Since the late nineteenth century, cultural historians have noted that the importance of love
increased during the Medieval and Early Modern European period (a phenomenon that was …

The Roman Empire at Bay is the only one volume history of the critical years 180-395 AD,
which saw the transformation of the Roman Empire from a unitary state centred on Rome …

Harvesting the Sea provides the first systematic treatment of the exploitation of various
marine resources, such as large-scale fishing, fish salting, salt and purple-dye production …

Lord Byron described Greece as great, fallen, and immortal, a characterization more apt
than he knew. Through most of its long history, Greece was poor. But in the classical era …

Over the last few decades, in disciplines as diverse as economics, geography and complex
systems, a perspective has arisen proposing that many properties of cities are quantitatively …

Do fixed geographic features such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can
historical events trap towns in unfavourable locations for centuries? We examine the effects …

Urbanization modifies the landscape with green and blue spaces (GBS), which further leads
to a functional change along an urban-rural gradient. Emotional improvement is a critical …

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 …

This book started life as a thesis that was submitted for a D. Phil. at the University of Oxford
in 2016 and has been revised during my time as a research associate at the University of …

Rome in the archaic age was a minor satellite between the Etruscan and Greek world. This
book traces the expansion of Roman influence first within Italy, then around the …