The rise and fall of the Roman Empire was a socio-political process with enormous
ramifications for human history. The Middle Danube was a crucial frontier and a crossroads …

This monograph provides an overview of research into disasters from a historical
perspective, making two new contributions. First, it introduces the field of 'disaster studies' to …

In The Open Sea, JG Manning offers a major new history of economic life in the
Mediterranean world in the Iron Age, from Phoenician trading down to the Hellenistic era …

Recent decades have seen the rapid expansion of scholarship that identifies societal
responses to past climatic fluctuations. This fast-changing scholarship, which was recently …

We propose a dedicated research effort on the determinants of settlement persistence in the
ancient world, with the potential to significantly advance the scientific understanding of …

Religious freedom has become an emblematic value in the West. Embedded in constitutions
and championed by politicians and thinkers across the political spectrum, it is to many an …

Most humans are significantly richer than their ancestors. Humanity gained nearly all of its
wealth in the last two centuries. How did this come to pass? How did the world become rich …

Climate variability and natural hazards like floods and earthquakes can act as
environmental shocks or socioecological stressors leading to instability and suffering …

Investigation into the nexus of human-environmental behavior has seen increasing
collaboration of archaeologists, historians, and paleo-scientists. However, many studies still …