Editors Andrew Donnelly, Beth M. Forrest, and Deirdre Murphy bring together leading scholars from across disciplines to consider the relationship between the sauces we eat and our cultural identities, beginning in the ancient Roman world and ending in the kitchens of modern homes, restaurants, and culinary schools.
We all know that inns and taverns occupy a special place in British history and our culture today. A Night at the Inn shows that inns were not just important as social spaces - somewhere to meet friends for a drink - but essential parts of the toolkit of nation and empire.
Administration and Economy in Early Babylonian Society unlocks 4,000-year-old business records from Mesopotamia, revealing daily life in one of humanity's first organized societies. It features 65 never-before-published clay tablets--the paperwork of temple officials, farmers and merchants from the final century of the third millennium BC.
