The Rise and Fall of the Roman Empire is rather different from most chronologies in a number of ways. Rather than just a chronological listing of events, the volumes provide analysis and commentary on ...

and fall? The Rise This remarkable and relatively unknown history is recounted in S. Frederick Starr’s book, Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia’s Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane 1.

The storied leaders of the Haitian Revolution that erupted in 1791 and led to the country’s independence in 1804—Toussaint Louverture, Jean-Jacques Dessalines, and Henry Christophe—are giants of world ...

Le Fanu's book might have been better entitled The Rise and Fall of Medical Hegemony. What he describes is the decline of medical imperialism and the emergence, if you like, of clinical republicanism.