Best of
Ancient-History

1969

From Babylon to Timbuktu: A History of the Ancient Black Races Including the Black Hebrews


Rudolph R. Windsor - 1969
    It sets forth, in fascinating detail, the history, from earliest recorded times, of the black races of the Middle East and Africa.

The Roman Imperial Army


Graham Webster - 1969
    Graham Webster describes the Roman army's composition, frontier systems, camps and forts, activities in the field (including battle tactics, signaling, and medical services), and peacetime duties, as well as the army's overall influence in the Empire. First published in 1969, the work is corrected and expanded in this third edition, which includes new information from excavations and the findings of contemporary scholars. Hugh Elton provides an introduction surveying scholarship on the Roman army since the last edition of 1985.

Prints and Visual Communication


William Ivins Jr. - 1969
    So released, both have prospered and produced their impressive nineteenth- and twentieth-century outputs. It is this premise that William M. Ivins, Jr., elaborates in Prints and Visual Communication, a history of printmaking from the crudest wood block, through engraving and lithography, to Talbot's discovery of the negative-positive photographic process and its far reaching consequences.

Some Problems of Greek History


Arnold Joseph Toynbee - 1969
    Toynbee reviews convention wisdom on Greek history and uses the facts to verify or invalidate.

Greek Oligarchies: Their Character and Organisation


Leonard Whibley - 1969
    This title is cited and recommended by Books for College Libraries.