The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600
By: Averil Cameron
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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3.91
Format: 110 pages, Paperback
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"The capitalist world-economy needs the states, needs the interstate system, and needs the periodic appearance of hegemonic powers. But the priority of capitalists is never the maintenance, much less …"-Immanuel Wallerstein, World-Systems Analysis: An Introduction
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Format: 197 pages, Paperback
“All this he saw, for one moment breathless and intense, vivid on the morning sky; and still, as he… read more
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2.50
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Was the fall of Rome a great catastrophe that cast the West into darkness for centuries to come? Or… read more
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4.01
Format: 288 pages, Paperback
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"My sister Susan,"-C.S. Lewis, The Last Battle (Chronicles of Narnia, #7)
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4.16
Format: 190 pages, Paperback
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3.60
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4.03
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4.12
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4.05
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4.19
Format: 245 pages, Kindle Edition
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3.46
Format: 379 pages, Hardcover
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4.29
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4.26
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4.08
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19. El dique (Blackwater, #2)
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3.82
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20. The Mediterranean World in Late Antiquity AD 395-600
By: Averil Cameron
3.65
Format: 272 pages, Paperback
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4.04
Format: 186 pages, Kindle Edition
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