Books in the Routledge Worlds series

A guide to Islamic faith and culture in all its geographical and historical diversity. It elucidates the history, philosophy and practice of one of the world's great religious traditions. It covers the political, geographical, religious, intellectual, cultural and social worlds of Islam, and offers insight into all aspects of Muslim life.

The Hindu World is the most complete, authoritative and up-to-date one-volume guide to Hindu faith and culture available today.

An exceptionally detailed and comprehensive study of the Celts, drawing together material from all over pagan Celtic Europe, and including contributions from US, European and British scholars.

Part of the "Routledge Worlds" series, this book offers a survey of Europe in the Renaissance, from the late thirteenth to early seventeenth centuries, and shows how the Renaissance laid foundations for many aspects of the world. It begins with a section on the antecedents of the Renaissance world, and ends with its lasting influence.

A collection of essays that deals with the world of the American West, and conveys the distinctiveness of this diverse region. It incorporates the research in the field to take the history of the American West out of its timeworn 'Cowboys and Indians' stereotype right up to the discussions of water rights and the presence of the defense industry.

Explores Ancient Egyptian civilization. This book covers seven broad themes.

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.

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.

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.

With contributions from thirty specialist historians, The Ottoman World addresses the key questions of how Ottoman authority was maintained over such a diverse empire, how the provinces related to the imperial centre, what impact Ottoman rule had on its subjects, and whether there was in fact such a thing as an "Ottoman world".

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.