This volume challenges patrimonialism as a political model for the ancient Near East by engaging with letters and legal
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In 1929, a farmer accidentally discovered a tomb near the Mediterranean coast of Syria, about 12 km north of the modern
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Hugh 'Boom' Trenchard was embarrassed by being described as 'The Father of the Royal Air Force' - he
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In the spring of 1928, a Syrian farmer was plowing on the Mediterranean coast near a bay called Minet el-Beida. His plow
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This provocative collection of essays is a comprehensive study of the "father-daughter dynamic" in Japanese fe
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The four Hanoverian King Georges may have become fixed in history as 'faintly absurd, certainly unattractive, figur
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The last of the Ptolemaic monarchs who ruled Egypt for 300 years, Cleopatra is the most famous of the Ptolemaic queens.
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There exists a rich literature on the workings of the United States Congress, but The House at Work is the first book to
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As nurses, ‘Jenny Wrens’, and above all as wives and mothers, women have quietly kept the Royal Navy afloat throughout h
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