Bøger af Professor of History

This book deals with the ways empires affect smaller communities and vice versa. It raises the question how these different types of community were integrated into larger imperial structures, and how tensions between local and central interests affected the development of the post-Roman West, Byzantium and the early Islamic world.

This short book explores the complicated relationship between Protestants and American conservatism from colonial times to the recent past. It connects the dots in an accessible way that sheds new light on the Religious Right that has garnered public attention since the 1980s.

John Quincy Adams's long diary (late 1780s-mid 1840s) offers a unique perspective on the history of the early republic. For the first time, David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason produce an edition of the diary that is not only of accessible length but also focused on one central issue: the politics of slavery.

Soldier, Priest, and God is the first life of Alexander the Great to explore his religious experience. F. S. Naiden puts Alexander the Great's experience in Egypt and Asia on a par with his Macedonian upbringing and Greek education and explains how the European conqueror became a Muslim saint.

Mercury's Wings marks a milestone as the first-ever volume devoted to ancient communications. Its eighteen wide-ranging essays by art historians, Assyriologists, Classicists and Egyptologists explore communications as a powerful vehicle not just for the transmission of information, but also for the conduct of religion, commerce, diplomacy, culture and more.

By examining the lives of the colonists through their own words-in diaries, letters, sermons, newspaper columns, and poems-Colonial America: A History in Documents, Second Edition, reveals how immigrants, despite their vast differences, laid the foundations for a new nation.

Boasting a rich, complex history in Celtic and Christian ritual, Halloween has evolved from ethnic celebration to a blend of street festival, fright night, and vast commercial enterprise. In this colorful history, Nicholas Rogers takes a lively, entertaining look at the cultural origins and development of one of the most popular holidays of the year.