The History of Rome, Vol. V solves a single, urgent problem: how a five-hundred-year republican system collapsed into a military monarchy and what social, military, and cultural forces made that … Read more
So much of early Rome is fogged by legend; Mommsen’s Volume 1 shows how geography, institutions, and law—not miracles—built a city that became a state. He answers the core problem: … Read more
The Search for the Beautiful Woman, a cultural history of Japanese and Chinese beauty by Cho Kyo, is a definitive guide to how “beautiful” has been defined, traded, and contested … Read more
The Lady in Red peels back Georgian England’s gilded curtain to show a marriage, a courtroom and a culture built on property, gender and spectacle — and solves the puzzle … Read more