Fascinating study examines Sumerians, Babylonians, Egyptians, Hittites, Canaanites, Israelites, Persians, others. "A valuable introduction, perhaps the best available in English." — American Historical Review. 32 halftones. 5 figures. 1 map.
Elizabeth Siddal, poet, artist and tragic lover, rose from the obscurity of a Southwark slum to become one of the most famous faces in Victorian Britain. From the moment she met the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, her immortality was decreed and her future doomed. The attraction between Lizzie and the young ...
The book provides a quantitative and contextual analysis of homicide in pre-Famine and Famine Ireland, placing the Irish experience within a comparative framework and drawing wider inferences about the history of interpersonal violence in Europe and beyond.
