economic and social functioning of the Roman Empire.

Philip Gould, "Barbaric Traffic: Commerce and Antislavery in the (18th) Eighteenth-Century Atlantic World"
Harvard University Press | 2003-11-27 | ISBN: 067401166X | 272 pages | PDF | 1.02 MB

Columella, "Columella: On Agriculture, Volume I, Books I-IV (Loeb Classical Library No. 361)"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1941 | ISBN 0674993985 | PDF | 512 pages | 14.9 MB
Columella (Lucius Iunius Moderatus) of Gades (Cadiz) lived in the reigns of the first emperors to about 70 CE. He moved early in life to Italy where he owned farms and lived near Rome. It is probable that he did military service in Syria and Cilicia and that he died at Tarentum. Columella's On Agriculture (De Re Rustica) is the most comprehensive, systematic and detailed of Roman agricultural works. Book I covers choice of farming site; water supply; buildings; staff. II: Ploughing; fertilising; care of crops. III, IV, V: Cultivation, grafting and pruning of fruit trees, vines, and olives. VI: Acquisition, breeding, and rearing of oxen, horses, and mules; veterinary medicine. VII: Sheep, goats, pigs, and dogs. VIII: Poultry; fish ponds. IX: Bee-keeping. X (in hexameter poetry): Gardening. XI: Duties of the overseer of a farm; calendar for farm work; more on gardening. XII: Duties of the overseer's wife; manufacture of wines; pickling; preserving. There is also a separate treatise, Trees (De Arboribus), on vines and olives and various trees, perhaps part of an otherwise lost work written before On Agriculture.

H. Boyd, "Lucius Junius Moderatus Columella On Agriculture. Volume I. Res Rustica I-IV"
Publisher: William Heinemann Medical Books | 1948 | ISBN B001ALX4EM | PDF | 512 pages | 17.3 MB

Diodorus Siculus, "Dio Chrysostom. Volume IV"
Publisher: Loeb Classical Library | 1946 | ISBN 0674994132 | PDF | 500 pages | 15.6 MB
Diodorus Siculus, Greek historian of Agyrium in Sicily, ca. 80–20 BCE, wrote forty books of world history, called Library of History, in three parts: mythical history of peoples, non-Greek and Greek, to the Trojan War; history to Alexander's death (323 BCE); history to 54 BCE. Of this we have complete Books I–V (Egyptians, Assyrians, Ethiopians, Greeks) and Books XI–XX (Greek history 480–302 BCE); and fragments of the rest. He was an uncritical compiler, but used good sources and reproduced them faithfully. He is valuable for details unrecorded elsewhere, and as evidence for works now lost, especially writings of Ephorus, Apollodorus, Agatharchides, Philistus, and Timaeus.

Jimmy Carter, "Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid (Hardcover)"
Publisher: Simon & Schuster | 2006 | ISBN 0743285026 | PDF | 372 pages | 11.6 MB
The crowning achievement of Jimmy Carter's presidency was the Camp David Accords between Israel and Egypt, and he has continued his public and private diplomacy ever since, winning the Nobel Peace Prize in 2002 for his decades of work for peace, human rights, and international development. He has been a tireless author since then as well, writing bestselling books on his childhood, his faith, and American history and politics, but in Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid, he has returned to the Middle East and to the question of Israel's peace with its neighbors--in particular, how Israeli sovereignty and security can coexist permanently and peacefully with Palestinian nationhood. It's a rare honor to ask questions of a former president, and we are grateful that President Carter was able to take the time in between his work with his wife, Rosalynn, for the Carter Center and Habitat for Humanity and his many writing projects to speak with us about his hopes for the region and his thoughts on the book.

Colin Gordon, "Dead on Arrival: The Politics of Health Care in Twentieth-Century America (Politics and Society in Twentieth Century America)"
Publisher: Princeton University Press | 2003 | ISBN 0691058067 | PDF | 334 pages | 10.2 MB
Why, alone among industrial democracies, does the United States not have national health insurance? While many books have addressed this question, Dead on Arrival is the first to do so based on original archival research for the full sweep of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide range of political, reform, business, and labor records, Colin Gordon traces a complex and interwoven story of political failure and private response. He examines, in turn, the emergence of private, work-based benefits; the uniquely American pursuit of "social insurance"; the influence of race and gender on the health care debate; and the ongoing confrontation between reformers and powerful economic and health interests.

Cottrell, "From the Athenian Tetradrachm to the Euro (Studies in Banking and Financial History)"
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing | 2007 | ISBN 0754653897 | PDF | 211 pages | 10.5 MB
With the introduction of the Euro much recent attention has been focused on the role of currencies and their national and international significance. Whilst much has been made of the Euro's achievements in harmonising Europe's financial dealings, it is often forgotten that it is by no means the first pan-national currency to enter circulation. Indeed, as the various contributions to this volume make plain, the Euro can in many ways be regarded as a step 'back to the future', that is, a further international currency in a long historical tradition that includes the Athenian tetradrachm, the Spain escudo and the French franc. Covering a timespan of some two and a half millennia, the contributions within this volume fall within four broad chronological sections, the first comprising three contributions that consider aspects of the European experience from classical antiquity until the high middle ages. The discussion then leaps forward chronologically to the modern age, given a focus by three contributions devoted to nineteenth-century European developments. These, in turn, are set within a wider spatial perspective by two essays that review, first, the classical gold standard, primarily in terms of peripheral economies' experience, and, second, the Bretton Woods system. Fourth, and lastly, the Euro's origins and birth are explored in three further contributions. By taking such a long term view of supra-national currencies, this volume provides a unique perspective, not only to the introduction and development of the Euro, and its predecessors, but also on the broader question of the relationship between trade and common currencies.

Каталог древних монет южного Узбекистана
1981 | Э.В. Ртвеладзе, Ш.Р. Пидаев | Фан | руcский | PDF | 121 pages | 9.9 Mb
В монографии дается подробное описание монет, найденных при раскопках древних поселений Сурхандарьинской области.