Books in the Routledge Worlds series

The World of Colonial America: An Atlantic Handbook offers a comprehensive and in-depth survey of cutting-edge research into the world of Early America and its relationship to the surrounding Atlantic economy.

This comprehensive and beautifully illustrated collection conveys a vivid picture of a fascinating and hugely significant period in history. Thematically organised, the volume explores how politics, religion, popular culture, the world of work and social practices fit together in an exciting world of change.

Ranging from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu, the forty-four contributors to The Medieval World seek to bring the Middle Ages to life, offering definitive appraisals of the distinctive features of the period. This second edition has six new chapters and is essential reading for all students of the subject.

The Medieval World brings the Middle Ages to life and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse, constantly changing period. Forty-four scholars bring together one medieval world from many disparate worlds, from Connacht to Constantinople and from Tynemouth to Timbuktu. This new edition includes five new chapters on, peasants, trade and economy, Jews and Jewish society, Byzantium and the Islamic Near East and slavery. This extraordinary set of reconstructions presents the reader with a vivid re-drawing of the medieval past, offering fresh appraisals of the evidence and modern historical writing. Packed full of original scholarship, this book is essential reading for anyone studying medieval history.

This volume provides a solid grounding in the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies and in archaeology, history, literature and art.

A comprehensive guide to the contents, historical settings, and social context of the Bible. This new edition is updated with several new chapters as well as a new section on biblical interpretation.

Provides an exploration of Ancient Egyptian civilization. This book covers seven themes, with each section allowing specialists to focus on a particular topic. It helps readers gain an understanding of ancient Egyptian society.

In this volume over 60 experts provide insights into all aspects of Etruscan culture, with many contributions in English for the first time. The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students.

Offers a collection of essays that cover the period which saw the defeat of the Spanish Armada, the explorations of Francis Drake and Walter Ralegh, the establishment of the Protestant Church, the flourishing of commercial theatre and the works of Edmund Spencer, Philip Sidney and William Shakespeare.

Focusing on the Viking period, this book offers an introduction to the research in the field. It covers such topics as social institutions, spatial issues, the Viking Age economy, warfare, beliefs, language, voyages, and links with medieval and Christian Europe.

In the past fifteen years striking advances have been made in scholarship and research techniques for Etruscan Studies. In this volume, over 60 experts provide insights into all aspects of Etruscan culture, with many contributions available in English for the first time to allow the reader access to research that may not otherwise be available to them. Lavishly illustrated, The Etruscan World brings to life the culture and material past of the Etruscans and highlights key points of development in research, making it essential reading for researchers, academics and students of this fascinating civilization.

This ground-breaking, work is both a reference collection of 27 new essays by leading specialists in their own fields, and also a collective demonstration of major new directions in the study of ancient Greece.

Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book presents the history of the ancient state Babylonia and its 'holy city', Babylon.

This ground-breaking, work is both a reference collection of 27 new essays by leading specialists in their own fields, and also a collective demonstration of major new directions in the study of ancient Greece.

Historicized by the New Testament as a centre of decadence and corruption, Babylon and its surrounding region was in fact a rich and complex civilization, responsible for the invention of the dictionary and laying the foundations of modern science. This book explores all key aspects of the development of this ancient culture.

The Safavid World brings together thirty essays on many aspects of the complex Safavid state, 1501-1722. With the latest insights and arguments, some offer overviews of the period or topic at hand, and others present new interpretations of old questions based on newly found sources.

With over 60 contributions, The Tokugawa World presents the latest scholarship on early modern Japan from an international team of specialists in a volume that is unmatched in its breadth and scope.

This collection of essays presents a synthesis of current research on the Oxus Civilization, which rose and developed at the turn of the 3rd to 2nd millennia BC in Central Asia.

A survey of Pompeii, this book studies not only Pompeii, but also the buried surrounding cities of Campania. It includes the understanding of the region, based on the findings of archaeological work. It is accompanied by a CD with the detailed map of Pompeii.

Now back in print with a new preface by the author and a new jacket, this book is still the most comprehensive survey of the Roman World available.

The most ambitious one-volume survey of the Reformation yet attempted, this book is beautifully illustrated throughout. The strength of this work is its breadth and originality, covering the Church, art, Calvinism and Luther.

Offers a comprehensive analysis of the European Enlightenment (circa 1720-1800) as both an historical epoch and a cultural formation. This collection begins with the intellectual origins of the Enlightenment, and spans early formations up to both contemporary and modern critics of the Enlightenment.

With an interdisciplinary approach that encompasses the history of ideas, political history, cultural history and art history, this title offers a survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid key foundations for many aspects of the modern world.