Introduction William Mcdowell (5 results)

Hardback. Condition: Good. Revised Edition (Colonial Press - 1900) Cloth boards. No marks in text Cover has wear with fraying at the corners as well as the head and tail of the spine. Has deckled edges and gilt top edge. Binding is solid, tight and square. xvii, 488 pages plates, portrait. Publisher on spine: Lamb Pub. Co . . . . . . . This manual was written by George Rawlinson (1812?1902), an Oxford historian and Camden Professor of Ancient History. The 1900 Colonial Press edition is a reprint of his definitive work originally issued by Clarendon Press in the 1860s?1880s. It serves as a detailed summary of known ancient history before the 20th century and was often used as a teaching text. The book narrates the rise and fall of the major ancient empires and cultures, including Chald?a, Assyria, Media, Babylonia, Lydia, Phoenicia, Syria, Judea, Egypt, Carthage, Persia, Greece, Macedonia, Rome, and Parthia. Rawlinson organizes the material into distinct parts focusing on:? 1.) The Asiatic and African kingdoms up to the Persian Empire?s foundation under Cyrus the Great --- 2.) The Greek and Macedonian states and their political and cultural achievements --- 3.) The Roman Republic and Empire, leading to the Fall of the Western Empire. . . . Each section combines political chronology with discussions on geography, institutions, religion, art, and literature.

Facsimile ed. Hardback octavo, dustjacket, very good condition (in good dustjacket), foldout chart, page edges foxed, jacket 90% complete (edge pieces missing bottom edge, edgewear, creased), protected by removable semiarchival plastic sleeve. 475 pp. The memoir of Archibald Hamilton Rowan, an Anglo-Irishman who was a staunch defender of Ireland - and who participated in the 1798 rebellion. Originally published in 1840: this facsimile edition, is copyright 1972. It was written in exile in the young United States republic, and was posthumously edited by William Drummond. It is a lively, personal narrative, revealing the serious but frivolous life of a political Irishman of property in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Introduction by R. B. McDowell.

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