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• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 11 October 2012

The story of the wars that led to the break-up of Alexander the Great's vast empire after his death in 323 BC and the brilliant cultural developments which accompanied this birth

• Publisher : Unknown Publisher
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and

• Publisher : Vintage
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• Release Date : 13 November 2012

When Alexander the Great died at the age of thirty-two, his empire stretched from the Adriatic Sea in the west all the way to modern-day India in the east. In

• Publisher : Princeton University Press
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• Release Date : 21 July 2010

Presents a short history of Alexander the Great's conquest of the Persian empire, from the Mediterranean to Central Asia. This book sets the rise of Alexander's short-lived empire within the

• Publisher : Ancient Warfare and Civilizati
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• Release Date : 02 June 2024

Chronicles Rome's policies in the Greek East, which began as self-rule so that the Empire could focus on the Carthaginian menace in the West, but later moved to more direct

• Publisher : University of Chicago Press
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• Release Date : 25 October 2012

The conclusion of the “majestic” quartet about the waning days of the British empire in India, “a commanding achievement” (Kirkus Reviews, starred review). After exploiting India’s divisions for years,

• Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
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• Release Date : 02 August 2012

Everyone has heard of Alexander the Great, the famous conqueror. But what happened after his death to the lands he had conquered? It took forty years of world-changing warfare for

• Publisher : Oxford University Press
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• Release Date : 01 October 2012

In this bold, sweeping book, David Day surveys the ways in which one nation or society has supplanted another, and then sought to justify its occupation - for example, the

• Publisher : Univ of California Press
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• Release Date : 24 September 1990

The Hellenistic Age, the three extraordinary centuries from the death of Alexander in 323 B. C. to Octavian's final defeat of Antony and Cleopatra at the Battle of Actium, has offered

• Publisher : Casemate Publishers
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• Release Date : 19 January 2013

This history of Ancient Greek warfare vividly chronicles the struggle for control of the Macedonian Empire, a fateful time of change in the Ancient World. As the story goes, Alexander