By Andrew Erskine
- Examines the different types of facts, difficulties, methods, and significant issues within the research of historic history
- Comprises greater than forty essays, written by way of top foreign scholars
- Moves past the first concentrate on Greece and Rome with insurance of a few of the cultures in the old Mediterranean
- Draws at the most recent examine within the field
- Provides a necessary source for any pupil of old history
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