Beyond Britannia
Beyond Britannia

Author: Simon McDonald

Publisher: Haus Publishing

Published: 2023-11-03

Total Pages: 282

ISBN-13: 1913368912

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An argument for a new approach to foreign policy in the United Kingdom. What should the future of British foreign policy look like? For too long, successive governments have shied away from acknowledging uncomfortable truths about the decline of Britain’s military capabilities. As we approach the middle years of the twenty-first century, a new set of urgent and daunting challenges lie ahead, including climate change, technological development, the rise of AI, and a growing threat from China. The need for us to reconcile ourselves with our position in the world has never been more acute. In Beyond Britannia: Reshaping UK Foreign Policy, Simon McDonald persuasively argues that the United Kingdom’s significant soft-power strengths can be harnessed to expand its international influence. Such a shift will only be possible, he says, if we first acknowledge the challenges of Brexit and the need to reduce our unrealistic hard-power ambitions. Excellence in areas that other countries care about will keep the United Kingdom internationally relevant in the second half of the century in a way that nostalgia for a lost pre-eminence will not.

Beyond Greek
Beyond Greek

Author: Denis Feeney

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2016-01-04

Total Pages: 392

ISBN-13: 0674055233

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A History Today Best Book of the Year A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year Virgil, Ovid, Cicero, Horace, and other authors of ancient Rome are so firmly established in the Western canon today that the birth of Latin literature seems inevitable. Yet, Denis Feeney boldly argues, the beginnings of Latin literature were anything but inevitable. The cultural flourishing that in time produced the Aeneid, the Metamorphoses, and other Latin classics was one of the strangest events in history. “Feeney is to be congratulated on his willingness to put Roman literary history in a big comparative context...It is a powerful testimony to the importance of Denis Feeney’s work that the old chestnuts of classical literary history—how the Romans got themselves Hellenized, and whether those jack-booted thugs felt anxiously belated or smugly domineering in their appropriation of Greek culture for their own purposes—feel fresh and urgent again.” —Emily Wilson, Times Literary Supplement “[Feeney’s] bold theme and vigorous writing render Beyond Greek of interest to anyone intrigued by the history and literature of the classical world.” —The Economist

The Rough Guide to Canada
The Rough Guide to Canada

Author: Tim Jepson

Publisher: Rough Guides

Published: 2004

Total Pages: 1164

ISBN-13: 9781843532668

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Thoroughly revised and updated, the fifth edition of the Rough Guide to Canada covers this vast and geographically diverse country in impressive detail. There are insightful accounts of every Canadian city, from vibrant Montréal to laid back Vancouver, and vivid descriptions of Canada''s varied landscapes, from the magnificent Rocky Mountains and the stormy coasts of the Maritimes to the northern Arctic reaches. Throughout there is practical advice on skiing, whale-watching, kayaking, hiking and a host of other outdoor pursuits. Thousands of listings recommend the best accommodation options, restaurants, bars and clubs in every price range.

Literary Sources for Roman Britain
Literary Sources for Roman Britain

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Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-06-30

Total Pages: 98

ISBN-13: 1009383256

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This volume in the LACTOR Sourcebooks in Ancient History series offers a generous selection of literary sources for Roman Britain, with accompanying notes, a glossary and a list of emperors. It provides for the needs of students at schools and universities who are studying ancient history in English translation and has been written and reviewed by experienced teachers.

The Archaeology of Roman Britain
The Archaeology of Roman Britain

Author: Adam Rogers

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2014-10-10

Total Pages: 244

ISBN-13: 1317633857

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Within the colonial history of the British Empire there are difficulties in reconstructing the lives of people that came from very different traditions of experience. The Archaeology of Roman Britain argues that a similar critical approach to the lives of people in Roman Britain needs to be developed, not only for the study of the local population but also those coming into Britain from elsewhere in the Empire who developed distinctive colonial lives. This critical, biographical approach can be extended and applied to places, structures, and things which developed in these provincial contexts as they were used and experienced over time. This book uniquely combines the study of all of these elements to access the character of Roman Britain and the lives, experiences, and identities of people living there through four centuries of occupation. Drawing on the concept of the biography and using it as an analytical tool, author Adam Rogers situates the archaeological material of Roman Britain within the within the political, geographical, and temporal context of the Roman Empire. This study will be of interest to scholars of Roman archaeology, as well as those working in biographical themes, issues of colonialism, identity, ancient history, and classics.

The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire
The Sanctuary at Bath in the Roman Empire

Author: Eleri H. Cousins

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2020-01-16

Total Pages: 239

ISBN-13: 110849319X

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Using a broad array of archaeology, art, and text, this book revolutionizes our understanding of the Roman sanctuary at Bath.

Centurion & Assassin III: The Euxine Sea
Centurion & Assassin III: The Euxine Sea

Author: Robert D. Lewallen

Publisher: Lulu.com

Published: 2020-02-20

Total Pages: 246

ISBN-13: 1678104965

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Tiberias Claudius Fatalis and Ming the Assassin were hoping for an easy assignment from Emperor Domitian-deal with a group of pesky pirates that were interfering with Rome's purple dye trade and deal with some equally pesky Dacians causing problems for colonies along the Euxine Sea. Sounded simple enough but Tiberias and Ming both know that an assignment is never 'simple'. This assignment also involves tales of mysterious 'silver birds' and women warriors of the grasslands; the mythical Amazons now lost to Roman history. Perhaps a not quite so simple assignment but pirates and pesky warriors they've dealt with before. But there's also something much more sinister lurking among the Euxine colonies - the 'Moroi'. Blood drinkers who've been preying on the Euxine colonists and who've seem to have formed an unnerving alliance with the Dacians. And then things get even more complicated when it appears that at least one of the Moroi is following Ming and Tiberias...

Stand Alone Stan
Stand Alone Stan

Author: Phillip Mann

Publisher: Gateway

Published: 2011-09-29

Total Pages: 230

ISBN-13: 0575114932

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Britannia, 1993. In a world where the Roman legionaries never left Britain a man can walk from the walls of York - or Eburacum - to the southern seas without leaving the shade of the greenwood, inhabited by wildcats, wolves and bears, as well as the descendants of the folk who built Stonehenge. Solar-powered air cars journey along straight roads that connect them to the Roman settlements - and link them to the cities of a global empire. When a jealous feud forced three young people into the forest, they discovered an older Britain, where the rules of rational Rome no longer applied. But now their sanctuary has been besieged and they are once more on the run. Their destination this time is Stand Alone Stan, a community built around an ancient standing stone high on the Yorkshire Moors. And it is here that their paths must, at last, diverge, and we begin to suspect the very different destinies that await them. Stand Alone Stan is the second volume of A Land Fit for Heroes.