Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agent Benjamin Stafford discovers smuggled cocaine that may be connected to a retired Army general and a treasonous faction called the Gadsden Group. Stafford must act to save the lives of thousands of people, and America's future.
Offers a new perspective on Byzantine imperial imagery, demonstrating the role foreign styles and iconography played in the visual articulation of imperial power.
Focusing on the three centuries from Augustus to Constantine, the author analyzes the Roman emperor's functions, the social realities behind his exercise of power, and his communication with his subjects
This book offers a chance to see Charles against the background of turmoil and unprecedented European expansion.
Donald Keene, the preeminent authority on Japanese literature, crafts a definitive and vivid history of the life and times of the emperor who opened Japan to the West.
Although the volume cannot hope to be a comprehensive treatment of the emperor in the Byzantine world it aims to cover a broad chronological and thematic span and to play a vital part in setting the agenda for future work.
“Mapping Trans-Imperial Ottoman Space: Alterity and Attraction.” In Representing Imperial Rivalry in the Early Modern Mediterranean, edited by Barbara Fuchs and Emily Weissbourd, 32– 57. Toronto: University of Toronto Press in ...
Introduction: Emperors and expectations -- Portraying the Roman Emperor -- Playing imperial roles -- Being around the Emperor -- The Emperor in capital and provinces -- Conclusions: Emperors in a changing world.
Drawing deftly on an astonishing volume of documentary evidence, Parker has produced a masterpiece: an epic, detailed and vivid life of this complex man and his impossibly large empire.”—Susannah Lipscomb, Financial Times Selected as a ...
Critical studies of various aspects of Slavic literature focus on key writers and the role of history and politics in shaping Eastern European literature
The leader who helped keep the Dark Ages at bay: “An excellent picture of the Crisis of the Third Century and the life and work of Aurelian” (StrategyPage).