We are what we eat: this aphorism contains a profound truth about civilization, one that has played out on the world historical stage over many millennia of hum

First published in 2005. This original study the author writing in 1936 has tried to sketch the character and general movement of the economic and social evolut

From Augustus to Constantine, the Roman Empire in the Near East expanded step by step, southward to the Red Sea and eastward across the Euphrates to the Tigris.